10 years from now, seeing a mask in a video will instantly date it.

I have all of my tattoos facing “correctly” except my daughters’ names on the inside of my wrists because my tattoo artists said “those are only for you. No one else will get joy from them, but you will” and I loved that so we faced them towards me. I don’t regret it a bit tbh

It makes me happy that i picked my artist and researched before getting a tattoo

Tattoos look beautiful when they fade away from old age. They show the flow of life. Change my mind

How to get the best tattoos: Tell your artist vaguely what you want and what body part you want it on. Maybe mention things you don't like and what you definitely like in a tattoo. Trust them to come up with something awesome and know the best placement for it.

You'll always get a great tattoo when your artist is as excited about doing a tattoo as you are getting it.

I would never get a tat from an artist who thinks they know what i want to look at forever more then i do. I would listen to advice but not commands.

They need to do a story on her why she blacked out her sleeves

I met michela once at an airport. Just said I knew who she was and she did great work and she was super nice and smiled and said thank you. Literally a like two second interaction but I thought it was dope.

Her joke about tatooing backwards made me laugh, because I actually have letter "D" backwards near my heart so I can see it in the mirror. It's for my mom who passed away when I was a kid. D is initial of her name.

why no one talking about that hisoka face mask.

I have a tattoo that is placed facing the "correct" direction and I hate it.
I love the tattoo but I wish they would have listened to me

People should totally take placement into account, but some tattoos have “weird” placement because they’re meaningful. The text on my wrist faces me because I want to read it all the time. Yes, I know what it says but it’s meaningful to me and I wanted it to face me.

“I dont give client choice” later, “it’s clients choice”

My second tattoo is a “job stopper” (on my hand) and it has never cost me a job. I have been asked about it during a interview and when I let them see it up close so they could see the horrible scar (from a burn) it is covering it is no longer a problem. I feel like I “earned” that tattoo by going through the pain of the burn and then living with the embarrassment of the scar for almost 20 years. FYI the placement would probably drive them nuts but there wasn’t any way I could move my scar to better place.

I don’t really understand what’s wrong with getting small tattoos. Some people want to get tattoos and already know that they don’t want to end up with whole sleeves. I understand the logic, but not everyone will continue getting more tattoos.

Heres my thing about facing the "wrong way" especially with lettering. If it's super personal to me, and I have someone stand next to me as opposed to facing directly at me, they see it as I see it. I think that's more important for sentimental value that just a display piece

Guys
Bungee gum has the properties of both rubber and gum

I "trusted" my tattoo artists and my first few tattoos are shit because of it. It's definitely important to do research before you go in.

I'm just going to day I respect an artists knowledge, but at the end of the day it's my body, my choice, it's going to be on MY body forever. That said if am artist days it wont work I respect that because they know conformation and angles, so I am torn on that but pretty much agree with them

I really hate that “it’s backwards because when you show people it will be upside down” argument. It’s like saying you need to always please others and I don’t understand how anyone in the tattoo world would think that way.
I wanted a tattoo facing me on my wrist, I used to struggle with self harm...obviously a super personal tattoo for me and the artist refused to face it my way, instead we compromised having it sideways. I’m still bothered about having to compromise.