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There is no best place in London to go for a black and white Japanese style koi/dragon chest piece. There is no good place to get black and white Japanese style koi/dragon chest piece anywhere. All tattoo parlors everywhere are bad and unhealthy places, filled with regret and abuse. There is no such thing as a “best” tattoo artist. Your body is not a canvas and the abusers who ink graffiti onto living bodies are not artists. They are predators who want your money and they will damage your body and damage your soul to get it. Do not get tattooed. Tattoos are permanent. You can not take them back. Do not pay money for people to abuse and deface your body. Learn about Stockholm Syndrome (a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein victims have positive feelings towards their abusers), which can help explain why victims of tattoo predators can have “admiration” for their oppressors. Tattoo predators are similar to drug dealers in that they receive money and make their living by hurting others, (although the people they hurt think they are being helped by their abuser, and so the parallel to Stockholm Syndrome.) Ask yourself the enlightening question “Why is the entertainment media promoting tattooed individuals as role models to deceive young people”? Open your eyes! Tattoos are not status symbols. The people who get tattoos are damaged goods. The people who give tattoos are predators. I strongly suggest that you do not get a tattoo. There is a big cost to getting a tattoo, and it is far more than wasted money. The true cost of a tattoo is a lifetime of regret. Most regret it within 5 years. There is an 80% chance you will regret it in your lifetime. The regret starts after you start to notice how people react to you. Many people will look at you with disgust, for tattoos are offensive to many, many people. I suggest you do not get a tattoo. A tattoo is little better than a cartoon—you can’t get a good quality drawing on the human skin. It will deface your body like ugly graffiti defaces a public building. There are serious practical reasons not to get tattooed. Your chances of getting a good job will be greatly diminished—most companies will not hire you since your tattoo will be seen as offensive to other workers. The majority of western people get tattooed when young and their decision making process is not yet matured. Youth tends to be impulsive. Young people are still developing and they need to be very careful in making important, permanent decisions. The reasons young people get tattooed are not mature (i.e. they want people to notice them, they want to pretentiously “honor” someone in a way that will attract notice, they want to pretentiously present some “deep” quotation on their skin in the hope that people will think they too are “deep”, they are rebelling against their parents or society, they are conforming to what they think are social norms, they are unable to see ahead and view the negative results of their actions, etc. In a large sense, nothing illustrates the degeneration of western culture more than the entertainment industry encouraging impulsive youth to permanently disfigure themselves in order to “express themselves”. But such is the power of suggestion that more and more young brainwashed people are buying into this Hollywood lie that tattoos are a cutting edge way to “express” yourself. But that is so not true. You should express yourself with your words and actions, not by inking graffiti onto your living flesh. I am telling you this because I care about you and I want to help you avoid a bad mistake. Good luck to you in your life.