Just a question to the people that have chinese/asian characters as their tattoos: have any of you brought a person that actually understands what the characters mean or what they say as a whole when you had your tattoo done? And when i say as a whole, like, when you have 4 characters, what it actually means taken together, not individually. I've seen a lot of tattoos where the person probably didn't get the phrase checked out before having it done, and although it means what they try to describe it, its a piss poor way of stating it.

^^^ always have someone that speaks and read the lanuage natively to check it out to make sure.

I had plans to get chinese character for my second tattoo. even though I'm chinese and can speak/read decent chinese i still got my mom to check out the wording to make sure every stroke it correct.

measure twice cut once.

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/s...Picture108.jpg

Took two sessions, 3.5 hrs to complete.

By Jay at Sanitary Electric Tattoo Company

www.bigjtattoos.com

He is very awesome!!

I am still thinking about whether to get a second one or not.

What?! That is a huge tattoo for 3.5 hours!

Can't see a thing in that tiny pic though. Kinda looks like crap from this far away.

lol i told u take a pic with a REAL CAMERA.

yea thats alot of ink for only 3.5 hours..... Need a better pic and next time move your damn hand a little nipple never killed anyone :D

Berz out.

lol,

yes yes, real camera.

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/s...oir/Tattoo.jpg

There, better picture!

Happy now.

Yeah, when he told me it was only goning to take him 3-3.5 hrs I was pretty surprised.

actually looking at the close up, 3.5 hours for that piece doesn't seem too bad, providing he didn't take any breaks!

Yea no crazy detail just outlining and shading.... must have tickled pretty good though.

Berz out.

haha shittt i have on my ribs and damn it hurt, i could feel it through my body

It's my first tattoo, so no comparison.

But I sat a lot better the second session than the first.

Second session was NOTHING at all!

i was gonna say 3.5 hours is about right, this took under three and the guy took a few breaks

DVSDM i like yours very sick

thanks man, i love it, still have another hour to finish it completely, then on to design and finish the rest of my sleeve, the goal is one full sleeve one 3/4 sleeve and then who knows... haha

guys, is red suppose to fade a little after its heal? I have a black tattoo with a few spot of red and it's been a few month heal and it looks like the red faded a little?

is it true most artist dunt do touchup of another artist work? what if i can't find my original artist and i just want a touchup not a coverup?

usually artists will do touchups within a year if u notice fading, some people dont take to certain colors well, a couple months shouldnt have it fadeing that much really, my tattoo healed in 3 weeks.... get some good skin lotion and really rub it into your tattoo, it should bring out the color a little more, this only temp fix really and wont last long, i would recommend finding ur original artist

I know how to find the artist that did my newest tat the problem is my first tat that i got 2+ year ago. the artist that did it dunt work at the shop no more and last the shop manager heard the guy is in Philippines or somewhere in asia. Hence why i'm wondering if other artist will touchup the work.

Why don't you ask the guy that does work on you now?

Some artists will do it if they like the art work. All depends.

Tattoo colours fade over time, there is really no way around it. The edges also become less sharp.

looking at all these makes me wants to get one
skinnypupp sweet video
nice tattoos guys

Heres mine :D My first tatty!
Its completely fresh! got it done just yesterday.

Its for my mom who passed away in 2004. I got a "floral" portrait of a lily pedal because her name was lily. Her birth and death dates, our family last name for the chinese character in the flower in red. With the phrase " What doesnt kill me can only make me stronger" down by the ankle area.


http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2180/dscn0289m.th.jpg http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8826/dscn0290.th.jpg http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7656/dscn0291w.th.jpg

and heres how it looked when it was just drawn on my leg:
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1441/dscn0272h.th.jpg

Took a little over 4.5hrs to complete, but i absolutely love it! Defiantly worth that little pain :p

THis is mine
My name is Holly ...been called Hollywood my whole life so it kinda goes lol :p
took 3.5 hours $350 to get it done
got it done in bosie Idaho at Nobodys hero tattoo
Hurt like a bitch!
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...ollywood-1.jpg

Hollywouldifshecould... and she will.....

Berz out.

Just get my first one yesterday :D

http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/SSPX0219.jpg

^ any reason/story behind that?