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or make a big, black band around your leg. Is an actual shop doing that to you?

my 2nd tattoo and newest tattoo,start of my full japanese sleeve..9 hours..very happy with it :) not sure what to fill the empty space with thinking maybe japanese dragon or samuria but it might too much one arm..gunna keep it japanese tho any ideas

OUCH. True, but OUCH. In all seriousness, don't do death by a thousand pin pricks. Get it lasered and find someone else to fix it right. Putting a big splotch of black on your leg is not how a coverup is supposed to work. That thing is like a panther in a cave eating a chocolate bar. Good luck, the idea is actually kind of cool, just not well executed.

Ask your Dom.

Hey guys hope everyone is well my first thread so please be kind :P i am getting a tatoo done in a few weeks but i would be interested in finding out how long this particular tattoo would take about the size of a hand? inside the bicep :) any feedback would help

And I got this over the weekend from Henry Big. OH.MY.GOD. how I love it! Lots of hidden images. :)

Either leave it or get it lasered off and start all over. Nothing is going to make it not look like a giant spot of black ink.

Sorry, what?

my advice is to stop adding to it

Mine from Saturday

i can't get a good photo with my left hand.I got this done almost 2 weeks ago.

Any reputable artist will do this. If you aren't sure about her, I wouldn't go back.

Where did the latest tattoo lowdown thread go? Anyway, this past weekend was Ocktoberfest at Old Soul in Canonsburg, PA. It's a cool event where the shop invites a whole bunch of artists (like 60'ish) for the weekend. Some by appointment, some by walk-in. The trick is that everyone is queued up for a table/space to work since the shop has maybe 12 stations. The Old Souls guys have it running like clockwork...superiorly organized. You still have to wait but with the festival outside in the street and karaoke going on inside, the time flies by in no time. Nate Hudak made this for me on Saturday. He has a super light hand and is fast. Back of the left thigh.

Step 2 of my cover up/re-work journey done today: Before is the red/pink flowers and after is the (slightly angry and a little bloody still) black/grey. I'm really happy with how it's looking Still got some more shading and finishing off to do, plus the first rose needs going over again as a lot of the original red has popped back out as it's healed. I'm back in another 3 weeks for another 2 hours and hopefully that should be it done then.

So I'm here to revive this thread and talk about my first experience with back tattoos. I have never in my life felt so much sharp pain for such a long period of time. The back will be the hardest tattoo I ever finish and not just for the pain levels. The way muscles contract, certain spots have this anxious bad "tickle" to them, how adrenaline will betray you and run out not before your butt is done butt right in the middle of getting it done. If I ever see the other side of this tattoo experience while this forum is up I will complain on this forum all the up to and including the day I finish healing from my final session Things that happened: going into mild bodily shock, shivering and teeth chattering for no reason, having stretch marks put in me from tattoo artist fighting muscle tightening, adrenaline running out while my butt is being tattooed, adrenaline running out after 2 hours during a 5 hour session, flying home on hot thighs overnight from the other coast. Things that didn't happen: quitting, having a good time, smiling about any of it, any variety of talking with my artist

So I am wanting to get something similar to the picture I attached, but I'm wondering how small I could go with a piece like this. I want to do it on my lower leg where I have one very large shin piece. So I'd like to keep the rest smaller so I can obviously fit more on my short legs! This is just a mockup I've made with reference images to give my artist an idea of what I'm looking for, so obviously the design will change. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have an appointment with Chad Koeplinger on Sunday. Pretty stoked.