I carefully planned my ink along with my career………being a rebel is cool, Im a rebel, but I like to eat well also and drive nice cars and own a large home

realizing that employers know ink is a choice, they know they can discriminate and even impose their own moral judgements.

I got half sleeved and covered my non visible body first

when…[Read more]

amen kighthawk……………..

you chose to get tattooed folks……………….you deal with the consequences

you will be judged by others, human nature, its getting better but is not going to go away…………

there is no law to protect you,,,,,,,,,aint gonna happen, you chose remember…………..

if you do not set your career path…[Read more]

it is shit quality work my friend…….scabbed, fuzzy, linework is a different color, looks like shit……….need to find a professional artist next go round…………..

remember folks out of 300 atlanta shops I would let 2 tattoo me and only a handful of artists, thiis artform thanks to its increased popularity because of TV is full of…[Read more]

cool if friends are buying and the idea is that awesome, yeah, ink it up

congratulations, nothing better than having your latest ideas booked solid! I cant wait to see them

hell yeah………….

no doubt the elephant, wow that sucks, but fear not alot can be done with it, not alot of black lines, lots of open space, a good artist can make t his a real nice piece

yup, thats what professional artists do, design, create from your ideas, they will knock it out with you

yoda nailed it, it is rough pencil drawing style, so is trhe dragon, she really doesnt resemble a geisha in the least,she is american as apple pie, this style really doesnt have a darn thing to do with traditional japanese, so it throws alot of people off looking at it……………ink is about individuality though, nothing wrong with being…[Read more]

most likely scabbing caused by trapped moisture pulled the color out, light scabbing and allowing them to fazll off by themselves will usually only take a small amount of color, but heavy scabbing pulled your color out before it could be locked intot he dermis layer by your body

yup, eye thing sucks doesnt match,just do a good all seeing eye, otherwise cooll drawing, needs different colors in snake to seperate from tree color, cant see it as sleeve, shoulder back or thigh piece, needs space

not sure about blue as light source coming straight from back, maybe setting sun colors? but its your piece, you might be trying to…[Read more]

load you photo onto a hosting site like photobucket…………..then c lick on the img code under your photo and paste it ont your reply on this site

I started getting inked the same way, out of public view, Im not getting tattooed for you or anyone else to look at, they are personal and for me, I only got visably tattooed when I ran out of room!

definatelty go to a shop with your ideas and any reference material you have a have a professional artist design you a custgom piece, thats all most…[Read more]

your artist wasnt very good, tattoo is wonky

plan the coverup……………research artist first next time, pick a better artist

most of the unsuspecting public doesnt know that 90% of people tattooing arent very good, they cant draw any better than you and me, some cant draw at all, most dont have enough training or time with a machine, many…[Read more]

he is pretty well known, what I want to bring to peoples attention is the guy isnt booked up all 2012,
he is sitting in the shop waiting to tattoo you, anyone,

he just joined Black 13 with Josh Woods so people in Nashville dont really know him,

people need to jump on this , book him up and get some sweet buttery smooth ink!

(it is not always we…[Read more]

we cant say why it scabbed but it should not have, can scab from overwork, not so trained hand or from trapped moisture and blood matter

tattoo espcially new tattoo should never been exposed to sunlight, it destoys them,

I also try not to work out alot with new ink, trying not to stretch the skin so much and more inmportantly try not to trap…[Read more]

Happy Birthday Wardy

just take note that those lines are going to change without any of those things you mentioned happening

welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy it

wardy, you will probably still be a wild smart ass like you and I am now, when you are in your fourties like me, lets face it, the ink aint going to dissapear, you better consider proper composition of any piece you permanently put on your body………tattooes do change

I lov emy ink, I want it to look good for as long as I stay verticle