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Good tattoos are not cheap and cheap
tattoos are not good!
Flash tattoos are cheap, but still hugely popular among many
people getting tattoos for the first time. They are most likely
to be low-quality and poorly drawn.
Nearly 90% of the people requiring cover-ups or touch-ups
to their tattoos have flash tattoos usually done from some
free flash design that has done the rounds of the internet
or from some backstreet tattoo parlours.
What's wrong with flash tattoos?
Flash tattoos are anything but original. They are based on
ready-made, knocked up designs drawn by unknown 'artists'
and sold in hundreds if not thousands of copies, worldwide
or downloaded free on many websites.
It's very likely if you get a flash tattoo that somebody
somewhere has the exact same tattoo, most likely done in the
exact same manner and possibly on same area of the body say
for example lower back tribal tattoos.
Flash tattoos have nothing to do with what tattoo art should
be which is creativity and uniqueness and reduces tattooing
to little more than tracing. Flash tattoos lack one other
important thing: meaning. They generally have no meaning to
the person getting them done.
Tattoos should reflect a persons life and should at least
have some meaning - not necessarliy the meaning of the actual
design but what it means to the person receiving it. This
is the reason tattoo removal is big business. Keep in mind
that it costs more 10 times the amount to get a tattoo removed
as it does to get it done in the first place.
So if you are looking for tattoo designs forget flash tattoo
designs. If you see free flash tattoo art on some website,
or if the tattooist tells you to pick one from a sheet or
'off the wall' and doesn't draw your design free hand right
in front of you but copies it on a piece of transparent tracing
paper from a notepad go elsewhere.
Always ask to see the tattooists portfolio of custom tattoos
before committing to getting one done.
Remember - a tattoo is for life.
Avoid tattoo flash!
Declan O Reilly
Unique Tattoo Pictures Designs
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