Tattoo Rant

Well, just a bit of a rant at least..

 I'm a tattoo artist that has been at Lucky Bamboo Tattoo Shop for several years

 I have a pretty big clientele base here so usually I don't get TOO many of the small walk-in type tattoos.

But lately I've been seeing a lot of the same requests coming in when I do end up doing some of the smaller tattoos, a lot of these clients bring in pictures from Pinterest or Instagram which is an actual screenshot of someones existing tattoo, or a popular image that pops up on Google.

Perhaps it's just the want of getting another tattoo and not quite sure what to get and I'm definitely not hating here. I'm in the business to make you happy, but I think it would also be good to inform you of the growing popularity of these tattoos and maybe ween you onto a more unique design to 

A. Give me more creative freedom to the artists

B. More original tattoo for you

Some of the most recent fads being:

• Infinity signs, either alone or somehow incorporating "to infinity and beyond"
• Bird silhouettes
• Feather turning into bird silhouettes 
• Dandelions
• Dandelions turning into bird silhouettes

And again not hating and anytime a client is flexible on the concept I will do a million dandelions and make them different every time but some clients just aren't flexible and I think if you opened your mind a little you might love the new concept an artist puts together for you :]