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That and you could always just tell her you can get to it but it will be a few months because you are otherwise booked

About the 2 hour mark, he asked me if the letters looked okay the way they were. I said yeah they look Okay just let me touch them up a bit more, which I did.

What I really want is a chance to do something amazing! I need a conversation starter piece and I think my clients, well, they don’t have the money for me to do that.

The next time this…[Read more]

Maybe you should just tell her that you don’t guarantee foot tattoos, thats what I do. That and hand tattoos, I’m not going to guarantee those because I guarantee I’ll have to pump more ink in there later anyways.

So, hand and foot tattoos do not equal free touch-ups. But practically everything else does.

I’m just going to point out, that I really think you should branch out a bit. Keep in mind most of your clients aren’t going to want the same stuff you would want. I wouldn’t recommend hardly any of these pieces as an actual tattoo.

Just wanted to make that clear lol.

I have well water, so my tap is safe to use :)

My problem is I don’t know how to get people BACK in the chair. I have a hard time saying anything to point out my work could be better to a client, I always want them to think it is just absolutely amazing. Even when I know I could do more.

How do I go about telling a client I want to do more to their tattoo?

I said the same thing, but upon seeing a close up image. I really think this is pretty good work. There are a lot of highlights that will bring this beauty to life when it is healed.

Holy crap dude. You’ve got a lot of natural ability, I think its a downright shame your not interested in doing this professionally honestly.

That skin is looking pretty decent. I’d like to see a bigger picture of it though

You can use tap water, but you should get in the habit of acting like the skin your practicing on is a real client. So I’d recommend using distilled anyways.

Just finished watching Tattoo Nation yesterday, twas very interesting, and I did get to pick up a couple of key points :)

Thats gonna look amazing, I can’t wait to see what you do with it

Maybe this one will count?
https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/1234581_10151727325289475_480793027_n.jpg

Ignore the hat. I realize that part sucks. As well as the lines, but the shading looks good to me on the face.

Welcome!

That part is excellent, in my opinion. Are you planning on doing the flames in full color?

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/783/f7kf.jpg

Not really very happy with this piece. Its very plain, not my style at all :/ It’s what he brought me to do though, except I moved the lettering from horizontal to vertical for him.

This is what I had planned:
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/9316/xa0v.jpg

Except I was going to do a solid fill of…[Read more]

Calling someone a scratcher is much the same as calling someone the N word to me. Especially offensive when the individual is actively pursuing knowledge of doing things the right way.

Welcome aboard!

Oh yeah, I know it is legal now. But it wasn’t legalized until 2006, and was the last state in the union to legalize tattooing. Of course, we did manage to lobby in the Micropigmentologist loophole.

It’s the whole permanent make-up bit and covering up scar tissue and minimizing the appearance of damage on burn victims.

So basically, if you had a…[Read more]

Welcome to the forum! I’d say just try to soak up as much information as possible, and don’t let anything get to you to bad and you’ll be fine. Remember your apprenticeship will be over soon and you’ll get to do whatever you want after! Keep your eye on the prize and so on and so forth

Seems easy enough, but I’m used to F* so its just easier for me lol.