Yeah 😛 im going to have this tattoo for life(unless i get it covered when I’m older) so i want to get the best quality tattoo that i can.
Quality of quantity(Price)
Yeah, i said “Ascot, south east England.

Its not that i don’t have a job i just spent all my money. I’m on a 0 hour contract so any hours that come my way i take. I usually only walk away with £100-200 a month in disposable income.
Yeah i agree with you, i need to grow up a bit, some people i know told me it might just be a phase or something that I’m going through and told me to wait a few years until I’m sure that i want a tattoo.
By the time i actually get around to getting the tattoo ill probably be in the late hundreds, early thousands. To get that it would probably take me roughly 7 months or so to save up that much which isn’t too bad because in a few months(around may) ill set up the appointments and consultation and put down the deposit, get a date on when i can get tattooed which will probably be a few more months which isn’t so bad.
So it would take me upto a year or so depending on the appointment date.
Thats how i see the general layout of things.

So i guess it wouldn’t be so bad to go up and see rob. I would have had enough money saved up (theoretically) to take a trip up there. An off-peak ticket is pretty cheap considering the distance. The anytime return is pretty steep though. £124ish for the non peak times and £380 for anytime return.
So i can go up to see rob in a few months. probably in the summer. I will talk to other artists instead of relying on one and see who i feel right about. Just because someone is a amazing artist doesn’t mean they’re “the” artists for me.

At the moment I’m still getting information from people about tattoos. When i said “still a few months away” that’s when I’ll go to the artist that i decided on and sort things out with him.
What i said might have been misleading since the way i wrote my post.

I would love to go to Rob Richardson. Only problem with going to him is the distance. I looked up the distance and its around 307 miles which is roughly 5 hours give or take. I’m sure he has a tight tight schedule and the waiting would probably be awhile which i wouldn’t mind waiting. I’m also worried about price which is a dumb thing to worry about since i want quality over cheap. But being in college without a job which probably isn’t the best time to get a tattoo.
I found a artist who’s only a 40 min drive away who had done some really nice work – https://www.facebook.com/jakub.golebiewski1/photos

But I’m still in my beginning stages so I’m still searching for the “right” artist who i can trust enough to tattoo me.

I don’t think I will go with the guy i found before. £180 seemed a bit cheap for the tattoo i wanted. Friends who have gotten tattoos before said it was cheap, and im not looking for cheap I’m looking for quality since i have to live with this tattoo.
I just looked at a recommendation a friend made and the people he suggested look great. I’ve just been looking through their portfolio on Facebook and their work looks superb and just right for the tat i want.
Within the next month i am hoping to go talk to the artists and get to know them first since he/she will be in charge of something that i have to live with.

I have also tried to contact some artists who have used this tattoo before.