Tattoo artist advice needed

Boomr · Post by **Boomr** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:34 am

My playa partner and I are toying with getting tattoos (AFTER we leave BRC.) We are middle-aged rebel children, ready to commemorate our Rite of Passage with a small bit of body art, our first.

Any recommendations on a good tattoo artist in the SLC area? Or perhaps Cheyenne or Sioux Falls. We'll be driving east from BRC to Minneapolis. We won't have much time to spend scoping out various places, so any advice is appreciated.

graidawg · Post by **graidawg** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:20 pm

some nice looking places in Reno bu thats the wrong way isnt it? maybe stop for a day after bm, get a hotel room shower get clean and hydrated/rested then scream with pain as the needles pirce you tender flesh?
oh theres a couple of other threads concerning tattoos

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... highlight=

and my one

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... highlight=

if i could work out the way to make them pretty i would but i've had it explained twice now and it still doesnt work for me

Boomr · Post by **Boomr** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:34 pm

Needles? Needles...piercing....flesh??

Ewwww.

Yes, my dream is to go to Reno, get a hotel, have a shower, swim in the pool, eat pizza and get the odd tattoo. However Boog, my partner in crime, is nervous about making his flight back to Europe. Something about a job, whatever that is.

I humbly thank you for your advice, you are swell!

graidawg · Post by **graidawg** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:40 pm

job? in europe? pah 2 a penny and anyway he can always take another day off and show his new ink - i like the work stingray tattos have on there website and is my first choice but i am told there is another place closer to the hotel so may end up going there. either way ink is a good ideea methinks

Boomr · Post by **Boomr** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:51 pm

If BM works its magic, Boog will go home 2 weeks late, wearing only a loincloth and decorated like the Maori warrior I know he is inside.

Thank you for the links, I was thinking something very small, but those photos are inspiring

graidawg · Post by **graidawg** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:08 pm

boomr you have an awesome plan for boog, i like it and will connive with you too make it happen if possible

Post by **AntiM** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:23 pm

There are a number of excellent artists in SLC. Contact Utah burners at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/element11/

(I don't have ink. I go into shock when the needle hits)

Trishntek · Post by **Trishntek** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:35 pm

Oddly enough, Rock Springs, WY has a large Biker community and thus, an unusually high number of tattoo parlors.

http://www.tattoo-spot.com/Wyoming/Rock ... /index.cfm

Boomr · Post by **Boomr** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:31 pm

Thank you Trishntek and AntiM

I forgot about the bikers! Yeah, maybe they like tattoos...

I appreciate the advice, that helps a lot. I had a mind blank about using the internets to search for tattoo artists. Like somehow they were so gothically beyond technology that they don't advertise lol.

This will be my first tattoo experience. I've never gone beyond the pierced ears I got in 6th grade, but this has been a year of changes and I'm feeling the need for something sacramental, the outward manifestation of hard won inner grace. I just don't want my foot to fall off in the process.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:51 pm

So, now that Ed Hardy is mainstream and you see children wearing socks with his stuff, hasn't the whole tattoo thing peaked and gone passe?

And why am I using a french word like "passe" anyway?

Boog · Post by **Boog** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:39 am

Mr Hardy's stuff seems a little twee to me.

And this is not just a question of getting a tatt for the heck of it, this will be a stamp of authenticity