oh god this guy again really alright y'all so welcome to my tattoo tour if
you're watching this video this probably means that you were interested in
tattoos you have questions about them anything of that sort and so today I'm
going to try to cover as much as I can about my tattoos and about my experience
and see if they can help you along the road precursor if you're not a fan of
tattoos if you think they're ugly or disgusting or only prisoners or deviants
have them that's that's perfectly okay you are entitled to your own opinion as
a human being and in my eyes I think you should allow a human being to do
whatever they want with their body as long as it doesn't affect anyone else in
a negative way or a harmful way then why judge and if you don't like tattoos I
don't know why you're watching this video but maybe I can help change your
mind I think tattoos are a beautiful form of self-expression of creative
expression and I'm gonna get into it today so I'm gonna show you the ups and
downs pain pricing tips I have mistakes I made artist you should look into and
stuff like that so let's get right into it and so when you look at my sleeve it
actually looks like one kind of cohesive piece but I quit
piece by piece by piece it took a long time looking back I would recommend just
going with one or two artists they're gonna be able to create that vision a
little bit better I was just lucky that the artists I did go with have that
ability to use composition and it would just make the process a lot easier so
the first piece I got was my Roman numeral piece right here on my
collarbone I got a F big tattoos the tattoo artist
that did it was named Bill it was just a walk-in tattoo so I didn't really know
much about making appointments in advance and stuff like that so I went in
it was on my birthday my 18th birthday and I went with my mom and it's the date
January 30th 2013 and that was the date that I had my brain surgery so I figured
I knew I wanted a tattoo but I didn't know if I wanted to have something that
was super significant to me or something I thought was cool I just want
and so I figured I would start with something that has the most meaning to
me in my life and that was the date that I had my brain surgery so I did that and
didn't hurt that bad when it got kind of closer to the
collarbone area it started hurting a little bit but you kind of have an idea
of what a tattoo is gonna feel like before you've heard that it might hurt
some people say it does hurt some people say it doesn't hurt and I don't know I I
think I was expecting it to be worse than it actually was
but I don't know I guess you just had like serotonin and endorphins rushing
through your body and you're so excited to get it so like now with later tattoos
I'm kind of more of a bitch to the pain but at this time I didn't really think
it was that bad and it was pretty quick I think it took about an hour to an hour
and a half it was 120 dollars which I thought was pretty expensive at the time
but something you got to know about tattoos and about quality tattoos is
that pay for what you get okay so that's where I got my Roman numeral tattoo I
was hooked I was addicted I wanted more and so my next tattoo after that was a
little bit more impulsive I have like 70 bucks of my yeah I was broke his buck I
was working at Best Buy in high school I was 18 years old I went to some random
tattoo shop I don't even remember the name or the artists unfortunately it's
covered up now it was a compass just a simple line piece compass right on my
inner forearm I put a picture up there of that and I don't know I just thought
it was cool I really value traveling and I want to
travel the world one day that's one of my top goals and so I figured I'd
commemorate that in a way and just I guess really just an excuse to get some
more EGH artists was really good and the artwork turned out you know how it was
supposed to but later on as I'll explain it wasn't what I wanted long term and
that's thing about tattoos is they're permanent so make sure that it's gonna
be something that you really want or it's a quality of art that's just
incredible and that you want to collect and wear on your body for the rest of
your life so after that I have two tattoos of course I was itching for some
more so the next paycheck I got I went and got my third tattoo which is right
on my inner arm here it's not with the theme of the rest of my pieces as I'll
get into later but it was just a simple geometric feather tattoo still really
good artwork I mean you did great and I was just really
interested in geometric and designs and I thought that's what I wanted to go
with I wasn't really thinking that I was gonna have a sleeve but I was just kind
of collecting pieces I believe it was 150 bucks and even for the smaller
designs a lot of artists will either charge by piece or by the hour depending
on how big of a project it is and so the feather was 150 bucks really ended up
costing me 400 because I took my mom's car down in Dallas to get this tattoo
and I parked it in a fucking Taco Bell parking lot so when I come out of the
tattoo shop you know I got all my endorphins rushing on my cool just got a
new badass piece and my car's gone so someone towed my ass in Dallas had to
call an uber we drove through Greenville which is like one of the sketchiest
parts of Dallas it was at some like really bad in town went through this
area of in there was like I don't want to say gangs but it was like 50 dudes
like just lined up in the street and like we had to drive right past them the
girls like hitting the lock button like 400 times and so that wasn't a good
experience so really a tattoo ended up costing me like 400 bucks after it's all
said and done hey hey you know it's all about the experience it's all about the
experience it took maybe an hour to an hour and a half I think the longest part
was just a little line work that you had to do I mean really meticulous but
besides that it was it was one of the quicker tattoos I've had and so after
that I waited a few months and then of course I got another tattoo so I went to
Anaheim California I have a buddy that lives down there and I saw the redwood
trees and I just thought they were amazing and I got this on the back of my
arm looking back I mean it is one of my more basic tattoos this is kind of a
popular design not this exact design but the concept is a little more popular I
actually had to get this touched up the artist did it he did a good job but it
just wasn't really up to par with what I wanted to do so I had another artist go
in and touch it up and add some detail so really this bad boy that have costing
me like over $300 it probably came out at 3 hours total for this and still one
of the quicker pieces out of my collection and as I've kind of gotten
more tattoos I really want unique original designs but I still don't
regret it I think looking back at these tattoos when I was younger gives me a
perspective it allows me to remember a time in my life where I was
what I was doing the memories I was creating at that time so no regrets baby
no regrets after I got the tree I did a bunch of research you know I wanted to
find some of the best artists and so I went on Instagram and I found a shop
called Dark Age tattoo where they had this amazing 3d realism artists and I
fell in love with the work I mean it looked like real pictures and so I found
an artist I really liked named Capone and I sent him an email these guys are
booked up for a long time so you have to really be patient when you're going with
these guys it's not a quick process and I told him I wanted a rose piece and so
I went in we did the whole design process it's really cool with these
pieces because when it comes to realism what they'll do is they'll photoshop a
design so unlike a traditional tattoo or a line work tattoo where the artist will
draw every part of it out and then stencil that they Photoshop real
pictures onto a computer and they use an iPad that go in with like a little
pencil and write out all the details and then once they get that to where they
want it they'll print it out on like a piece of paper and that turns that into
a stencil and so once they put the stencil on you they'll be looking at the
actual picture as they're still as they're tattooing and it's a really cool
process and so I went with the Rose right here on my forearm it took in
total first pass was probably about 12 hours so with these pieces are so much
detail and design and composition and light dark tones and hot and cold tones
and a lot of different like artistic angles that they take so they really
take their time a good thing about is that you're gonna get a beautiful
artistic piece a downside is that they charge by hours so it will be pretty
expensive but I think after a tip and everything it came out to be around $600
for the Rose piece and so after the Rose piece I was hooked I knew I loved
realism it came out I got so many compliments about it knew I wanted to
keep with this theme and with this design I was kind of had had a theme
come into my head and so I loved the rows and how it
resembled the beauty of life and so I got a skull next but another artist that
I really was a big fan of that dark age tattoo and we get the school on my inner
form so I was kind of building around I got lucky y'all that it came out the way
it did because it's it's really hard to do just to build piece by piece
especially by different artists but there's so many artists that I loved and
I wanted to collect these amazing pieces by different artists and different
experiences and stories and so I got the skull with some smoke coming out it was
really a badass design you got to be willing to work with the artists you
know so you come with an idea if I had my whole sleeve exactly how I had it
planned out in my head and would have looked a lot different and a lot of
shittier that's why these artists are so amazing is they have that vision I love
the detail that came out in that smoke and I thought it was really cool and so
it kind of contrasted you know with the rose and with the skull it was kind of
like life and death and I really liked that theme and so I have you know as we
go through my pieces there are some themes and there are some I just
collected for artistic purposes this was probably one of my most painful tattoos
just because there's so much black especially around my wrist and it took I
think about seven to eight hours just the first session there's some
recessions on it the dark blacks and how long you have to go over these areas to
get the shading and you get the blacks really packed into your skin without it
you know leaking out over healing it's pretty intense and so yeah this was
probably one of the most painful tattoos I got so after the school I kind of
wanted to keep with the life and death theme and so I got a little filler piece
right here by Capone and that was the hourglass and I thought it fit really
well into that little wrist area and it's kind of based around the concept of
time and how you know we only have a limited time here I talked about in my
brain surgery video I think you should live every day to your fullest because
you never know when it's your last day and I don't know
it sounds basic but I thought it was cool and so that's right this with that
I think this piece was around $400 and that was because my artist gave me a
little cut that's the cool thing once you get in with these artists and you
develop a relationship with them they'll hook it up they'll be able to get you in
a lot quicker than the first time so after my hourglass piece I went with a
filler piece back right behind my tree and this is a little dove this was done
by private tattoo artists in Dallas it was done out of like yet this badass
high-rise and he tattooed out of there and so we did this little dove back here
is a really cool experience and I think this piece took about five hours to
complete and I just thought it looked really cool how it filled in next to
this tree with that feed and the Dove didn't hurt that bad I when I got close
to my elbow that's when it really started getting sensitive and it started
being pretty painful but overall I mean I was just so excited to get the piece
that I didn't even care about the pain at that point so after the dove piece we
moved on to my favorite pieces this big boy right here Poseidon with a badass
Cathedral rose behind it his hands kind of gripping that trident got a little
bit of subtle color in there but really just black and gray now this piece has
the story behind its a little interesting it was a collab done at the
Dallas tattoo convention you know at the time I was childish and I was immature
and I was a young going into this so I kind of had a fallout with remember at
the beginning he was unhappy with me but we worked through it I ended up seeing
him the last two sessions and I paid him I hooked him up as much as I could so
now he's the homie long story short just don't be childish
when you're contacting these really good artists yeah be mature about the whole
process this piece took I got second place and the overall took three days
twenty-five hours I was sitting there eating like one piece of jerky I don't
even know how I did it came out beautiful and I loved it so remember
shout out you're the homie pooch he did some work on it too and shout out to
them so that was an awesome experience learned and grew from it
and got a really really cool piece of art right here so after my Poseidon
peace I essentially had a sleeve I had some little gaps that I had filled in
I'll talk about that later abstract school it's following a similar
style as another artist who does a similar kind of abstract like Monster
style and it was by my boy Sonny he said he just wanted to fill in that little
area and so he free handed it I had the trust in him that he would just put
something dope back there and that's what he did
this little piece back here took just probably three hours I think it was
around five hours so after the abstract school I went with the cover-up piece
and now the reason I wanted to cover up the compass wasn't because I didn't like
the piece but basically what happened was I was serving tables one day and I
had a friend of mine come in and she asked to see my compass piece and so I
showed her and she was turning 18 soon and so she looked at her mom and she's
like I want that exact piece right there on the exact area now I was just like
fuck and you know I don't think you know if someone likes a piece and they want
it and you have it I mean that's cool I don't have anything against that but I
just something about just having a piece on me and I saw when she turned 18 and
she got the exact compass in the exact spot and I just I don't know I wanted to
have something I was original and completely one-of-a-kind and so I was
like all right fuck this like I want to cover this up it wasn't flowing with the
rest of my pieces and that was just like the straw on the camel's back
so I contacted an artist named Quinta Hernandez he is awesome he's I want him
to do my entire right sleeve one day and I just I fell in love with his work he's
a great artist and great guy and I hit him up and I said hey you know I'm
getting these really cool realism pieces but I have this little compass right
here that's bothering me maybe we could cover it up and he came up with this
design I told him that I wanted some gothic architecture similar to this back
here he said that he was willing to do it so I drove four and a half hours down
@xr Canada see him and we started chopping and so we got this bad boy
which is one of my most favorite pieces I mean
the fact that it's a cover-up and it looks like it was printed on I mean it's
insane what these artists are able to do nowadays and so bang this boy out in
eight hours and I think this is one of my favorite pieces one that gets the
most compliments and it hurt like a bitch this crevice right here is one of
the most sensitive parts of the arm especially with so much black and is
packing in that detail it hurt really bad but I got an amazing piece from it
these artists are just you know you have great conversations with all of them and
you really develop a friendship with these guys so after I got this cover-up
right here I basically had a full sleeve I just had this little gap right here
that I wanted to fill in and it was bothering me and I was lucky that Quinn
wanted to do it he was really unable to go in there and so it was just a simple
little filigree filler and I love it I think it makes the whole sleeve flow and
really pop and the artwork is incredible and so shout out Quinn for going in on
that I believe it was only around $400 it took just a couple hours and you know
Quinn hooked it up it was amazing and then so the last piece I got right
before I came down to college was on my leg and it is a portrait rose and then
it has some filigree down there and I was done by an artist in Houston who
just absolutely killed the game his story is this really incredible really
nice guy yeah well I wanted to get a start on a leg sleeve and that was my
last hoorah I think it cost me a little bit over $1,000 I got a good deal with
him because he really wanted to do the piece and he cut me a discount so shout
out pretty boy it probably was the most painful tattoo I don't know if it was
because it was around the knee it really hurt really bad around my ankle or the
fact that I was laying there for 13 hours straight non-stop just getting
poked at but the leg by far was very painful so I wouldn't do any of it over
again I love my tattoos I'm planning on getting a bunch more if you have any
questions feel free to comment I'll try to answer them as soon as I can as
detail as I can and yeah stick along for the journey see what peace I get next
and as always thanks for watching today's video I'll catch you next time
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