Alexander went through a horrible experience tattoo today, and I want to offer my apologies to him as a tattoo artist.
Anyone who is permanently altering someone’s appearance should ALWAYS ASK before making any changes or additions from the original, agreed-upon plan. Especially when it alters the original design. Even if it is something the artist will think makes the piece “better”, the client should always be asked before it is done. Always!
I’m sorry you had this happen to you Alexander.
Until next time…
can you believe they did that? he emailed me right away - i was so pissed for him. grrrrrrrrrr
granted, it will fade - and it doesn’t look that great, but he should have given him exactly what he asked for. it’s one thing for someone like my artist to be given free reighn (sp?) on something like my sleeve - we have a huge history and i trust him.
alex was a ink vigin. it should have been perfect.
the bad first tat seems to happen to a lot of us. mine was done…badly..crooked..and when i went to try and get it fixed the shop had become a pawn shop. i then went and got tested for everything. erik this shit must really piss you off (since you are in the biz). at least if you don’t like a piercing you can take it out. ink…not so much. damn.
I think the tattoo looks fine– although I totally understand his anger at not having it turn out the way he envisioned. I was extraordinarily lucky with my first tattoo. my second didn’t turn out exactly how I envisioned, but it was a really difficult thing I asked the artist to do. Plus I didn’t speak up enough about one spacing issue.
But I’ve grown to love it- as it is so very different from other tattoos that people have.
@me:
I’d definitely say pissed would be an understatement. It just kills me that this happened. It gives all of us artists a bad name and reputation.
@cb:
It is a well-done piece. Just not the piece he wanted…