30 Things That Annoy Tattoo Artists | Tattoo Artists Answer

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are not. Wow, where do you start? I hate to make this a rant, but these questions are perfectly executed. That's kind of

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ing, when people fart, yes, our drunk clients are constantly late for every appointment, just like you. I don't know where the store is, like you've been many times, well what really bothers me is that maybe when the bar closes early you know that's why you buy your own drink and what I did was buy a big bottle of Jack Daniels and Mexican coke and I made it by mixing coke, not the powder, they have the liquid so I made them super diabetes, oh my gosh, when someone TMZ says how much, how much dough, when the first question is how much Can I get a deal?

I would love a deal. Maybe I can connect you. You know you need the pair of shoes or something. They come trying to get that deal anyway. That's all. It's a little

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that annoy me as a tattoo artist, they're probably clients trying to pin you down on pricing or just trying to give you exact instructions as if they were the professional in the situation, but when we become micromanaged it gets complicated. really stressful situation, it is not going to create the best result for the tattoo, neither for the experience nor for the entire session, a very insistent and demanding clientele who thinks they are smarter than they actually are changing the design at the last minute You know, I really put a lot of effort into trying to make the tattoo the best tattoo Crossley can and at the last minute someone changes the design, you just throw it out and you know I have to improvise, they want to steer the tattoo in a very narrow direction. specific, like when you have a set of designs and then they look at their friend, yeah, who says, yeah, and then their friend is the one who changes the design, that's a request, yeah, that's bad, literally in my email confirmation says come and if they bring someone there they have to wait in the lobby even though in the only room I'm still trying to scare him into coming just look there one of the

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I know a tattoo artist is micromanaging when I walk into the room study for me, the most important thing in the room is not you, it's your tattoo, you know and I hope you do the same, you know, when someone's personality doesn't allow them to just let it happen and do the best for and they have to be holding on on the phone all the time or complaining about how much it hurts or asking all the time how when will it be over, that's super annoying and I have clients who say do whatever you want and send me an email. man I trust you I love your vision even though we go through references and we look at things and we agree and we're doing with your reference what I want and then on tattoo day they're like no I hate I think being too picky about your design, yes, yes.

I feel that when you look for an artist you see their work, you see if you like their style and you have to give them confidence in what they are giving you. At that point, it's good to 100% let go a little bit because I feel like you always get the best result tattoo-wise if you let the

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play around with what you want a little bit and do it in their own style. For me, being a woman, I think it's like when guys come and get tattoos for you and they don't really come for the tattoo, but for the opportunity to warm you up.

I've literally had guys feel like I'll pay for an all day, but instead of getting a tattoo I want to take you on a date and it's like you're paying me like $2,000 to spend eight hours on a date with you, so, sure, You'd like to treat me like a prostitute, I think. One of the most annoying questions I get asked as an artist is: do my tattoos hurt while I'm tattooing? You know they might raise their arm to look or like you know try to get their hands in the way and my machine is making you work.

I know, I don't want to give them an extra tattoo on their finger or whatever. Children always bother me if they are running around, if they are sitting quietly and behaving, but there is nothing worse when a client brings their children. In reality, in my studio you no longer know what children are like just because, sometimes these fines bring with them that Your kids are running around and you're trying to concentrate and you know for me I put a lot of money into my studio there are a lot of breakable things so that drives me crazy when people get tattoos on their feet and they don't have toes.

I think it's disgusting. The same question over and over again. I get it, you told me what you wanted your manga to be. I know you already know and then they keep telling me like no, no, no, but you know what I mean, you know what I mean, right, yeah, dude, you told me like 10 times. I recently had one where she asked me for my opinion so I give her my opinion but she says but you don't think mine my idea is good like well no it won't work so you should do it this way but you don't think my ideas They are good, they don't understand that I draw everything and what bothers me the most is when they get an image from the Internet or they don't

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why it is a tattoo and it's like I want that and it's like now most of my clients at this point fly to me, my clients usually fly back to their destinations the next day or the next day, so I'm very specific and tell them exactly what to do, but it's like when people spend all this time and all this money on these beautiful and unique -kind pieces of art, you have to take care of them afterwards and I think some people are very stubborn and they think that they know what is best for their own body and they know what is best for their body, you know, because there are artists instructions when they were 16 years old. told them to do this and her friend's mom recently got a tattoo and her boyfriend's friend told them to do something else and it's like people should trust the tattoo artist from start to finish and the end is after it's completed the healing process too.

You know getting a tattoo doesn't end the moment you walk out the door because a lot of times when people have a bad reaction or an infection or something like whatever crazy thing, most of the time it happens when the person leaves the house. . tattoo parlor the new one that doesn't bother us anymore that we used to say know is that I want it in front of me I want it for myself you know probably some hipster girl did it on Pinterest says it's redundant like you're walking around with your t-shirt design in front of He's actually like well, I want to enjoy my t-shirt design.

I thought so, but it's backwards undated like the rest of the normal world, like we're normal, sees it backwards. and it's like getting a huge upside down tattoo and I feel like I think at some point we're probably going to jump the shark and do upside down portraits and all this, you know, I won't do it unless the price is right cancellation and rescheduling like if I like to plan everything and when you change I can't free people because some people like it, they actually want to party, they want to hang out, they're no and they're like oh I got sick oh sorry my mom in the hospital come on buddy do damn someone that color people come and beat me up to get a tattoo somewhere and yeah I want to get a tattoo on my forehead and I'm like oh okay cool I like it what do you want me to say they're like, well I don't know people who ask me if I'm capable of doing something, it's like you see my work and go to the trouble of sending me an email like You must have thought somewhere in your mind that you thought I was capable of do it, so I don't know if I can understand if it was a.

I specialize in color realism, so I could understand if you said, "Hey, could you?" Get this traditional tattoo, well dude I don't do that, people nowadays because of social media are very snooty, so I think getting tattooed is, you know, finally spending your time on the glass like, oh, ya you know, and you. just wait it's like you're shopping for shoes or it's like no, no, just do it with, you know, gold flake paint on the side of my finger, it's like well, first off, there's no such thing as cold flake paint. Well, I saw it on Pinterest. and it's like no, that's body paint, they just put it on their finger, you know, it says tattoo underneath, oh well, fake news, the things that are loud tattoo artists, most of it is based on our clientele, ya you know, because with programs like Ink Master you end up with artist clients. who think they know more than they really know, so they go on with these crazy ideas and these thoughts that they know how long a tattoo should take and they come to us and say, hey man, I want my sleeve done, you know? ?

Can we do this in a weekend? Know? And it is something unrealistic. I'm not going to say it can't be done, but I will assume that every artist you go to is going to fall back to make a manga in a weekend just isn't going to happen or they think that the work that is done on television that takes six to ten hours is actually being produced in two hours or an hour and a half is just ridiculous.