How much do you pay for tattoos?

Well where I go they don't charge by the hour....Or if they do they don't....say they do lol...

$75 is way to cheap though.

They just charge by the amount of detail...size....

The cheapest tattoo I have was $60, and it was a name it only took like 10 min.

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How much do you pay for tattoos?

Now, I have seen people answering questions saying they pay $75 or even $60 an hour for tattoo work, and I am having a super hard time figuring this out. I've never talked to a tattoo artist who charged less than $125 an hour!

I live in Georgia, and I'm not sure if it's because I go...

Mine was $89, took an hour, but mine was also a VERY simple design with only 3 colors. It also helped that I had already drawn it myself and presented them with a colored pencil drawing of how I wanted the finished piece to look. All they really had to do was make the stencil then do the piece. This was at a shop in Ann Arbor, MI, that closed when the owner moved to Chicago.

Some artists will charge according to the amount of work that goes into the piece. If it's simple, with few colors and no shading, you may not have to pay as much as you would for a piece with multiple colors and shading. Remember, you're also paying for the ink and the needles used.

If I had a very detailed piece with a lot of shading which required them to also sketch it out and color the sketch, I would have definitely paid well over $130 per hour.

My next piece, which will be more detailed and have way more color and shading, I'm having done by my friend's artist who owns the Skin Kitchen in Des Moines, IA. He's wickedly expensive, and DsM is a 600-mile drive from me, but I've seen his work (he's also inked most members of Slipknot) and it's amazing...well worth the travel and the cost when I go to get it done. I figure there's no such thing as "too expensive" or too far to travel if I want a tattoo that will look good since it'll be on me the rest of my life. It'll cost me around $1000 by the time it's finished but it'll be worth it.

ETA: this guy charges about $200 per hour and he's worth every cent from what I've seen on my friends who've had work by him.

So if you want a really amazing piece, Skin Kitchen for sure.

Timeless Tattoo Atlanta

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/RandomNothing...

This was done by Trevor at Falcon's Tattoo in Columbus, GA. I've never had anyone give me an actual "It's going to take this long so it will cost this much" figure...they always just charge me up front. I paid $200 for this tattoo (without tip) and it took almost two hours.

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/RandomNothing...

And this guy was done at Ivory Tower Tattoo in Statesboro, GA...he took about an hour and a half and I paid $125.

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/RandomNothing...

Was done by Falcon at Falcon's Tattoo in Columbus. (Says "imagine" at the bottom) Took no longer than 45 minutes and I paid $60...but I was a regular there.

Finally...

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/RandomNothing...

Brian Pittman at Dandyland Tattoo (moved away and no longer working there) in San Antonio, TX. He worked kinda slow and it took about 3 and a half hours and I paid $280.

Yes, cheap tattoos are not always great tattoos. However, I have gotten pieces that were exactly what I want for a pretty fair price. Just because a place doesn't charge a lot of money doesn't mean they are automatically a bad place.

Honestly, it seems like you created this just to bash on people. Do you not have anything better to do? The picture does the tattoo no justice because it is impossible to take a picture of your own back. However, because the original artwork is very simple I wanted it to look that way. No one likes someone who thinks they are superior to others simply because of the tattoos they have. It's not a very good quality in a person.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/mullen1200/...

I got that from Timeless Tattoos in Atlanta. On peachtree industrial I think? Wasnt the largest shop, but they had good people there, and some amazing portrait/face artists.

That tattoo cost me 250, and I gave him a 50 dollar tip I believe. It was more expensive then most, but they had a very good reputation, and I drove almost 2 hours to get there. Ryan Knight did my tattoo. I went there knowing it was going to be more expensive. Atlanta has a LOT of bad tattoo places (ink wizards, ,good clean fun), those are 2 I think of off the top of my head.

Good luck!

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You get what you pay for. I f you find someone cheap (50-100 an hour) make sure you see a lot of their work first. Not just the flash crap that hangs on the wall for any idiot that wanders in to choose from. Ask to see some original work.

That really depends on where you go. I had mine done, at Nikki's in Charlotte NC, and it was around an hour and I paid $100. The tattoo is 6x4 inches, with many colors. I do not know what her prices are now, but I was very happy with her work, and will go back when I want another one. Here is her site: http://www.nikkistattoostudio.com/

My husband had one done for $30, it took 45 minutes, but he had a friend that was making a portfolio and so they got them cheap. but I also think sometimes it depends on the design.

I'm curious too. I pay $100/hr (canadian) for my artist and it's a steal. It's pretty standard pricing here, but he's way better than your standard artist.

The only people I've ever met that charge less are tattooing out of their living rooms. *shudder*