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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Friends don’t let friends risk bad tattoos.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some things should be done only with the recommendation of others.
Cheap Chinese food, for instance. It can be sickening to even the drunkest gullet, or a surprising delight. (Delivered!) It helps when someone vouches for it.
Unknown books longer than 500 pages. Pet adoption organizations. Movies that might be cult-classic dark comedies or whole new varieties of stupid. Yes, recommendations matter.
Another: piercers and tattoo artists.
A bad mall piercing isn’t likely to cause the trouble of, say, a bad trip to the cardiologist, but why should it be bad at all? (Bad trip to tattoo parlor…yikes. Not something I want to experience. Not something I’m willing to risk, really.)
I feel lucky to have a friendly, vouched-for piercing studio in the neighborhood. It’s nice to have a jewelry-maker and an autoclave around when you need one.
What’s your Atlanta area piercing and tattoo business of choice?
(By the way, newcomers, if you want to know the state rules and regulations about tattooing and piercing, use the searchable Georgia code. Just type in the word “tattoo.”
And check out our galleries of tattoos.
Katrina Sanchez of Smyrna got a tattoo from Brett Zarro of Oneonta, NY during the 11th Annual Atlanta Tattoo Arts Festival on June 17, 2007. Zarro had drawn the outline freehand and was filling in the details and color.
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