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Here’s my latest from Phil DeAngulo at Behind the Circle in Brooklyn:

As 2017 is ending soon I'll post a final pic of the progress we made on my dragon backpiece this year. First session was march 31st, 7 sessions overall with about 22 to 25h so far. Probably won't be able to keep that pace up in 2018, but let's see how it will turn out... Best wishes and happy new year to everyone

*If* you decide to go to NYC I'll of course recommend Takashi Matsuba at Behind the Circle.

This is going to sound harsh... So, tattoo's peel - that's part of the healing process. And never, ever, ever pick at a tattoo. You most likely pulled out the ink. Did you get any aftercare instructions? Follow them.

So many great choices depending upon what style and how bold you would like to go! Agree with @ScottyG 's recommendation. :) My NYC laundry list: RG, Garver, Rubendall, Kiku, Beckerich and O'Donnell. My international list is long but I really want a flower from Claudia this year...

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It’s not horrible, but I did get some shots of lidocaine and that really sucked!

you don't want to avoid peeling or pick at it, most tattoos will 'fall out" on the sides of fingers like that, especially scratcher garage tattoos like that. and like was said,peeling is a normal and good part of tattoo healing.Let it peel.

It's sad to see happen anywhere, but not surprising. It happens in every walk of life, every profession, so there's no reason to think that tattoo artists are immune to it. Some may find it barbaric, but I believe in the old fashion ways. If that type of thing happened years ago, the woman's father, brothers, uncles, etc. would impress upon the over-sexed prick the error of his ways and explain why it wouldn't happen again. Of course today you can't do such things. When my wife and I got married MY dad told my wife that I if I ever laid a hand to her just to let him know and he'd take care of it... and he would have.

In that area = including but not in any way limited to Matt Black, Anka Lavriv, John Sultana, Ivan Barbosa, Angela De Rosette and Anderson Luna. Any one of them also are capable or reproducing that style (if they have an interest to do so).

Going in for the last session on a really cool piece from Kahlil Rintye in a couple of weeks.

No photo but I got a kickass crawling panther from Moses at Black Heart a few weeks ago. There's a photo on the shop instagram account. Panthers are awesome.

Ointment every three or four hours???? Waaaaaaay too much. Once or twice a day with just a touch of cocoa butter should be adequate. And for a tattoo that small, a dot should be adequate. As for antibiotic cream, the only rough heal I've ever had in 30+ sessions was when I used antibiotic cream.

No grit, no pearl filler by Nick Kohlmeier @ Permanent Vacation Tattoo. A little SG I picked up in Kansas City before a U2 concert. (on my U2 arm, 'a red guitar, on fire, desire') Matching Navy tattoos with my son (he's a submariner). Mine is black & gray, his is color. By Nick Kohlmeier @ Permanent Vacation Tattoo.

Yep to both ( @Gingerninja & @Hogrider), but the latter is strictly for those tattooists who you already implicitly trust. I wouldn't recommend that for any of the newbies on the forum.

I've never seen it either. About half the time my artist draws the design right on me. All of my pieces have evolved during the process, I think my artist has a general idea in mind before he starts, but fills in the details as we go.

I'm trying to think if I have ever seen the design/stencil in advance. I don't think that I have.

Really stoked. I had a consultation on Tuesday for my second tattoo at Enso Tattoo in Columbus, OH. Went great, really looking forward to it. He said he prefers to keep sessions to 3 to 4 hours and that mine will be 2 or 3 sessions. From what I've read, my artist is no nonsense and puts in a good hours work. Waiting to hear back for my first appt. It's going to be a color half sleeve asian tiger on my left arm. Below is the reference print I gave. Looking forward to posting pics of the progress.

If you're done, you're done - but it's not at all unusual for the "artist" to draw up the design the night before, or even the hour before.

I agree with @Hogrider nothing to do but let it heal. I've had a couple of tattoos scab like that. They were both done by very experienced and and well known tattooers to the people on this board. Sometimes shit happens. I would expect a good bit of pigment to fall out with the scab but that can always be touched up or left to look even more unique.

I went to sirens cove in powdersville s.c the artist that's doing my rework she does a great jobs with portrait style tattoo's as well. Look them up, I recommend them. Very friendly staff too and and she will really work with you on what you want done and go into detail with you about it.

Got this nugget in Seoul, South Korea. Done by an artist with the instagram handle @Yuuztattooer. Took about 5 hours to complete. Doesn't speak much english, and I specifically went to Seoul to get a tattoo by him (I tacked on this special trip while in Hong Kong). Quite the experience, traveling to a foreign country I have never been to before. I wouldn't trade it for the world. Enjoy!

Last one for a while but going out in style. By Grez. <3

Here's my healed mini-eagle from Grez... His name is Greagle. :) Coverup of a really, really bad tattoo...

Went to Smith Street about two months ago and had the opportunity to grab this NYC rat from Bert. It's above my ankle. Pretty thrilled.

And here's what Mike made for me on Saturday. Next level chrysanthemum. I am so thrilled!

I got my first tattoo last month at age 67. I didn't expect my mom to be thrilled, but I was disappointed with how negatively she reacted when I sent her a photo of my panda. I realize that she's part of a generation in which "nice" people, especially nice girls, didn't have tattoos. When I went to visit her a couple of weeks ago, she looked at my arm briefly and said "Oh." That was all--just a disapproving "Oh". She finally said that she guessed one tattoo was okay. I got my second tattoo last week, and I've booked several more appointments with my artist (it's true what they say about tattoo addiction). Lol. Fortunately friends have been very supportive of my tattoos. Family, not so much