There is no flow or congruity to any of these and will not make for a good leg sleeve in my opinion. Youre looking at different shapes, sizes, subject matters and styles and they just don’t blend well together. Are you seriously going to fill up you leg with a bunch of cat portraits? Even though the one you have is decent I can’t imagine having a…[Read more]

Your tattoo looks like crap because of the incompetent artist, not the amount of ointment you used. However, you are also to blame for allowing this person to tattoo you in the first place. I hope is was worth whatever money you saved, now you can already start thinking of laser and cover up. Sorry to be piling on here but it’s amazing how…[Read more]

I have a feeling this will look better as a drawing than a tattoo. Sorry but I see this translating to a rather boring looking tribal animal tattoo.

It actually was much better later in the day, today. Thanks for your efforts.

Welcome to the forum. What kind of help are you looking for from us? What type od design have you come up with?

kittykat200;106581 wrote:
pretty sure i already have you as a friend babe, but if you wanna take it a step further, there’s always, dare i say, FACEBOOK!? lol if anyone wants to add me on fb just pm me and i’ll send you my details 🙂 no perverts, friends only lol 😛 x

What’s facebook?

Much better today.
Looks like I spoke too soon.

Yeah, probably best going out of state. Maybe Webb in NJ?

http://www.evolutiontattoo.com/home.html

Here’s a couple of links with the announcement of the new shop and one with a short list of guest artists already lined up, including Beavers, Stefano and Norris.

http://www.offthemaptattoo.com/news6439.html
http://www.offthemaptattoo.com/events.html

Great work by David and Rodrigo, not sure of the price but I think they’re under 200.
http://www.northstartattoo.com/

Briscogun;106426 wrote:
Welcome to the forum!

Sounds like you are taking the good advice here and NOT getting your tattoo at all for now. Most people would probably just hold off on the party piece of the equation, but… hey, whatever works! Just remember, a new tattoo is an open wound. Would you tell someone to go clubbing if they had an…[Read more]

I’m a big fan of tattoosnob, along with the swallows & daggers blog for great traditional tattoos.
http://www.swallowsndaggers.net/

Not ideal…a crowded club with likely situations like bumping and rubbing against other people, maybe some sweating, etc.
A crowded club the day after getting a fresh tattoo just isn’t a great idea to me, but I have a feeling you’re going to do it anyway…right? Just be as careful as possible and hope nothing happens I guess.

I’m fairly hairy and don’t have sleeves but I don’t think I’d shave my arms, even if I was. I currently have a hairy gypsy on my leg who still looks hot (with a beard).

As far as I know once you’re fully healed waxing is fine.

I love traveling to different shops and artists so I’ve experienced different atmospheres. My first tattoo was done in a shop/art gallery that could have passed for a doctor’s office with seperate rooms and everything so white and professional looking. Then I’ve been in street shops with flash lined walls, cramped quarters, little to no client…[Read more]

ArniVidar;106291 wrote:
He has already discussed all of this with Cornish, which is why I don’t quite understand this thread.

Oh, I wasn’t aware of that.

jimmymac;106288 wrote:
Yep, it all has just turned out very badly…but do you think that a cover up will be possible with enough laser treatments? I was thinking 10 over a year or so?

I don’t know enough about laser removal to accurately answer. There is a member named Cornishtiger who can answer if he chimes in.

jimmymac;106282 wrote:
And no, it was done at the Family Business…one of london’s premier tattoo shop’s. The artist is a guy called noon who is actually in very high demand (hard to believe i know, looking at this!)

I’ve heard a lot about Family Business but mainly Mo and XAM. XAM is an amazing (neo) traditional artist in my opinion, I’m not…[Read more]

Mr.Goodfella;106245 wrote:
Thank you all for the comments. I made an appointment for Feb. to finish this up so I have some time to make a decision. Even talking with my wife and getting her thoughts, she wants me to stay with him throughout because of 1) she loves his artwork 2) the idea that he came up with from what I gave him for an example…[Read more]