Hogrider

If you aren't sure you should postpone your appointment until you are sure. A full back piece is a huge commitment of time, money and pain. I have my last appointment next month and I've been working on my back for a year and a half. I had a full sleeve and chest piece before starting on my back. It's a pretty risky first tattoo. There are a lot of aspects to getting and being tattooed that you don't understand until after you are tattooed. You don't even know how well you will sit. Good luck, I hope it works out.

I just got started on my second sleeve two weeks ago. It's funny but I have had more people walking up to talk to me than when I just had the one sleeve. I had three people come up to me yesterday. All positive comments. However, I was down in Florida visiting my parents a couple of days ago and when we went into a nice restaurant I got the stink-eye from some older man. I'm not sure what he found most offensive, my tattoos, pony tail or jeans! My philosophy is you can look all you want, but open your mouth and you'll get as good as you give (or better).

I agree about the final four, but man did they have a bunch of mutts at the beginning! I think there might have been the most tattooers ever this season that were just awful. There were a bunch that were just mediocre too, but I guess better a mediocre tattoo than a dreadful one. Proof once again that you get what you pay for.

Another season in the crapper. I thought the back pieces in the finale were good, but nothing spectacular. Next season they are having rival tattooers on. Imagine the drama ... and run like a deer. I have an idea - what if they made the show about tattoos?????

Just say, "and I remember you before you were a dick."

If everyone that 'was going to' get a tattoo actually got one there would be a severe shortage of tattoo artists in this country!

Why so long??? :-)

They should at least wait until the mutts are kicked off before they do the really difficult challenges.

There have been enough seasons that everyone knows there will be portraits, pinups and Japanese contests at least. Anyone that doesn't prepare for it is a dumbass. The best thing about this show is that every time I watch it I appreciate my tattoos and the guy who does them even more!

Karma is a bitch - bad things happening to bad people.

That would make me want to wear a tank top!

If I was Nickelback I'd sue to have that tattoo removed.

The next reality show - Laser Wars or Unink Master

It's hard to feel sorry for someone who has seen some of the God-awful tattoos done on this show (and Best Ink) and is still so desperate for attention (and free tattoos) that they go on the show anyway. Especially the first few episodes where there are usually 3-4 tattooers who are dreadful. If they get a mediocre tattoo they should consider themselves lucky.

+1 I put way too much thought into this, in the end I wound up going with a full sleeve and am glad I did. I bought some shirts with the sleeves an extra inch long for when I need to mix with the big shots. My company is on the conservative side so I'm really pushing the envelope with the pony tail. They would shit if they saw my back!

paragraphs are your friends! :cool:

I'm of the anal retentive personality type and did tons of research before getting a tattoo. I found very little evidence of actual problems. Even with red ink, most of the issues, that I found anyway, boiled down to it taking longer to heal rather than long term problems. I look at it like this - approximately 20% of the American population has tattoos. With more than 250,000,000 adults in the US, that's about 50,000,000 people in the US alone that have tattoos. If tattoos caused significant problems, we would know by now.

I had to go on a work trip with someone who works for me recently. We both telecommute so we had never met. I wore long sleeves at the client site, but I wore t-shirt and jeans to dinner. He kept staring at my sleeve but never said anything so I didn't either. I actually thought it was funny.

As Oliver Peck would say, "Do I want a face tattoo? No. Do I want a face tattoo from one of the knuckleheads on this show? HELL NO!"

Don't engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man, it's not sporting!

Hold it, are you telling me this stuff is STAGED? It must be real, it's called REALITY TV! :-)

This may be the only tattoo show I couldn't sit through. The knucklehead that stars in the show just did some awful work on the little bit of the one show I could sit through. I'm still not sure what knucklehead number two's role is. I can't even watch the commercials. The two knuckleheads are making fun of other people's ink and they have some pretty terrible ink themselves. YMMV.

The first time I heard this I didn't believe it. All I could think of was that no one would make up such stupid, boring shit! They must just be hiring the bottom of the barrel if this is the best they can come up with.

Bad tattoos are timeless!

This objectification of men has got to stop! :-)