11 Essential Tips For Your First Tattoo

A shelf full of various tattoo inks of all colours. The bottles are all lined up in two to three rows. The tattoo inks are orange, red cyan, blue , turquiose, gold, and so many more. Perfect for a first tattoo.

So you’re ready to get a tattoo. Maybe this is your first tattoo or perhaps it’s your 100th. Either way, you should be well prepared for your appointment. Especially if this is your first tattoo as you may have no idea what exactly it is you’re getting yourself into. I mean, that would be why […]

7 Annoyingly Common Things Tattoo Artists Hate Hearing

A tattooed man wearing gloves setting up a tattoo gun. In the background you can see his inks, squeeze water bottle, and paper towels set up on a counter

Tattoo artists have dozens, if not hundreds, of conversations a day. They meet a whole slew of people constantly coming into their shop to ask questions and get tattoos. Over time they are bound to get sick of hearing the same thing over and over. Anyone would. I asked a bunch of my friends in […]

Tattoos and South Korea

So there are a few common questions I get asked when I tell people that I went to South Korea. The first is if I like K-pop. To which I answer no, I am not really a fan. The second is if I ate dog. Yes, I have, but it wasn’t in Korea. The third, […]

11 Cringey Christmas and New Year’s Tattoos

Chevy chase from christmas vacation being creepy

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from us at Nomadic Inscriptions. We are very much looking forward to spending time with each other and our respective families over the holidays. Hopefully all of you are able to as well. Remember this year, while dealing with the pandemic, to adhere to the rules […]

11 Tattoos That are Way Overdone

These days, getting a tattoo has become increasingly common. I, for one, have over 10 and will continue to get more. All this time in the chair has allowed me to have some awesome conversations with tattoo artists. Some have even become good friends of mine. When I asked what tattoos were overdone, I got […]