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Life Lessons with Martin Pemberton

I have been tattooing Martin for a few years, since the days I was in Leeds. Martin is an ex football player, he was a defender, here are some of the teams he passed through his career. 

Career highlights

Oldham Athletic (1994–1997)

Doncaster Rovers (1997–1998)

Mansfield Town (2000–2002)

Stockport County (2002–2005)

Farsley Celtic (2005–2007)

He also played for Scunthorpe United, Hartlepool United and Rochdale. 

After his football career, Martin Pemberton, started his new journey with motivational speaking, and coaching footballers. He’s a teacher, and he is a good person to spend time with, his positivity and wisdom makes our tattoo sessions very special. Our conversations are quite deep and inspiring, so that’s why I have chosen to share with everyone our last session we had. 

Martin wisdom about life inspires me. I remember when I first met him, it was in my first studio I had in Leeds. I think we were only doing him a small tattoo, however, when the tattoo was finished I had a feeling that I wanted to see him again, he was very inspirational and motivational. Our conversations can go on for hours, and I feel like I can speak to him about anything, maybe because we are both open minded. The freedom I feel when I speak to him is the reason why our conversations can be interesting, as there’s no limits with what we could talk or discuss. 

We have a very healthy discussion where sometimes, we could have the opposite conclusion to a subject, however, we can consider both sides of what we are trying to discuss about, and have a good lesson with each others point of view. 

I hope you enjoy this video where I’m tattooing Martin, and free handing a tree on his forearm, I’m doing a cover up tattoo for him. He requested to cover up an old symbol he had, and when he requested a tree I was happy to accept his request as trees are really good for cover-ups, based on texture. Any images with texture helps with a cover-up, including dragon scales, snake scales, nature textures, all those ideas are really good for cover up tattoos. 

Thank you Martin, sometimes when you meet some people, you think the universe brought you together for a reason, and if I could pick one reason why I met Martin, it would be based on the wisdom he passes over to me, when I see him, I feel like he’s my old time brother from a past life, who I was waiting to meet in this life.

I’m going to share more clients experiences on this website, i have some amazing experiences with my clients, some of them do become friends, and i almost feel like they crossed my path for a reason. Everyone will cross your path for a reason, and all of them will teach you a lesson.

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In this blog I would like to guide you on how to find the best tattoo studio in Bury, Greater Manchester. 

It must be overwhelming to choose the right tattoo studio for you. Tattoo Artist’s nowadays go out of their comfort zone to let you know how good they are rating their own work. Any tattoo artist with any respect for their clients would come to the profound realisation that, the client has the right to choose where they want to go. 

So if you encounter a tattoo studio rating their own work, you know that is a clear red flag. A tattoo artists role in the tattoo industry is to study art, study tattooing, focus on their clients, give the best tattoo they can, post their tattoo online and if someone resonates with it, that’s how you succeed. The client or tattoo fans, are the one’s who rate with their own perception and taste, with tattoos they appreciate it or not. 

The best tattoos I have done it’s been on clients who I have felt most comfortable with, so I do believe that having a good connection with your client helps a lot. I know you mite be thinking, but how do I find out if I have a connection with a tattoo artist or not? Have a consultation with them, even nowadays tattoo artists do a lot of videos speaking online, and you can get the vibe if they are calm, hyper, chilled, talkative. If you find a tattoo artist who does the style you are looking for, and you have a connection with them you will have the best experience ever. 

So it’s possible for you to have the best experience ever with a Tattoo Artist, however there are some tips to be followed, and that’s what I’m going to bring you in this blog with my 20 years experience. 

 I’m sure if you search online for a tattoo artist who specialises at the style you are looking for, you will find a few online, and you will probably resume your search in 3-5 different artists. So that’s when the decision start to arrive, and that’s when people considering getting a tattoo, starts to choose their artist by prices and location. 

And I believe prices and location are the reason why not everyone has got a good tattoo. Because if an artist is the closest to you, it doesn’t mean they are the right artist for you. Considering marking your body for a life time, would it not be better to travel to the artist who fits you best, independent of their location? Travelling for an hour to make sure your tattoo will be the best quality as possible and you will have the best experience as possible, I believe that’s worth the extra mile. 

And prices are another factor that separates, people who invest in their tattoo and body, and people who does not invest in their tattoos and body. And that is one main factor why, there are so many people requesting for their tattoos fixing or covering up. So choosing the right artist for you it is key. 

Good quality tattoo equipment costs a lot of money. So tattoo artists who care for the quality of what they are providing, will invest good money in their tattoo equipment.

I know having a great experience with your tattoo artist and getting a really good quality tattoo, is not easy to achieve. However, if you put aside how much your tattoo will cost, where your tattoo artist is located, and focus more on having a connection with your artist, in this case having a consultation, and travelling to the artist who will deliver the best quality tattoo for you, your chances of having a great experience will increase. 

In our studio at Odin’s Eye Tattoo we can offer a consultation with you, come and have a chill in the reception, we know you are coming when you make a consultation, we will have a chat and let’s see if we get good vibes from each other. We offer a private room for each client which it will increase client privacy and tattoo artists focus. 

We are Tattoo Artists,  we focus on art outside of tattooing to give you the best quality tattoo possible. 

Thank you so much for reading our blog. 

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Black and Grey Tattoo

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Hey everyone, thanks for looking at my tattoo blog, in this blog I would like to mention about the latest black and grey tattoos I have been up to, and also talk about black and grey tattoos in general, black and grey is a style that has been done a lot lately, it is the preferred style by most of tattoo collectors nowadays. 

I was approached by Mark for a thigh black and grey tattoo. He loves heavy metal, so he wanted the album cover of the Slipknot album “lowa” on the front of his thigh, the lowa album was released in 2001, so the art work of the album is a little dated in my eyes, but I was glad when Mark was open minded to listen to me, and allow me to re-design the Slipknot classic second album. So I designed to album for him, and he was happy with the end result. The front of his leg, the Slipknot part, was done in 2 sessions, working with Mark on the first session I was really happy as he was so patient and chilled, so I knew it was going to be a success. A successful tattoo also comes with a lot of patience and having a good attitude when getting tattooed. 

After we finished the Slipknot front of his thigh, his second request also brought a smile to my face, which it was, a Five Finger Death Punch album cover or logo, I believe it was a logo more than an album cover. Craig was sure to request that around the skull logo design, he wanted all bio-mechanical, I knew it was gonna be fun, as soon as he mentioned that, as I love to free-hand bio-mechanical on the human body, you can make it look like the client was already born with the tattoo on their body, following the human body shape. 

Studying Victor Portugal’s work, which I’m a fan of his work. I was able to free hand that bio-mechanical around my clients thigh tattoo. Studying textures really help when you are about to tattoo objects that requires texture, and as we know most objects contain textures, we can not see texture in every image we see, or use for tattoos, however, most objects when observed in real life from close they do have texture. So when approaching a black and grey tattoo, it is important to understand texture. 

Me and Mark had a similar music taste, so during our tattoo sessions, we were introducing new bands to each other. That is one thing that is so positive about tattooing someone, is that you always end up learning something with your client, and music ends up being one subject talked about in tattoo sessions, as I’m a big fan of music, when clients requests music related tattoos, the topic of the conversations in the tattoo sessions is music. 

Black and grey tattoos are very peaceful to do, as a Tattoo Artist, it is less stressful than colour tattoos, and it does flow a lot more natural in a tattoo session. So tattooing Mark, he was so calm and the session was very peaceful. Mark’s tattoo healed really well, he had good skin for tattoos, and he followed the aftercare for his tattoo.

Nowadays we see a lot more black and grey artists, and a lot of good ones as well, so many that sometimes I forget about those classic guys who first inspired me, however, as soon as the love for black and grey tattoos does not die out, I will have the passion to learn and study black and grey tattoos, as it’s infinite to enter a journey about shading and to really learn how the shadow falls in the object, it requires a lot of study and interest in the subject, however, only the passionate ones, will sacrifice their free time in order to learn something new, or what they are passionate about. 

I believe black and grey tattoos are always going to be a part of Tattooing, however black and grey tattoos may evolve. And hopefully i will have more amazing client’s like Mark to express my black and grey tattoos.

Fine Line Tattoos

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Fine Line Tattoo

Fine line tattoos, are the new and favourite tattoo style most asked and admired nowadays, therefore, we would need a full blog on that subject, not only to explore about this new tattoo style that has taken the internet by storm, but also find out the truth behind fine line Tattoos. 

The Tattoo world is like a wave it’s always going up and down in styles and what people ask for. Back in the day realism was the style that everyone was asking for, however there was a big debate about longevity in realism, and that is the same discussion that we have with fine line tattoos. 

Fine line tattoos are temporary- A lot of tattoo artists are doing fine line tattoos, and i doubt they will last more than 10 years.

Why will they age not well? They will not be in the skin, as the lines are so thin, it will disappear over the years, in tattooing, contrast is so important, and so is a solid line, strong edges. I know you mite be listening to this and think, but I want a fine line tattoos, I would say, you have the right to have a fine line tattoo, however, you will have a temporary tattoo. 

Don’t get me wrong, I understand why people get fine line tattoos, as it does looks nice, it looks very delicate and subtle. And that’s why so many people get them, because people buy what they see, and with online platforms like TikTok nowadays, it’s so easy to start a TikTok trend, and make tattoos look good online that looks nothing what it looks on skin. 

Is it worth it getting a fine line tattoo? If you really really want it, I would completely understand, however, please consider that in 10 years, the fine line tattoo will fade a lot, so you will have to cover it up with something more solid in the future, re-work the same tattoo with a solid line, or laser the tattoo off which it would be a quiet painful experience best to be avoided. 

We get a lot of requests on fine line tattoos, and we try to guide the client as much as possible, so they are getting a solid tattoo for the future, and not something that will be gone eventually, so we try to be honest with our clients, so they know the truth of what they are considering getting.

If you have any questions about fine line tattoos, we are happy to answer.

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Cover-up Tattoos

Hello everyone, thanks for reading my blog, in this blog I would like to focus on cover-up Tattoos. Cover-up Tattoos is a type of work that I have been dealing with since the beginning of my career, and the more experience I get on in covering up a tattoo, the more I realise I can never stop learning. So lets dive in deep in to everything you need to know about getting your tattoos covered up.

I do enjoy doing cover-up tattoos, and that’s only because I like the challenge, however with my experience over the years, i have learned that i have to approach a cover up tattoo, with a lot of planning. So in order to achieve a successful cover up, I’m happy to share with you some key elements and principles on how to approach a cover up tattoo.

One important foundation for a successful cover up tattoo, is the balance between dark and light. Where the tattoo that needs covering is placed, that’s is where your dark is going to be, so now in order  to make a successful cover up tattoo, you must make sure the light is the same amount or more than the dark area. It has to be at least 50% dark and 50% light. Or even 50% dark and 60% light.

If your cover-up tattoo is 60% dark and 40% light, you will not achieve a successful cover-up tattoo. So as you can see, the light area has to be greater than the dark area.

Cover-up Tattoos require a lot of patience from both tattoo artist and customer or tattoo collector.

I make a decision if I should take a cover-up tattoo job on or not based on the client’s patience. Cover-up tattoos are challenging, and it requires a lot of time spent on it, if a client requests a cover-up tattoo, and they do not seem patient or willing to put the time necessary to achieve the cover-up, I prefer not to take the job on. The client has to understand that, taking on a cover-up Tattoo, it means, having to put more time than necessary than a normal tattoo, so in order to take on a cover up tattoo challenge, you as an artist have to evaluate if its worth giving all this extra time and effort, therefore as an artist you have to be honest to yourself and make the decision, so going ahead with someone patient it really helps.

If you are looking for a cover-up tattoo, you must realise that, the tattoo artist has to make a decision if it is worth or not, to take on the job, based on how dark your tattoo is, based on your patience, and if you are willing to spend time and money on it. It is important to mention also that cover-up tattoos are more expensive than a tattoo that is not a cover-up. A tattoo that is not a cover-up or fresh skin, the process is a lot more simple than a cover up process. So the patience required is a lot greater.

See a cover-up tattoo, like painting a black wall white, you know it will need a few coats, in order to achieve the white wall, a cover-up tattoo is a similar process to that. Of course to paint a black wall white, it would take around 3 coats for instance, as you are going from extremely dark to extremely white. However, if you are painting a Grey wall to white it will not take as many coats to complete, as if you were painting from black to white. So a cover-up process works similar to this, it depends on how dark the tattoo is, it will dictate how long the cover-up will take to complete.

So if you are looking for a cover-up tattoo, there’s a lot to consider, you definitely need a consultation with your preferred artist, an a lot and a lot of planning, patience and time spent.

If you are looking for a cover-up or re-work tattoo, I’m happy to help, of course a consultation would really help, so if you get in touch with me on what’s app, just click the what’s app link on my web site and I’m happy to help, thank you.

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Hand Tattoos

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Hand Tattoos

Hello everyone, and welcome to Louis Santos Tattoo. Winter is coming and it is time for me to get my pencils and painting brushes ready, as I love to paint and draw in winter time, its my pleasure to stay in and enjoy my art.

In this blog, I would like to talk about hand tattoos. Hand Tattoos for sure it deserves a entire blog focus on the subject.

Hand Tattoos, in my point of view, is the hardest area of the body to Tattoo. If you ask a majority of Tattoo Artists, which is the part of the body that is the hardest to tattoo, they say hands. Tattooing hands, it was the part of the body where it took me longer to learn to Tattoo, why is that? Because when you tattoo a hand is really easy for the ink to fall off. Why is it easy to fall off? Because you can not ask your client not to move his or her hand after the tattoo session.

One thing I have learned about tattooing the hands, is that, it does not matter, how good the Tattoo Artist is, it is more likely the tattoo is going to need touching up. Everyone works in different conditions, some people work with their hands, so it is more likely to affect the healing process. Is it possible to do a hand Tattoo without needing touch up after, yes it is, I have done some hand tattoos where it went in first time, however, to be on safe side, as soon as I book a hand tattoo, I make sure the second session is also booked, to ensure I get the opportunity to do a second pass.

There are 30 small muscles located directly inside the palm and the base of the hand. Not all muscles in the hands are located between the bones. Some muscles are based in the palm, but the area that gets tattooed, it doesn’t have many muscles, so maybe that’s why tattooing hands it doesn’t feel the same as other areas in the human body, and it is so challenging to tattoo.

So if you are considering getting your hand tattooed, please bear in mind, the patience you will need to achieve a successful hand tattoo, and your Tattoo Artist in Bury, could have 5, 10, 15, 20 years experience, and it is more likely that you will need your hand tattoo touched up.

As Tattoo Artists we can not predict in which condition the client will be in once they leave the Tattoo studio. If you get tattooed in your hand, and you work in a building site, or you work with food, or surrounded by hot temperatures it is more likely that your hand tattoo will need touching up. And we are happy to provide your tattoo touch up, after you have paid for your tattoo, we are happy to offer a free touch up session, as I’m about the end result, what it matters is what the tattoo will look like after healed.

 

Thank you for reading my blog, until the next one.  

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Black and Grey Tattoos in Bury

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Black and Grey Tattoo in Bury

Hello everyone, thanks for visiting my blog. The summer is over; we had a quiet, hot summer, which slowed my paintings and drawings a bit, as when it is a hot day, all you want to do is rest, the energy level decreases a bit, but as winter is approaching, I will have extra energy to focus on my art after I finish my main job is tattooing. I have been enjoying tattooing and drawing Mythology a lot, however, lately I have got the opportunity to do some really nice black and grey tattoos in Bury, so in this blog I would like to talk about 2 Black and Grey tattoos, I was grateful I got the opportunity to do it, and I really enjoy working on a horror portrait tattoo of chucky of the movie Child’s play, and a surrealism black and grey skull tattoo.

Lets start with the Horror Tattoo piece. I love doing tattoo portraits, I have drawn a lot of faces out of love throughout my career, and drawing faces, it really contributes and enhance the knowledge of tattooing a portrait. I’m not a big fan of horror movies, however, I do like Child’s Play, I remember watching the first one when I was a kid in Brazil, and the story behind is quiet spiritual.

This chucky tattoo, was done in one session, it took around 4 hours, I always ask my clients to come back after doing a realistic tattoo as you never know how its going to heal, realistic tattoos requires a lot of layers, and you have to slowly build up the skin, the skin has a limit, and you try to take it up to the limit, once you take it to the limit is time to stop. It is almost like dealing with a wet paint, you have to wait until it dries, with a tattoo you have to wait until it heals, doing too much tattooing in one area is not recommended, wait until it heals and come back when its healed, it is safer for the client.

Portrait Tattoos also requires a lot of skill in drawing the human face, not so much with a chucky Portrait, as its such a recognisable face, so it’s a little less pressure than tattooing a full on Portrait of someone’s parent.

Hopefully, I will see this chucky tattoo healed, and be able to go back to it, if I get the opportunity to.

The second black and grey Tattoo I worked on, he was limited with a budget, however, because it was such a cool piece, I tried to help him out, I always try to give more to my client than what they spend, that is in order to make the tattoo the best it can be, I believe if you want to do the best tattoo as possible you have to spend more time than a tattoo artist would spend naturally. Usually Tattoo Artist’s charge exactly  by the hour, I do charge by the hour as well, however, when the tattoo is all done and paid for, and I still can see improve on the tattoo I will spend the extra time necessary to make sure the tattoo reaches its full potential.

When I did this black and grey skull Tattoo in Bury, I studied a little,to be able to deliver something a little more custom. People still want custom tattoos, and it is the way I still approach my work, being able to give something unique to my client, is still one of the benefits my clients can have when getting tattooed by me, as I draw a lot, it also helps with the ability to give something unique to my clients.

The skull tattoo was done in 3 hours, and i was happy with the time i spent on it, it was his first tattoo and he was great.

Thank you for reading my blog.

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Best Tattoos in Bury

 

Getting tattooed in Bury can be quiet a decision making journey, sometimes you know what you want to get tattooed, however, you have to decide where to go to, which studio to choose. This is a very important decision to make, as every studio has a completely different way of thinking and operating as a business, so in this blog I would like to guide you, in order to find the best Tattoos in Bury for you, and also what are the advantages of getting Tattooed at Odin’s Eye Tattoo Collective.

 

Bury is a town with rich industrial heritage, and vibrant modern culture. Bury has evolved in to a significant town for Tattoo artistry in Greater Manchester.

 

In my beginning in 2006, I started tattooing in Bury, back then there was only 2-3 shops in Bury, the shop I worked it was the one to go to back in the day, however I knew Bury back then it wasn’t very advanced in Tattooing, I used to go to Tattoo conventions and notice that, other artist’s were better than us, however the guys I worked with would never admit that.

 

So I decided to move to Leeds, in order to learn, and I was glad I did it, as it was the first time I worked with real artist’s, guys who would finish a day session Tattooing and go drawing or paint at night, that was a moment in my life where I literally lived for art, you kind of get in your safe pleasure bubble, and that’s all you know, or want to know. I had a great experience working with artist’s, but then times changed, and I opened my own studio.

 

I really enjoyed opening my own studio, it was more chilled as I wasn’t working for somebody else  anymore, I was private as well, so people would message me through Google. So before approaching me they already searched about me.

 

After 13 years, I felt like my time in Leeds was over, and I decided to move back to Manchester where I started, I missed my Mum, and I missed my English home.

 

Coming back to Manchester, I tried to open a studio in Whitefield, but that was short lived, as the lease on the building was over, so I was walking in Bury, where I used to live, and I found Odin’s Eye Tattoo collective.

 

Odin’s Eye,  is owned by an old friend called “Sween” he has been tattooing longer than me, so he was the guy I looked up to. I spoke to him, and as he knew me from back in the day when I lived in Bury, so the transition was natural. I was really grateful I had a place to work, from someone who already knew who I was. Also meeting Tony, it made me really comfortable as he was very welcoming.

 

Bury was a quiet town, not much happening, the only thing we would look up to would be Sol Viva, the night club, where I used to loose myself before I started Tattooing. Coming back to Bury to be tattooing, it made me realise the number of tattooist’s and Tattoo Studios in Bury had increased a lot. So it was nothing what it used to be. However, I knew at Odin’s Eye, we would have the opportunity and potential to be on top.

 

When you have a lot of Tattoo Studio’s around you, you have to focus on what you can provide as a business, and we certainly consider that. Here are some advantages, of getting tattooed by us at Odin’s Eye Tattoo collective.

 

Every Client gets directed to the right artist for them. We have 3 artist’s more than capable to handle any tattooing style. So the client always wins.

Privacy when you get Tattooed. Each artist have their own private room, so you can have a one to one experience with your artist, so our focus is on you only.

WE give an honest advice on your idea, we wish the best for our clients, so we would rather turn away business than accepting to do something that will not work. Honesty is the best policy.

We serve the best coffee in town, if you make an appointment, don’t be shy to ask me for a coffee, I’m the barista, Tony is good as well, but he is always busy, so you can ask me, no problem.

We are multi award winning Tattoo Studio.

All 3 artists have been tattooing for 20 years plus. We all have more than 20 years experience each, so we have traditional tattooing values, that you can only build with experience.

You can feel the love when you come in the studio, we all get on well, and have each others back, that is quiet rare in a Tattoo studio. In my 20 years experience, that is the first studio I experienced working with other artist’s who are all for each other, every other studio I worked at, they were civil, however, deep down, they were all out for themselves, it was each to their own. And most tattoo studios you will walk in, they will make out they are a team, however, the truth behind it, it will be each to their own. It is just how it is.

 

Thank you for reading my blog, if you made it until the end. Come and get tattooed in Bury, we have the biggest arcade club in Europe, you will not be disappointed, until our next blog.