| Attention All Tattoo Enthusiasts... You have stumbled upon the BEST VALUE Tattoo site on the Internet - Why is it the Best Value? Because it is FREE!
From The Desk of: Colin Brennan aka "Smutly"
Date: 26th August 2009
My Friends,
I'm not going to waste a lot of your valuable time here trying to
persuade you to take advantage of this site. I have more respect for you than that. Once you view all of the options I've included, I'm
confident you will recognize the immense value of this site and recommend it to your friends.
Firstly, a little bit about myself...
Who is Smutly?
My name is Colin Brennan. I am a 50 year old chap with over 20 years experience in the tattoo field. While most of this time has been spent in the design side of the game, I did try my hand for 3 1/2 years. It's a lot harder than I thought, even with a background in design that made the mental work second nature it is a difficult art to master.
For what it is worth, here is my opinion on the tattoo business as it stands at the moment. While I wouldn't try to talk people out of tattooing as a trade, it is a form of art that needs to be shown respect. If you study under a qualified and competent artist, the whole process becomes second nature. You will also learn safe practices for sterilizing of equipment and sanitizing of work areas that don't really get enough attention in the training dvd's that get handed around like chocolate.
Whilst these people selling tattoo kits to the general public are quite entitled to, I believe that most kits are sold to people with little or NO sterilizing equipment or knowledge of correct sanitizing procedures. This lack of equipment and shortfall in sterilizing procedures will seriously damage the reputation of the tattoo industry in the coming years. To anyone out there thinking of buying a $300.00 kit and tattooing their mates, here is something they don't tell you. Suitable sterilizing equipment will cost you ten times your initial outlay for machines and colours. If you think you can get by with throw-away needles and tubes, without sanitizing the rest of your gear, you are sadly mistaken.
This is NOT the way to make a few bucks on the weekend.
What I propose instead, is that you design your own tattoos and take them to a competent tattooist to be installed. If you are good at it and enjoy the work, you can make a fair dollar by designing flash sheets and selling them to local shops. Have a talk to your tattooist while you're getting your next piece of art. You will be talking through the tattoo anyway, it may as well be a business proposal.
For more of my opinions, some tattoo humor, newsletters, coming events etc - Make your way to Smutly's Blog.
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Recommended Reading
"High Voltage Tattoo"
Kat Von D's Latest Book
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"This is the latest book by Kat Von D."
Most commonly known for her Television appearances on Miami Ink and L.A. Ink, Kat has an unmistakeable style and a pleasant attitude.
Kat has been on TV for only a few years but her tattooing goes back much further. This book shows all Kats own artwork and discusses some of them in depth.
The book also discusses her particular technique and gives some insight into her style of tattooing.
Recommended reading for the tattoo enthusiast and the budding artist.
If you love tattoos, you will treasure this book.
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Kat Von D has produced a few books, but this one is excellent - Grab a free extract from the book HERE! |
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Recommended Resource #1
"This site has been built by myself to showcase thousands of quality designs!"
That's right, thousands of free tattoo designs to download and print out for your own personal use.
Animals, Angels, Aliens, Bio-Mechanical, Cartoons, Clowns, Daggers, Dragons, Demons, Fantasy Warriors, Fairies, Flowers, Hearts, Japanese, Mermaids, Skulls, Religious, Zodiac and Many, Many More!
All Tattoos are sorted into over 90 different categories for easy browsing.
Simply select as many designs as you like and download them, print them and take them off to your favorite tattooist. They will generally recommend minor changes to make the design 'specialized' to suit you or, even better, make the changes yourself.
You don't need to rework the design completely, just make enough alterations so as to have a 'unique' tattoo. ( There is no worse feeling than proudly displaying your new tattoo to somebody, only to find out that they have an identical piece. )
If you think that is a difficult thing to master, let me help you even more. Download MY EBOOK ( also FREE ) and you will find the whole process laid out in detailed, easy to follow, steps. Templates for these steps are below.
Templates For Men
Templates For Women
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Tattoo-Choice.com will be updated monthly, so do yourself a favor and bookmark it! |
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Recommended Resource #2
Make sure your Kanji tattoo design says what you want it to say... A beautiful looking Kanji Tattoo is worthless, or even embarrassing, if it actually translates into "Fish and Chips"!
If you are looking for a reliable Japanese Kanji translation service provider who can convert your name, or your favorite words or phrases for your tattoo designs into Japanese Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana, you need to contact this crew, because they are the experts.
They are the oldest, and one of the best-known, service providers in this business and they have been online
since 2005.
There is no under-stating the importance of having a reliable source of translation for these Japanese / Kanji style tattoos - It MUST mean exactly what you want it to mean!
With so many variations in the Japanese language it is quite easy to make a minor error in the linework and end up with an entirely different meaning. Only use an expert in the field when designing these Kanji pieces. This company guarantees your translation to be 100% accurate and free from defects of any kind.
What they can do for you:
Convert your name into Japanese Kanji, Hiragana, and/or
Katakana symbols, and create its image file (jpeg or png) for
your tattoo designs.
Convert your favorite words or phrases into Japanese
Kanji, Hiragana, and/or Katakana symbols, and create its image file
(jpeg or png) for your tattoo
designs.
They offer 40 different kinds of font style that you can choose from. They recognize that creative people are much more interested in the shape of the Kanji symbols that they are going to use for their tattoo designs. That is why they have such a wide variety of font styles to meet the needs of those creative people. You may be surprised by how many Japanese font types they can provide. They are confident that there is no other place where such customer-oriented service at this level is offered.
**As an affiliate of this service, I do receive a small commission when you use this service.
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Go to "Your Name in Japanese" |
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Recommended Resource #3
"These days your tattoo options are almost unlimited and sometimes too much information can be a tough thing to wade through. So here is a smart solution - try a temporary tattoo first."
This solution is probably best suited for the ladies but not without merit for the guys out there who are struggling to make a decision on a first tattoo. With the latest technology creeping into temporary tattoos the end product is nothing short of outstanding. High quality tattoo designs that look like the real thing and stay in place for days and days. Easily removed with the correct process, you can have them for as long or as short a time as suits your needs.
The claims made by the Temporary Tattoo Factory are fact - they won't wash off, my grandchildren have had some temporary tattoos on for more than a week and they sure do play rough. The temporary tattoos, with today's technology, do look and feel like the real thing. And if your temporary tattoo needs to come off in a hurry it can be done safely inside 2 minutes. What more could you ask for.
Try a few different styles on different parts of your body and see what really works for you.
**As an affiliate of this service, I will receive a small commission when you purchase through this link.
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Go there now - TEMPORARY TATTOO FACTORY - U.S.**
Or - TEMPORARY TATTOOS - AUST. for Australian Residents. |
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Recommended Resource #4
"Tattoo Golf"
No Tattoos Here - Just Damn Fine Shirts and Stuff!
"Whether You Play Golf or Not, These Are Some of The Coolest Shirts, Caps, Towels, etc, That You Will Ever Find - And Some Great Prices Too!"
If you are a golfer, this is the place to get all your Golfing Accessories like Divot Tools Club Head Covers Balls Tees Towels Caps And Much More!
If you are not a golfer, go and have a look anyway - these are some of the coolest shirts you will find. Most are Micro-fibre and all are high quality without the high pricetag. All products have the 'Tattoo Golf'** logo or similar wicked skull designs.
**As an affiliate for Tattoo Golf, I will receive a commission if you purchase through this link.
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8/10 Range of Products | 9/10 Prices |
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Recommended Resource #5
"Mr. Blonde Clothing"
Excellent 'Vintage Style' Clothing!
"Mr Blonde is the love child of Jessie Dinan & Adrian Bruinhout, and together they make up the independent Australian clothing label."
With Jessie finishing her degree of visual arts, concentrating on printmaking, she opened her own store running it for two years before relocating to sunny Queensland. She then met up with like minded individual Adrian, who was finishing his schooling in Information Technology focusing on web design, animation, film and TV. They then decided to collaborate and turn their love of art and design into a career.
So 2005 gave birth to Mr Blonde: setting out to create a clothing label to reflect people's individual personal style, while striving to bring art back to the humble tee with a creative edge and fun artistic imagery.
Mr Blonde is inspired by the love of old movie stars, vintage, 50s pin ups, tattoos, music, art, photography, portraits and experimenting with many mediums including drawing and collage. These play an integral part in piecing together the designs. We aim to give our loyal customers garments they will love and enjoy wearing for years to come, printed on soft quality garments that are pleasurable to wear that cater for men women and toddlers.
**As an affiliate for Mr.Blonde, I will receive a commission if you purchase through this link.
 Mr Blonde Clothing is an 100% Australian label providing funky original t-shirts and singlets with rockstar appeal.
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6/10 Range of Products | 8/10 Prices |
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Recommended Resources #6
"Without a doubt, the Largest Collection of Tattoo Flash ANYWHERE!"
At last count there were over 30,000
tattoo designs on this site.
All images are in Zip files so it is impossible to view before you download, but what a huge collection. Choose the category you are interested in and
simply download the whole set! Join their mailing list and you will be contacted every 45 days with updates to their site. GO THERE NOW.
Highly Recommended!
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9/10 Range of Designs | 9/10 Price |
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Recommended Resource #7
"Tattoo Fever"
One of the Highest Rated Tattoo Membership Sites on the Net Today!
"Start with over 10,000 Tattoo Designs!"
And that is only the very beginning of the beauty of this site.
All designs are professionally drawn, high quality images.
But...
Bonuses start with Tribal Tattoos - Worth $27.00 Tattoos Unlimited - Worth $9.95 Got Ink? - Worth $19.95 Chinese Names - Worth $9.95 Art of Tattoo - Worth $27.00 And Recently Added - Dragon Fever - Worth $24.99
Professionally designed flash and tons of Bonuses
is what you can expect from Tattoo Fever.
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8/10 Range of Designs | 9/10 Value for Money |
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Recommended Resource #8
"This truly is the Tattoo Enthusiast's Site With Something For Everyone!"
Have you been looking for a site to submit your own tattoo photo's to?
Would you like to then be able to go to a forum on the same site and get feedback on what other enthusiasts think of your artwork? Would you like access to videos of tattoos being done, tattoo shows and stuff?
Then this is the site for you -
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site includes a fairly small number of tattoo designs ( approximately 3,500 at last count ) but has so many other features including:-
The Members Gallery The Studio Directory The Discussion Forum The Video Vault Tattoo Events Tattoo News Tattoo Articles
Go To Tattoo Me Now.
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8/10 Range of Options | 8/10 Price |
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Recommended Resource #9
"Chopper Tattoo offers a moderate range of tattoo designs in an easy search format. "
All designs are sorted into categories for easy search, download or print out.
Well worth a look if you are interested in a tattoo site membership.
It offers three membership plans to choose from according to your need:
1 Month - $19.95 2 Months - $24.95 Lifetime - $34
The site also offers some bonuses; you can play games and download your favorite music while searching for a tattoo. Go To 'Chopper Tattoo'.
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7/10 Range of Designs | 7/10 Prices |
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Recommended Resource #10
"TattooMyBrain"
More Outstanding Tattoos to Explore!
"With approximately 6,000 designs in 30 categories, 'Tattoo My Brain' should keep you busy for a few hours!"
Various styles and categories like:- Arm Bands Dragons Zodiac Angels Tribal Bio-Mechanical And Much More!
Want to know more? Go To 'Tattoo My Brain' now.
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7/10 Range of Designs | 6/10 Prices |
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Recommended Resource #11
"Target Tattoo also has a forum and Many articles on tattoo meanings, tattoo removal, tattoo fonts, etc - and some ebooks ."
Thousands of tattoo designs. These are just some of the categories:- Arm Bands Animals Angels Americana Bio-Mech Cartoon And Much More!
Take a look at "Target Tattoo".
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6/10 Range of Designs | 7/10 Prices |
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Recommended Resource #12
"Do Tattoos"
Tattooing - Instructional Ebooks!
Are you learning how to become a tattoo artist? Do you know everything that is needed to get up and running with your tattooing? Do you want to be a tattoo artist so bad you can taste it? Tattoos are in big demand at this time and only growing bigger with popularity. Discover how to become a tattoo artist and learn from a pro with... "Aspiring Tattoo Artist Guide."
Discover trade secrets and tips it takes to know how to be the best tattoo artist in your area. For instance how to do proper shading, what inks to look for, what kind of needles you should use and much more. This guide is an interview with a top professional tattoo artist that reveals some of the most common questions asked from aspiring tattoo artists.
With this guide you'll discover how... To be the best tattoo artist in your area. Give you the confidence you need to start on your own. Make a name for yourself in your area. To make good money being a kick-ass tattoo artist. Being happier in your life and content with being a tattoo artist. And Much More!
A Little Disclaimer Here. I do NOT encourage learning to tattoo this way! The correct procedure for training is to serve an apprenticeship under a competent artist! However, seeing as how many of you already have machines and colors, I feel obliged to supply some sort of training information. While I will NOT recommend a site where you can purchase tattoo equipment, if you already have the gear and no knowledge of what to do next, you could do a lot worse than this book. It will give you a start on the basics of cleanliness and technique. Go to 'Do Tattoos'.
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8/10 Quality of Information | 8/10 Price |
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Please Note!!!
To keep both AussieSmutly.com and Tattoo-Choice.com free, I am now accepting donations.
Yes Colin, I appreciate the effort you have put in to provide these 2 outstanding FREE tattoo resource sites and would like to make a donation!
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Don't forget to tell your friends about this excellent tattoo resource site!
Thank You for visiting AussieSmutly.com.
Colin Brennan
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