maybe its just me, but i feel like if someone is sick in the tattoo industry, they should be made to stay home. you are in extremely close contact with clients, sometimes right up in their face, and it would suck to get sick. And I'm aware of people needing the money, but thats besides the point (because we should live in a society where you can take a sick day or two and not have to bust your ass to make up for the money you lost out on to make ends meet).
It would be ideal if tattooers could take sick leaves, but most of us are on garbage contracts and are paid only per client when we work, no paid leaves, no paid vacations, it’s especially hard for apprentices who earn little if anything, so the reality is if you’re not dying you’re working, which is sad, but it’s hard decisions only out there
That really disturbed me. However, I do understand having to work or you, and your family if you have øne, go hungry. With flu you're not contagious for the whole time, just at first, but a mask or something would've gone a long way. We don't know if he used a mask or not.
For the upside down Japanese on the arm, you can claim it’s on purpose. I have something similar... I got my first professional tattoo at 15 when my dad was arrested. & so I have the “smile now cry later” (it’s a prison tat and ima theatre kid) but I was adamant I wanted my father on my left hand (bc I was his right hand man? That was my thinking. Lame now that I’m 25 but 🤷🏼♀️ He was in prison and I was 15.) and my mother on the right. But... that makes it cry now smile later when you read it. So I bullshit it by saying the photos are meant for you to see (you know, the mask) but the message of smile now, cry later is meant to be read by me. 😂😂 So he could totally claim the tattoo is meant to be read either with his arm up in the air or down by his side and from the back.
Whenever I get word tattoos I always draw them myself or type them up in the font/size I want and print it and bring it in for the artists to simply trace. That way I know it's always right 😅
I love how the big guy's voice does not match his physique lol. Or rather, I would not expect that voice to come from that body. I love his baby! So sweet.
If you are getting anything written on you have MULTIPLE people check it! I have a sentence written on my shoulder and had like 5 people read it before hand to make sure everything was spelled correctly and grammatically correct!
My tattooist kinda jacked up a line on my piece. It looked like he forgot to lift his hand or something so instead of doing a back and forth motion. He did a harsh back. So the rounded line become a rounded line with a line in the middle of it. He just went back over it and thickened the outline to try and smooth it again then did that to the opposite side to match. I'm guessing he thinks I didn't notice since he didn't say anything about it. However, it's my design. I noticed. But like it's not crap either. I'm sure it wasn't on purpose so I don't care and just went back to him for my next tat a year later and the year after that too lol
The guy looks like was designed as a character for a movie or a video game xD That babyface with the huge body, the dark tattoos and the beard, but sweet as sugar and holding the little guy.
Im surprised on how many clients dont check spelling before its started😂 If you ok it to go....bad on you for not checking. It shouldn't have to be fixed for free
My best friend has Corinthians and I made sure she checked, I checked and my friend checked before it was permanent! We also brought it up online and read it letter by letter! I have hopeful and even that I made sure to triple check! Gotta be smart!!
As an apprentice. Hearing all the self taught people saying they wish they had an apprenticeship, makes me feel very good about the amount of hours I put in cleaning everyones shit
“I don’t really know what I’m doing, so I just do stuff and half the time I just don’t even know what I’m doing” .. pretty sure that’s like one of the main things you never want to hear you tattoo artist say 😂🤣
I have a big tattoo on my hip and when I was getting it, my tattoo artist froze for a moment and I was like "What's up? Everything cool?", so he just nodded and kept on tattooing... At the end of the third session and when the tattoo was finished, the guy actually told me that he missed a few lines in the stencil and had to punch a bit more color into it so he could covered it up Thankfully, my tattoo looks good and I got a discount for my next piece
i love how he played it cool, fixed it and then told you about it. most of these guys wouldn't notice the mistake, or if you pointed it out they would be like "haha whoops my bad" or blame you for their own screwup
I... don't really like how many of them talk about lying to the clients about messing up. If it were my tattoo, I'd want to know what happened. I understand that mistakes happen, but would want them to be upfront with me about it. Especially if it's a tattoo artist I go to consistently.
It all depends. My artist will make me look before it's on and after she puts the stencil on. My cousins ex girlfriend didn't even look at what the artist drew, the tattoo is a dog with the dogs name and it was put on backwards. So when you look at it you actully need a mirror to read the name correctly. So words of wisdom before you get it tattoo on you ask to see the steincl first. Just in case.
You know how sometimes if you look at/write a word too many times it starts to look weird? It's kind of like that. As long as you have most of the correct letters your brain says "yep! I know that word!" and it can be surprisingly easy to miss mistakes like that.
The brain is a funny thing. So long as the first & last letter of a word are in the correct place you'll actually read the word properly. This is because we don't actually read letter by letter once we've learned those words. It's far too easy to be brain-tricked into thinking the words are correct because of that.
It makes me angry when they don't take responsibility for their fuck ups! Mistakes happen but at least acknowledge it to the person you ruined their part of the body for life! wow! 😦
What she was saying at 5:14 oh hell no. If you mess up, you better own up to it. I definitely wouldn't want her to ever tattoo me, you need to be able to trust your artist.
I've always been bad at spelling despite being good at writing and I did not know that great and grateful both originated in different places-- causing their spelling to be different. I'm fairly certain I have NEVER spelled it right and rarely see it spelled correctly... 😅🤧
@@williamkeith8944 creative writing and spelling are two very different skills. I'm dyslexic as hell, but I still love to write. Just have to get my friends to check my spelling.
Honestly the baby looks like a dalmatian puppy without its spots. Like dad is soo covered it looks wrong that his kid is a blank canvas.(I dont support tattooing babies I'm just saying it looks like he should have been born with ink)
I have one word tattooed on me. Thankfully spelled it correctly because I’ve written it so many times. My artist couldn’t spell it since it is a very odd word but I don’t blame him for that. We got it. I’m never getting another word on my body again though probably.
How hard is it to go on google and type the word and have it corrected... Or use talk to text on google.... Or a dictionary.... I know the clients sign off on it before its tattooed but it literally only takes 10 seconds to type it in on google real quick I mean come on lol
For whatever reason my most recent tattoo I was twitching really bad. My artist was a beast and held my leg down for the most part but there was one point I twitched so bad that we both froze cuz I felt the needle drag across my leg
If your artist fucks up your tattoo, do you still have to pay/tip? What happens if you dont and you try to leave? Can you be arrested for theft of services? I want artists to answer this and has it ever happened, that someone runs out without paying.
lol i love when the dude that did the xbox controller just says it looked good in the mirror. i dont know what it was but that made me laugh more then it probably should have lol
All of my artist make me double check the stencil before tattooing me.. they’ve always said this is going to be on you forever so make sure everything looks good.
damn if i ever get a tattoo, or a tattoo with lettering, i will make sure my tattoo artist is either 100% confident in spelling, and even then i will ask them to spell it out again and just double triple check. it's so strange how many people just go to stores saying they want a word without even spelling it for the artist
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