Tattoo advertisements

wolferine

Don't know if there's a thread on this already, let me know if it's a repeat.

I just got interested into how people can do advertisements using tattoo. To me, tattoos are meant to represent what I believe in or what I want to have. But advertisements? I'm not sure if I'd make a permanent one though...

Raze_them_all

aalot of those looked shopped.

1. the advertising people offer 10k for a tatt, people figure sure only costs a grand to remove.

2. the nintendo one isn an advertisement it's him showing his love for nintendo, same way ill be getting FF tattoos

longshanks

Raze_them_all wrote: »

2. the nintendo one isn an advertisement it's him showing his love for nintendo, same way ill be getting FF tattoos

Fianna Fail tattoos? 0o

Raze_them_all

longshanks wrote: »

Fianna Fail tattoos? 0o

Gtfo.

Some of those do look photoshopped - least I bloody hope the porno site one is!

chin_grin

Deleted User wrote: »

Some of those do look photoshopped - least I bloody hope the porno site one is!

I'd say the first and third are definitely shooped. The third (pornoface) is a chin scratcher and the nintendo one looks absolutely horrible. As Raze said it'd be more of an interest tattoo than advertising.....like him getting his Final Fantasy\Fatal Frame\Final Fight\Fianna Fail one. :P

EDIT: More on pornoface although they look drawn on as opposed to tattoo'd

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60632507@N05/

So.. it's real?

.. why?

Star Lord

Because some people will do anything for money.

Black Sheep

Yeah, you've got to wonder if there's a drug or gambling habit in the mix there.

With that said, one of the recent Skin Deep magazines had a news feature about some guy who got a back piece done based on the new logo of his mate's online t-shirt company. Bizarre but true.

I've heard of quite a few U.S companies offering free products to customers who prove they have gotten a small tattoo of the company logo.

There's also Victor Policheri - http://www.viptattoo.com/frameset.cfm - who will tattoo a customer for free ... Provided they let him tattoo a small portrait of himself on them too... There's a few examples in his gallery. Pretty good tattooist, but again you've got to wonder about people who take him up on it.

CD.

Black Sheep wrote: »

I've heard of quite a few U.S companies offering free products to customers who prove they have gotten a small tattoo of the company logo.

Ecko were doing it in america. I generally get a lot of cut & sew clothing and it is really the only clothing brand I would consistently buy and I did consider it (by that I mean I looked up the deal), but it was only 15% and only in america & peurto rico.

Really not worth it. besides, you cannot use it on bulk purchases and there is no defenition of bulk, so I could go up with three t-shirts and a pair of jeans and be told it's bulk.

The tattoo itself had to be their logo either the rhino or the cut and sew logo (which is a cross between a skull & scissors) you could get it in any size, colour or any kind of mixture of art as long as the outline of it was the same.

If it was worldwide and you got free clothes or a major, major discount (at least 70% if not more) then I would consider it, but only 15% is no where near enough of an incentive to get it done and I don't really understand the people who actually got it.

Black Sheep

Yeah, it's bizarre.

The companies I am thinking of were small outfits which supplied customised equipment for police/military and the like. There was more of a cult following which probably led to the tattoo deal (the gear was expensive too so perhaps that introduced an added incentive).

I can't imagine doing it, no matter how good the deal frankly.