This is you now

Fresh out of high school, the doors to the world are open to you

Then you decide to have some person you do not really know

Make life long decisions about where you will live, where you will work

Who your friends will be and what continued support your family will bless you with

Tattoos, improperly done, will control, and possibly ruin your life

How old and experienced is the artist you are about to let change your life forever?

What level of school has he/she attended?  Did he learn to tattoo in a studio, in a basement, or in jail?

If your artist is covered in tattoos,

Is that the life long choice he has chosen for you?

These are the questions you should ask:

1:What is your goal for yourself?

2:What will your family think of your decision to mark your body, and how will they look at you forever after?

3:If you are going to follow a carrier path and stay in school, will your tattoos be a stumbling block to your education goals?

4:What type of respect will your community, spouse, and children give you in the future if you take tattooing to extreme today?

5:How will your tattoos, make you feel about you?

Anything done to extreme is seldom cherished later.  Extreme tattooing is like walking off a cliff, there is no turning back.  What seems like a good idea at 18, may seem quite different at 23 when you are struggling to find a better job, or putting out apps for grad school

Before you make the choice to let anyone tattoo you, come in and talk to Gary about your ideas.  He will tell it to you straight, and try to help you as best he can

Remember, in this life, you only get one set of skin

This girl went into a tattoo studio, met up with this moron and walked out

unable to get a job, or go to school almost anywhere.  You think Wal-Mart would give her a job?

The best job this girl can ever hope to get is working along side the one that changed her life forever

Not saying that would be bad.  Maybe that is her calling, but her options in life went from almost anything to very little

Think before you collect ink!

Gary has friends with full body coverage, and none of them would do it again,

if they could redo the choices they made years ago

You control your own life with small tattoos

Big tattoos control your life!

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