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will be mad at me if I have places I'm getting tattooed? Will he make it difficult for her? As? Get rid of acne on your body, please your tattoos. I hope she doesn't make me mad at you, you can't avoid blemishes but in some cases it can restrict what we can do and it can affect how she heals and whether you get a tattoo. you don't have blemishes or acne and you develop it, it can actually push out the ink. this is what it looks like, there is a spot here that is missing, this is definitely due to a pimple or a scratch, there is another one right here, go to a dermatologist, see if we can take care of it and then get a tattoo whenever there is a question like that, we thought we'd see the doctor and see if we can take care of it from a little ink stain.

It sounds like we could be friends, there has to be a better way to do it. Practice tattoos next to fruits and only people. It's pigskin, right? Oh God, that makes me nauseous. Pigskin doesn't smell good. My apprentice used to have to go to the butcher and pick up pig scraps and skin and tattoo them. she has to do it quick because we had to get it off the storks, it smells bad, now there are artificial body parts, silicones you can tattoo on and fake skin, that's really good to get your hand used to the weight of a tattoo.

I draw machine with something that vibrates to keep your kills consistent so just by warming up your hand to use the tool you can't learn to drive a car in a video game like you have to get behind a car and drive so you have to first tattoo yourself when you're learning so you can feel what you're doing and yeah I mean if you don't trust yourself enough to tattoo yourself why should other people trust you? So I've gotten tattooed a dozen times and I still get tattooed. Yes, I made my little 14 with my left hand.

I also did my little act. It's not that good. It's not a cry for help. What is the best way to make a stick and poke tattoo? I tried in the past and only got two points that stuck. Don't do that man, you don't know what you're doing, don't do it. I don't know how to answer this question. It's like how can I get in a car accident? Don't make it Mia, it's fine, but how to do it? tattoo

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s do shading like I can barely do it on paper, how is it done on skin? how diluted the ink is, so we use several different shades to make this happen and mix them all together.

Let me show you how it's done when we tattoo, we use several different types of needles, different groups, different sizes, one that is more specific. For shading it is called a magazine and it is very similar to a brush. This one has 15 needles and they are stacked on top of each other. The

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nique is to move that across the skin evenly and consistently without damaging, so that's the task we use with individual grips. Every time we get tattoos, all the materials are disposable and another interesting thing is that they don't have to be. These things can be made from stainless steel and can be cleaned and reused.

In many states you can even reuse the tattoo needle so it's really important to ask, we really recommend that people always use new needles every time this is the fun part. What I'm doing now is not necessarily a continuous line. I'm trying to brush it with my eyeliner, make sure I keep it. realism because things that are realistic don't have hard lines around them so I have to make sure I put the contrast right where it goes to make sure it still looks realistic, there are different types of how how sharp it is taper, there is different sharpness . --es and different sharpness --es of the needles, different groupings, how close they are to each other, the different gauges, the thickness of each needle, when tattooing started there were no companies making tattoo needles so had to make their own, so the grouping is specific. to the artist, so while I'm shading I can dilute my inks with water and I can also move my hand a little faster to change that tone.

I can use darker inks and make this area completely black if necessary. I use a sweeping motion so it has to be on the skin with the same depth and time on the forward motion as the back motion, depth is really important, this is how you can create a pigment tone in one plane really big, waving your hand. Exactly the same way for several hours in a row my tattoo is starting to peel and a piece of completely black skin just came off in the shower, help, yes it's normal, you'll be fine, it's not skin that came off, it's dried plasma or you. know your scab, your body is regenerating and you have seven layers of skin, we are putting ink between the third and fourth layer, if done successfully, you will remove the top layer, it is totally normal, how do you fit a skull, a rainbow and a black?

A rose in a tattoo is really the balance you need to find in any design to make it timeless. I feel like almost any topic can be reconstructed as long as you can make sense of it. You know, when you're old and grey, you're still going to have your skull, black rose and rainbow tattoo, how do we make it easy on the eyes? This is how I would do it, so I will first place the client's body part in Photoshop and then organically place each image. see what you know will be the dominant image and what the backgrounds will be.

I want to work with the client to make sure they are comfortable with the design and that people understand what I'm telling them. I want to give you a visual representation of almost all of the larger tattoos I do. I'll work in Photoshop with people, not everything I try I like, so this is very much the sketching process, so if we want to do something very detailed. things, I'll do all of that by hand very close if I want to add some movement, that's something I can add just with some of my blur tools and we can bring some of that background to fit the body part and all of this is something I wouldn't necessarily map it before I tattoo it, but it's something that helps clients get an idea of ​​what I'm looking for in their skin, so now that we're really close, I can put a filter on them that will make it look like a finished tattoo and then I go to place that rose right in front of that rainbow and I think that will make the rose light up a little bit and there you have it, there's a rose and a rainbow and a skull.

It doesn't always work, but I think it's cool. I thought it would be worse. Yes, I want to get that tattoo. Such an empty myth or fact. Coloring Kurt is more than black ink. Certain

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niques hurt more than others. Sometimes color needs more effort on the part of the artist. The skin needs to be hit a little more for that color to put as much pigment as possible into the skin. If a pigment is thicker, it will take longer and be a little harder to penetrate the skin, which is why different colors have different consistencies. different brand companies making them white hurts because we are piercing them, we are trying to cram as many tattoos as possible into the incredibly itchy stage, I can't decide if the best technique is to tap the itch around or distract through the alcohol.

Sounds like we can be friends, yeah slap it, that's the best one if it stings, can you remove the scabs or is it effective if there are no scabs on your tattoo, go for it, it's far away, enjoy it if you have small scabs or it's still on healing very cool within the First, you know, ten days or two weeks, don't pick at the tattoo, your nails are gross too, so you know if it's killing you, like if you hit it with ice, you can put ice on it. Friends with tattoos ask what's the best way to wrap a new tattoo. my Santa Durham fell and it hasn't been a full 24 hours.

I've had a significant amount of color done and I'm worried about plasma loss and scabs from my tattoo sticking to my clothes. It is up to your tattoo artist to make sure you are educated. when your tattoo is finished and that they will be there to help you when you have

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when I do a highly rendered full color tattoo that is more trauma to the skin than any other style because it is tattooed very densely trying to make the color very solid. The tattoo will ooze more, scab more, wash your tattoo, all that plasma and yuck that will come to the surface and the leak should be gently washed with warm soapy water and allowed to air out.

I wrap the tattoos for two to 24 hours on your body. really healing the things you put on your body are not going to heal you your body is going to heal you there are things that can promote healing and there are things that can restrict healing let me show you I'm going to do a final wash of your tattoo I'm going I'm going to apply an ointment and I'm going to put plastic over it. We will make sure the tattoo is really clean before we wrap it. After wrapping it we will do the next steps in a couple of hours all of this will be absorbed into the skin and when you take off the bandage you will wash it all off outside the appointment, it doesn't help your tattoo heal in any way it just keeps your skin protected or hydrated so your body can do the work. so I will use your chest first.

I personally don't use Sanna derm. It's essentially a slightly thicker plastic wrap with glue all over it. It is applied to the skin and sticks almost like a secondary skin so you can touch it. Similar to this but it doesn't come off, you don't need to tape it off, the healing properties wear off within 24 hours so you really need to remove it, wash the area and you can reapply the senator. It's sticking to a tattoo, it's not the best thing for what I do is I use simple plastic wrap and I think it works pretty well, for example, if the shirt you wore in this store, if there's sweat on that shirt, there are bacteria, we don't want it to come into contact with your tattoo.

If when you get home and you take off your shirt, that new tattoo gets scratched by your fingernails, your watch, even the shower curtain is coming in, we want to keep it very clean, you're going to get in the shower, take this off and wash it off. his hands wash his tattoo he dried it with a freshly clean towel and let him dry his hair let him breathe your tax his breath your touch is healing what's your favorite Justin Bieber tattoo I got my torso tattooed and filled in a bunch of gaps and that was very funny, he had son of god written on his stomach and it looked like it said sent food, so I texted him right away.

I thought, man, we have to work on this. He had so many different tattoos on his stomach. different topics it was like how am I going to put together make this story so big cross send food an eagle a bear and a lion and I was like okay well how would we put all this together? So we used some reference from old Renaissance paintings of The religious works try to link a story of religion and spirit, treating these animals as if they were his spirit animals or his protectors and then treating the rest of his torso in the theme of the religion that It was a challenge.

I wish I could have a blank slate and a tattoo. him without all the obstacles, but I like the challenge, so I think he is my favorite. He has a lot of bad ones and he knows it, and so do I when you have a lot of tattoos and you're a little laid back. You will get some poor quality ones, how do tattoo artists learn and practice? It's a very good question. There is no standard format or education for tattooing. The traditional method to start tattooing is to find a great tattoo artist and have them. teaching yourself then a learning program is hard work you have to draw and draw and draw and that's why you don't want to draw anymore your art has to improve you have to show that person who is teaching you that you are worth their effort and that you deserve it to be a tattoo artist that you love tattooing so much that you will work your butt off to become a great tattoo artist.

Hopefully one day there will be a format for tattoo education. Do tattoo artists ever just refuse to do a horrible tattoo idea because they know the client will regret it later. I will turn down a tattoo if I don't think it's going to be a great tattoo, so if I can't see it in my head or the idea I have there certainly won't be a good one once. It's up to you, if I don't have confidence in it, I will NOT do it for you. People don't make a living designing tattoos. I do, if you come to see me.

I won't just make your sandwich the way you like it. I'm going to do the tattoo the way I know it's going to be cool and unique and suit you and your person and if I'm not feeling it I won't do it. My favorite client in the world is Rihanna several times over. She comes in with ideas. I didn't think we were going to work hard at Google. You'll find her walking the streets of New York City in 2007 with a stencil of a guitar split in half and a pair of underwear hanging out. his arm is because we got too far into this design and I wasn't feeling it and I didn't like it and I told him to go home and live with it and we'll talk about it tomorrow and we'll see if you're still feeling like we'll talk in the week when we don't We made it and I'm glad I hit the brakes.

Cara Delevingne has a truly iconic lion tattoo on her finger. When I met her, she wanted the word lion. the i/o and down her finger her skin on your finger is really inconsistent it's very difficult to tattoo your fingers in general let alone move throughof different skin types in a very small area I want the tattoos to be visually appealing, I think it would be It's hard to read the word lion on his number one finger, I think. It would have been inconsistent if we had done that text, which is why I recommended we try it like a piece of jewelry and that we would make something very similar to what I have on my fingers and make it more of a ring, more of a decoration. a real face of the Lions and credit to her, she said, yeah, I'm down and it's great.

I've seen that tattoo all over the world and big billboards and she really transcended, you know, modeling and bridged the gap between fashion and tattooing. As much as Rihanna knows what happens if you get a big tattoo on your thigh or something and you lose a lot of weight and your thigh is super small, now the tattoos are going to be super small, now the tattoos are going to move with your skin, so yeah your skin changes shape size your tattoo will do the same many times the opposite happens if someone gains weight your tattoo can grow or it can migrate depending on where the skin extends from the tattoo it will move if your tattoo is on a pole where your body is stretching from the tattoo it will stretch this happens in pregnant women face down and sometimes you can go back to normal and be fine and sometimes it doesn't stretch stretch marks can move across a tattoo and really distort the image two artists in bang- Bang, I know how to tattoo colors on brown skin because I'm looking through IG and all I see is white people.

I understand this a lot and I would say look more, we live in New York City, the minority of our clientele are white people. around the world and skin tones are very difficult to see when you are photographing just an arm, we often desaturate a photograph to remove the redness of a new tattoo and that changes the tone of the photo when you see an arm from here to here you cannot distinguish the ethnicity of that person. Don't assume that every client you're looking at has white skin. It's really not the case. We take a lot of athletes.

Celebrities forget ethnicity for a moment. Think about your tone. your skin because that's how we see it, so if you're going to make a drawing and you take a white sheet of paper and you want to draw on it, it's going to show up a lot and if you take a darker sheet of paper and you use a yellow marker it's not going to show up. , but if you use a darker shade like red, blue, in some cases the greens will come through a lot more, so depending on someone's tone, we choose which colors will work best in this question.

It always bothers me because I feel like people feel left out and you're not at all. I don't think you can tell what ethnicity the people in our photos are, so yeah, don't feel that way. Sorry, it comes out like this. What is the worst? tattoo you've seen so many celebrities are going through my head that have bad tattoos like I don't want to be that guy. I think my least favorite tattoo. I've seen really great things. A tattoo of huge, larger-than-life roses on someone's. Laura's whole butt, that's not very attractive. How do tattoo artists do it? they draw perfect circles with extreme difficulty to tattoo very stressful there is nothing that shows imperfection like a circle or two circles next to each other it is very easy for the eye to see the mistakes we make It is very carefully, very slowly, we dive in and wait that in the end we will be like who did it.

Tattoos. Do you have any? If you do, which one is your favorite? I have a group, but mine would have to be some of the faces I have. I have always loved hand tattoos, they are all very special milestones for me. I got the Statue of Liberty tattooed on my hand when I was tattooing in New York for ten years and I got the Empire State Building tattooed on my hand when I thought I opened the best tattoo shop in New York and I have Mickey Mouse because I like Mickey . I hope I have answered your questions.

I hope you learned something and I hope you get good tattoos.