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Great progress @Graeme! The love handle was a good stinger for me. Looks great @introspect. I love the solid colors.

@MrToby That thing is just bananas. I don't have a better word to describe it. Color and shading is going to be incredible.

Grats Pugilist!

@SStu @BrianH @Pugilist @pidjones Haha, nice ones. If I choose your name I'll mail you a bottle. I'll have to camouflage it somehow since mailing alcohol is illegal in 99% of the States.

Brewing a Belgian pale. Nothing special with the recipe, but I'm going to be giving a portion of it to Dana Helmuth this Thursday in celebration of completing my back piece. I want to come up with some good labels, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a good pun name. Because that's what all the cool home brewers do. A good pun beer name goes a long way. Back Tattoo Brew Back Piece Pale Yeah, 15 minutes of brainstorming and that's all I have. This is why I don't name any of my beers. This one is a pale, that one is an amber.

Just go around letting people know you are interested in finding an ink slinger who can work on your squid pants. I'm sure you'll find who you're looking for.

@CultExciter Sorry to hear that man, my condolences. Mick, how hard is it to replace handle bars? Do your arms get tired on long rides?

@Mush I love those paint stroke robe lines.

I'm not sure how easy it would be to find an Oni skull. If I were you I would go with a Tibetan Skull. The decorated skull with snakes and flowers.... awesome.

Can't wait to see pics @MrToby Speaking of pics, how's your progress @SeeSea

That's rough @SeeSea, way to tough it out!

Saw this and thought it was pretty funny. Figured I'd share.

You can download anything off of youtube with VLC player. I'm not saying I'm an advocate of piracy or shady internet dealings, but there are ways to get any internet content for free. Mainly utorrent and pirate bay. Not that I would ever do that. I'm an upstanding citizen and I pay the price for things that are worth it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O2uoPhtIkM

That's odd, never heard of coconut oil as a salve. I don't see how that can beat an antibiotic lotion.

So when the timelapse slowed up, was it super slowed? Seemed like it took forever to lay down some of those lines. It really hurt to watch that, haha. Cool video though, thanks for sharing @ThatGuy

That's a shame. A high profile place like that probably had awesome stuff hanging on the walls that is now destroyed.

You're taunting me! I hope someone takes advantage of it.

Woo yeah @ironchef! I love the speckled orange!

Koji Ichimaru is making a few east coast stops. Get on it! I can't afford it sadly.

I don't know what a fuck off eagle is, but I want one.

New music is always a win for me! Every session I'm coming out with new bands to check out. I've been binging on Serpent Throne lately. It's like Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath had a love child. Also when a girl looks at me and says "That's beatiful" in reference to my ass. Yep definitely never would have happened without tattooing.

Pulling a long session Nov 20th with Dana to try and make it the last one on my back. I'll be going down to his private studio in Ocean City, MD. Excited, nervous, sad.

Saw that on Instagram @Shaggy That healed oni looks great.

Does BrianH owe us a picture or something? I know you had a date with Rubendall coming up. Has that started now?

@flowergirl I can understand how not getting the perfect tattoo that you wanted can be emotional. It's on you forever, and now you see it as something that's messed up. Everyone here is trying to help you come to terms with it and move on. Blowout, migration, whatever, every tattoo is unique. Now so is yours. I think the backlash from this community is coming from what it seems your intent is: blame the artist for messing up and proceeding to write a bad review (presumably on Yelp). You'll find that once you get in to the tattoo community and appreciate what artists can do and have to deal with, you'll side with the artist 9 times out of 10, which is basically what everyone in this thread is doing. We've been through it before and experienced the same thing you're experiencing. This is not the crowd to coddle and hand hold though. Since it didn't sink in on the first 2 pages of comments, things got taken to the next level. I've seen the usual suspects post in this thread that have posted in others, and I doubt anyone's intention was to make you cry. I'm not going to apologize for anyone, but seriously, don't sweat the minor blowout. Get something bigger around it or over top of it and you'll never even remember it was there. Although you'll forever be emotionally scarred from this thread. (That's a joke.)