Tattoo Finder - How to Locate the Perfect Tattoo Design

Tattoo Finder - How to Locate the Perfect Tattoo Design

Getting a good tattoo that will be enjoyed for years to come is much harder than most people expect. After all, this is akin to a permanent wardrobe choice. If you had one shirt that you had to wear every day for the rest of your life, you would likely put careful thought into exactly what qualities that shirt would need to have. Yet when it comes to picking out a tattoo, many people just drop in on their local parlor, thumb through a few books, and say "That one."

This is a huge mistake. Here are several common problems encountered using this approach:

1) Trendy, current tattoos are frequently chosen. These will look great for the next few years, but will look outdated when the next tattoo trend hits. I write from experience on this one.

2) You are limited to seeing only one or a few styles of work, i.e. the styles represented by just the artists in the parlor.

3) There is often pressure in a parlor to quickly pick out a tattoo. While the artist themselves don't pressure patrons, there is an intrinsic motivation to not take up time and space that could be better spent on another paying customer.

The end result of any bad decision is a tattoo that doesn't fit your style, a tattoo that quickly fades from fashion, or to put it bluntly: a tattoo that sucks. When that happens, the cleanest option is a cover-up, but the original tattoo paints you into a design corner.