get my tattoo touched up

I discovered that it’s going to take a $100 deposit to get an appointment for touching up my tattoo. Just to get an appointment! So I’m planning to get a different tattoo first at a local studio, and then I’ll see about getting my original one touched up. They said they’d have to redo the whole thing because they use a different ink now that wouldn’t look the same, so they just have to redo it all. Sigh…

I e-mailed the studio and it turns out they will have to charge me for the touch-up. I want it anyway, though, so I think I will make an appointment for sometime in February.

I got my tattoo done at Dragon Moon in December 1999. It was five hours of sheer hell, so when it came time for my touchup after six weeks, I didn’t go. It’s an all-black piece, so there is definite shading that could be fixed.