Quote Originally Posted by katia View Post
brightly colored tattoos should NOT require regular touch-ups, if they are done well. there are a lot of artists out there who just should not be allowed to go anywhere NEAR a person with a needle, let alone needle and ink.

the biggest part of deciding on a tattoo is make sure you go to a shop that you feel comfortable and safe in. it should look clean, smell clean, and BE clean! generally good, clean, trustworthy shops will have much better artists than a shop that looks yucky. but don't get me wrong, this is just a generalization. even the most tidy shop could still have a very shoddy artist. that brings me to my next point. before you choose an artist, make sure you see LOTS of their work. and NOT just fresh work! a tattoo will always look brighter and better when first finished. you need to see healed work too - sometimes they can go too deep and all the ink could blowout and end up ``bleeding`` which looks really horrible.

also a good reason not to get it too small, is because if you get a little tattoo, it could potentially take up a lot more room than the actual image. say you want a tattoo on your right shoulder, but one day you decide to get a piece that goes right across your back...well, you kind of can`t, unless the artist is willing (and able) to do a cover-up.

a tip about snake tattoos: my artist said he`s done a handful of snakes, and they look better without scales. scales make them look too busy. and here`s mine:



it`s an anery corn snake
Great tattoo, how does it look from the side/front view? I would love to see . Yep let me now change that subject, as I was only kidding for public sake, unless this part got moved to QT. Then i'm serious.

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And people if you say you weren't thinking the same thing, I call you a horrible liar. Atleast that was the first thing that popped in my head when I seen.

Oh and here's my 2 tattoos. The dragon I had done when I had just turned 18. Other was done like in August of last year.



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And oh yea, The forearm tattoo is my name incase you may not be able to read it, which was sort of my intention. Once you realize it, then you see it, but just walking up and looking at it, I've only had one person figure out what it said.