[BANK5Y'S-BOY]

does any 1 know how old u have 2 be 2 have a tatoo?

[foundation]

18 or 21 depending on the shop, if you look young, make sure you have ID, make sure you are sober when booking and going to get it done, any tattoo studio willing to tattoo someone who is pissed is not the type of place you want scarring you for life ( believe me). A good place will make you wait a couple of weeks, a cooling off time so that they and you both know you really want the tat, it gives them time to prepare any transfers you need for the work ( an alcohol soluable transfer to leave the outline to be filled in by the needlegun). Ask about folk with good work done and ask where they got it done, and remember it only stings for the first 10 minutes but lasts a lifetime.

[HowAboutNo]

Good advice foundation.

Seb, as a starting point you can go and look into the Happy Sailor on Hackney road, they have loads of the older and good Banksy's on the walls to start you off anyway... and from just searching for them a Spanish artist looks to be in residence who's work looks v. tasty indeed.

www.starstattoo.com/home.shtml (artist's site and works)

www.happysailor.co.uk

If Banksy has tattoos, I'd say this is most likely where he got them, as the signed Grin Reaper in there has the message "To the lads...Keep up the good work" They also did Elijah Wood's West Ham Tattoos for the film Green Street, and have pictures of several good Banksy ones they have done on different people as well.

But yeah, only once your 18 am afraid mate...and really is best to leave it a few years anyway till you are really sure of what it is you want, and have exhausted a lot of the ones that are more than likely just a passing fad.

When I got mine done, I didnt want a bog standard one from the shop catalogue as a lot of people do. You are best to have a good design in mind already, ideally something you can take with you. Then an artist willing to (more than likely) help you spend some time to take your design to a different level and add their own touch, and make it an individual piece.

[glow=red,2,300]And no comments about my yellow smokers teeth or my gorillaz hairy back! Or I'll knock you out!! hehe[/glow]

:oThis picture subject to swift removal!!

I lifted mine off a T-Shirt I bought in America, and had always wanted a dragon anyway (dont have it anymore or could show u before/after) just not the common or garden blocked out or overly colourful ones most others have. This cost me £60 at the time (6 years ago) in a place called Flaming 8 on Holloway Road (since closed down...and I paid £15 deposit for further work that I never got done!)

Recently I am thought of getting it "finished", but not with colour of any sort, more with a sort of "brassed rubbed" effect, similar to the detail of grin reaper, like a sketchy drawing almost is the best way I can put it into words (just hope it looks better than I make it sound!)

Hope this helps in some way!

[mido]

god is that u seb?

seriously I wouldn't have recognised you. I'm scared now!

and didn't expect u to be a hair monkey either LOL ;D

[HowAboutNo]

Martin it's me you knobber! Am really hoping that at 17 you wouldnt think Seb had quite as much grey hair and bad teeth

And yes I am a hair monkey. Thanks..thats a new one to add to the list.

[mido]

I meant sam, not seb! even I can tell that difference.

I'm tired and prone to mistakes in my old age ;D

howaboutno said:

Martin it's me you knobber! Am really hoping that at 17 you wouldnt think Seb had quite as much grey hair and bad teeth

And yes I am a hair monkey. Thanks..thats a new one to add to the list.

[BANK5Y'S-BOY]

k now I'm offended lol, not really ;D i agree that doesn't look like u Sam this was in ur underground dog fighting days i guess i can just Imagen u on all 4s resoling a bear. Lol oh ye i took a pic of that shop on the true not sure if u can make out the banksy sign ?.

[HowAboutNo]

I can make out the reflection of puck in the window!! Hehe Hello Puck!! ;D

I think I will end up going here to get mine done to be honest.

[gm]

I may try them next time.

There was only ever 1 tattooist I was completely happy with and I seem to have lost track of him.

[steph]

frek said:

I'm getting one in a few months.. It's pretty big. but i'm not revealing anything about it.

what a baby or a tattoo?

[steph]

sorry i quoted a very old message...

having got a few tattoos i would indeed recommed the happy sailor on hackney road or Tom Hooper at Frith Street tattoos in...er Frith Street in Soho. Both places are excellent, which is pretty important when it will be on you for. the. rest. of. your. life.

[mido]

what u got steph?

got any banksy tats? ;D Maybe he can do them for you and you'll have a body worth £40k

we (well, sam did to be exact) noticed all the banksy's on the wall of the happy sailor when we were doing the shoreditch tour

steph said:

sorry i quoted a very old message...

having got a few tattoos i would indeed recommed the happy sailor on hackney road or Tom Hooper at Frith Street tattoos in...er Frith Street in Soho. Both places are excellent, which is pretty important when it will be on you for. the. rest. of. your. life.

[mido]

puck looks scary. like one of those fairground mirrors that distort you a bit ;D

howaboutno said:

I can make out the reflection of puck in the window!! Hehe Hello Puck!! ;D

I think I will end up going here to get mine done to be honest.

[babbiesmum]

howaboutno said:

On yer own with spotting that one GM! I didnt look!! But granted it is a bit "hanging" maybe a bad pic of a pierced one??

Now what have I started?! Dont reply!!!!

yes its peirced ;-)

[saffa]

Advice from a mate of mine. Draw the intended tatoo onto a piece of paper. Keep the piece of paper in your wallet. After a year, look at the design, and if you still love it, get it done.

[foundation]

saffa said:

Advice from a mate of mine. Draw the intended tatoo onto a piece of paper. Keep the piece of paper in your wallet. After a year, look at the design, and if you still love it, get it done.

Good avice indeed, wish they had told me.... for your first one, make sure its in an inconspicuous place, no matter what your first tat is, it'll be shit and you be ashamed of it for 4 years then you will love it... so dont get it on your forearm or forehead

[knox]

frek said:

I'm getting one in a few months.. It's pretty big. but i'm not revealing anything about it.

Cheers for that insightful post.

I think most of the ones in the pictures looked pretty shitty except the Grin Reaper which was really well done but fucking huge.

[hexagonsun]

'smazin'

[pastiepie]

so the overwhelming majority prefer girl with balloon. Understated, subtle and inoffensive. In 20yrs time you'll be thinking "I'm glad I got this as opposed to Christ with Shopping"

[ratpack]

ominoustom said:

'smazin'

Anyone going to own up to any of these bad boys?

[streetgirl]

There is a Tattoo place called The Happy Sailor in Hackney Road that has 5 or 6 signed Banksy silk prints on the wall (personally signed to "the lads, keep up the good work") so he either knows them or has tats done there. Also a fairly large picture in the window of the tattoo of Grin Reaper (not sure if this is the famous "hursts Brother"??) underneath the signed silk print.

The boys at Happy Sailor are great, I've had my piece done there and have a few friends with lovely intricate work done there...to each their own, but if I was going for a Banksy, it would be with the HS boys....I'd work on recommendation....I have a friend who sadly didn't do that and now has 'Wiht Love' tattoo'd under his lovely intricate design...

Any other tat fuck ups?

[John]

best tattoo ever:

www.flickr.com/photos/40865443@N00/499142480/

[Copyright]

my one all healed and lovely now