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    I thi k your website is just a bit confusing, because bad tattoos is a gallery that is under a larger heading of "recent customers.". Sorry, I think I am the one who had it confused.
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    Also I should mention all the work was shading-- not linework like you mentioned Wendy!
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    Id like to share a story here. I had a healed tattoo of about 6 weeks before traveling to Oman where I'd be able to swim in the ocean and the gulf of Oman. After swimming in the ocean, the very well healed tattoo became inflamed and looked moist, even when the skin was dry. The skin felt like it was on fire. I saw a tattoo-friendly doctor when I got home and she mentioned something worth thinking about: micro organisms in the ocean may have a chance of severely irritating a tattoo that was even 6 weeks old and fully healed. The skin is so new and susceptible to damage that it can surprise you. Ive heard that tattooer in Australia along the golden coast (I think that's what it's called?) sometimes warn clients about staying out of the ocean or surfing for quite some time following the healing. Anyway, just wanted to share a freak event with you guys. Might be worth the precaution if you normally have sensitive skin. It was incredibly painful and meant I couldn't expose my arm to sun unless I wanted to exacerbate the burning feelings... Maybe it will never happen to anyone else, but Its good to know about stuff like this if you're concerned in general
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    Border brothers,

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    Hey Seth! Thanks for all the machines over the years! I've got three of your machines and one was a kit, first machine I built with my mentor. I still use it every day. Thanks for everything.

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    I went to your site and under "recent customers" it had a picture of the now famous star faced teenager who claimed she fell asleep while being tattooed and was given a fce full of stars... Is that really your client!? Let's see her blisters! Did you ask Her about it?
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    There's all kinds of stuff on here about the worst tattoos you've seen and pain in the ass clients, but what about the ones you love? For those of you who watched Nick Colella's interview, you'll remember him talking about a client who got his first tattoo with Nick. After that they've attended each others weddings and become close. It made me feel really good, because we so often forget about the awesome people we meet in the wake of the psycho drunk assholes that affect our day so much more strongly. So let's chat about some of the awesome people who you look forward to seeing in your tattoo shops. Ps this post is also partially inspired by an awesome repeat customer of mine named Alanna who posts on LST regularly and has taken a truly responsible interest in good tattooing and traveling to indulge her new hobby. She also brings us cookies and is also always an uplifting presence in the shop. We need to celebrate radical dudes like her who got into tattooing post tv show, but have a pre-tv show reverence for the trade.
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    Alanna-- I plan to be back in California this year to see Los Ocegueda and work at Sid's again, if you're gonna travel we should co-ordinate do some fun tattoo stuff! State of grace is such an insanely skilled group of artists.
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    Alanna!!!! 'ats my girl! Proud that I have such a cool new client. I can show you some more artists, too, that you can add to your list alongside Jill Bonny that could make a road trip to Cali more fun with more stops! Collecting is a great hobby, can't wait to see where you go with it!
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    Almost all my tattoos have been travelled for. I'd say 80%, including my sleeve, for which I had to drive to Montreal and back and get hotels about 5 times. Soon I will be traveling to Michigan for my entire right leg. Throat again in Montreal this summer... Is about a six hour drive each way but who gives a fuck? Peoe who fill themselves with easy cheap tattoos bum me out. We have a guy who comes in the shop who's an apprentice monger... Only free tattoos for this fucker... And how fucking sad is it that someone like that CAN get tattooed almost weekly by apprentices? Guh.
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    I always had a soft spot for "real" portfolios. Someones collections of all their years of hard work in developed real photographs. It's a dying art. That's a true loss to Juan, I hope someone is able to recover his book.
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    Myles, you're so sweet! Our shop can always be your home away from home. Looking forward to more fin artist trades with Three Kings in 2011!
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    We've had a couple guests here this month and it's been great. We've had a lot of fun so far, especially since Myles (Karr - who is also on this site) is here in Toronto now. We met him last year in Brighton, then shared a booth in Montreal, and thus, a loving partnership was formed. Haha! The shop got a beautiful new "tattoos" sign up on the facade and we've seen a small increase in our walk ins. I think it will take time to see a big effect from the sign going up, because it will mostly serve to alert the daily passerbys that this is a tattoo shop - not just some studio they whiz by everyday in the bus/car/bike without paying much mind. I think we started the shop without the sign because at our initial opening size of 186 ft2, it was intended to be a small street level shop for myself only. I wanted to be discreet and keep quiet, becaue I'd already gotten a lot of shit and backs turned to me when I let people know I was opening a place of my own. Once I stopped giving a fuck about it, I started expanding and up until a few m onths ago, housed a shop with a staff of 5, all surviving well, with NO sign out front indicatingi that we were a tattoo shop. That ain't too fucking bad if you ask me. But then again, I'm biased. I love my tattoo shop. I've learned more in this condensed 18 months of business than I had in many of the previous years combined. One of those things being that it's a massive undertaking. My manager and best friend Hayden bought in earlier last year and with 2 people at the wheel, this place is a well oiled machine. Can't wait to see all the new changes that this one, simple lightbox sign will bring. Keep you posted.
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    Alanna - nice to see you posting on here. Glad you're enjoying the site! :-) We hope to see you again in the shop real soon! I think that as a VERY general, overall suggestion for how to behave when you go in a shop is to observe and react. And by that, I mean, feel out how the shop runs and simply roll with their protocol. Don't take the leads and try to steer the experience because it's likely you'll throw a wrench in the tattooers regular game and often, that kind of treatment makes me feel insulted, like the client is the boss. I'm always trying to do the best tattoo I can for people and I do it my way so just sit back and relax and everything will be fine. Also, I love clients who are CLEAR. They know what they want, and they don't make you draw something and make needless changes. The WORST is when you have a customer who says, "I'd love a lady head! ANY kind of lady head at all, your choice Liz!" And then I draw it up and they're like "Ohhhhhhh, wait! I don't want that at all. I want a train conductor lady." It's wildly frustrating. How was I supposed to guess out of the infinite ways to do a lady head that's what you were hoping I'd draw?! Being clear about your exepctations is crucial. If your expectations are to let the artist do what they want, then that's fine, as long as it is CLEARLY your hope for the final product. Be nice, smile, consider suggestions carefully (because they ARAE coming from the professional that YOu chose) and don't be intense. Oh also, bring cookies. but Alanna, you've got that covered already
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    I see people nearly get sick from having their palms tattooed. Whitish green is not a colour becoming of most people.
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    Chyea!!!! I like this site a lot, too. It's hard though - if I don't check in for a few days or up to a week, I feel like I lose touch with the forums. Just need more time to sit around and internerd.

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    You guys are so lucky to have that kind of stuff happening over there. We're so brand new at my place that we're still settling in, I'm jealous!!
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    We had a Hallowe'en special this year but actually had a low turnout rate because of Hallowe'en's eve falling on a Saturday night. Almost all our regular participants in fun flash days were hung over, too tired, or still our partying! Hahahah! We never do special prices. I just don't htink it's right and has never really sat well with me, although I understand that everyone's shop runs under different mantras... But we do try to make sure all the flash can be done near our minimuym price and try to sell a few $200-$400 pieces in there too, as there's usually a taker!
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    Hi Dari!!! Sorry for the long period of time between correspondance. The shirt medium is great, in women's. Thank you so much. You rule. And yeah, I posted my address in the forum I believe and sent it to you privately as well!

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    Yeah but we're not talking about who rushes through tattoos fastest, it's more about who does solid work in that short time!! You're right, fast isn't always good if you can't keep up with yourself!
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    Chad Koeplinger's name should have come up long ago - dude is so fucking fast that sometimes, I think for laughs, he posts the amounts of times things took under photos on facebook. It's wild. Combination of years and years of practice, as well as years invested finding the perfect machines for your hand speeds... regardless, when you're getting a hguge piece it's so nice to have someone that speedy!
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    Ladies' medium plzzzz
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    Hi homey!! Can you send a men's small or a ladies medium?

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    We have had some pretty sad bastardizations of this event in Toronto this year. I don't even want to get started on the topic.
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    Spit that gum out yer mouth. Yeesh
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