Link to their facebook page works. Link to the picture doesn’t. 🙁

I’m so very jealous. Love love love this. Well worth the waxing, I’d say. Beautiful. Bee-uuuuu-teee-fuuuullll!!

@GrayCatLove 132007 wrote:

Well, damn. If I wasn’t working 16’s now, I’d be tempted to come see it in person. Can’t wait for the pics.

16s?? As in 16 hour days? Dayum girl!! I thought my 12.5s were long, but now I guess I’m just a wuss. Standing ovation for GCL!

@buttwheat 131992 wrote:

You can buy saran wrap locally.

I’ll be packing Saran Wrap in my luggage next trip down south. I hope the sound of crinkling Saran isn’t suspicious when I go thru customs on my way back. 😮

Good luck tomorrow! Can’t wait to see it.

looking good, looking forward to seeing it after you start the filler.

Goes well with your shirt, too.

@Katyluna 131958 wrote:

I did take a look at the stencil after the artist transferred it onto my skin… but because of the placement I had to look in a mirror and didn’t get a close look at the details. I do still love my lotus even if it isn’t 100% perfect, but I definitely know now to look REALLY closely and make sure everything is exactly as it…

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@Adler 131953 wrote:

Not good enough for me, but I’m a proud tattoo snob.

With a KICKASS pin-up!! I really like her!! You should be proud.

@Astridhjerte 131865 wrote:

Ja, jeg har både hund og katt så kan jo ha noe med det å gjøre også… Har sikkert støvsugd husset 4 gnager daglig for å unngå så mye hår;)

I have no idea what this says, but it made me smile because every time I saw it I would start to hear the Swedish Chef from the Muppets. And yes, I know Norwegian and Swedish a…[Read more]

Take some art classes. I can only help.

Those are bad. Not just the punctuation, the letters are unevenly spaced and one of the ‘S’s looks like it is upside down, and why are all the ‘S’s capitalized?

Next time LOOK AT THE STENCIL BEFORE YOU LET THEM TATTOO IT!!

Enjoy your laser sessions.

Welcome to the forum! The secret to a really great tattoo is to find a really good artist, give them a concept, and let them run with it. It sounds like that is exactly what you have done. Good luck and make sure you let us see pictures!!

It has been many many times: good tattoos aren’t cheap and cheap tattoos aren’t good. I am sorry that you learned this the hard way.

A good artist can make this way better for you. Like Adler said, please post a link to the new artist’s work. Many people here have enough experience to judge his work and let you know if you should let him…[Read more]

The advice they are giving you is good advice. I had a tattoo with blown lines that was “fixed” by the artist adding a shadow. I like it a lot less with the shading than I did when it was blown. I wish I had left it alone.

Lucky for me it is on the back of my hip, so I almost never see it. You are going to see yours EVERY day. Don’t change it…[Read more]

What does it mean when a big red screen comes up that says GET MENTAL NEED HELP NOW, YOU PSYCHO? 😉

ISTJ (strong introvert, marginal sensing, slight preference of thinking over feeling and moderate judging over perceiving)

What I found really interesting was that the first career choice on the list for this type is computer programming and the…[Read more]

If you check out Sam-I-Am’s album you will see that he has had some pretty gnarly looking stages during healing, and it all healed up fine. Look at the pic called ‘Rash’ for an example.

(Not sure if “gnarly” translates well to Norwegian – but in this case I mean that the tattoo got really scabbed and red and gross while it was healing.)

I LOVE that this forum has members from all over the world. And that someone can come here using English but then get answers from someone in their own language is really very cool.

@yodaddynukka 131761 wrote:

Just make sure to get a portrait if getting workf from richie bon.

I sent him 5 photos and said to pick one and surprise me. Two are faces wearing masquerade masks and the other three are like those ‘partial faces’ that he does so well. Can’t wait. Yucca Valley will be my third trip to California this year to get…[Read more]

@buttwheat 131711 wrote:

I see a few names in there I wouldn’t mind being tattooed by.

I am hoping that Ish will introduce me to a few of them!! And I am also looking forward to meeting Rich Pineda while I’m there, since I’ll be sitting in his chair in October.

@We HEART LA 131742 wrote:

I will be there. That is about a 1 1’2 drive for…

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I like it better now that I know that it is a man wearing a backpack and climbing gear, seen from behind. When I first looked at it I thought it was a really bad abstract Michael Jackson, seen from the front.

Not my taste, but if you liked the original abstract piece I guess it represents that.