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Bloodflowers · 02-03-2010, 07:55 PM

Wow, people sure took this and ran with it...

I know a lot of people that spur of the moment decide they want a tattoo and will head into the first shop to get one done (admittedly including myself when I was young and stupid). I'm in the process of getting one of my own shitty tattooed fixed by a more skilled artist. Although those decisons may have been spur of the moment, the ideas for ink themselves were not. It was more of "hmmm... I've wanted to get this on my body for quite some time... how about right now?" Did those tattoos have meaning to me? Absolutely! About three days later did I wish I'd held out and gone to a better artist? Most definitely!! While they weren't absolutely terrible they could've been much, much better. My current artist fixed one already for me and has one more to do. Just seeing the amazing transformation she did on that one made me wish I'd never thrown away money on the mediocre artist, but you live and you learn.

I currently reside in an extremely small town (I kid you not, the closest K-Mart is a 2 hr drive) and there's only one tattoo "artist" in my town... and I use that word very loosely. He has no creative talent whatsoever (unless your tattoo is available as a stencil, you're out of luck) and literally tattoos people in his house. While I understand practice makes perfect he's at the stage where he clearly shouldn't be tattooing on people yet, let alone charging them for it. What personally irrates me about this guy is that he spreads vicious rumors about the nearest shops claiming that they use dirty needles and that he's the only safe shop in the area. Whenever people show me their poorly done tattoos it's always courtesy of this guy.

And as a side note, in this day and age I think it's really ridiculous for anyone to have a superiority complex associated with just having tattoos, especially with the vast number of people these days that have one.

02-03-2010, 07:55 PM	#48
Bloodflowers Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: upstate New York Posts: 71	Wow, people sure took this and ran with it... I know a lot of people that spur of the moment decide they want a tattoo and will head into the first shop to get one done (admittedly including myself when I was young and stupid). I'm in the process of getting one of my own shitty tattooed fixed by a more skilled artist. Although those decisons may have been spur of the moment, the ideas for ink themselves were not. It was more of "hmmm... I've wanted to get this on my body for quite some time... how about right now?" Did those tattoos have meaning to me? Absolutely! About three days later did I wish I'd held out and gone to a better artist? Most definitely!! While they weren't absolutely terrible they could've been much, much better. My current artist fixed one already for me and has one more to do. Just seeing the amazing transformation she did on that one made me wish I'd never thrown away money on the mediocre artist, but you live and you learn. I currently reside in an extremely small town (I kid you not, the closest K-Mart is a 2 hr drive) and there's only one tattoo "artist" in my town... and I use that word very loosely. He has no creative talent whatsoever (unless your tattoo is available as a stencil, you're out of luck) and literally tattoos people in his house. While I understand practice makes perfect he's at the stage where he clearly shouldn't be tattooing on people yet, let alone charging them for it. What personally irrates me about this guy is that he spreads vicious rumors about the nearest shops claiming that they use dirty needles and that he's the only safe shop in the area. Whenever people show me their poorly done tattoos it's always courtesy of this guy. And as a side note, in this day and age I think it's really ridiculous for anyone to have a superiority complex associated with just having tattoos, especially with the vast number of people these days that have one.