Tattoo Flash vs Custom Work

Anytime you get a tattoo, especially your very first one, it requires some real thought. Among the many decisions you have to make are color or black and white, location, design details, and where you will go to have the procedure performed.  You can also choose from a tattoo flash or a custom tattoo.

Since you finally made the decision to get a tattoo, you must be really excited, and you have probably been visiting different tattoo parlors to find the right design or looking at everyone else's ink. Make sure you have all the information you need as the moment that needle touches your skin, you can not turn back. First-timers will often climb into a chair with no idea that they can get custom work done.

In a tattoo parlor, the first thing that the newcomers do is look at the various tattoo design pictures on the wall. Some mistakenly believe that these are meant to be the selection of designs and are the only ones available. These are pictures are samples of designs that you can get. They are called tattoo flash. The tattoo flash are generally designs that tattoo parlors buy from suppliers.

Really, any tattoo parlor that buys supplies from the same supplier as another parlor will have the same tattoo flash. If there is something that you like on display, get it, otherwise get a custom design. You will rarely find new tattoo flash in another tattoo parlor.

Flash can be gotten almost anywhere. You can bring in a design and get a stencil made out of it as long as there is not any copyright infringement involved. Prices vary depending upon the size of the tattoo flash. You are actually paying for the right for the tattoo artist to use the design.

A little more time and money needs to go into custom work, unlike tattoo flash. Not only are you paying for the design, but you are also paying for the tattoo artist's time, consultation, and revisions. The price will depend mostly on the size though. If the artist has to make several revisions, they may opt to tack on some extra cost for taking up his time, but it is worth it to get what you want.

I'm sure everyone has been telling you this but I must repeat it - this tattoo will be with you the rest of your life. Make sure that you know what you want and tell them. They are not just big, burly, biker guys they are artists. They do not just ink you, they design tattoos too.