CultExciter

I love that LST is always on the same page when it comes to shoddy ideas/tattooing. You guys make my heart swell.

This is the polite way I can say this.

@SoutheastTattooWorkshop - - - Updated - - - The blind leading the blind.

@JAllen I'm with you man. This is all kinds of the wrong approach. This shit wasn't meant to be given away so easily. Two week courses...this is as awful as TLC's Tattoo School.

@Graeme, the only advice I'd have to get this in the right direction is re-gesso or use your white paint and relayer. It's been a few years since I did extensive oil painting, and I was one of those *gasp* post-modern assholes. Mistakes made me happier.

Good ole Murray!

Looks fine as is. Let the artist, who seems pretty competent, take care of it.

Ross is the epitome of a class act in person. I'm jelly I wasnt hanging with yall!

Tribal. And I'm being 100 percent sincere. Check out Curly's work. Curly Tattoomonger

I'm gonna submit the smallest tattoo to win the monthly contest (ok, not really, that back, gahhhh)! RAT HEADS GET NOTHIN' BUT CHEESE Y'ALL, done by Cody Miller at Blackheart. Photo pilfered from his Instagram.

You're gonna leave me to do this aren't you...

SMART MAN - - - Updated - - - I'm successfully down from over 1000 to about 750. And I kept all of you LST folks. The things I do for internet friends...:D

David Carson is coming back y'all. (Not that he ever really went away, also, I hate Sagmeister).

You pretty much are going to have to double the size or more of that tattoo to have it covered properly. If you don't want to commit to that size, you really need to look into lasering.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Thank you.

We don't really like discussing prices here on the board, but frankly, $160/hour is not outrageous, at all.

Kike at Brightside is a fine tattooer. I would also say my dude Hunter Spanks at Have Fun Be Lucky in Hampden could make a great tattoo for you. There really is a lot of choices, spend some time looking through portfolios or Instagram accounts. Outside of Baltimore you could visit John Rippey at Classic Electric in Frederick. That place is beautiful. Shops and or tattooers to research: Brightside (Kike) Have Fun Be Lucky (Hunter Spanks) Saints and Sinners (Christian Beckman) Read Street Classic Electric (Frederick) Black Label (Frederick) Ghosttown (Ellicott City) These are just my personal suggestions for what you mention you are looking for.

@Bmore If you have any questions or would like recommendations, feel free to ask.

The was eggxactly the joke I was hoping to hear.

Welcome. You have good people in and near Baltimore to get tattooed by.

I'd like it too. Come on down!

@Graeme Speechless, as I said on Instagram. I'm rethinking every idea I had for my back.

It looks like a healed tattoo.

I co-sign this wisdom from my dude.

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