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Tattoo removal company seeks to ride a wave of millennial 'regretters'
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 77347725:MV80MjE2MTkyXzc2Njk2ODAxX0YxM0JERTRC] In the interest of the topic, I’ll let GLP in on my personal life a little bit, which I feel slightly strange doing. When I was younger, when I was a kid I wanted to get into comics more than anything, however in 2000 I turned 18 and joined the Army. When I came home, I met my first wife who was a painter and she taught me how to master paints like I never imagined, I don’t know why, but I had trouble finding a job, but through a longtime friend, I got a spot in for an apprenticeship with a successful tattoo artist in Atlanta. I had tattoos before, but I learned so much about what could be done that it’s amazing, this was before Miami Ink and shit like that. It was what shows like that wanted to market on. This is where the regret part comes in... Tattooers wants to make money. Running a legitimate studio is expensive. You typically supply disposables (towels, gloves, cross contamination supplies). A typical rate for a legitimate tattooer is $100/hr. The people who have these regrets are the people who have the “my homeboy can do it for less”, “the shop down the street said this much”, or “Can you draw something up, and I’ll see if I like it” (without agreeing to a deposit). When people are unwilling to do these things, they aren’t serious enough about the way their tattoo is going to affect their body. What they give a shit about is getting something cool at a good deal. Unfortunately for them, legitimate artists rarely waste time with it, but these types usually wind up with shitty ugly ass tattoos by meth head tattooers in houses or hood boy slum shops. By sticking to what I learned in my apprenticeship, I was able to do guest spots in other states, I opened a successful shop that stayed successful because I knew the kind of people to bring in, and the ones not to. Just a few years ago, I was able to sell the shop to one of the guys that was there with us, and now I’m able to do what I wanted to do my entire life. I couldn’t have ever done that if a Vietnam veteran tattoo artist wasn’t willing to bring me in. There are artists out there who dedicate their portfolio to religious art that people put hours of collaboration into. These kids are the result of Kat Von D and the rest of TV tattoo culture. [/quote]
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"You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD."
Leviticus 19:28
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