Hey, everybody it is QCKND and welcome back to Tattoo Talk Tuesday.
So if it is your first time joining us for Tattoo Talk Tuesday,
Tattoo Talk Tuesday is our weekly interactive talk show, where I
take viewer submitted questions and try to lend
my experience to you guys,
as a tattoo collector.
So because I always get a ton of questions about how much tattoos cost, how
much my own tattoos cost, what my most expensive tattoo
was, how much i pay for tattoos um how to save up for tattoos, which i think is a video i already made, um
Right, I thought I would do a fun little video today, where i talked, about, my most expensive tattoo versus, my least expensive tattoo
so, today I'm going to talk about the tattoo I paid the most for and the tattoo I paid the least for um
I do wanna say, disclaimer i'm not going to mention any tattoos
I didn't pay for. In my lifetime I have received some free tattoos
sometimes that happens
through trade or
Friends or anything like that you know i have a couple of stick and pokes etc
So i'm not gonna mention any tattoos, that like
No currency was exchanged, so only the cheapest and most expensive so
What had me thinking about making this video
Especially like other than a lot of questions revolving around, like price and stuff, was i'm actually getting my cheapest tattoo
removed
I made an appointment to have tattoo removal and i'm pretty excited about it. One of the whole things i thought, was like
You know, "why haven't you been tattooed in so long?" I usually, every
Year, I make a "best tattoos of that year" and this last
year I was only tattooed like once or twice and i was like hmm..
I mean I know I'm slowing down and running out of room but that seems
Weird and it is because i have tattoos that i really,don't like and i can't work with and i don't
Want to get more tattoos when i have these tattoos that i really don't love
So the first tattoo and the tattoo i am working on getting removed, was one that i paid thirteen...
Was a tattoo that i paid $13 for and that is my friday the 13th tattoo it is a um
It is a straight razor tattoo and in the tattoo there, was like a 13 dripping blood
Now if you have a, friday the 13th tattoo um this isn't to like shade you in anyway i've had this tattoo for
Close to six or seven years and i actually got this tattoo because it was an event where all the proceeds went to the aspca
um
Which is like you know an animal organization so i was like?
Oh, cool, i'm gonna get this tattoo it's when i didn't have a lot of tattoos and if i could look
Back and know that today i would have so many more tattoos this tattoo is just definitely in the way
It bends in a way where it takes up a lot of space and like i feel like
Better tattoos could take up that space a lot better it's a little weird how it caps the bottom of my
Ankle but i mean i kind of chose the placement
so i
Had this tattoo
Done like at an event so people waited in line and stuff and i paid $13, $20 total with a seven dollar tip
Which is how
a lot of those things go um it is my only friday the 13th tattoo i have that i paid $13 for
if you remember i got a tattoo for another friday the 13th event a little chick and
That tattoo was 80, with a $20 tip so
It is the only truest $13 tattoo i have and on my
body the least expensive tattoo like i said i've gotten tattooed for free before i've
Like traded to get tattooed
i've gotten tattooed, by friends and of course, like, that, was free um
Free touch-ups, and stuff like that but this truly is the only tattoo
Thirteen dollars making it the the cheapest tattoo on my body
now that i look back on it you know i do wish that i didn't get this tattoo um
It was a very popular event you know, some people waited up to eight hours to get one of these tattoos
um but
It's really just a tattoo like i said it was bad planning i went with
My friends and i think this tattoo
Could be better if it was placed somewhere better but just the way it takes up all that room is no good
I used to want to get this tattoo reworked
Where i would change it around and incorporate a pair of scissors
with the straight razor to be like a hairdressers tattoo and
I kind of thought that it would really fit in there if i got the scissors and for a
While that was my plan of action to make this tattoo better but
Even going back on my tumblr i think two years after i got it i was like
Damn that sucks i think i had a post that said
"Happy friday the 13th don't get a tattoo like i did." Like I said a lot of people
Do have this tattoo, i went to an event so
clearly like
50 people may have this same exact tattoo or a
Hundred people i think straight razors are dope, it's why i picked it but
Yeah, it just takes up too much space, and i'm at a point where i've just met so many more tattoo artists and
So much different work i've been exposed to where i'm just like i don't want the 13 dollar tattoo anymore
So, my most expensive tattoo that i have and you guys probably guessed it because i have an entire series on it is my full
Back tattoo
Now i never sat down, and made the full calculations on how much this tattoo cost total but
When people message, me and they, asked for that exact price, which i do get very often
All i can say is that it was
250 dollars an hour so
total i believe i sat for
About six or seven hours i would have to go back
And watch my series because it might seem surprising to you, but that tattoo at this point is almost 2 years old
So that tattoo is surprisingly about 2 years old at this point
So you know the finer details aren't always in my mind
But i can comfortably say that i spent over a thousand dollars on it and in my life you know
Even the two cars i've owned in my life were not $1000
They were really shitty cars but it is one of the bigger
Investments i've put money towards in my life and it is something that i love i wish i can see it more often but it
Is on my back but you are going to have a full
Back tattoo just know that $1000 is a good minimum to keep in mind
So when i was planning on getting
My back tattoo i think i always knew i wanted a
Big back tattoo um i actually got tattoo removal before i started with the process of getting my back tattooed and
With that i was able to
Almost free up so much space
Like i had a little tattoo in the corner of my shoulder and then this whole back i do have a tattoo on my ribcage
Which does come into my
Back so that was a little difficult with planning because i did realize that i couldn't get a
Back tattoo that, was like a full like
square
Back tattoo from top to bottom to side to side
so
my Back tattoo does kind of taper in which gives room for
the original tattoo and still does cover the tattoo that i had laser removal on
If you count the laser removal as a part of the pricing in order to get this tattoo it only increases
the value of how much money i did put into getting a full back tattoo but i
Love it i think, about it all the time and i can't wait to add to it even adding to it will only
make it the more and more and most expensive tattoo i have it is the tattoo i sat the longest for and
In comparison the only other tattoo like
When i was thinking about it i was like if that's the most what's the second most and i think the second most expensive?
Tattoo i have was around?
$600 so even
Even the full back tattoo is like double that
um
Which i'm so excited about this isn't a video to be like
"Yeah, i spend Gs on my tattoos," this a video to give you an understanding of like i guess
the
scale of like
What a 13 dollar tattoo can give you and what a thousand plus dollar tattoo can give you
one of them i'm unhappy with, and
it
Once i get a laser removal session on it it will bump it up to
An a tattoo i did spend money on if you think about it because it will
Be worth two hundred and thirteen dollars after that and it is pretty dark so i do envision it to take
more than one session so
four hundred and thirteen dollars on this damn tattoo um
But hey i've seen flash events where the tattoos on the sheets are dope so it just
Was bad planning, and bad placement and i can only blame myself
so
On the other end my back tattoo
Dope, i felt really good getting, it even the healing process was really cool
Traveling to new york to get it was really cool i feel like
My relationship with rose tattoo is like stronger than ever and i do feel like i'm in this like
Sweet exclusive club of like the full back tattoo club
Full* that's like an asterisk, because i do on my tattoo to go a little bit
Lower on my back like more towards touching the top of my butt whereas now it to the small of my back
So let me know what you guys think um
How big is the range of your most inexpensive and expensive tattoos - minus maybe ones you receive for free
I know, some people out there, your partner may tattoo and you don't pay for your tattoos or your friends, and stuff like that
so that does happen
especially in this community, where you know as we get older we tend to make more connections and
With tattoo artists and stuff um...
Oh and maybe like a tattoo that you won in a contest i do see like
These instagram like repost and you can, win like a $500 credit for your tattoo, has anyone
ever won one of those? i've never i guess i've never seen someone announce that they won
Have you won? comment
So thank you guys so much i thought that this was a pretty interesting little
Discussion so although i feel like it might be invasive in the community, when people are like how much was that tattoo
I'd love to just you know
Give you guys a little ballpark, i do get questions that are like "i'm starting my back tattoo journey, how
Much money should i bring?" and i'm like...
Like a savings account
but thank you guys so much definitely give this video a thumbs up and
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Anyway, thank you guys so much and until next time bye