Arthur

When I moved to Vancouver and started tattooing here, I found the concept of hourly rates a bit unusual. It’s not just tattoo artists—plumbers, electricians, and basically anyone working in a trade often charges hourly. On one hand, I understand the logic behind it. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel; as the saying goes,...

Most people get their first tattoo ‘wrong.’ Not because it looks bad, but because they haven’t learned how to work with an artist yet. I’ve been tattooing since 2013, and I want to help you skip the ‘beginner’ phase and get straight to the magic. The Beginner Usually it goes like this. The first tattoo...

Why Tattoos Peel After a Few Days After you get a tattoo, a few days later, it starts peeling. Why does it happen, and what should you do? Let’s go back to some fundamentals: Our skin is layered and grows from the inside. Skin cells are generated on the inner levels, they’re quite watery and...