no member should inappropriately comment or contact any other rmember, I hope the moderators will take care of this…………

I do think however that some of us are taken the wrong way. The majority of the work I have seen posted on here isnt very good………the popularity of the tattoo culutre has brought many people who truly lack the skiills as an artist to be a good tattoo artist, they can run a machine and put ink in your skin but they have little skill as an artist and cannot produce high quality tattoo work. There are also many more shops than ever before and the majority of them I wouldnt let tattoo my dogs ass.
My friend a shop owner googled tattoo shops here in Atlanta and found nearly 300 listings, 4 or 6 of them I would actually let anyone I know go visit.

I want to see people get good tattooes. I am approcahed daily…….I will be tonight at dinner…..BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE INK THEY DO NOT LIKE………people seem to cheap out on ink, they also dont do any research, to me my body is pretty important, I dont let just anyone touch it. They have $1000 rims, $150 tennis shoes, $500 in gold on but an $80 half sleeve that even they admit sucks.

As I said before I am here to help anyhone I can, I will go to a shop with you and help you get what you want and what your body deserves. My critisism is not out of meaness, it is out of concern that too many people are getting ripped off and having their bodies messed up by folks who are not artists but are takign advantage of people

and I dont think we will knock on your ink becasue ours is bad, you may not like my choices but I do, my album is open to you. But I have been tomany conventions, I have been in shops all over the world, I know and have met alot of artists, I have hung out in shops every week for 33 years now. I try and give you sincere, real advice you can use,

there will always be internet bullies on any forum, but we dont listen to them

I am sorry that you feel that the forum is terrible, but looking at your own thread there is harly much wrong with it. Yes, it goes off topic a bit, but this is true of many/most threads in all forums. The risk of running off topic is just the way of the internet forum structure.

Perhaps you should give the thread some time to garner actual intelligent responses… that it’s only garnered mostly useless responses in it’s first two days is hardly unusual.

About the rest of the threads in here being all about the negativity, that is not the fault of the participants. We try to encourage people to be honest in here without being overly obnoxious, but the truth is that MOST tattoos that are posted in here ARE bad… which people may not want to hear.

Apparently you haven’t been here much. There are plenty of threads that don’t rip apart a tattoo if the work is decent. If however, you come here and post a tattoo that you admit is messed up, don’t expect people to tell you how awesome it is.

You got some decent advice in your thread. Option 1, laser and then have a good artist fix it. Option 2, talk to a good cover artist. Operative word being GOOD.

As others have stated, just because someone is capable of tattooing you doesn’t mean they deserve to permanently mark your skin. Choose your artist carefully.

Here’s how it works..Someone gets inked and is still all psyched up and excited about it. They come here and expect everyone else to feel the same excitement and tell them how badass their ink looks. Just like everything else in the world, people have opinions and sometimes it isn’t what they want to hear. They get butthurt because they realize their ink is not as good looking as they think it is to everyone else. What they fail to realize is that it doesn’t matter what other people think, it’s what they think about it because it’s on their body. Not everyone liked my dragon tattoo on my arm, but I like it and that’s all that matters.

It’s like if someone bought a piece of shit motorcycle and then went to a motorcycle forum and posted about how awesome their motorcycle is. Some people will say it’s a piece of shit, others will say it’s cool.

Redhead, why don’t you go fuck yourself with a rusty dildo and die of tetanus you whiny bitch?

See, not every post is about how someone’s tattoo sucks–sometimes it’s about how much you suck as a person.

For the record, you post some scratcher abomination, we’re going to tell you the truth about it. But you post something worth while, you’re going to get a completely different reaction. Now please shut your pie hole and quit with your bitching already.

Love. Peace. Metallica.

You need to ignore the grumpy ones and smile at the funny ones and just read the forum. It is a good place
to wake up with morning coffee, better then the daily news paper.

Megan