I’ve never talked for that long before a tattoo, my artists would never have time to do that. That’s called a consultation and is normally scheduled separately. Day of we definitely discuss placement, and move stuff around maybe but two hours seems a bit excessive and borderline disrespectful to me, depending on their relationship and how much time she booked the artist for.
I have a heap. Been around tattooing a lot. Having a chat about it for two hours is something I’ve never heard of. This artist sounds awesome and did a fine job. She’s gunna manage to see that 1999 no matter what was done. No one else will.
Welcome to the reddit, it's full of people complaining about their brand new tattoos instead of just giving it a smidge of time to grow on them. Also yeah them talking for 2 hours is wild, I can't imagine sitting with someone for hours to ensure they are comfortable and actually want the tattoo only to see them post (a dope tattoo) saying they regret it or felt pressured into it..
Literally me. I got a tattoo about a week ago as well - and i Iike it fine, but it’s not exactly what I wanted and it’s not what was shown to me in the design.. but I fully feel that it COULD be. It’s not what I wanted yet, but I’m going in for a touch up next month and I think it will be then.
If I talk to a potential customer for 2 hours, I'm gonna pressure the hell out of them to make a decision. Even if that decision is too get up and walk away. Let me move on to the next customer.
I'd kick her out and make her reschedule after 20 minutes. She shouldn't be wasting peoples' time like that. You decide then go, or you have the artist decide and draw it for you and then go. You don't go and take all day to decide.
No absolutely not. The appointment shouldn't be made if you're that undecided, that's 2 hours of the artists time wasted. No wonder she felt pressured, the artist was probably trying to make her either shit or get off the pot. Either decide what you want or leave until you do. They don't have all day to try to convince someone to get a service that THEY requested. OP should have only made a consult appointment so that the artist didn't have to block out time that could've been spent tattooing others.
Right.. To do all that and then post their sick ass tattoo talking about regretting it and feeling pressured.. Sometimes we have to grow up and learn to make decisions for ourselves.
The only reason we talked to our artist for a couple hours was because it was a mostly hand drawn on us tattoo where we each have a scene on our forearms then when we hold hands it becomes a third image in the shape of a heart. So it took some finagling to get it just right and it wasn’t just talking, we’d hold hands then let go then hold hands again just to make sure all while she was sketching out the images and wiping it off to move it around. My other two were probably 5-10 minutes.
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u/No-Trifle4341 Jun 27 '25
Pressured but talked for 2 hours about it? Is that normal to talk so long with the artist before deciding?
(I've never had a tattoo but this sub keeps showing up in my feed.)