Pounded Ink

So you think it’s time to get a tattoo. How does someone avoid getting a bad tattoo? It may seem like an easy question to answer, but you would be surprised how many people consistently get bad tattoos.

What is a bad tattoo?

A bad tattoo, in my opinion, is any tattoo that doesn’t jump out at you and make your friends say, “Wow, that’s a cool tattoo”. There are several factors to consider when judging a tattoo. Such as even color, design, perspective, and a hundred other things that art fags love to judge.

Just because a tattoo isn’t your theme or style is no reason to consider it a bad tattoo. A bad tattoo will have obvious design issues or poor ink placement.

How Not To Get A Bad Tattoo

First and foremost, choose a reputable artist and check his existing work. You want to see healed tattoos not freshly applied pieces. The reason for this is some tattoos will look pristine on the first day since they are still bleeding ink. After a tattoo has healed for4-6 weeks it will actually show it’s optimum appearance. If your ink is applied too deep or the skin gets beat up durring the tattoo process you will not be able to tell for a couple of weeks.

Don’t choose flash off the wall. The worse thing that can ever happen is to be showing off your bad ass tattoo, only to have someone your with show you the exact same tattoo. This design is going to be on you for the rest of your life. Choose something that relates to you as an individual and isn’t on some flash sheet on the wall. If you’re tattooist won’t design you a custom tattoo then it’s time to find a new tattooist.

Don’t date yourself. What I mean by that is… say you love music you grew up on, Poison, Ratt, Doken, whatever. At eighteen you get youself tattooed with their cool logos. Well, now it’s 30 years later and Poison, Dokken, and Ratt aren’t nearly as cool. Anyone that sees that tattoo will know you are roughly 35 years old no matter what you look like. To tell you the truth I’m not really rockin with Dokken anymore.