Things Tattoo Artist Hate - Dont’ be this customer!

I’m sure this blog will enlighten, amuse and even agitate some people. But, this is our way to vent on those lacking common sense. Tattoo Artists out there please feel free to leave a comment on your most resent issue in your shop. Hopefully people will try not to be one of these customers after reading.

*CLIENTS THAT CAN’T SIT STILL DURING THEIR TATTOO. People come in to get tattooed and think it’s a joke or we actually enjoy working on someone that complains and moves the whole time.

*THE FAMOUS WORDS: “MY FRIEND SAID”. Artists constantly hear people being mislead by their so called friend giving false information on aftercare, the procedure, etc. Tattoo Artist have lived it and seen it all - so they are your best bet not your friend who may have accumulated 8 tattoos over the past 5 years and now believes he/ or she is an expert.
*LAST MINUTE CANCELLATION. This is sometimes a real emergency and this is not meant for those clients. The rest of you - that make it a habit to waste our time. Your one of those customers we would not miss at all if you decided to go elsewhere. If you stop and think about that appointment you had set up with your artist and the cost of that tattoo…….

*NO SHOWS. When you don’t even bother to call and don’t show up for your appointment. Considering how we feel about people canceling at the last minute, you should know where these people fall on a scale of 1 to 10.

*CRYBABIES. When were given a description of how every line feels throughout the whole Session. And if you do actually cry, please - for god sake, don’t scream. We did not ask you to come in and get a tattoo, you wanted it - so man up.

*POOR AFTERCARE. The clients that always pick their tattoos, or where shoes right after getting their foot tattooed. The one’s that go swimming that afternoon. And then want a free touch up.

*TAKE A SHOWER BEFORE YOUR APPOINTMENT. No one wants to sit in a room with you for a couple hours when you stayed up all night partying and wore the same clothes in to get your tattoo. Or drove right from work when your out in the sun sweating for 8 hrs. at work all day.

*WHEN YOU CALL OUR TATTOO MACHINES “GUNS”. No professional Tattoo Artist calls their machine a gun.

*CLIENTS FRIENDS THAT MAKE OUR JOB HARDER. These people usually tag along with their friend just to laugh and harass them. In these cases where the client is not sitting well during the tattoo, the nagging friend makes them even more on edge and our job that much harder.

*DON’T GET DRUNK THE NIGHT BEFORE. Not only are these customers usually very irritable and don’t sit well, but they usually bleed more than usual and smell like their sweating out everything they drank the night before.

*RUDE PEOPLE. stay home- you don’t even like yourself, why bother everyone else.

*LAST MINUTE CHANGES. When the customer changes the design the day of the appointment. There’s a reason we give estimates on time. So we can fit what we need to do in that day, not spend and extra hour deciding if your really sure about the design you had already approved days before.

*PRICE SHOPPERS. If you walk into a Studio to get a quote and find that you can’t afford their prices then smile, say thank you anyway and roll on. I’ve never had one price shopper do that, it’s always a rude comment as their walking out the door or a list of who’s cheaper in town. To all those people - you deserve to have the cheapest guy in town mark your body permanently.

*”IF I DON’T GET TATTOOED RIGHT NOW, THEN I WON’T GET IT DONE!”. This line is used in the Studio on a regular basis. If the artist is good they have plenty of people lined up in advance, waiting to be tattooed. Most unwanted tattoos were a quick and not planned out.