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A basic, foolproof method to find a tattoo design


A tattoo is for life! Kinda self-evident really, but so important. You should select the design extremely carefully. The sensible move is to prepare ahead and consult your tattoo artist so the final design you choose will work on the site on your body you want it. First off, you need to find a good tattooist. The very best bet is to search for a great suggestion and then examine the tattooist's credentials online.

These days it's rather simple, Google is your buddy! A fast regional search brings up this great tattoo store that really does look excellent. They have good tattooists as the galleries show and make the point about a great tattoo costing a bit of money. Searching for an inexpensive tattoo will get you exactly that AND inexpensive is not very good!

In addition, there's a lot of information on the tattoo web page with sensible guidance. Here's a tattoo shop you could visit and be positive that you will get good recommendations and therefore a good job, well done. But to actually make sure I look at their aftercare page, if they fail to put much effort into their aftercare I can tell they are a little slapdash. On this Birmingham website they have a very stringent tattoo aftercare policy, which fills me with confidence. I'm in!

Before going to see the tattooist and booking a consultation it's worth collecting some artwork to show the tattooist, so they are able to help you work out the precise design you are after. If I want a koi tattoo or a Japanese God or something, I will browse the web for designs - Google image search works well for this. I will dump images that I find in a word doc and type exactly what I like about each image.

This document is fantastic to trim from a general idea to something close to precisely what you want. When I have this prepared I have a look at the tattooist's own work to see if they have tattooed something I like in their portfolio. It's additionally comforting if they have actually done something similar in the past, although a great tattooist can adjust.

On the site in Birmingham I could see that the tattoo artists have done some great Oriental tattoos so I'm delighted to proceed. So I now should print out my word doc to bring along to the consultation with the Tattooist. Following a similar method to this will guarantee that you get to the consultation prepared; the tattooist will be glad of your effort too!



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