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Posts Tagged tattoos
Tattoo Choices – How Not to Look Like a Dork With Tattoos!
Because tattoos have become so popular the inevitable has ended up happening: a lot of people are looking like big time tattooed dorks!
Now, obviously their intentions were not to end up looking like dorks. They had thought getting tattoos would be a cool thing to do. Getting tattooed has always had an element of coolness to it. So how is it that some people end up looking like dorks?
Here’s the problems they made and how you can learn from their mistakes:
1. Too Much ink! A common mistake with getting inked is over doing it. Most people start out with a few tattoos. Usually they make poor choices to begin with and then try to make it up with additional ink. Sometimes this turns into a snowball effect and they just keep adding and adding. In the end they have a ridiculous mess of various designs which don’t flow together nor go together.
2. Doing it yourself! There’s always been a trend for “do it yourself” homemade tattooing. And there has always been the same outcome as a result: horrible and foolish looking ink that get’s laughed at. Never skimp on tattoos. Pick a high quality design which will tattoo well, and get a professional or a good amateur artist to put your ink on.
3. Drunk Ink! You can definitely end up looking beyond ridicolous if you get your tattoo when you are drunk. I once met a young man who had a horrible looking playboy bunny tattooed on his arm with the word “playboy” written underneath it, except playboy was actually spelled wrong. His excuse was that he was drunk and allowed his also drunk girlfriend to tattoo him. There are countless other examples of people ending up with really bad and stupid looking designs because they were intoxicated.
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Miami Ink Tattoos – Stories Behind Selecting Great Tattoo Designs
Miami Ink is a reality TV show, on the Learning Channel (LTC), filmed on location at South Beach, Miami. It takes you behind the scenes so you can see and experience the real emotion of getting a tattoo and what they mean to the people getting inked. The show exposes tats for what they really are – a means of self expression that have deep significant meanings for the people getting them. Based on the diverse range of people getting inked, it becomes very obvious that it is popular in all corners of society. While some of the clients are experienced and have already got a number of designs, we also get to watch people getting their first body art, and the process they go through as they try to develop an idea into a design.
The real beauty of the show is listening to the stories that the people provide behind why they are getting their tattoo and what the particular design means to them. Most of the stories are truly inspiring. The show allows us inside so we can watch from the moment the client enters the parlor through to the completed work of art. We get to live the experience as the client works with an idea to develop a completed design, then watch as they get the artwork and finally show off the end product, stunning body art. It is amazing to watch.
For anybody thinking of getting their first tat, the show is a great way to see how others start with an idea and work with that to slowly develop the end result. You get to see the evolution of the design, the thought process behind it and the final product. You also get to see how people select where on your body to locate the body art, a very important decision that you must get right. You get to see first hand how hard it is to get a really good design.
Miami Ink, through TLC, even allows people to apply to be auditioned to go on the show. They require you to have a good idea of what design you want before hand, and which artist you want to be tattooed by, but you could be inked on the show and become a star!
Behind each individual story are the artists that provide continuity from one show to the next – They are Ami James, Chris Garver, Darren Brass, Chris Nunez and apprentice Yojiro Harada. Their different characters are a good mix and you get to see the artists as they work and also play. They provide the entertainment to keep people tuning in the following week, to watch as new clients walk in the door with an idea and watch the idea turn into a stunning tattoo design to be proud of.
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