Traditional Tattoos?

[RossDrivesFast 10+ year member]

What's the difference between a traditional and non?

 

[Ryan1126]

this is traditional work, you know what realistic work is. its usually what people have. sugar skulls and sparrows and stuff are traditional.

 

[WHATJUSTHAPPENd 10+ year member]

Check out this gnarly biomech tat...

 

[WHATJUSTHAPPENd 10+ year member]

this one better...

 

[BobbyDD 10+ year member]

Check out this gnarly biomech tat...

I can't stand tattoos but I can appreciate nice work and that is definately nice work.

 

[Ken448 10+ year member]

those last 2 are awesome. Its too bad all tats fade and look like crap eventually.

 

[Ryan1126]

those last 2 are awesome. Its too bad all tats fade and look like crap eventually.

not mine, mine look dope. color is nice and bright.

 

[Ken448 10+ year member]

I dont know tats that well, but those I see on others always look faded. Are there different quality inks, or do you have to keep them oiled up to keep em bright??

 

[Ryan1126]

I dont know tats that well, but those I see on others always look faded. Are there different quality inks, or do you have to keep them oiled up to keep em bright??

if your artist has any idea what he is doing he will know how to mix his inks right and the color will usually stay pretty bright, it all comes down to how you take care of it though, people use the wrong lotion and stuff. the best stuff to use is lubriderm, the non scented kind (blue label) most people will say vasoline but they are wrong, vasoline sucks color out. most of the tattoos you see that are faded are most likely on older guys that got the tattoos fairly long ago and didnt know how to keep care of it. I get tattooed at luckys tattoo parlor, half of them also work at miami ink, they know their shit. I pay big money but it is worth it because my work looks good, you get what you pay for.

 

[WHATJUSTHAPPENd 10+ year member]

if your artist has any idea what he is doing he will know how to mix his inks right and the color will usually stay pretty bright, it all comes down to how you take care of it though, people use the wrong lotion and stuff. the best stuff to use is lubriderm, the non scented kind (blue label) most people will say vasoline but they are wrong, vasoline sucks color out. most of the tattoos you see that are faded are most likely on older guys that got the tattoos fairly long ago and didnt know how to keep care of it. I get tattooed at luckys tattoo parlor, half of them also work at miami ink, they know their shit. I pay big money but it is worth it because my work looks good, you get what you pay for.

I've had my tat for 3 years. It hasn't faded, I never put lotion or anything on it even when new. it still looks dark as when it was new.

It depends greatly on your skin too, different skins get different results with different types of inks and different depths of the needle.

 

[sqhertz 5,000+ posts]

i like my tribal dragon. didnt know what i wanted , but i wanted one. so i got it.

i just hate that i got it for free and now that i moved to NC , i will have to pay if i want another. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[dextermoped 10+ year member]

got the old chevy hot rod flags symbol

Japanese Banner Dragon

And a no-colour-Sailor-Jerry-esque Koi tat

 

[yne721 10+ year member]

When i said traditional i didnt mean tribal, tribal is for people who just want tattoos but dont know what they want, and they mean absolutely nothing.

making such naive blanket statements is just ignorant

 

[Ryan1126]

This is my sleeve (in progress), the butterfly and the girl are still healing so they look kinda of shitty, i also just got the sparrow and hearts touched up so they are scabby also. but the main piece with the hands i have had for about a year, it says "true until death"

 

[Ryan1126]

making such naive blanket statements is just ignorant

right, because something like this takes a lot of thought.