4 Easy Ways To Get Custom Tattoo Designs For Less Money

Being wise with money is not an inane skill. People who are good at handling cash have been trained to save money with every dime they spend. With the current state of the global economy and with prices getting more unreasonable by the minute, you cannot blame people for being stingy sometimes. However, just because you're saving up, it doesn't mean that you should settle for anything less; especially with your custom tattoo designs. Here are four easy ways to stay on top of your inking needs and cravings while still being true to your "save-up-while-I'm-still-young" mantra.

1) Tattoo Design Contests - Custom tattoo sites allow you to create contests that will eventually allow you to pick out the best custom tattoo design for your idea. Have you ever done eBay before? The tattoo design challenge works the same way as eBay. Upon opening the site, you go to "start a contest". The site will then take you to a step by step guide: telling you to describe your custom tattoo idea first. It will then require you to post a minimum prize of $35. The said amount will be given to the designer whose artwork you have chosen. In eBay you get to be offered bids from prospective buyers of the item. In this challenge, designers will upload their interpretations of the idea you had posted in the site. The contest runs for a maximum time frame of fourteen days. After choosing your favorite, the winningdesigner will now send you the complete artwork along with its stenciled form. If you will try obtaining a design interpretation from a tattoo parlor, it's going to cost you at least $50. By going through the contest option via the custom tattoo design sites, you can save at least $15.

2) Buy custom tattoo designs online - If you don't like to create a contest, but would still love to shop around for custom tattoo designs, various sites allow you to browse through hundreds of entries from its contest forums. You may purchase any of the uploaded designs via you credit card. Upon purchase, the design will be sent to you via email. You may print the design after wards and take the printed form to your favorite artist to ink it. This way, you don't have to request for impressions anymore that costs at least $50 per piece.

3) Requesting designs from online contest artists - Most custom tattoo contest sites have a list composed of hundreds of tattoo designers who are ready to take on your challenge to ink your preferred design. Online artists charge less than their walk in counterparts since they don't have to pay for parlor rentals and other leasing fees.

4) Tattoo conventions - Now if you would love to meet up with your fellow tattoo hobbyists, joining tattoo conventions would be your best bet. By mingling with them, you get to be referred to the tattoo designers who can give exceptional service with a minimal fee.

By Kristen Sauerzopf

3 Ways to Lose Money on Your Next Tattoo Designer

If the real world is full of rabid opportunists, so is the World Wide Web. You might be surprised at the fact that it has twice as much opportunistic pest than the walking and talking variety that we usually see and encounter every day. As a tattoo fanatic, it is very frequent for you to experience that ecstatic feeling every time you have a custom tattoo design in mind. That ecstatic feeling is usually coupled by a sense of urgency: you feel like the world will not move until you get that idea inked in your skin. Unfortunately that same "right here right now" attitude is going to cost you a lot monetary-wise. Let me give you a low down on the three ways to lose money on your next tattoo designer.

1) Being overly impulsive - Ok, so now you have a custom tattoo design in mind: what's next? If your next step is to put that idea in your skin this very instant, I say you're not only in for a load of monetary wasting scene, you're also in for tons of regrets. I know; you're excited to have that random thought reek its way through your skin: but before you actually get inked on, let me tell you that there are a lot of designers out there. The first one that you meet in your search will not be your last option. You will eventually see someone worthy as you move along your search. Creating your own tattoo design contests via tattoo design sites will give you an opportunity to see hundreds of designers interpret your idea. The contest that you have created will attract hundreds of contestants if you will offer a prize to the artist whose interpretation you will fancy the most. The next time you feel the urge to get inked on after an idea pops up in your head; I suggest you pause for a while, take a deep breath, and log on to your favorite site.

2) Taking friends' referrals very seriously - You got friends because you share common interests with them. It wouldn't hurt to be appreciative every time they recommend tattoo designers, but just to be on the safe side, you have to exercise caution in actually getting the services of their referrals. That new tattoo you just saw on your best buddy looks good on him - right? But just because the artist did an amazing job on him, it doesn't mean that same artist is going to do the same exceptional work on you. The method that artist applied on your friend might or might not work on your case. If you tend to generalize all the time, then I suggest you exempt your tattoo predilections from it.

3) Being inked by someone you just saw online - The good thing about creating these contests is that you get to see hundreds of takes on custom tattoo design. You are not just asking some online fellow to do his take on your idea. We are talking about tattoo professionals here who use custom tattoo design sites to show their skills in skin art.

By Kristen Sauerzopf

Erase Tattoo Ink What Tattoos Are And How To Remove Them

Are you looking to erase tattoo ink? If so then you are probably one of the many people that are looking back on their tattoos and thinking "What have I done?!" If you are considering on going through a method of removal then you may want to know how the removal process actually works.

Tattoos date back many years, further than Egyptians. They once were a way of showing what part of tribe you were but they soon evolved into what we have today where people express themselves with the ink on their bodies.

Obviously methods on applying the ink back then were more eccentric than they are right now because of the huge jump in technology that we've had but still both methods manage to keep ink in the body.

• Modern guns which are used in every parlour now move really fast and puncture the skin with the needle end which at the same time injects the ink into the skin as pigment.


• The ink is then trapped in fibroblast which is a connective tissue which produces smaller fibres such as collagen.


• As this all goes on the dermis and epidermis underneath the skin end up merging together due to the damaged layer that separates them from each other.


• The reaction the body gives off is bleeding (due to the broken capillaries) and swelling (to stop the blood flow to this area).


• Your immune system then starts to try and get rid of the foreign substance in your body, you may notice this as some ink comes off your new ink when you wash it but after a week or so a new tissue forms around the ink and traps it in the fibroblast.


• After a month the two layers of skin will heal up and trap the ink and as time goes on the tattoo will become surrounded by connective tissue and will go deeper into the dermis making it harder for removal to occur.

How Removal Works

Removal is simple to describe but unfortunately it isn't as easy to do. Under the skin there is a pigment of ink which is too large for your body's immune system to clear out.

This can take time to occur, for example laser removal will have to go through multiple sessions over a period of months for complete removal and other methods will be around a long timeline to erase tattoo ink.

By James Pswarai