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Best Tattoo parlour in Dublin.

  • 30-07-2004 9:24pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭


    Ive been thinking of getting a tattoo for years now and this year is the time, i want to know where is the best place to get it done in Dublin, I hear Zulu tattoo in temple bar is one of the best, Dragon tattoo is good too i heard can anyone back that up or tell me any other good ones. tell me Bad ones as well and why they are bad!!!

    Cheers


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  • Registered Users Posts: 519 ✭✭✭ThenComesDudley


    just one question i wanna kno where in dublin does tats thats isnt visable to people passing by or other customers?. like in a room or summit like that. i kno they used to in ms. fantasia's but he's gone now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭Trip Hazard


    Zulu in temple bar is private i think, there is a place on dorset st and they tattoo you right at the window i passed by many times to see people getting tattooed. you dont want everyone to see your PAIN!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭coldenmean


    snakebite are doin tattooin upstairs... Debs and Alice, and i like their work.. sure go up and have a look.. and i dont think you can get any more hidden away from the public as snakebite! :cool:


  • Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭Trip Hazard


    I started this tread not to find a tattoo parlour with privicy but to find the one with the best reputation. can anyone back up that Zulu is the best or tell me any others.
    Thanks


  • Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭coldenmean


    ok in my opinion.... the bast tattoo parlour is the one were you find a tattooist that likes doin the stuff you want done... as for cleanliness, so long as you stick to any of the main ones you should be fine... everywhere has good and bad word... that goes for dentists to piercers... we all have our opinions... just so long as you go to one that is at least well known and dont be afraid to look around when you go in to talk about it... although i seriously doubt anywhere in dublin city that gets any kind of decent business is unclean and doesnt clave their stuff....
    imo....
    i havent heard any bad news bout dragon, celestial, zulu, or snakebite....
    hope that helps a lil....?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭Trip Hazard


    yeah thats the sort of thing i wanted to hear, thanks, anyone else... Keep 'em coming.


  • Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭de_shadow


    I've had both of my tattoos done in dragon ,very clean and they make sure your getting exactly what you want. my brother had his done in both dragon and zulu and says zulu is the better of the 2.

    hope this helps.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭LilyMon


    Can someone tell me where Dragon tattoo studio is located exactly?
    Thanks


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,828 ✭✭✭ven0m


    LilyMon wrote:
    Can someone tell me where Dragon tattoo studio is located exactly?
    Thanks

    Without sounding like a div, if u're willing to travel to Bray go to 'Atattooed' & see either Paul or Badger.... they've done a ton of work on me, my mates & my brothers. Highly recommended in my books..


    ::: ven0mous :::


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Kalikat


    Zulu is probably one of the best in town, but Dublin Art Tattoo (used to be Karen Russell's Sacred Art) in temple Bar is very good for black-work and Polynesian. It really all depends on what kind of work you want done!

    For my money, nobody in Dublin does good nu-school stuff, so I'm waiting to go elsewhere. If I had my way I'd get stuff done by Grime in San Francisco. ;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭coldenmean


    lilymon... dragon is situated on talbot st... i think its pretty much opposite irish life mall.... or a bit before it on your left if your comin from o connell st... have fun...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭LilyMon


    Thanks for the replies, guys. No excuse now. Will hopefully have my tattoo by next week..... :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭Blub2k4


    I am having one done by Debbie at the moment in Snakebite and can only recommend the studio and the artist, I get all my piercings done there too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 574 ✭✭✭Silent Grape


    id also reccommend Attatoed in Bray, i have tattooes done by both Paul and Badger, and they're both really good, and really personable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭LilyMon


    I know this is a somewhat dead thread now, but I just wanted to add that I ended up getting a tattoo done in Zulu tattoo in temple bar.

    They were very friendly and very clean and I am delighted with the results. It healed without much scabbing at all.

    I have no other tattoo studio to compare them to as it is my first tattoo, but if I ever want another (I've heard it gets addictive) I will go there again.

    Lilymon


  • Registered Users Posts: 596 ✭✭✭fi


    I had my first one done in Bray dont remember teh name and it was ace, really well done and in a private room.

    now got all my others done in the dragon by Brendan, now he moved premisis and now it is upstairs in a lovey room where losts of ppl are getting thier tattoos done together but like in private cubicals.

    the dragon are also very good at changing a tattoo u already have.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9 rmonteux


    Ive made one with sean of zulu tattoo when he was at miss fantasia, top class alright. Made one with robbie of c red tattoos as well at the dublin convention few weeks back, fantastic work to be honest! Looking to make a couple new ones next week, what are the prices likes this days in places like say zulu, snakebite and dragon ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭Blub2k4


    rmonteux wrote:
    Ive made one with sean of zulu tattoo when he was at miss fantasia, top class alright. Made one with robbie of c red tattoos as well at the dublin convention few weeks back, fantastic work to be honest! Looking to make a couple new ones next week, what are the prices likes this days in places like say zulu, snakebite and dragon ?

    Zulu tends to be 80 an hour until you start to get some serious work done then it almost halves in price, but if you get a lot of work done any artist should be the same and give you appropriate discounts after a bit.
    Debby in Snakebite used to charge 100 an hour and Art tattoo charge 100 an hour, so really between 80-100, most important thing with tattoos is not to pick a place because they are cheapest, good tattoos are not cheap, <edit> and I forgot to add, cheap tattoos are generally not good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9 rmonteux


    Has anyone heard of an artist called Maeve on celestial ring/upper abbey st, any good ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 porra


    I can personally say Zulu tattoo is 1 of the best, so many famous ppl get done up there. I know Sean and Gavin very well, friends 4rm back home in South Africa and Gavin did my 1st eva tattoo and they r the only guys i will let ink me. Very talented


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭Fantasy_Suicide


    Well I've had all mine done in celestial. Two best ones are done by mark. I'm told yani is amazing as is john down in abbey. I've seen colour work done by him and I was well impressed. Check them out. Plus you're not inked in a window!! The green has been renovated too, so it's all pretty and stuff. not that it matters at all.
    :) I'm a chick. I like pretty things!! Ya can see an example of the ink mark did in the show me yours thread... excellent detail!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 keelzer


    i'm a zulu girl all the way.......i had my 1st 2 tats done in the pain factory drogheda before gettin one done wit sean at the tattoo convention last summer....been going to zulu since... its nutin against the PF its just sean's work suits the kinda style i like better...have 3 done my sean nd one by gavin...both excellent!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 486 ✭✭truthinwords


    Well based on my experiences so far I'd say Snakebite. I got a small nautical there. The only thing that bothered me was that a different person drew the stencil to the person who tattooed me. I also got 2 stars on my shoulders in Celestial Ring in Abbey St. The artist was pretty rough when positioning the stencil and pretty much just in general and our communication wasn't the best but the result was great. Based on people I knows stuff avoid Zulu and ManikFish(I know it's in Navan) but a guy I know has some amazing nuskool stuff from ColourWorks. Well that's my two cents on the matter.

    .truth


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭porn_star


    why would you avoid zulu?!


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    One has only to look at portfolios to realise not to even consider avoiding Zulu.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 486 ✭✭truthinwords


    I know people who've gotten some terrible work done at Zulu. One guy now has a smiley face on his shoulder that looks like it was drawn by a drunk two year old.

    .truth


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭el rabitos


    well how professional and artistic can you make a smiley face.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,183 ✭✭✭✭Will


    i wonder if emmet will grace us with his skills :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭Fantasy_Suicide


    MANIKFISH!!!!!


    Hahahahahahahahahaha! I know the ex owner there. Place got fleeced by the polish mafia yday. Now me and my sister are thinkin of buyin the place and turnin it into a nice profesh kinda place.


    Christ, I got my stars done there. For free. I was wonderin why they're so terrible.... Haha!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 486 ✭✭truthinwords


    el rabitos wrote:
    well how professional and artistic can you make a smiley face.

    I don't know but I'd expect better then this from a professional tattoo artist:
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    .truth


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