Why it's important to find a good tattoo artist

[Alex]

I take back what I said earlier.

There's a small pool of portrait tattooists that do absolutely amazing work. But they're rare and if you get one without seeing exemplars of similar work from the artist then you deserve what you get. Without a special talent, it is going to still be essentially gray line art and it'll end up looking like a Wall Street Journal caricature.

But yeah, I'm strictly a stylized or abstract person when it comes to tats. Human faces are particularly awkward since we're so attuned to them that any defect is glaringly apparent and as you age it is going to warp and fade anyway, just adding to it.