Yikes... for $200 an hour this artist better be the ****! I've never paid more than $150 an hour and that's only for the first hour. When I sit for long sessions she charges me much less.

Yeah...

I think thats nuts too!!

It is nuts even for a really good artist.

Thats what im sayen!!

For 200 an hour there better be strippers and I want a happy ending.

what can i say? i want the most for my money

I think tattoos are awsome i have 8 myself and qant more, soon as i get time at my laptop ill upload some piks :)

they are addictive

Yes they are...

isnt it wierd how you get just one...

and than you want a hundred!!

maybe not a hundred for me but i do want more

tatoos on girls are so sexy!!!!!!

Put piks of my tats on my profile :)

makes me want to move to England now. :)

Love the bat. too cute. Mine are in the beginning of this thread. Gonna get more, But I have to figure out exactly what. mine have to mean things to me

My tattoos mean something to me theres only one of 8 thats just random x

I'm sorry if that came across as they didn't mean something.I didn't , I was just stating my own preference.
Don't want you to be offended.

Ya'll are over paying, by well, a good amount. I've never paid more than $80 an hour. I've had the same artist both times, he's AMAZING, been doing it for longer than I've been alive, and he knows his ****. He was knowledgeable, and answered all of my questions when I came in for a consultation, and he owns the shop. I now live about 45 to an hour's drive away from them, but I will continue to go there. $200 an hour starting fee is way too much... especially considering from the there, depending on the complexity of the piece, it can be more expensive than the starting rate.

http://warlocks-tattoo.com/

I've also read some charge vast amounts if you are a celebrity and have money. And some even charge 500 just to break it out. I haven't found anyone down here that can do the work I had in Cali (which charged 150 per hr, until I he got to know me and went down to 100 per) except for one, and he is a big ''if he can.''

I think $150 is a fair amount for what my artist charges. All my large ink in completely custom. He free handed it on my body with a sharpie then went back over it when the tattoo gun. he's fast, gets a lot of work done in a short time, and the ink sticks. Some of my ink is 5 years old and still look fresh. All that...is worth a 1504 to me.

You have only one picture of a tattoo that you have. It's not much to judge how good your artist is from that one tattoo because it doesn't have much going on. You posted a link to his tattoo shop but you never told us his name. There are several artist on there. 80$ seem a bit cheap to me....but i will re-evaluate that once I've seen his portfolio.

So...whats your artist name?