Tattoo's

[mooby]

Originally Posted by mlmdub130

can not stress this enough to anyone who has never gotten a tattoo before. make sure you do your homework, and find a good artist, not just a tattoo artist. you want to find a shop that has artwork out but doesn't just tattoo stencils. most places with really good artists working there don't have 1000 tattoo's you can browes through and pick one. you want to find someone that will take the design you are thinking of and turn it into a tattoo. that way you don't end up with the same tattoo a ton of other people have.

This cannot be stated effectively enough. I've been to a couple tattoo parties, I know a couple "underground" guys who could do work for me if I wanted them to, and that shit is not legit. I know a guy who got an infection from a tattoo party he went to and got a small piece done at. It looked so nasty and made me very thankful I went with a legit artist at a legit place. As far as my piece goes, I presented the idea to 3 artists, had 3 similar renditions drawn up, and chose the one I thought was best. My artist doesn't even have a picture of my tattoo, I actually meant to send one to him after the third session healed and everything but I forgot and I think it's for the better, because now nobody will be able to do something similar off my design.