Hi from a total newbie

[helsabot]

Hi there! I found this site while doing research about where to get my first tattoo here in SF. I've been on and off about it for a few years but am excited to finally start looking seriously for an artist and working on a design. Any suggestions about good places in the Bay Area are much appreciated, and I'm looking forward to what I'm guessing will become a long relationship with ink.

Planning to start with something simple to get accustomed to the process and sensation of it, but I've got an idea for a large shoulder/quarter sleeve piece that I really hope I can start soon.

[tammy]

Welcome to last sparrow. Definitely check out our image gallery and black heart tattoo on the mission. Scott sylvia and Juan puente are artists there.

[Lochlan]

Welcome. There are all sorts of great tattooers in SF. Blackheart is a given and then Temple in Oakland plus some other shops and guys/gals.