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Continue reading →: “Shopping Around”“What do you mean you need a $100 deposit, the other places charge $50!” There is a well known trope in the tattoo industry called ” [insert name here] said he/she/they could do it cheaper.” What the person on the other end of the phone usually leaves out is that…
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Continue reading →: Home Away from Home“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” -Bilbo Baggins to Frodo Baggins, The Fellowship of The Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien. As…
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Continue reading →: Of Head Tattoos and Consequence“Alright, before we start, you’re absolutely sure you want this tattoo?” – Q Since December of 2023 I have been contemplating on whether I should get a tattoo on the side of my head. I talked to my wife EXTENSIVELY (God bless her patience), talked with my boss, and did…
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Continue reading →: Why do we get Tattoos?Personal expression, creativity, a love of art, and a yearning to be outside the norm is the basis of any tattoo experience. Sometimes we get them in remembrance of something or someone; other times we get them so we never forget. There are tough tattoos, beautiful tattoos, funny tattoos, and…
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Continue reading →: How to Choose an ArtistThere are a million tattoo artists out there, just spend five minutes on Instagram. You could spend an entire day looking at different artist’s posts and still feel lost about who you should go to. Well, today’s your lucky day, because I’m about to give you my un-asked for opinion…
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Continue reading →: Just let them cook….Anyone who has spent any amount of time getting tattooed has asked the person doing the work “So, how long have you been tattooing?” Sometimes it’s a decade, sometimes it’s less, and occasionally you’re in the chair with someone apprenticing who just got a machine in their hands this year…
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Continue reading →: Speaking of Pain…..“Nah bruh, it didn’t hurt.” – The guy with three dots on the side of his hand. I don’t know how to break this to you, but I will try my best to be gentle. Getting a needle pushed into your skin at a high rate of speed for ANY…
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Continue reading →: What does it all mean?“When I get my first tattoo, I want it to have meaning. I guess I’m just philosophical like that.”- Some random guy at the gym that kept staring at me until I took out my headphones. I always love talking to people about tattoos; theirs, mine, others, it makes no…
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Continue reading →: Who the HELL do you think you are?!The year was 2007. I was freshly eighteen, had $120 bucks leftover from my job, and a full tank of gas. I pulled up to Raging Rhino, a tattoo shop on the main drag of the Branson Strip. I took a long, final drag from the Marlboro Red I had…
I’m Jake
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