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REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS posted:The force is wrong with this one.
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Sep 21, 2020 00:31
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Portraits are so hard to do well. Miss one line and it can look very off. Some portraits, though, it looks like the tattoo artist couldn’t even GET one line right.
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Sep 21, 2020 00:41
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And that particular image of Marylin looks like it would be really tough to pull off. Like, it’s iconic and all but that big open mouth and heavy eyelash thing that’s going on would be reaaally easy to slide into clownish nightmare territory if you get even the tiniest bit out of proportion.
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Sep 21, 2020 01:16
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Sep 21, 2020 11:04
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Honorable mention to the "I Will Cut You" heart necklace I really can't see anything other than her with a double wide chin and neckbeard.
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Sep 21, 2020 11:11
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Sep 21, 2020 12:31
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Little story time. Back in July this client came to our shop wanting a typical bit of flash of a pair of lips tattooed on their wrist, we did it, whatever, was a small £70 bread n butter piece but nothing worthy of putting in a portfolio. At the time she asked if it could cover this:  Told her there is no chance of that happening, the tattoo was only about 1x2.5 inches and was nowhere near big enough to cover that, as well as the fact it had a bunch of negative space in the shading that would show the old tattoo underneath. Fastforward a couple months and last week she posted that photo above to her FB page with the following caption:  Because of course asking a bunch of rando's on Facebook is better than just thinking for yourself, and of course you've already told your friends you want a 'mandala / lotus / pattern' so they keep echo chambering you with this terrible idea. I had explained to her when she was at my shop that those kind of tattoos just do. not. work. for cover ups. So in the swarm of her friends all saying "get that lotus mandala pattern that you keep going on about, it'll look so lovely, oh my god it would just be the best thing ever!" I tried again to reason with her about how it's NOT A GOOD IDEA!  I'm trying to be nice, explain how what she wants wont cover what she has, and to avoid asking friends because you're gonna end up with even worse poo poo that you don't like and by proxy will end up blaming your friends for giving you bad advice because she's the kind of person that has 0 concept of self responsibility. Needless to say, she ignored the guy that's been in the industry for 16 years, she ignored similar advice from the artist that did the set of lips a month or so earlier (which she proclaims to be the best tattoo she's ever got, but as you can and will see, that's not exactly a high bar). Instead, she takes a trip out of town to the North West coast of England, she goes hand in hand with her 'bestie' that took her to an ~*AmAzInG*~ artist that specialises in cover ups - I tried to track the artist down as she didn't link to anything when she posted her tattoo, my internet detective skills ran dry beyond finding a 'group' facebook page, not a business one, and THIS is his entire digital portfolio of work in that group. That's it. As far as i can tell there's no Instagram page, no website, no other mention of Coastal Ink on social media. Just a dubious Google Business listing with 30 5 star reviews that all say something like "John does the best tattoos in town". It screams to me of asking people to leave reviews for a discount / cheaper price on the tattoos because, well, look at that portfolio and check out this great cover up:  It's taking every ounce of willpower I have to not call her out for that poo poo, but no doubt we'll see her in a few weeks when she's back in London and asking how we could 'fix' this piece of poo poo.
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Sep 21, 2020 14:33
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There's only one part of your post I disagree with: "Don't ask others what you should get for a tattoo...unless it's what type of pizza reaper to get"
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Sep 21, 2020 14:50
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whypick1 posted:There's only one part of your post I disagree with: Exceptions to every rule and all that. But honestly it's something that has always pissed me off running a studio, people coming in and asking us what they should get as a tattoo. Like, if they're asking "will this work as a cover up" or "do you think a pizza reaper would look good on [BODY PART]" that's one thing, but to just stroll in and go "I want a sleeve, do you have any ideas?" - I hate it! If you explain "We can't tell you what you want, you need to at least have some vague idea of what you do and don't like in terms of tattoos before we can even begin to suggest something" they get all bitchy about "Well I thought you were meant to be the professionals, can't you just draw half a dozen things for me to choose from?" Alternatively if you try and humour them and start listing ideas this happens:  "We could go with a japanese themed sleeve" "No, don't like japanese stuff" "What about a bunch of smaller old school traditional pieces and then fill in the gaps with som..." "No, don't like that old poo poo, the art is rubbish" "A sleeve full of skulls!" "No, nothing scary, my kids will hate it" "Roses... floral stuff?" "No, I dont want no girly poo poo on my arm, I'm not gay!" "uhhh... neo traditional religious stuff, doves, clouds, sun rays?" "Nah, I'm not religious, don't want any of that." "Ok... what DO you like, can you give us any ideas at all of what you'd want tattooed on your arm?" "Well I thought you were meant to be the professionals, can't you just draw half a dozen things for me to choose from?"Either way you get the same end response and I hate people.
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Sep 21, 2020 15:13
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dpack_1 posted:
Isn't this where you just point them to your instagram or your portfolios and tell em to have at it?
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Sep 21, 2020 18:02
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Couldn't she just ask to have that thing touched up, thicken the lines to make them consistent or whatever? It would sure beat that monstrously ugly tattoo to "cover" it up, nevermind that you can still easily see the old tattoo under it.
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Sep 21, 2020 19:11
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I'm not sure why you would expect someone that chose to get a bad tattoo in the first place to make good decisions about the coverup
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Sep 21, 2020 19:58
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Sep 21, 2020 20:18
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Good advice
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Sep 21, 2020 20:22
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SoUncool posted:Isn't this where you just point them to your instagram or your portfolios and tell em to have at it? In my experience people just get mad, like you're being unreasonable by not just choosing it for them like some tattoo sommelier. Even showing people portfolios gets hard because you're like ok we've got animals here, a skull book, some Celtic stuff here and they just go "I want...tattoo" I spent some time on Saturday trying to talk a guy out of some sort of Keith Flint/Totenkopf design. But no, he knows best it HAS to be the skull and crossbones the SS wore on their hats. Going by the memes on his fb he's a mask truther so I think I might lose his messages tomorrow when we open.
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Sep 21, 2020 21:23
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 I do not know this person, but I do know that they are almost certainly insufferable.
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Sep 22, 2020 14:29
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Is that BANG from the big bang theory? Holy poo poo
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Sep 22, 2020 14:36
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Thats really well put together but unbelievably cursed.
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Sep 22, 2020 14:39
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Memento posted:
When told about the bombing of Hiroshima, Albert Einstein replied "I should have been a pickle, funniest poo poo I ever saw"
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Sep 22, 2020 17:47
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a fatguy baldspot posted:anything tattoo'd that big in the direct center of a chest is tasteless imo. unless it's an old school sailing ship at full mast 
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Sep 25, 2020 05:14
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Macksy posted:I disagree Bet this motherfucker's never even been around Cape Horn
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Sep 25, 2020 05:16
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Don’t send noted sex pest Jack Gallagher to a place called Cape Horn.
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Sep 25, 2020 05:40
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Memento posted:
I hate this, but I feel like that's exactly what they want from me.
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Sep 25, 2020 07:08
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I’m thinking about getting a Japanese Traditional E. Honda tat, but I definitely don’t want it to look like Donald Trump took up the sport of Sumo. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBRXh_3pjHd/?igshid=187s8giu3paqe (If that was the intention then it might belong in the other thread...)
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Sep 25, 2020 22:14
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Macksy posted:I disagree
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Sep 26, 2020 02:36
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Knormal posted:Tasteful nipple buffer. Name change pls mods
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Sep 26, 2020 14:33
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IshmaelZarkov posted:Name change pls mods Tasteless Biffle Nupper would also be acceptable.
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Sep 26, 2020 15:06
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Memento posted:
Does anyone else refer to this kind of garbage as "sex repellent?"
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Sep 26, 2020 15:18
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:Does anyone else refer to this kind of garbage as "sex repellent?" if there were sex anywhere near these people to repel. it's more like virginal insurance.
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Sep 26, 2020 15:53
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"Sex Repellent? More like: Virginal Insurance."
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Sep 26, 2020 16:17
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Just Offscreen posted:Thats really well put together but unbelievably cursed. It's done so well, and the realistic Albert head blends perfectly into the cartoon. But holy gently caress is that a terrible concept. I don't think you see a lot of concept:0 execution:10 projects.
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Sep 26, 2020 17:10
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Sep 26, 2020 19:27
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The difference between LSD and meth.
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Sep 26, 2020 19:33
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whypick1 posted:The difference between LSD and meth. The one on the right is a Silica packet.
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Sep 26, 2020 19:37
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I love that the lovely tattoo artist put the cat ears in. Its so obviously a different tattoo, but nope it's gotta be the same as the photo.
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Sep 26, 2020 19:49
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It looks like there's a toe coming out of her mouth.Lechtansi posted:I love that the lovely tattoo artist put the cat ears in. Its so obviously a different tattoo, but nope it's gotta be the same as the photo. Quick, somebody post nipple Penguin!
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Sep 26, 2020 20:37
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It's supposed to be a bow in her hair.
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Sep 26, 2020 20:38
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Not as funny as the joker/nipple tattoo but close.
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Sep 26, 2020 20:41
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:It's supposed to be a bow in her hair. Look again
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