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May 27, 2012 at 7:03 am #127198

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great, I’ll check out all those places! thanks

May 23, 2012 at 8:41 am #127030

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I think thinking about a tattoo at 15 is a bad idea. Like everybody said, what you like will change. I am embarrassed by the things I liked when I was 15. If I had gotten tattoos like I wanted to at 15, I would be spending a lot of money on removal. There is no point at even thinking about what to get when you are so young. Maybe turn your focus onto making sure you like tattoos on other people and just in general. And if you still love them when you’re 18…or better, 20…then start thinking about design and content and go for it.

May 23, 2012 at 5:36 am #127022

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ha well I’ll look at him. I like the girly style tattoo but not always girly content

May 23, 2012 at 4:48 am #127020

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oh yeah, I looked, in September. Is there anybody you would recommend who is going to be there? It’s probably not an option but I saw some artists on the list from CO so I’ll look at them closer.

April 17, 2012 at 2:08 am #125480

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I know this is old but I have a similar experience although mine has turned out not well so maybe you can learn from my mistake. I had a black gray half sleeve done on my lower arm as soon as I turned 18. I was young and rushing to cover ugly scars on my arm from an accident. I thought I picked a good artist and maybe it was just my concept that sucked but either way the tattoo was horrible. I started removal about 3 months after getting it which was probably too soon to be effective but anyways, I had 8 sessions completed. The tattoo faded significantly but was still visible and since I still love tattoos and wanted the scars covered, I decided to cover it. This time I really did the research, I was on an 8 month wait list for the artist. I did a full sleeve and since black and gray did so bad for me the first time, I wanted color. The top turned out great but the bottom didn’t. So my input is that it sucks to want a tattoo removed, it is one of the most degrading, embarrassing, and horrible feelings to want a tattoo cover of a removed tattoo, removed. At 10 sessions you should expect a black tattoo (easy to remove) to be nearly gone and also cost up to 3000.00

November 5, 2011 at 12:59 am #115402

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yeah I know for the most part it is nice work but the bottom area just really bothers me and I was pretty specific at the beginning of the process I said I wanted a lot of detail and that I like a lot of line work and I feel like that is what he gave me and the stencil had more detail because the fire was lined out and stuff. I mean I know what I like in a tattoo but I’m not an artist so I don’t know exactly what I would say to an artist like I have no idea how somebody could fix it. I know how to explain what I don’t like about it and what I do like about it but I don’t know how to make the part I don’t like better…I would have to rely on an artist’s suggestions based on the my current complaints… I live in Fort Collins, CO it’s like an hour north of Denver.

November 4, 2011 at 9:03 pm #115377

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It’s just frustrating because I thought I did do my research when I picked this artist. He had a really nice profile where he used color really well and specifically he had done a lot of really nice sleeve pieces, and I do really like the upper portion where there isn’t color and even the lion on my elbow that is colored. I feel like there is a lot of trust you have to give to your artist and it’s hard to do when you keep getting let down by people you are expecting to take a lot of pride in what they are doing and give it their best effort the entire way through. I guess it would be worth it to talk to another artist and see what they could do if I could even find someone who would touch it. I guess it’s worth spending a few hundred dollars and hoping it turns out good because it might save me from removal but it’s just scary knowing that I could find someone I think will do a good job and then they make it worse and then I’ve just spent more money time and pain on something I’ll want to remove.

November 4, 2011 at 4:47 am #115323

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I just feel like the top and even the backside of the whole thing is like intricate and the bottom is just a bunch of color and the sketch just looked very detailed and even the stencil on my skin even looked like it would be more detailed. I think the color work specifically the green area around the dragon is just like a big patch of nothing going on. I even did like the bottom when it was just line work, then he put the green on and it just doesn’t look like fire and it doesn’t look scary which it was supposed to and it’s like he stopped using line work and just started using color to separate areas. Like the tongue on the dragon isn’t outlined it’s just negative space in the color so that makes it seem less detailed to me then the top does and just inconsistent. I got the top half done first and I loved it and it got a really good reaction from my friends and family and then when the bottom half started to get finished I didn’t love it and I can definitely tell the difference in people’s reactions to it.

November 4, 2011 at 4:26 am #115317

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