21/03/2024
✨3 Things I Learned the Hard Way ✨
1. To say no. And that it’s ok to say no.
Tattoos are never an emergency. I’m a recovering people pleaser and in the beginning of my career I didn’t want to step on any toes or have any clients be upset with me but it’s so important to know what your boundaries are and to really enforce them. If someone gets upset with me for that, that’s their emotion to wrestle with, it’s not my responsibility to fix that for them.
2. It’s better to take responsibility for your mistakes than to blame the client.
It’s much better to say “I may have overworked this area but we can retouch it”.
3. Making details too small
I always thought I could make tiny details super small and that I was the exception as long as I tattooed it well enough. I was wrong. After seeing things come back healed years later I realized that some things shouldn’t be made so small. The body will always respond to ink and age no matter how well I tattoo it. This is a very nuanced fact, some details can be made small depending on the ink and design and body part etc. etc. But it’s always best to make sure you can GUARANTEE that a clients tattoo will last them forever and that you’ll still be able to tell what it is in 10, 20, 40 years.
What about you what’s something you’ve learned the hard way🥶?
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