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Originally Posted by AFireInside
I don't think artists should expect it, but appreciate it. They charge a lot. Charge what you want to get paid.
That said, I always tip. I'm at about 130 hours of tattoo time right now and I've tipped every single time. Not a crazy amount but always an extra 100 or so.
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Thanks, they certainly do charge a lot, but there is quite a bit of overhead and from what I heard, cancellations for big jobs due to people flaking out at the last minute are pretty common and sometimes they end up being there all day hoping for walk-ins.
I booked mine 4 months ahead of time and needed to give a $200 down payment... that was enough to commit me. It is the standard at the place I went to. But while I was getting worked on, someone called in and cancelled an all day session with one of the other artists and being so close to Christmas, she was pretty upset. She is in high enough demand that she could have booked someone else in for a $1,000 tattoo that day. Apparently last minute cancellations happen all the time. And then she had to argue with the person for an hour about why they couldn't have their down payment back. Fortunately, she posted on Facebook and Twitter that she was available for the day and had a couple of people come in for touch-ups and small tattoos, but it was still a bad day.