Try to come in with no expectations for how it is going to feel.  Your best friend may have a completely different experience than you will.  By taking some steps before you get here, you can assure that you'll have an easier time getting a tattoo or piercing.

• Don't be under the influence or hung-over; it will only make it more difficult on you, as well as on us.

If there is any single mistake that first-time tattoo clients make, it is that they rarely do their research.  This is not meant as a put-down or insult, rather a caveat or suggestion.

When you first walk into a studio, after you look around and take notice of the cleanliness (or lack of), the nest thing that you should do is to look at the portfolio of the artists working there.