The Tattoo Thread

douchebag bro tribal to hipster sleeve - make sure you get that flower pocket tee-shirt to go with your flower sleeve. lol

anyways, if you ask on /r/tattoos on reddit (or somewhere artist hang out) i'm sure the artists there could give you a good idea. most will tell you to just do to your artist and see what he can do.

A couple of our work clients do laser tattoo removal and I can pretty much say with some certainty (due to size and all that blue) that you'll never get that thing completely gone. Greens, blues and purples are the hardest to remove but I believe there's a new type of laser out now called the PicoSure that can handle them better-than-average.

Either way, something that size is going to cost you a shit-ton of money to get removed. Our client's price is $370 per session on a 6" x 6" area, and some can take 10+ sessions. Edit - just saw that PicoSure treatments can be up to double the cost per treatment... so, yeah.

Maybe look into a cover up instead.

Just burn it off, bro. You can tattoo your sweet new skin graft from your butt cheeks

getting a cover up done starting next week on this sweet "Im 17 and in the army reserve" tattoo. the word friend looks so fucked up because he misspelled it... yea Awesome.



This is whats going over it.



It is a bronze Plaque that was created by Silvia Pecota it is titled "Fallen Comrade" One of the plaques was on the Canadian Memorial in Kandahar Air Field until the end of our combat mission.

http://www.silviapecota.com/

Did you try to get the tattoo removed or is it just really really faded?

Really Faded, its 22 years old and it was shitty to start with

Wife had this done today.

2 flowers and a pumpkin!

And now you are officially cursed to always see that as a tiny little pumpkin on top.

LOL you bastard!

Archangel_sl said:

Damn, now all I can see is the pumpkin, too. >_<

Has anyone seen a person first-hand with a purely white-ink tattoo? I've seen photos, all taken at the time of inking, though. Nothing to show how they heal and last. I'm curious about their image effects.

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I have a tattoo I got in 1998 thats got about 30% yellow in one section, and 30% white in another. The artist tried to talk me out of it saying that yellow and white are the two worst colors as far as fading goes, and that within a couple of years I would have to get them filled in again, forever, every few years. So, 15 years later the white has probably faded about 40%, its still noticeably lighter than my actual; skin, but not nearly as white as it used to be. The yellow on the other hand is like 80% gone (I didn't even realize until just now when I looked), there are patches, where it is still yellow, but a good portion is just straight up skintone now. I would probably cost me all of $60 or something to go get them filled back in though, so not the end of the world.

I'll see if I can dig up pics from 98 and comparisons to now later.

Also, on a side topic, anyone love tattoo's, want more, but wish all the ones you have were different? I have 5, and while I loved them all at the time, I wish I could erase them and do something different now. I'm guessing thats very common, as our tastes change as we get older, and even though I realize that 15 years from now I would probably feel the exact same thing (wanting to change them again), I still love tat's, and plan on getting more at some point. At the very least I need to get the words "hypocrite!" in a circulur border around my big ass SXE (straight edge) tattoo thats on the center of my back. Who would have guessed at 18 that my good friends the police, and the totally true and accurate D.A.R.E. program might not be 100% right?!

Well, is it regret if you go "Damn, I wish I didn't do these upper arm tattoo's because I really want to do some bad ass full sleeves, and now all my arm real estate is used >_<".

I guess its still sort of regret, but only because I want mooooore. I don't regret having sex with this girl I met, but I sure wish I could have set up a threesome with her friend.... kind of regret.

Dryst_sl said:

Do you guys have any experience with laser tattoo removal? I got a shitty tribal tattoo when I was 18 that I cannot fucking stand now 10 years later. Sadly, it was done by a professional, it has barely faded over 10 years. Now i'm debating on either laser tattoo removal or getting a better cover up. From my online research, tattoo removal looks sketchy at best. The only people with decent results have awful single color prison tattoos.

Attached is a pic from when I first got it done at 18, you can tell I was a fucking douchebag by the tank top and sweet bro necklace. How hard would this be to cover up? I wouldn't want it to go too much further down my arm, I just want it to not look like a big fucking fagotty swirl.

I would love something like this, I just don't know if it's possible unless I get the tattoo extended further down my arm.http://24.media.tumblr.com/5e8e03f45...ao2o2_1280.jpg

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Be a man and get some black work done. If I had some money I'd probably get my left leg done but Portland tattoo artists all charge way too much(120~ an hour) even as a mediocre artist.