#and ive been talking to a dif friend who is umm not an apprentice or tattooer yet <3 but is self taught... about doin smth

[mistergoddess]

omg just remembered the highlight of my work day was seeing a BEAUTIFUL trad cuff tattoo and gushing about it and asking her who did it and her citing a local artist 🥺🥺🥺 ummm im not gonna run out and hit him up bc i need to budget and don't have much time left here for booking but WAOOOWWWW so exciting to see in person and know that there's a local artist who has done them... a trad cuff is rly like my current tattoo holy grail which idk is maybe a lil stupid and overdramatic but we don't have that many tough ass trad artists here and even for a trad artist who mainly does more conventional compositions i think it's gotta be a hard one to pull off, doing super super clean bold straight symmetrical matched up lines on such a weird small bendy wrapped body part, and it's super visible and probably a bitch to heal so i don't imagine people ask for them a lot therefore artists don't get to do them a lot... so i've always known that if i want one i gotta do my research and find someone who knows wtf they're doing and is confident with it. So idk it was just exciting as fuck to see one by a local artist i was like oh my gggggoooooddddddd freaking out and she was super sweet about it waaah