It would really upset me if you did this. He’s done the one thing that I’ve said for years, please don’t do this. In my mind’s eye I stand there, a bitter old woman with pursed lips wringing my black-gloved hands. In any case, I’m not even sure what it is I want to say. The last thing we need, I think, is an explosion of white-hot words that everyone carries around for the rest of their lives, engraved on their hearts. Very much.”įor three days, I can’t speak to my son. “Yes,” I say, cutting across this male bonding. It seems to me, unhinged by shock, that this might have been the better option. “It’s not as if I came home and said I’d got someone pregnant.” “It’s just a tattoo,” he says, when the silence goes on so long that we have nearly fallen over the edge of it into a pit of black nothingness. £150? I think, briefly, of all the things I could buy with £150. In the silence, he says, “I didn’t think you’d be this upset.”Īfter a while, he says, “It wasn’t just a drunken whim. “On my arm,” he says, and touches his bicep through his shirt.
Maybe during his school years he thought a tattoo would balance the geeky glory of academic achievement.
Any minute he’s going to laugh and say, “You should see your faces” because this has been a running joke for years, this idea of getting a tattoo – the hard man act, iron muscles, shaved head, Jason Statham, Ross Kemp. If you're going for a tiny tattoo, you may have to compromise on how much detail you can have, so listen to what the artist says will and won't work, explains lobster god.But still I wait. "It can help to collect a lot of reference images and examples of how you want your own tattoo to look," Clues says. Or you can work with an artist for your own custom design. Some artists will only use their flash once when someone buys it, while others will tattoo the same designs over and over again. You can choose to get a piece of "flash" - designs the artist has pre-drawn. If a circle isn't perfect or a straight line has a little wobble in it, it's so obvious." "It looks really simple, but there's nowhere to hide. "This style of tattooing is technically very difficult," lobster god says. Many artists have Insta highlights showing their healed work, which is a good way to tell if they're good at what they do. Search online and social media to find an artist who specialises in the style you want and whose work you love. Is that true?Įloise Entraigues does a lot of small pet portraits in fine line black and grey. "If a bit unsure about it, getting something small and fine is a good way to start." I've heard fine line tattoos don't last. Sydney-based tattoo artist, lobster god, says starting with a micro fine line design also gives you a chance to see if being tattooed is something you like.
"If it is painful, at least it won't be painful for long," she says.
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Melbourne-based artist Zoe Clues says a small simple design can take 15 to 30 minutes to complete, as opposed to a larger full colour piece, for example, which can take hours.
"Fine line tattoos can be of any size, but a popular trend at the moment is micro tattoos, the smaller lines allowing more detail in smaller areas." I like the idea of tattoos, but I'm scaredĪside from the celebrity trend, part of the appeal of small, fine line tattoos is that they are quick to do and easy to hide. "They are mainly black and grey … with very fine lines and lighter, softer shading if shaded at all," she says. If you click on the hashtag #finelinetattoo on Insta, you'll see a lot of variety in look and style.Īdelaide-based artist Eloise Entraigues says fine line branched out from single needle tattoos. Loading What are fine line and micro tattoos?
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