I like the bird also, but not crazy about the skulls. It all looks well done though. Congrats. 🙂

Well, the artist is going to use whatever he/she normally uses. Any reputable artist will use a quality ink so no worries there.

Looks pretty good. Congrats on your first.

What are you looking to get done? e.g. B&G or color, traditional or new school, etc.

Welcome. 🙂 You have plenty of good artists up in the northern states so you shouldn’t have any problem getting a great first tattoo.

Well you have a good eye anyway. Gunnar is a good artist and well known.

I’m with buttwheat.

Go to a truly good artist and you won’t have to worry about whether or not he or she is going to screw it up. We can help you if you tell us where you live and/or post links to the online portfolios of the artists you are considering.

I do somewhat regret my 1st tat, but only because it now limits what else I put there. 😀

Personally, I would never use olive oil on a new tattoo. However, olive oil is an all-natural alternative to using Aquaphor or other ointments and isn’t as crazy as it sounds. You should only have used this for 2-3 days though, just as you would do with Aquaphor and other ointments. Now as for the Palmer’s stuff, the fact that it contains…[Read more]

Well Mjölnir may be used by Neo-Nazis and so forth, but it certainly has nothing to do with its true origins. It’s also a symbol of Ásatrú (a religion). The iron cross represents strength, but Neo-Nazis borrowed that one too. PItbulls are used a white supremacy symbol also. If a guy came in with a swastika tattoo and wanted to add Mj…[Read more]

feathertouch;97681 wrote:
On the other side of the board you will upset alot of “white boys” who most likely will take offense to having thors hammer turned into a tribal piece it is just an all around bad idea. IMO

Megan

I am of Nordic descent and I wouldn’t care if he turned it into a giant penis. I’m not the one who has to see it in the…[Read more]

220 hours I think he said?

Anyway, nice collection mrchen. I agree w/ you completely. No need to settle for crappy artists when there are so many good artists out there.

I just select spots as I go. I’m hoping to keep B&G and color separated by limb though. I recently contacted an artists and told him I wanted a piece on my upper arm or calf. He replied: “Upper arm is fine.” Well that settled that. :p

Amok;97456 wrote:
Oh so how did you find out it’s a nickel allergy? Ive never heard if such a thing.

It started 1-2 months ago. I noticed my ring finger was really itchy and when I took my wedding ring off, I had a nasty rash underneath. I thought maybe it was a fungal/bacterial thing so I soaked the ring in alcohol and after the rash had…[Read more]

ArniVidar;97326 wrote:
The next day I walked (some rain, but tolerable) down to a store and bought an umbrella. When I got out of the store it had stopped raining. I carried that umbrella with me every second from that moment on, and it never rained again.

Always the way. hehe We carried umbrellas to a concert in Philadelphia last summer…[Read more]

Dipland;97197 wrote:
Sweet! What you getting?

Cover from an indy comic … will post pics in a couple days. 🙂

I’ve found most artists to be a bit flaky when it comes to communication, but I can’t say I ever get used to it. Anyway, he did message me this morning and appointment is still on … he said he could only get a signal in one spot up there.

The original sketch is indeed bad, but the tattoo is worse. He made “chocolate chips” where there should have only been light shading and the line work is still very shaky. Now I’m wondering how anyone could look at that original sketch and think “Wow! I need to get that on me!” 😡

nastee.nav;97119 wrote:
im not, i like it. not a big fan of hi-def shop tats. ill get the shading touch’d up but otherwise no complaints.
has anybody actually seen the original drawing cuz to me it look pretty accurate.

Well, no worries – yours looks like it was done in someone’s kitchen, not a shop.

I haven’t seen the reference image. Did…[Read more]

Poor line work, terrible shading, and I notice that the “artist” couldn’t even shave your arm properly before getting started. p.s. My wife (sitting about 10 ft behind me) looked up from her work and askled me “Why did he get a tattoo of a chocolate chip cookie?”

Phoenix5;97024 wrote:
I just feel like I have a lot more options than traveling half way across the state to that one specific shop.

Oh you absolutely do and I wasn’t suggesting that you need to do that. I was simply saying that limiting your choices based strictly on proximity is likely to backfire. However, your unrealistic budget is…[Read more]