Designed for clients who wish to have a tattoo with personal meaning.
What does it mean?
Let me explain it to you on an example:
Client walks into a studio and wants to tattoo something for her father, who sadly, is no longer with her. She wants a tattoo to remind her on him and expresses her idea. Mostly there are the same motives: a name, sentence, wings, cross, angel… All of which remind her on her father. When asked why did she pick those motives, she explains; she chose the name because that was her father’s name, sentence that reminds her that everything has an expiration date, wings because her father is now with angels, cross because it gave her faith in life…
But when asked what kind of a man her father was, how she felt for him, how he felt about her, what is stuck in her memories, she begins to remember and gushing with tears starts to explain just how much her father meant to her.
Everything she has chosen are reminders of her father, but where is the core, where are her feelings in this tattoo?
Here, the story about tattoos with character begins.
I listen to her story and write everything down on a piece of paper. Then I ask her: What if you could have a tattoo that describes just your father, that reveals your emotions towards him, that contains yours and his character? What if you could just look at your tattoo and it instantly shows you the feelings and emotions you have for your father?
I explain to her the basis of the story. I ask if she owns a photo album with pictures of her and her father?
Which picture is her favorite? What does she feel when she looks at that picture? And now remove that picture and put only a written name, and tell me what do you see and feel? The answer is: Nothing! I only see the name of my father. For that reason I’ve spent the last few years researching how to make a tattoo that will awaken the same feelings as a picture in a photo album. I guarantee you, after a new idea you will not want to ink your original idea.
As a matter of fact, if you’re still interest in the original idea, I’ll give it to you half price. So far, whom ever I’ve offered tattoos with character, hasn’t stick with his or hers original idea.
90% decided on tattoo with character,
10% decided not to go through with the tattoo.
You ask yourself, why did they quit?
They decided not to ink because they weren’t ready for compromise but they realized that they could regret if going through with the idea, so they’ve left themselves some time to accept the compromise.
What does compromise consist of?
You can only get an ideal tattoo if you aren’t burdened with the position, size, price, when you are 100% sure in your idea and that you want to get tattooed.
Use your idea, my experience and knowledge and I guarantee you you’ll get more than expected.
I invite for an interview the client who I spoke with regarding her father in which she’ll come up with a new idea.
That interview can be drilling and emotional. I need to find out what she really wants to see in her tattoo, she needs to tell me what her father meant to her, her feelings for him.. in that process she can come up with some ideas that haven’t before crossed her mind. She can’t have prejudice regarding position, size and cost. If she does, none of this makes sense and it’s all a waste of time. In the interview my function is to direct the customer and inspire her creativity in a way she will find the answer herself. Specific details of the interview I can’t reveal because they are individual and personal, but I wish I could explain to you the glow and satisfaction I see in their eyes when we’re finished talking. Imagine you can only see a balloon, universe, pen… written on a sheet of paper, and you are more than sure you want it inked on yourself. When she says what she wants inked, then I as her tattoo artist take the lead and take what she said into a design, but in a way that suits her budget and her body. Believe it or not, when you want something really bad and you are certain that it is what you’ve asked and looked for, you don’t really care whether it’s black, realistic, tribal, … all it matters is that you see it on yourself.
You will choose something you will never regret.
You will choose something you will never regret.