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| - I received my tattoo from this shop back in 2010.
Now that I think about it, I really should have done much more research on tattoo shops and artists to pick out the perfect one vs going from just a little word of mouth. However, I did it. I got my tahitian tribal symbol black ink tattoo behind my ear because I was a tahitian dancer and in love with the culture at that time.
Upon arrival, they said that I would be with Jesse and they had me pick from templates online as to which design I liked best even though I told them I liked free-hand. I was disappointed that he would not be free-hand drawing it for me to make it more unique so that some other person won't just be walking around with the same ink as me. Sigh, my young, foolish self.
They were decent with sanitization, I will give them that. Jesse was friendly and he was making lots of conversation with my friend who went with me so listening to them joke around eased me through the tattooing process. It was over in about 30 minutes which was not too long of a process. Afterwards, he said that I would be welcomed to come back and receive complimentary touch-ups anytime.
Now, I definitely took great care of my tattoo afterwards. However, within two months I had to go back for a touch-up because it had already started fading. When I went back, Jesse was less than stellar to touch it up for me. He even made comments about how I should have been taking better care of it. Not cool man.
Now, it has been about three years and the rate that it has faded to disappoints me because others who received tattoos from others shops still show vividly and they've had theirs longer! The back of my ear is really not an area that gets exposed.
I will be doing more research to find an artist that specializes in tahitian-style tattoos in order to "fix" this work so that I can finally love my tattoo instead of just liking it.
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