Hi and welcome to the forum.

Take Care
Matthew

The footy wasn’t bad and your home fans were ok with the fact I am a Leeds fan 😎
It seems a long time agao now I hit my 30’s but was a good laugh and nice enough place to go out in.
Glad you liked the sites – post up if you get something done.

Take Care
Matthew

Hi Peshy

I have a similar issue with my workplace.

What they mean is if you get a visible tattoo ie – neck, face, hands, wrist then they will fire you.

Whether this is legal or not on grounds of discrimination is another issue but sadly from what I can see the employer seems to win out every time it is challenged.

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Hi and welcome.

They still have those things knocking about?
Damn they must be unbreakable 😉
Looking forward to seeing your ink.

Take Care
Matthew

Hi and welcome

Don’t worry we get a lot off ppl who just like to watch from the edges.

Then there are lurker-stalkers like KnightHawk….:D

Take Care
Matthew

Hi Pcuzz

Love Stoke On Trent used to get hammered there a lot in my teens.

Anyhow I tend to use these sites as examples of different script/text tattoos;

http://www.religioustattoos.net/Other_Tattoos/Scripture/index.php

http://www.checkoutmyink.com/tag/text

and here is one to show you not what to get…[Read more]

Hi Cooper
Welcome to the forum.

You getting aboriginal style tats or going for the modern boxing ‘roo draped in the Oz Flag?

Get a vicious and rabid koala in there and you are sorted! 😀

Matthew

Hi Tasha

Welcome to the forum.

Take Care
Matthew

Hi

Def best to leave it 4 weeks because you can run the risk of lower dermal scarring (lumps beneath the skin) if you overwork an area too much.

All tattoos comes out slightly faded than when first put on it is natural – but a touch up can easily be done if you feel it is too faded.

Take Care
Matthew

Hi and welcome to the forum.
Looking forward to seeing your sketchwork.

Take Care
Matthew

Mike

Pls PM me waht you want it to say.

I have a friend who is from HK and is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin.

Thanks
Matthew

Hi

The easiest option is to wreathe the phoenix is flames and shadows/shading around the edges.

I would even add a burning pyre beneath it showing the phoenix being born and the flames srouting around it.

The tails and such would not be so hard to do if done by a decent artist.

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Hey KH thanks for the kind words 😀

That said would you trust the words of a man who claims to know the feeling of being towel slapped in the balls by a thousand gay men (or straight women for that matter) – it is still a freaky fetish!

But damn you got me – yep my whole agenda was to secretly build a portfolio of ‘ruined lives’ – I just cannot…[Read more]

Hi

If you still want it in a Japanese theme you could go for a bathing geisha or female samurai as the centrepiece.

Need to know your tastes really as you could have animals drinking by the stream to a mermaid rising out of the water.

Take Care
Matthew

Hi Tattman

More than happy to look over your work – but just heading out with the wife.

As for my own work when I was 20 I was in a car accident that left me pretty much a cabbage and I as coma’d for 3 months.

I came out of it and I had to learn basic shit like how to read and write again, tie my shoelaces etc.
The Dr’s said all the knowledge…[Read more]

Hey Tattman

Your drawing is really coming on!

I would make a couple of small suggestions;

You need to define the mouth slightly more – from that angle it needs a bit more fleshing out.

The colouring – I know you are after that shimmering effect where the shading and colouring makes it look like the light is bouncing across the scales.

That is…[Read more]

Hi Bella

I do and some are very easy and common to get ahold of. (This is why I am not keen to divulge this info).

Because I do not support the idea of self tattooing I cannot give you these answers as if anything happened to you it would be on my conscience 🙁 ( I hope you understand).

There are several books online and in decent herbalist…[Read more]

Hi

As kim has suggested a touch up will breathe new life into the tattoos.

There are several borders that you could have around the name.
You could also have an animalistic tattoo wrapping around the letters’

Koi, dragon, birds
Or if you like flames that too would work.

I perosnally would suggest drop shadowing behind them to flesh the piece…[Read more]

Hi

I am currently researching tattooing and there are several common plants used in Africa to do the style of tattooing you are suggesting.

The Digo are a Kenyan tribe and as far as I know they are a mixture of animist (spiritual and witchcraft) and broad islamic – but mostly more on islamic folklore rather than full adherence to the Koran.
I…[Read more]

Hi

Yes it would cause you to bleed out.

Don’t take any pain killers (especially any that contain aspirin), drink alcohol, smoke weed, or take amphetamines or cocaine before a tattoo.

These cause blood flow increase and you will bleed a hell of a lot more.

Do –

Have a proper meal before hand.

Have a caffinated drink and at least 1 litre of…[Read more]