There is a protest going on right now at my local chick fil a

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missnu

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Kaendar said:
I actually wouldnt try it with water.. that could achieve more scarification than anything. I would recommend making a white wash.. same thing as the water but less risky.
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Could I not just use food coloring..that way I would get a temporary tattoo...because food coloring will be broken down by my body in a way tattoo ink can't...
I haven't given myself any scars yet...lol.
 
Kaendar

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Urca said:
lets see it then big shot?
and yeah dude its called a traditional tattoo, maybe if you stuck to the basics you could move on up to doing decent roses?
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Lmao, in my apprenticeship traditional tatts were the first thing I had to master...
 
missnu

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Yeah...I know the difference in adjusting it and all that...I'm just not very good or confident in my abilities...lol. I use a different size and shape of needle for whatever I am doing...if it has a lot of detail I might use a 3 or 5 RL, but if it is a larger piece with thicker lines than I use a larger 7 or 9 RL...for coloring things in I use a RL of whatever size befits the space to be colored...

I just want to get it to where one pass leaves one line...My husband wanted this big tribal tattoo that is literally going to take me forever to fill in...got part of it, but i have to go over and over and over the same spot to get the color as dark as I want it to be...The tattoos I have gotten elsewhere from people that know what they are doing didn't seem to be that much trouble.
 
missnu

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I am not totally sure what the flat ones are for, but I have used them to color in a few things here and there...
I really like the tattoo on my wrist...instead of a lot of lines and what not the guy just kept using different colors in what looked a somewhat random order, but it all turned out great. I like the shaded in look of tattoos, but all I can do is like stark thick color saturation...
 
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Urca said:
and btw in a few years thats just gonna look like a blob of red on a stem. needs more contrast, and stronger lines. Like the skeleton arm will look good for years and years because there is more contrast in it, it doesnt even need super defined lines
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Ohhh but it has super defined lines! Just hard to capture the small detail in a a picture of the full sleeve! I have around 50 hours into this sleeve. It's all about the detail, from the shading in the moon and night sky to the skeletons spine having the proper number of vertebrae and enough detail to make out each one. Earlier today a cashier commented on how much detail there was not just how nice it is!
 
missnu

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I would love to have a whole sleeve of Alice and Wonderland...hard to tattoo your own arms though.
 
Kaendar

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missnu said:
Could I not just use food coloring..that way I would get a temporary tattoo...because food coloring will be broken down by my body in a way tattoo ink can't...
I haven't given myself any scars yet...lol.
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You should make a white wash... take a size 16 ink cap and fill it halfway with white ink, then fill the rest with witch hazel..
 
missnu

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I really like how nothing is stark..it is all just blended together...
It did fade a lot more than some others I had gotten and paid less for, but it is still the best looking of the ones I have I think...
Once some of the ones I have done myself are totally healed I might be willing to show how sad they are...but probably not..you guys are mean about tattoos.
 
Kaendar

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missnu said:
Yeah...I know the difference in adjusting it and all that...I'm just not very good or confident in my abilities...lol. I use a different size and shape of needle for whatever I am doing...if it has a lot of detail I might use a 3 or 5 RL, but if it is a larger piece with thicker lines than I use a larger 7 or 9 RL...for coloring things in I use a RL of whatever size befits the space to be colored...

I just want to get it to where one pass leaves one line...My husband wanted this big tribal tattoo that is literally going to take me forever to fill in...got part of it, but i have to go over and over and over the same spot to get the color as dark as I want it to be...The tattoos I have gotten elsewhere from people that know what they are doing didn't seem to be that much trouble.
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Yea see you should never do color packing with a RL.. thats too much trauma for the skin.. you should always use a magnum or an RS..
 
missnu

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NoGutsGrower said:
I've spent some where between 6 and 8 thousand!
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No way I could justify spending that much on tattoos, unless someone in my family can sell my skin for the value after I die...Lol.

Which is why I really want to learn how to do it myself...but I don't think that is feasible...
Apprenticeships are also not usually free either.
 
Kaendar

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missnu said:
I am not totally sure what the flat ones are for, but I have used them to color in a few things here and there...
I really like the tattoo on my wrist...instead of a lot of lines and what not the guy just kept using different colors in what looked a somewhat random order, but it all turned out great. I like the shaded in look of tattoos, but all I can do is like stark thick color saturation...
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Flats are called magnums, and they are used grey wash and color packing in large areas
 
missnu

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Kaendar said:
Yea see you should never do color packing with a RL.. thats too much trauma for the skin.. you should always use a magnum or an RS..
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I meant to put that I use a Round Shader to color things in..not the liner...
 
Urca

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so kaendar how much would you have charged for ganesh?
supposing you could do it
 
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