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  • bainbridge0

    There's so many tattoo shops popping up in my area now.

    Where are all these "artists" coming from and getting trained?

    Why does everyone want threadless-type graphics permanently inked into their skin?

    • I thought tattoos are out and no tattoos is the trend now.NBQ00
    • I feel like everyone has full sleeves and hand tattoos. I see so many 20 year olds covered.bainbridge
    • there's usually a few studios in any city with multiple bays used by multiple people, young artists will do apprenticeships then one of the older guys getskingsteven
    • outed for stealing all the money or for sleaze, sexual harassment, beating his wife or something like that... all the staff fuck off and start their own places.kingsteven
    • The circle of life.palimpsest
    • ...repeat. my mrs manages a studio and it's wild the stories she tells me about the other studios in town.kingsteven
    • tattoos are trendy now. kids like them. supply and demand.robthelad
    • trained on instagrammicrokorg
    • Wait, tattoos are finally trending?monospaced

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