Ok, last night I had an idea. Let’s have some real tattoo discussion. Every day I log in here and 95% of all the new posts contain the phrase “Need Advice” or “What about this?” While I’m all for helping people and giving my two cents, I’m ready for some more in depth discussion.

So, as the first topic, let’s talk style. What styles do you prefer and, more importantly, WHY? Also, post examples of what you like. This may inspire some new tattoo enthusiast who visit here and/or expose the older crowd with new ideas. Hopefully, this will be the first in a series of topics.

So whether it is Asian, old school, new school, tribal, celtic, black and gray, color, etc, let’s discuss.

I’ll start it. Obviously, I like the Asian inspired style as illustrated in my half sleeve. However, I want to talk about something else…New School tattoos. I don’t have any yet, but they are very interesting to me. I love the bright, vivid colors. I like the rounded, almost cartoonish, features.

Even tattoos that could be considered dark or menacing, have a certain “fun” quality in the new school style. Here are just a few examples that I’ve found. I don’t want any of these particular tattoos. They are just examples.

So let’s discuss