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My terrible tattoo experience...
11 years ago
So last night, I got my second (technically FIRST REAL) tattoo. There was a joint raising money for breast cancer in Downtown Pomona.I got tattoo last night of personal art my fiance had drawn up for me, and now my body is RUINED. I had been saving up for a tattoo (and as a freelance artist its extremely hard to make a lot to afford ink!) and decided to go last night, seeing as they were not too busy in the shop, and the base price for a 4 inch tat was $80 bucks.
I went in, showed them my art, the two girls behind the counter were extremely aloof and irritated when I told them I had never done this before...
They told me it would be an hour wait, alnd that my tattoo would round about to $400 DOLLARS...... I told them thank you, but no thank you... The girl SCREAMED for me to come back, and offered $200... I still thought that was ridiculous seeing as it was just lines, no colour, and it is so small... So finally I got it down to $100...
The "ARTIST" I got was named Elvis, apparently doesn't even work there and "owns" another shop in Riverside (which he didn't give me the name when I asked)
He pulled, and yanked every which way at my arm (ways I know you are not supposed to do when doing a tattoo) DIDN'T WEAR GLOVES, and made me bleed a multitude of times. I was in TERRIBLE amounts of pain, and whenever I tried to make any kind of conversation, he rolled his eyes, or sighed heavily. I was extremely uncomfortable, but excited to see the out come...
By the time he "FINISHED" my tattoo, it is completely (excuse my language) Fuc*ed up!!! Original photo is of my original character as a Foo dog...
"artist" forgot his top teeth, shaky lines on plugs he has in his hears... ONE ear isnt even complete! Didn't finish his other ear. Didn't add spots in the artwork like requested.My fiance tried really hard to make the text flow nicely with the art...He completely fuc*ed that up....
The tattoo basically just looks like someone took a marker and scribbled all over my arm.
Again I say, this person didn't wear gloves!!!!
When he was finished, he covered it so fast I didn't even get to see it. He put a NAPKIN on my fresh, heavily bleeding skin, and told me not to touch it. I excitedly said thank you and gave the jerk a $5 tip. I left for about 10 minutes and then I bled so much the paper fell off to reveal how awful he did... When I went back to ask them to fix the problem or else I wanted a refund, they said
"Well, you are getting it coloured eventually, right? No one will even notice."
WHAT THE HELL...?
The guy ran out of there as soon as I left, I didn't get a refund, my skin is bleeding all over, and I got NO AFTER CARE INSTRUCTIONS....
Honestly, I expect some kind of SOMETHING from this shop, because my skin is screwed, this is not the art I paid for, and I refuse to have it on my body...
I would MUCH rather CUT IT OFF with a SCALPEL then look at this atrocity every day.
That actually happened to my dad once, the needle thingy theythey used wasnt clean and then he got tetanus
Hope it gets better dear
do you have a photo? I'd love to see the work this 'tattooist' did.
There's gotta be a better way to get it off thought of laser treatment? since it's not that old it should be removed quite easily
And again, sorry you had to go through that.
This guys art is usually AMAZING. Just look up "Elvis Ink Junky" and he should come up. Thats the place he owns, and hes is very well known...The owner of THIS shop has contacted me and is freaking out about what to do. I expect some kind of something lol...
I think the only way to really fix that is to add color to cover up some of the bad line work. I would ask to see the owners portfolio before you let him touch you. If he hires bad artists, he probably is not very good himself.
I would then report them to the health dept. Its a law that artists have to wear gloves. They will be shut down.
Josh did this one for me a few years ago: http://www.furaffinity.net/full/12146180
If Josh isn't working there anymore (he said he was going to open his own studio in Huntington Beach),
you can also talk with Blake. Both of them are FABULOUS at "correcting" other people's "work"
http://futuretattoo.com/index.php