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Tattoo Safety
Create Your Own Tattoo
How to Choose a Tattoo Design
How to Apply Tattoo Stencils
How to Get a Foot Tattoo
How to Get a Stomach Tattoo
Fixing a Tattoo
Adding to Tattoos
How to Keep Tattoos From Fading
How to Take Care of Your New Tattoo
How to Prevent a New Tattoo From Scabbing
How to Know if Your Tattoo is Infected
Covering Up Tattoos
How Can I Hide a Tattoo?
How to Get Rid of a Tattoo
How to Find Qualified Tattoo Removal Surgeons
Tattoo for Beginners
How to Get a Virtually Pain-Free Tattoo
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A tattoo is an essentially permanent mark on the skin, made by injecting pigment into the skin. Unfortunat… More
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Tattoos were once reserved for the fringe of society, but today it seems like everybody has one. The tatto… More
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Chlorine may fade a tattoo when it's new, but should be fine after it's healed. Avoid damaging a tattoo wi… More
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Summary: When beginning a tattoo and searching for an artist it is key to build a relationship with them and trust them to do the best work possible. Find a tattoo artist to begin the probable life-long joy of getting covered with ink from an experienced tattoo artist in this free video on body art.
Brandon Bond was voted Artist of the Year in 2005 at the South Florida Tattoo Convention. He was born on the small island of Perdido Key in Florida. He began his artistic endeavors due...read more
"The key element is finding your artist. You and your artist should have a relationship, where he does awesome work, and you get awesome work. You should allow your artist as much freedom as possible, because he's going to know how it's going to lay out, as a quarter sleeve, or a half sleeve or a full sleeve, because he has a lot of experience doing that. I've found with tattoo clients, even very heavily tattooed clients, that generally speaking, their ideas aren't very good. It's like me going to a plumber, and telling him what I think he should do, to make all the pipes work. When really, I just want the pipes to be awesome. When you pay somebody, and that's their vocation, their livelihood, and what they do, chances are that they're going to be able to provide you with an incredible set of art, that you would have never even considered. It's good to give guidelines, though, or ideas. Not like, hey, I want this, with this around it, with these initials in it, because then, that's exactly what you're going to get, and it's going to be crap, but if you're like well, I really want to represent temptation, or some kind of idea, or some kind of feeling or mood, or tone, or experience. Then, I would relay that to my artist, and say, Hey, I want to get something that represents the fact that I just had a child. Now, that doesn't mean you need to get a picture of the baby, all busted, with funny hair, and no teeth and stuff. There's a million ways to represent parenting, and reproduction, and love, and eternal bliss, and like all this crap, responsibility. Like, if you just think about the concept, and give your artist those, then he can take those, and create something incredible with it."
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