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I have a question about designs/placement for inner bicep - should the design look the correct way when your arm is dropped down straight or when you lift your arm up 45degrees ? Coz my dagger looks good either way but the next design I wanted to get (other inner bicep) is a handshake design. I wanted it running along from armpit to elbow but in this location it would only look 'the right way up' when arm is raised. When arm is Hanging down it will look on it's side. So it won't be upside down as such but I'm kinda assuming this is technically not a great idea ? Could go a sacred heart instead which will be the right way up when arm hanging down straight. Any advice appreciated as like both designs but am quite keen on doing things the 'right' way Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cool thread - I have a dagger through rose on inner bicep by Oliver Macintosh , he killed it I love it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm also wondering if my initial application of the non-stick patch helped because this would have been in the period where the tattoo was leaking - so perhaps it was more effective for that and then the tegaderm came in when it was nice and non-leaky. In any case cannot believe the results - the tattoo had Healed perfectly after 4-5 days & def no touch up required r

I just had a fantastic healing experience with a slight variation on the tegaderm process I was told by my artist to wash the tattoo as normal the night of the tattoo, put no cream or a&d on it - just pat dry / air dry and leave it with nothing on. Same deal the next morning and once it's dry "apply tegaderm, take off after 3 days and it will be healed" Sounded way to good to be true . The problem was I couldn't purchase tegaderm so I followed the above instructions however the first 24-30 hours of the tattoo being covered was with a non-adhesive wound dressing/patch. Once I finally found a pharmacy with tegaderm I swapped the non-adhesive patch for tegaderm I left the tegaderm on for a further 2.5 days,so probably 4 days in total I was a little bit worried because in the change over between patches I noticed the line work was slightly raised (extremely light) before placing the tegaderm on. So I was totally paranoid that when I lifted the tegaderm off it may pull these lines out. Anyway, when I took the tegaderm off my tattoo basically looked like a bright, 3-4 week healed tattoo. What peeling there was (and bear in mind this was only a 4 day old tattoo) was so light it wasn't even noticeable at all even to me ... There was ZERO scanning, not even light, and ZERO itching Basically I feel like I skipped the whole healing process and I'm now of course putting in mouisterizer but it barely seemed necessary And my tattoo is now exactly 7 days old. Incredible results Not sure if it's something to do with the luck of the method I used (due to not being able to get tegaderm straight away) but next time I'll get tegaderm ready before getting inked and go straight to that as instructed by the artist. It was too nerve racking applying/removing the tegaderm to an already healing tattoo - next time will prefer to put it on the morning after and let it works it's magic Seems kinda freakish lol maybe I lucked out or this product is insanely good

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Bump :) I'm getting a dagger in a couple of weeks, on the arm. Can anyone recommend thoughts on placement on back of upper arm ? That was my original plan but in some pics I've seen, a dagger can look a bit short there, and also warped. Placement IMO is forearm (front of back of) as the spot is longer and they lay flatter. But i need to make a decision if I want it there as my current tattoos are not in exposed positions . Any thoughts would be appreciated ! if it's still going to look good on back of arm i'll go for that but don't want something looking whack due to bad placement ;)

wow that's nice ... thought it was a cris cleen piece . will have to look up Dave Hale

Thanks for the tips both of you .. I have a lady head on the outside of the other arm so should work well!

Some really nice pin ups in here. What are people's thoughts for the best placement for a pinup tattoo on the upper arm please ? I'm thinking of getting mine placed towards the back of the upper arm, rather than directly on the very outside of the upper arm. They look great on forearms (inside or outside) but unfortunately I can't go there due to work. What's everyones thoughts on next best arm-placement option please :) Thanks !

Wow ! lovely piece, congratulations :)