Ashley Wachman
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I got my first tattoo with the Tora Sumi studio, and Eduardo was my artist. The studio was clean, and each artist had decorated their small section with their own art and tattoo designs. I could see cleaning materials neatly set out at each station.
The person at the front desk was upbeat and kind, and gave excellent customer service.
Eduardo clearly has a high standard for his art. He printed multiple slightly different lengths of the sword to find the ideal size. After talking with him for a bit, I felt very confident leaving the final design in his hands. I was initially thinking of getting a black linework tattoo, but after mentioning colour and seeing his face light up, and his beautiful botanical art on the wall, I was really happy to get colour on the botanics in my tattoo.
During the three and a half hour process we took a few breaks, and Eduardo made me feel very comfortable to initiate the breaks when and if I felt I needed them. I got to stop to have a look at it right before the colour time, and even without the colour it looked incredible. With the colour? Even better.
He has managed to do a beautiful piece of botanical art, capturing key characteristics of the plant I wanted incorporated into the tattoo. The final piece looks better than I imagined it would. Moreover, the sword is very straight, and we all know straight lines are a pain in the arse to do, much more so on skin.
It's been a week now since receiving the tattoo. There were no healing complications. Huge shoutout to Eduardo for this beautiful tattoo. I am incredibly pleased, and once I work out what I would like next, I will definitely be seeing if he's got room in his schedule to do the tattoo.