Lemme just say this about that...

To all you newbies out there who are thinking about getting your first tats... I really firmly believe that you should hold off on having it done until you talk to a custom artist. So many people post their ideas on this forum, and a lot of them are just not very cool or original. But if you go talk to a custom artist once you have a basic idea, 9 times out of 10, they can come up with somthing way beyond what you thought up, because they've seen it all, and do it every day. So I think you should take your good idea to a custom guy and see how it turns out. How do I know this? Because I speak from experience... I was just about to go in and have the COOLEST YIN/YANG WITH FIRE ON ONE SIDE AND WAVES ON THE OTHER tattooed on my prime real estate when my custom guy talked me into something way, way better. Sure it cost more, but my tattoo is absolutely sick! I'm an artist for a living!! But I never would have been able to draw what he did. Go See the Custom Guys!!!