Jo'burg Tattoo Artists...

[VinceThePrince]

For those of you that have been brave enough get your tat's done... and you stay in Gauteng...

Where did you go? Which artist did you see? What tat did you get?

I am seriously contemplating getting my first tat soon... but have no clue who to go to... so I need your help PCF'ers...

[Anthro]

Speak to DAE_JA_VOO, he's had some awesome tattoos done - he can go with and take some pics for the forum offcourse ;P

[VinceThePrince]

I'll see if I can drop him a PM a bit later... he lives on the West Rand... right?

[Stuart]

Pretoria

[VinceThePrince]

lol... Okay... so not quite the West Rand ... hehehehe

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Nope, he lives in Pretoria

Yeah man, I have spent a little time "under the needle", so to speak. I went "Tattoo artist shopping" for quite a while before I had my first tattoo done. I eventually narrowed it down to a girl in Cresta and a Guy here in Pretoria. I can't remember the girl's name, but she's pretty good. The guy I settled on is amazing though. His name is Tony and he's absolutely amazing at what he does. You'd have a hard time finding a bad line anywhere on my arms. He's what I've got:

My first piece was the name "Jesus" on my left forearm:




As you can see, the line work is absolutely perfect:





My second piece was my right arm. It's got a piece of scripture (1 John 4:12) spiraling down my arm from the very top, down to my wrist. it's also got "Love Conquers All" written on the inside of my forearm:






My right arm will be getting completely sleeved as well. It'll be filled with roses That's a long way off though. I don't have money for that now

I'm not going to lie - Tony's work is quite expensive, but at the same time, I'll tell you that his work is perfect. I probably could have done my tattoos for half of what I paid with another artist, but I wouldn't have had this kind of quality. These tattoos are so well done that I get other tattoo artists complementing the line work. Sleeving my arm, for example, is going to cost me more than 20K. That's for a sleeve with colour though. Colour is always more expensive. A greyscale sleeve is more along the lines of 12K.

Remember one thing, and remember this well:

Good tattoos aren't cheap, and cheap tattoos aren't good.

Don't decide on your tattoo based on PRICE. Price is absolutely irrelevant. If you don't have enough money to do what you want to do now, save up until you do. Don't do something that'll be cheaper.

Anyway, Tattoo Tony. He's on Pretorius Street. Let me know if you want me to come with you or something

EDIT: One last thing: Don't worry about the pain. It's not NEARLY as bad as you think it'll be

[VinceThePrince]

I agree... when it comes to getting tagged... you cannot put a price on it... His work does look seriously awesome!!!

Tell you what... if I can't find someone of similar/better quality closer to where am I (the VoesRand (West Rand)) then I will definitely go to him...

*edit*

PS: Thanks for the advice...

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Sure thing Good luck man

I'm actually really lucky - I stay about 10 minutes from Tony's studio

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Here's another photo of a tattoo he did. Found this on his FB page:

[VinceThePrince]

lol... DJV... looks like you only the only PCF'er in Jo'burg to have gotten a tattoo...

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Yeah, I don't think tattoos appeal to geeks like us, generally speaking, of course

[VinceThePrince]

Well... to be honest... the tat I want to get is not very geek related either... hehehehe...

Could you PM me Toni's number? or the link to his FB page? I wanna get in contact with him... looks like I may just be crossing the boerewors curtain for my first tattoo...

[DAE_JA_VOO]

LOL!!

I don't know his number but just search facebook for "Tattoo Tony Creations".

[VinceThePrince]

Okeeday... Thanks...

[Prime]

The tat place in Cresta did a friends tats and they also come highly recommended.