Pain and beauty: you need to know before making a tattoo

Tattoos have long ceased to be an accessory exclusively sailors and prisoners. They are totally different people to express themselves, to emphasize some part of the body, or, conversely, to hide the scar. Just for beauty, after all. But in addition to well-known facts (the pain, the importance of sanitation when applied), the art of tattooing has a mass of speculation. And information that is not obvious to most.

Size matters

Small tattoo is rarely good. If it is tightly hammered black circle with a diameter of 2 centimeters - still all right, but the more detail in Figure (contours, color and so forth transitions..), The bigger it must be.

This is important not only because of aesthetics. Thin circuit (fewer pairs millimeters) and kept worse with time begin "float". If the tattoo is black, it is not correct.

The size of the pattern, in turn, dictates the place of application, it is styles that if they wanted to do finely. If you want a realistic portrait, cook's shoulder, back, or other large area.

Masters are selected for Portfolio

Tattoo artists as designers or illustrators, almost always specialize in a certain style. It is worth using. Your friend tattoo artist can give a discount, but talking about the figure of a lifetime. If you need a Japanese dragon, look for the master who works in this style It makes it awesome.

It hurts to be the question - how

The pain threshold is different for everyone. There are people who are howling from the first injection, but some may lie under the machine for three hours, write SMS and watch movies on a tablet, not even flinching. And those and others - are exceptions. In general, the tattoo - painfulBut, as a rule, tolerant process.

The strength of feeling affects the session time (the longer the patient), the presence or absence of anesthesia (using anesthetic cream), individual human characteristics and location of the drawing. There are places where it will be particularly unpleasant. And on the other to beat the tattoo is simply meaningless, and it's not in pain. Just skin it is changing too fast, and the picture will soon turn to mush.

A good tattoo is expensive

Tattoo value is usually measured in hours of the wizard, and "plug" prices are very wide. On the final digit of the experience affect the master, his fame and workload, interior layout, size and complexity of the figure, the cost of materials. Occasionally masters can make a tattoo for free (or discounted) if they are itching to fill a particular sketch, but these must be sought, and it is rather rare.

On average, a good Moscow masters take from 3000 to 6000 rubles per hour.

It will take time

While that would call the master - is indicative deadline net work in ideal circumstances. How the tattoo will take in reality - not tell anybody. You may have to break off, to rest and gather strength for a new breakthrough. You may be sick. Maybe you have a skin, which is very hard to beat (it happens), or to which bad falls color (this also).

Here is a rough (very rough) benchmark:

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Tattoo stuff - only half the work

When they say that "this is life", it is not just about the picture. Tattoo - a part of your body, for which too, need to take care of.

Your main enemy - the sun. Tattoo must be protected from him any clothing or sunscreen (SPF 50+). Otherwise, the picture (especially color) quickly fade.

The second enemy - own laziness. A good master will give you a set of instructions for the "new thing" care. Follow them religiously, because the first two weeks decisive. Think of it as the post-operative period. You sit on the bike with unhealed leg? Do not hesitate, tattoo - a trauma. Thousands of injections per minute, piercing the epidermis and into the dermis placed pigment. Once decided, it is better to approach the issue seriously.

On a note

• Leather - a living tissue. It changes and expands. Even with perfect care of the tattoo need to update about once every 3–5 years. It will cost the same as the new stuff. And it will hurt as well.
• Moles when applying tattoo sidestep and hidden in the picture.
• Hair in place tattooing continues to grow.
• If you have a scar or scar should pass not less than one year after the injury, before this place could be something close.
• At the session need to come sober, well-fed and have a good sleep. On the eve of drink is also impossible: to be painful, bleeding will increase, it will slow down the healing process.
• Light temperature and dizziness after the tattoo session - this is normal, and it is the only side effect (except for pain and swelling), which is possible if all the sanitation and maintenance rules.
• Between sessions on one area (for example, if you do "sleeve") must be not less two weeks.
• Flatten tattoo can be laser 90–95%. This will harder, longer and more expensiveThan the tattoo itself.

Mini style guide

Ornamental and ethnic identity (Oceania, Borneo, and so on. D.)

old School
Traditional American tattoos with black outlines and a limited palette of colors (typically Images: Native American motifs, pin-up, anchors, mermaids, roses, eagles).

Neotrad (itional)
The evolution of the previous style. More free patterns, more colors. New school (New School) - another variant of the old school, but it no longer uses references to comics and graffiti.

Oriental (Japanese style)
Heritage of traditional tattoos yakuza. Special style affectation: dragon Neotraditional will look quite different than the Japanese dragon.

Realism

Trash Polka
Young but increasingly popular style created two German masters. Very dynamic and "evil". Dimensional images with three-dimensional woven into a kind of collage. In drawings often have deep ideological or philosophical subtext. Colors: black, gray, white, red, but there are others.

Dotvork (Dotwork)
It is a technique that determines the style. Dotwork literally means "point operation": a tattoo applied to the body at a point at a time. Dotwork-tattoo with nothing can not be confused, and drawings with absolutely straight lines in a different style just did not do it.

Thank you master Xenia Resurrection for their help in preparing the material and all the masters who provided the photo works. There are many other styles and a lot of the nuances of the process. Ask questions - try to answer.