Tattoos

•  Tattoos have been around for a long time, about as long as 5000+ years, and they are as diverse as the people that wear them and in my generation it has turned into the “thing” to have just like body piercing, I have 2 piercings, where as my girlfriend has 8 piercings, and if you search the internet or check your e-mails there has been at least one person that has sent you a list of pictures that show someone who has their whole body either tattooed or pierced.
   Tattoos are a big thing now a days but the hard part is figuring out:
• What you want
• Where you want it
• What colours are there
• What colours you want
• How much will it set me back
• Who is the best artist for the job
• When is your appointment going to be (if you make one some artists are booked for months)

 Well there are a large variety of designs and by large I mean you can have anything you want on your body like a duck all the way to the Macintosh apple logo and a souped up car all the way back to the duck, funny how that works huh? But the industry is forever growing, and more people are entering the business and well doing what they love and that is taking their designs and putting them on your body.
I’m going to tell you a very short story.
 I’m 19 years old and I have a son who is 1 ½ years old, I was going to get a tattoo of his name in old English style font on my arm, so I went to the tattoo artist and asked how much it would be for him to do that , and he said “it all depends on how big the font is, where you want it, how much time it will take and how complex it will be.” so I told him what I wanted and the price was around $40 all the way up to $120, that’s a lot of money for a tattoo if you ask me, so I didn’t get it but I am going to get it when I have the money to burn on that specific tattoo, my girlfriend has a butterfly on her right breast, and that cost her about $80 and that was on sale and it is only like 1 ½ by 1 ¾ inches big. And it cost her $80 on sale. So the moral of this little story is if your going to get a tattoo better make sure that’s what you want and that you have the money for it.
 Now back to my article, now to get a design for a tattoo you can do a couple things for it I will make a list so it will be easier to read.

• Go to Google and search for a picture of what you want and print it out
• You can draw it if your good at drawing (but if you want stick men you need any drawing techniques)
• You can use Photoshop and make a picture in that and print it out(or MS paint if you don’t have PS)
• You can choose a design from what the tattoo artist shows you
• You can always go to this site http://www.over3500tattoos.com
• And when in doubt just get someone’s name with a nice font.

And just ask the artist about colours that you can get for your tattoo. It is up to you where you want it, but just remember your body is your canvas do what you want with it.Watch for more of my articles about tatoos. All the best Marc (The Tattoo Kid)