Welcome to the “battle with the parents” issue. It never goes away, so the best thing to do is learn to deal with it and get what YOU want and not what THEY want. You’re gonna have in on your skin for a long long time so consider that too. BTW, my Mom still doesn’t care for my tattoos either…..and I’m 60 years old and she’s 82.…[Read more]

Good advice here all around, I can’t add much. I will say though that if you get a chance to view a particular artist’s work on someone’s skin, you will get a better feel for his/her talent than looking through a portfolio book of pictures. If you can, visit the artist while another customer is there and look at their work. I have found that if…[Read more]

Lady_Baglady;31170 wrote:
My arms are all tattooed. The upper arm was by far the easiest. If you can do it on your foot this will be almost nothing compared to that…the bonier the…er um….hurtier….lol.

LOL…actually I must be a bit weird. Every tattoo that I’ve had on a bone area has been the least painful. I have ink on both…[Read more]

Hey welcome to the forum. As far as the chat goes, age is no big deal…you’re 16 and I’m 60, and we all like tattoos, so it’s good! If you get a chance to post a picture of your tatt, that would be cool too! 😀

Yup, what he said…personal preferences. I am partial to color myself! 🙂

Cool enough! Be sure and take some pictures and post them here, that’s what we all wanna see! 😀

Wow, great job on the shading, I’m really liking it!

Tipping an artist is up to you. I don’t think they expect it, but when you find a good artist who does amazing things and you want to go back, it’s not a bad idea in my opinion. I go to the same guy all the time and trust him completely. My last tattoo cost me $200 and I gave him a $30 tip and told him to take his wife out for breakfast. He…[Read more]

I’ve been told by my artist (who I trust explicitly) to NEVER use vaseline or anything with a petroleum base derivative in it, because it will disolve some of the ink since the skin layer is not healed yet. I use A&D ointment, the heavier orange tinted stuff and have had nothing but good luck with it.

Take this from a 60 year old guy. I did stuff when I was 18 that years later I’d say to myself “What was I thinking?” Unless you’re 100% rock solid, then I wouldn’t do it. And I don’t think you ARE 100% sure because if you were, you wouldn’t ask forum members what our opinion is. This is not being critical, it’s just from the viewpoint of…[Read more]

Well, nevertheless, you DO have needles to get rid of and you definitely don’t want to just toss them in the trash. You might look into asking your local fire department. The one in our town will dispose of needles that are used in situations like those used for insulin and other medical injections, etc. It’s worth a shot. Whether you should…[Read more]

I have a friend who has a sprocket tattoo and it came out pretty decent. He and I are both heavily into doing triathlons, hence the idea of a bicycle chainring. The only advice would be to have a reputable artist do it, since you want the nice clean circular lines and I’ve heard these are the hardest to do.

I’ve seen that subject brought up before and the general opinion is it won’t make much of a difference. If you have it done on your back, I think there would be no problem. Now maybe an arm tattoo would get a bit distorted if you went from arms like mine to ripped like Arnold, LOL! But I think on your back you’d be pretty safe. Even an arm…[Read more]

Looks pretty nice…any plans to add more to it?

Welcome to the forum. If you have any tattoos, post some pictures so we can all check them out!!

I guess the obsession is not age-related. I didn’t get my first one until I was 54, and now at age 60 I’m still looking at new designs and ideas for my next one which will be my 10th. If you get a chance, post some pics of what you got!

Demure;29428 wrote:
Do you think it’s weird if a girl gets a pinup on herself? I’ve always liked them.

I think it’s a great idea! I’m a huge fan of pinups anyway and have several on me. Plus I have an extensive collection of pinup images and some books as well. All in all, a great resource to use for my next tattoo. I’m probably going to…[Read more]

The prisons are full of people who decide to take matters into their own hands. If that’s the way you want to go, then it’s up to you. Personally, it looks like you got what you asked for, and if you want it fixed, I’d go to a different artist and calmly sit down with him/her and see what they can do for you. Like someone said, you can bust up…[Read more]

Hey welcome to the group! If you get a chance, post some pics of your work, would love to see them.

Welcome to the group! Hey, how about a bad-ass skeleton snowboarding down your chest…that would make an awesome tatto and would surely be original!! 😀