Anyone have Tattoos?

[Jwar]

I'm going recommend who not to go to in NY. His name is Liocifer. http://liorcifer.com/frmSet.htm Works or owns a place called Infernum http://www.infernumnyc.com/home.aspx. He was Paul Booth's apprentice, who is world renowned and also a world class douche.

So the story goes. About 8-9 years ago I was really into dark imagery and other stuff of the likes. I decided I wanted a tattoo from Booth but his rates were so high I couldn't afford it, plus he had a three year waiting list. No joke. So I decided to use his apprentice, who had about a 6 month waiting list and cost 250 an hour (very high, Paul is around 400 I believe). So I went to New York after getting 2k from a car sale. Spent I think somewhere in the ballpark of 900 dollars for my tattoo on my right calf. It's a zombie from the movie Zombi by Lucio Fulci. He seemed nice but I bled like crazy, which if you've ever talked to a good tattoo artist they will tell you, should should not bleed that much. He was heavy handed, so I figured that was why and it'd be fine. He even gave me a cigarette and was joking with me and such.

I spend a couple days in NY, everything seems ok other than ungodly swelling in my calf. Which I thought was normal. Fast forward a week. I have an infection. It's bad. After a week. I call the shop and ask for suggestions on what to do. I immediately get accused of sabotaging my tattoo. Like I would do that to myself. I tell the artist I'm not sure what happened, I have tons of tats and have never had an issue like this. He says I fucked up somehow and need to go to the doctor and that it was all my fault I must not have listened to anything he said. He was actually cussing at me too, I wasn't even upset, so I didn't see why he was.

Fast forward a few more weeks. I have huge scabs everywhere, puss filled scabs that were horrible painful. I had went to the doctor previous but they advised me to just use A&D ointment, which pull color out of tats, but I did it. So I went to the doctor again and it turned out that I had a low grade staff infection, but it was so bad that they were talking about possible having to cut out infected muscle in my calf. Luckily, I took three rounds of antibiotics, and used heavy healing creams, etc and got better 6 months later.

For 6 months I suffered in pain and had to walk more on one side of my body than the other. I now have permanent hip damage (not joking) from having to take pressure of my right leg to walk. Of course I had contacted the shop again at some point in all this. He told me to fuck off and said that he'd fix it for me but he was going to charge me more and that he was pissed at me. At me? So I said, uhhh fuck you dude.

I went to my tattoo artist for a follow up appointment for my right sleeve. He knew I'd gone to NY for the tat, knew the artists work and everything and wanted to see the results. I showed him and told him my story. He was in shock. He said and still maintains to this days (I talked to him about it again during my chest tat session) that there is no human way that that tattoo infection was my fault. He's been doing tattoos for 25 years and has seen it all. He told me and showed me what probably happened. So he said what most likely happened is that the needle that was used became frayed somehow. Basically it got bent. So he actually too his machine and tapped a needle on the counter and let me look through his microscope to view what happens. It creates a kind of fish hook with the needle. So every time it goes it, it's fulling flesh out. He said from the way my wounds looked, that was more than likely the case. So regardless of if I had gotten an infection from something else (like just being in Manhattan LOL) it would have been a shit tattoo. He said that dude fucked me bad.

So I had to wait over a year for it to fully heal and use special creams to take out the red of the scar tissue and have it redone when it was white. My artist redid it, charge me like 500 bucks, which sucked but at least it was fixed and it healed perfect. No issues at ALL.

So what I'm saying is research, research, research. There are a lot of "good" tattoo artist out there. I would avoid anyone that thinks they are a fucking rock star though. NY has tons of good artist too. Just be careful. I had a horrible experience and pain that comes and goes almost everyday because of my hip. So yea...awesome...

[Iommic Pope]

Jesus dude.

[D.o.S.]

His name is Liocifer.

[behndy]

hah. old goths. WOOT!

RARRRRRR. OTHER SIDE OF THE LEG. DONE WITH ALL THE LITTLE THINGS. GOTS TO HIT THE PINK BITS AGAIN, DO THE BLACK ON THE REST OF THE METROIDS (we ran out of time), DO THE COLOR ON THE GOOGLE DREAM ELDER GAWD STUFF, THEN ZE BACKGROUNDS WOOOOOOOOOO!



i actually go in for some more back stuff monday, then this quick thing on my chest thursday. if there's time we're tackling the pinks i think?

[Eivind August]

So they did cut the whole thing off?

[Jwar]

Ben that looks bad ass dude! Are you going to add a background?? You have so much space! You could do something really fucking gnarly dude. Oh you said background. Awesome!!!!! Love it dude. I love how your shit is themed different than the norm. Stuff like that looks killer years down the road and makes for really good stories.

[Twangasaurus]

Well after you've finished up that one it's time for the next project: FACE RIDLEY!

[behndy]

lol. noooooo. no. face stuff. it's so hard to do any face stuff that doesna look prisony/trashy. hah. i'm afraid of tatting down past my elbows to forearm land. thinnnnnnk the neck or face is a little too hardcore for me.

thanks pimp! i love my artist. she's been super into anything i want to do and so awesome at taking thoughts and making them RARRRRRRR.

yeppers! i like all the individual stuff, but it feels all goofy and Random Flash Art like this. we'd planned on a background to tie it all together (going for a cut and paste/collage feel?), it's going to be a fade monochrome of all the levels in Super Metroid.

[behndy]

woooooooooooot colorins on the Google AI Elder Gawd Dream Thing.



gotta rehit all the pink bits, wait for all to heal, then it's time for the background. RARRRRRRRRRR.

lol. also, most of the pink in this part is my skin being a pale, transparent little grrL about trauma.

[behndy]

A KISS AND A TICKLE TO THE FIRST PERSON THAT SAYS THE PUN. THIS MAKES. ME. SO. INCREDIBLY. HAPPY.

[DRodriguez]

Cthula-hoop rules!

[behndy]

YESSSSSSH. KISSES FOR YOUUUUU!!

[Sparrow]

Behndy .. has the BEST tats

[behndy]

d'awwwwww thanks gurrrrrrrrrrrrL. i LOVE my artist. she's so amazing.

DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT WAS TO NOT SCREAM CTHULHU-HOOOOOP EVERY MINUTE SINCE HER AND I DISCUSSED THIS A WEEK AGO.

UGH.

[imJonWain]

Out of my mind on Saturday night
1970 rollin' in sight
Radio burnin' up above

New one on my calf, also got a small silly/bad crown tattoo for a local band I really like