What is Custom Tattooing? Dragon and Butterfly Tattoo & Piercing 86 Portland Street Dartmouth, Nova Scotia 434-4199 No Appointment Necessary New Needles, new stencil, new ink cups with every client. All packages are opened in your presence.             Custom Tattoos  What is custom tattooing? A custom tattoo is a unique piece of artwork drawn from scratch by the artist to your specifications. Our talented artists often do custom tattooing, it costs a little more and you will have to wait a few days for it to be designed and drawn up, but it is well worth it. You will have a very different and original design unlike anyone else. We have a large selection of flash (ready drawn artwork) for you to choose from that we can alter to your taste. If you bring in artwork for us to tattoo we can redraw it to your taste, but it is not custom it is just flash from a different source.  "Custom" is a term that many artists now apply to anything brought into their shop because they think it makes them sound extra talented. We  have a situation where any piece of artwork that is not their shop flash (pre-made designs from places like Tattoo Johnny) gets to be called "custom" Some studios claim to do only "custom" work when in fact they get all their designs as flash, available to any one, from the internet and carry or draw no artwork of their own.  So dozens of other people may be walking around with the identical "custom" tattoo that you have. We regularly have clients disappointed to find designs in our books that are exactly like the "custom" tattoo that they have on their body that they were assured was drawn especially for them.