First Tattoo Tips: 15 Things to Know Before You Book
First tattoo tips from idea to healed skin: how to pick a design, size and placement, choose an artist, what happens in the chair and how to look after it.
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Tattoo Blog
Straight answers for your first tattoo and your next one: design, size, placement and working with your artist.
Tattoo Size Guide: How Big Should Your Tattoo Be?
A tattoo size guide with a size chart by placement, the detail rule for small tattoos, minimum lettering sizes, how size affects price and how to test it.
How to Bring an AI Tattoo Design to Your Tattoo Artist
Will a tattoo artist work from an AI tattoo design? What AI sketches are good for, how to prepare your references, and a message you can send the studio.
What you’ll find on this tattoo blog
The TattooMaker tattoo blog answers the questions people ask before they book: how big a design should be, where it will age best, what the stencil step is for and how to work with an artist. Every guide is written to be practical, honest about what a design can and can’t do, and safe for all ages.
Guides link straight to the tools that help with each step. Start a design with the AI tattoo generator, check placement with the tattoo placement guide, preview lettering in the tattoo font generator and turn the final design into a print-ready file with the tattoo stencil maker.
Looking for inspiration rather than advice? Browse tattoo ideas by theme and placement, or compare tattoo styles side by side.
Have an idea already? Sketch it in seconds.
Describe it in a sentence. Four original tattoo designs, ready to become a stencil.