poison ink

auntyweeze

hey all,
im going for a tattoo in 2 weeks out to bray to poison ink.
has onyone been tattooed there?? whats it like??

Diceicle

Can't say I've ever heard of them. Couldn't find anything about them on the interwebs either. Are they fairly new? Is Atattooed still in Bray?
What made you choose them over all the other tattoo studios?

auntyweeze

Diceicle wrote: »

Can't say I've ever heard of them. Couldn't find anything about them on the interwebs either. Are they fairly new? Is Atattooed still in Bray?
What made you choose them over all the other tattoo studios?

hey,
the studio is across from the royal hotel in bray.
just went out to bray and found the tattoo studio went in for a nosey and it was really clean/organised and the guys themselves seemed very nice.
ive had all my other tattoos done in dragon tattoo on talbot street but fancied a change.
yeah atattoed is there but its moved buildings to around the corner, i was left standing there for almost 10minutes with no greeting/aknowledement or anything so i just left.

hunter164

I think I know the place you're talking about. Is it upstairs and there's another studio beside it called Blood Brothers? If so, steer clear.

auntyweeze

hunter164 wrote: »

I think I know the place you're talking about. Is it upstairs and there's another studio beside it called Blood Brothers? If so, steer clear.

hey i didnt see one called blood brothers, its near atattooed (sorry for bad spelling).
what did you hear about poison ink?

hunter164

If I'm thinking of the right place my friends been tattooed there twice and both are terrible.

auntyweeze

hunter164 wrote: »

If I'm thinking of the right place my friends been tattooed there twice and both are terrible.

are they badly drawn tattoos or just horrible tattoo designs lol

deniss63

Hi people i went out to get some Tatto,s of the fella
that run,s the place.He is good at doing them bit
sore on the needle as all tatto,s are but i would reccomend
him he is very cheap and he is very nice chap.most other tatto
studio,s will say he is bad because they whant you to go to them.
me and my wife got some and we think he is very good so its up to
you,s let me no is ya,s have went to him.yup

RasTa

^what?

Dirk Gently

RasTa wrote: »

^what?

He said, "I'm rough as **** with the needle but otherwise I'm not too bad, just dont ask me for lettering."

auntyweeze

clown bag wrote: »

He said, "I'm rough as **** with the needle but otherwise I'm not too bad, just dont ask me for lettering."

ok im lost here atm???

tattoo

I'm from Bray and i've never heard of the blood brothers studio. I know where the poison ink studio is but i've never been to see what it's like and i haven't heard anything about their work.

IMO steer clear of Atattooed (bad personal experience).

The only tattoo studio i can reccommend in Bray is Nine Lives on the main street.

Sorry i can't be of any help to the op with regards to Poison ink

SqueakyBeast

Let's put it this way - if the artist himself can only say he's "rough as **** with the needle but otherwise I'm not too bad, just dont ask me for lettering" do you really want him tattooing you? Go to someone who won't crucify you when they're tattooing you. If it hurts that bad, the artist is doing something wrong. And if he can't do lettering... well, that speaks volumes.

Trixie Vixen

I've lived in bray all my life, and know the artists around here well. Steer clear of this place, I've heard nothing good about the shop, and they do not have a good reputation. Bray does have some truelly great artisits tho, Rachel in Nine Lives and Damon in Atattooed are really genuinely fantastic artisits, and myself and a lot of friends have a lot of great work to prove it. If you're coming out here, pop into them and look at their portfolios.

TattooSte13

Hi . I'm hunter164s friend ha ha , yeh I have been tattooed in that kip twice seriously don't recommend it . Al tough i would recomend Blood Brothers which is right next door . I have been tattooed there alot and always recommend it to anyone .

auntyweeze

TattooSte13 wrote: »

Hi . I'm hunter164s friend ha ha , yeh I have been tattooed in that kip twice seriously don't recommend it . Al tough i would recomend Blood Brothers which is right next door . I have been tattooed there alot and always recommend it to anyone .

hey
what i dont understand is if it was so bad the first time why'd you go back the second time???
i usually get tattooed in Dragon tattoo on talbot street but just wanna try somewhere different.
ive hear a few bad reports about atattooed and have heard a few good things about blood brothers so might give thema a try thanks

Pierced Off

If you want to get tattooed in Bray, then I can certainly recommend "Nine Lives". I have two sleeves in the process of being tattooed by Anna and they both contain some excellent work.
If one studio owner is willing to travel to or recommend another studio, then the level of work must be good.

auntyweeze

Pierced Off wrote: »

If you want to get tattooed in Bray, then I can certainly recommend "Nine Lives". I have two sleeves in the process of being tattooed by Anna and they both contain some excellent work.
If one studio owner is willing to travel to or recommend another studio, then the level of work must be good.

thanks very much ive heard all fgood about these ill give them a try so

:pac:

hunter164

auntyweeze wrote: »

hey
what i dont understand is if it was so bad the first time why'd you go back the second time???

If only you knew him....

Hellrazer

auntyweeze wrote: »

hey
what i dont understand is if it was so bad the first time why'd you go back the second time???

I was thinking the same myself.

Trixie Vixen

I don't understand it, the amount of times I've heard people say "I was tattooed there twice, and hated it both time". It's not like there's not hundreds of artists out there to choose from, or conventions to go to where you can see all their work. Seems to me like a tattoo is the sorta thing you should put a lot of thought and planning into. People are silly.

Anyway, yes, in Bray, Anna or Rachel in Nine Lives or Damon in Atattooed (nothing wrong with the shop itself) are the way to go.

auntyweeze

hunter164 wrote: »

If only you knew him....

Hellrazer wrote: »

I was thinking the same myself.

ok i am really lost now lol
what do you mean if only you knew him??

Hellrazer

auntyweeze wrote: »

ok i am really lost now lol
what do you mean if only you knew him??

Auntyweeze I was agreeing with your statement that I also cant understand why he went back a second time.

I think Hunter knows him personally and hes basically saying that we`d understand if we knew him.

auntyweeze

Hellrazer wrote: »

Auntyweeze I was agreeing with your statement that I also cant understand why he went back a second time.

I think Hunter knows him personally and hes basically saying that we`d understand if we knew him.

oh yeah i know you were agreeing with me lol
i get ya now ha ha i need it spelt out to me ha ha
how many tattoos have you got?? where have you gotten them done?

TattooSte13

auntyweeze wrote: »

oh yeah i know you were agreeing with me lol
i get ya now ha ha i need it spelt out to me ha ha
how many tattoos have you got?? where have you gotten them done?

Haha , yeah dont ask why i went back i was only 15 sure !
i have nine at the moment but getting alot more . Ive heart good things about dragon on Talbot street . But blood brothers is great , friendly and reasonable prices .

johnb00

hello just got work done off rachel in nine lives in bray and i have to say her work is very good and the prices are good too

Diceicle

johnb00 wrote: »

hello just got work done off rachel in nine lives in bray and i have to say her work is very good and the prices are good too

Unless you can post a pic of what you got done you most certainly will be called a shill and not believed........some studios try to post on here as "satisfied customers" but it only succeeds in making the studio look desperate.

Pierced Off

Diceicle wrote: »

Unless you can post a pic of what you got done you most certainly will be called a shill and not believed........some studios try to post on here as "satisfied customers" but it only succeeds in making the studio look desperate.

Trust me "Nine Lives don't need to shill. I own my own studio and still travel out to them to get my sleeves done. If another studio owner is willing to recommend them, then they don't need to "shill" themselves.
Sometimes people like to comment on good work done without plastering pictures all over the web. As I said, I have 2 sleeves in progress at the moment, both by Anna, a full back piece and large pieces on both legs by different artists but I haven't posted pictures of any of it. They are my tattoos, done for me, because I like the meanings of them all. They weren't done so that I could plaster the net with pictures and have people pass comment on my tastes, likes and dislikes. So please don't assume that just because a person likes a studio that isn't one of "The Hallowed" ones, ie. the "Big" city centre names, they must be a shill.

Star Lord

Pierced Off wrote: »

So please don't assume that just because a person likes a studio that isn't one of "The Hallowed" ones, ie. the "Big" city centre names, they must be a shill.

That's not the case. It's when people come in and in their one and only post, lavish praise upon a studio, then it looks suspect. I would normally edit the content of those posts out, but I've left it there for now.

Pierced Off

That Damo, is true and we've seen it happen here often enough. But you've been around long enough to know that certain smaller studios are happy to get by on their own merit and the occasional bit of praise from a satisfied customer and anybody who's ever met Anna knows that she's one of those people. Lets wait and see if Johnb00 becomes a steadfast Boards member before we pass judgement.

johnb00

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

That's not the case. It's when people come in and in their one and only post, lavish praise upon a studio, then it looks suspect. I would normally edit the content of those posts out, but I've left it there for now.

whats the big deal i was just saying i got work done off rachel and her work is good whats wrong with that

Pierced Off

johnb00 wrote: »

whats the big deal i was just saying i got work done off rachel and her work is good whats wrong with that

Absolutely nothing! What Damo was saying is every now and then people log on and "Big Up" a particular studio. A lot of the time these people turn out to be employees/relatives of the studio. The result of this is that when a genuine person comes on and compliments a studio or an artist, especially one that is not considered by the masses to be "must visit", then stupidly, their post get branded as suspect.
I completely argree with your opinion of "Nine Lives" work, top class and under-rated.

Will

Just as a general note - as has been said there's been issues in the past where people from studios have come on and bigged themselves up, there's also been times where people came on from rival studios and posted up terrible pics not done by the artist named to try and tarnish the reputation of the studio. So yeah we are very suspect of posts like these unfortunately as we've been burned in the past by it.

auntyweeze

hey guys well im half way through my cover up.
i went with poison ink in the end, there is also a studio directly beside it (next door) which was empty the whole time we were there.
im very happy with the work on my cover up so far.
im going back on monday to get it finished.
heres a pic of what it looks like so far.............http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/album.php?albumid=1375

Adrenalin

Howdy folks sorry to re open an old thread. Is the general view that poison ink is not recommended? I'm looking to get my first tattoo and was planning on poison ink so just seeing what the story is. Also that earlier on was not rob (the guy in poison ink) since rob is polish and also does not work in logistics.

Thanks

TheLads

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Rules state you can only tell stories like that if they are about something that you've personally experienced.

Adrenalin

Went in to atattoo on saturday and they say he is gone now (run out of town according to them) anyway so thats that problem (if he was one) gone

xEurophia

Oops bumping an old thread but thought it was semi-important. Apparently the Polish guy in Poison Ink did some tattoos that got infected and some people got hepatitis B and he was deported or something but either way he is back in Bray now and is tattooing young lads , 16 year olds for €10. My friend has gone down and tried to get her septum pierced 4 times now. The first two times he was too busy , another time he didn't have the right sized clamp and he told her to come back the next day and she texted him asking could she get it done and he said he was "taking the day off".He also didn't have any lip bars and other essentials. He sounds pretty dodgy and unprofessional to me. Sorry for the wall of text btw.

Hellrazer

xEurophia wrote: »

Oops bumping an old thread but thought it was semi-important. Apparently the Polish guy in Poison Ink did some tattoos that got infected and some people got hepatitis B and he was deported or something

Firstly if there was ever a confirmed case of Hep B from tattooing it would be all over the media.I cant find any evidence that this ^^^ ever took place.

but either way he is back in Bray now and is tattooing young lads , 16 year olds for €10.

Absolutely no crime in tattooing 16 year olds for €10.00
There is no regulation in Irish law with regards to tattooing.
The industry is self regulated to a degree but if this lad tattoos for 10 euros then he obviously desperate for business.

He sounds pretty dodgy and unprofessional to me.

Unless youve first hand experience then you cant judge anyone.And thats one of the rules of the forum aswell.

UserName 217

Is it just me or is there a lot of new posters in this thread.

*Suspicious*

Adrenalin

xEurophia wrote: »

Apparently the Polish guy in Poison Ink did some tattoos that got infected and some people got hepatitis B and he was deported or something but either way he is back in Bray now and is tattooing young lads , 16 year olds for €10.

This is quite an unconvincing argument in my opinion. As already stated by a mod, you seem to have many unconfirmed facts.

As stated, if there was a confirmed case of Hep B it would be broadcasted all over the place. The tattoo industry is just as competitive as any other, you can rest assured that if someone cocked up and spread some Hep B everyone would know about it and Rob would be gone.

If he was deported, he would not be allowed back into the country. If he then got in illegally, i highly doubt he would re-open his well known tattoo studio.

Also im fairly sure there is no standard rate of €10. If i walked in looking to get a sleeve done, its unlikely i could get him to work for 8 hours or more for a tenner.

Also your quote of "a day of" makes it sound like its a bad thing. Clearly the man should be open for business 24 hours a day 7 days a week (that sentence was well marinated in sarcasm).


All the best

Aoifecx

xEurophia wrote: »

Oops bumping an old thread but thought it was semi-important. Apparently the Polish guy in Poison Ink did some tattoos that got infected and some people got hepatitis B and he was deported or something but either way he is back in Bray now and is tattooing young lads , 16 year olds for €10. My friend has gone down and tried to get her septum pierced 4 times now. The first two times he was too busy , another time he didn't have the right sized clamp and he told her to come back the next day and she texted him asking could she get it done and he said he was "taking the day off".He also didn't have any lip bars and other essentials. He sounds pretty dodgy and unprofessional to me. Sorry for the wall of text btw.

He actually move he's shop to dun lery the move back he's not desperate for money he's actually got a big whit hummer he strolls around bray in get some fact before trying to get people put out of bissness

Cece123

Anybody happen to have his number for rob in poison ink tattoos??