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When Xiao Wang became interested in tattoos, he didn't go to tattoo, but wanted to be a tattoo artist.
In his original idea, a tattoo artist must be an artist first. Can draw all kinds of strange and special patterns, characters, alien animals.
Then you have to have a triad background. Think about who will get the tattoo. If you are slightly dissatisfied, you will not give money or even lose money. No hard boss is impossible.
It was not until he added several tattooed WeChat groups that his ideas became practical.
He summed up the advantages of being a tattoo artist.
First, money comes quickly, and tattoos are not clearly priced like haircuts. The charge depends on one mouth. Just a few million is a few million is tens of thousands.
Second, it is similar to the barber's brother, and it is very close to customers. Sister customers are many, and it is easy to derail.
Third, tattoo artists are cool. Other jobs include tattoos, long hair and strange clothes, but it is standard for tattoo artists to do so.
Xiao Wang imagined this picture. In a small underground tattoo studio, Xiao Wang has long hair and a trendy brand. Xiao Wang looks pale because he hasn't been in the sun for many years. He tattooed his guests with strange music.
Like a doctor, he is dignified and cautious, and like a butcher, he ignores the howl of guests coldly, tortures a living person like a devil, and creates his own works of art with great interest like an artist.
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The beginning of Xiao Wang's tattoo career is to find his master: Lao Wang.
Lao Wang set up his own studio. On an outdated pedestrian street. Lao Wang called it no street.
Lao Wang doesn't look like a tattoo artist at all He is in his early thirties, with short hair, dark, greasy skin and slightly fat. He is wearing a pair of denim shorts and a polo shirt between brown and yellow. He looks very old, like a farmer who doesn't like to do farm work. Tattooing others is a business for Lao Wang to make a living. Lao Wang is the kind of person who sells clothes, pork and whatever he wants behind closed doors at any time.
Xiao Wang paid 3800 yuan and came to the store to study every day. For Lao Wang, this is just an extra income.
Learning is coming to the store every day. There are two things to learn. One is the steps of tattoo, skin examination, pattern recognition, transfer printing, coloring with tattoo machine secant and maintenance. These Xiao Wang all practiced at home by themselves. The other is that it takes time to accumulate, how to make pictures on people's skin, how to communicate with guests and how to use public tools more skillfully. You can't practice these at home by yourself.
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A month later, there were more than a dozen merchants in the store. Apart from rent, utilities. Lao Wang probably earns three or four thousand yuan.
Lao Wang told Xiao Wang that business would be better in summer. Last July, he earned more than ten thousand yuan. I opened a foot bath shop in the street last year. Many ladies come to Lao Wang's shop to get tattoos, make small pictures, fight of hearts and English words. The charge is also very low. More than ten thousand yuan burned out two machines.
Lao Wang said that he also has a brother who opened a shop in Shanghai and made a lot of money. He is going to buy a house. Seven of them studied tattoos together, and only two of them were still tattooing. Even his master has switched to a barber shop.
One afternoon, a beautiful client came, like a guest on a TV program. She had an appendectomy last year and needed a cover. This tattoo needs to be done three times. The first two times, Xiao Wang first depilated and disinfected the skin, then transferred it, and then let Lao Wang cut the thread. The second time, because Lao Wang was away, Xiao Wang dared not start work and said that he would come back the next day. The beauty said that Xiao Wang would come, but Xiao Wang refused, saying that he was a novice and not confident. His sister encouraged him again and again, but Xiao Wang refused.
The first two girls are accompanied by boyfriends, this time alone. Xiao Wang knows that the girl's boyfriend is a returnee, has taught in a famous university, worked as a model and participated in a famous hip-hop variety show. I didn't come because I didn't have time
The girl added Xiao Wang's WeChat, and the only message was: I verified the request through your friend, and now we can start chatting.
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The period of apprenticeship is two months, and time passes quickly. It will be over soon.
Lao Wang advised Xiao Wang to continue his studies. As a help, he doesn't have to pay tuition. When business is better, you can also give Xiao Wang some living expenses.
I can see that this is just Lao Wang's courtesy. There is no point in Xiao Wang staying. He suddenly lost interest in tattoos. For him, these two months are his exile, just like the deformation meter on TV.
Xiao Wang told Lao Wang that he wanted to go to Shanghai. Lao Wang said that he could introduce his brother to Xiao Wang, which might help Xiao Wang find a job in Shanghai.
On the last day, Xiao Wang got as drunk as a fiddler at Lao Wang's place, came out of Lao Wang's place in the middle of the night, walked out of the pedestrian street and turned to Bao 'an Avenue, which was busy and noisy on weekdays. At this time, the street faded away from prosperity, and it looked deserted under the dim white street lights. The night wind chased the scraps of paper on the ground. Paper scraps occasionally struggle in the airflow of the car.
The night wind brushed Wang's thin body. He tightened his shirt and continued to walk shallower and shallower in the vast night. He doesn't think he has a tattoo. Wang mindlessly laughed out loud.
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