Last night we touched up the Lady Luck that I got a couple of months ago. Before we started I had decided to get a background added. Went with a shamrock with some yellow and lavender highlights.
Before
After
That is nice! It makes me tempted to join the club. That must be at least a 500-1000 dollar ink job?
Pretty kewl, however, if I were to get a woman (fake or real) tattooed on me, especially if the price tag is what Merlin said it could be, then she will be naked! Just saying, that's my stance! Nice art though!
Oh no, not paying anything. My buddy is just getting started. He does them for the practice.
While standing at the train station in Pendleton waiting for a ride to Portland and get to the induction center, Dad told me that when I got back he would know how many drunks I had been on. When asked how, count the tattoos was the answer. 51 years later I still have none, little late to start now. Saw enough tattoos from around the world that I lost all interest in looking like a faded billboard. Those that want them fine, just don't get one because it is now thought to be neat by many, the trend will fade and then be back in about 30 years.
jud
My first
This is my very first one. I got it at Sailor Bills on Victory Dr in Columbus GA on a weekend in April of 1986. The following Monday morning, whicch started Tower week, we had an inspection by the then commander of the school, Col. Leonard B. Scott. While it was just a fast run through "for show" inspection I did catch the colonels eye with the bandage on my arm. I swear to god he walked up and gave me the once over, looked under the bandage, asked me if any ladies... how should I say this.., "gave me a drink" for getting that tattoo? Which I replied , NO SIR AIRBORNE!
He said "I didn't think so because your not Airborne just yet, now beat your boots leg!"
I spent the rest of the morning getting saw dust kicked in my face in the gig pit:-)
My first
Wow the military is such a great organization.
Ink
Could somebody please complete this sentence:
I like to get tatoos because...
BTW, RH, good call on the socks in the new picture. Just kidding.
Ink
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> I like to get tatoos because...
I am an ISTJ?
Ink
That's as good as any other answer I've heard.
Ink
My older daughter got one. Hey more power to her but danged if I could figure out why the huge urge to get a tatoo like a coming of age thing, lets see, apartment, car, pots & pans, tatoo.
A long time ago I made me a rule, I let people do what they want to do. -Hondo Lane
My younger daughter hates needles so I doubt she'll ever get one. She doesn't have a single piercing anywhere including her ear lobes.
that's really nice of you to let your friend use your skin to practice on. I don't think I'd do that. I'll let the tat artist practice on someone else, thank you very much.
Ink
My younger daughter hates needles so I doubt she'll ever get one. She doesn't have a single piercing anywhere including her ear lobes.
Makes a papa proud...dont it?
W.E.T.S.U.
Fort Ord, Ca. 1969
Frankly, that tatt don't look too good. Andy may be right, why let some neophyte tattooer practice on your skin? Especially if it's for free gratis. He should be paying you instead, because that is a mess. I guess you get what you pay for. It's kinda like letting a first time apprentice midwife deliver your wife's baby, and just hoping it lives.
Sorry to say this, but I got to do it. That tatt sucks, and you will eventually need to remove it or cover it up by an inker who knows what he's doing.
I've had several bad haircuts in my life, but hair grows back.
Well, that is your opinion and you are certanly entitled to it. Maybe the picture does not do it justice. Maybe I should phrase just getting started a little different also. He didnt just buy a gun and me stick out my arm and say "here start tatooing". He learned on practice skins, his sister in law was his guinae pig for the first real one, he tatooed every part of his own legs that he could reach, before he did anything on me. I decided on everything that he has put on me and have been pleased thus far. There rae a few spots that need touch up where for some reason, I do not know if it is his technique or my diabetes, but some places take longer to heal and when they do the ink has not set well in those spots. He touches them up after they have healed completley. He does maybe two per week now, that people pay for but not consistently. I get a tatoo and he gets to keep tatooing when he has down time so that he doesnt lose his touch. As far as covering it up? That arm will probably be full sleeved by this time next year and all run together. Any blemishes will eventually not be a second thought.
If you do not know how tatoo artists work, they try to get around 200-250/hr either by the tatoo or session. Right now he has done about 8 hours on me and I am probably at 25% of what I will finish with. You can do the math. I am getting free what other people pay big bucks for and at the end of the day it doesnt have to please anybody but myself.
