Welcome to the Official Historical list of Utah Tattoo Artists and Studios

    Originally the smarttattoo.com project was designed as an on-line Convention/Connection to
give all Utah Professionals a modern way to display their work to the world in one location.
    This web site is one the most modern methods to find/connect/present Professional Artists and
their work to the world. Much like the exposure Tattoo Convention provide, but without taking any
money out of the local market that does not come through the Tattooers themselves.

    But; Due to Politics of the Profession and the unethical Business Tactics of some local Business
people, the camaraderie of the local tattoo professionals has been deliberately and almost completely
destroyed. And this has made it almost impossible to identify most Utah tattooers as legitimate “Professionals”.

    Because it is almost impossible for smarttattoo.com to verify professionalism of tattooers with
incomplete names and unanswered inquires. At this time we can not indorse most of the Tattooers on
the Historical List as legitimate “Professional” . So SMARTTATTOO.COM is no longer trying to recruit
those tattooers to represent local Utah communities through this web site.

    We will only support those that ask for our service, and those that we can verify as legitimate
Tattooers working in legitimate Studios.

    One of the things we have learned during the past year, is that it is truly a Buyer beware situation
in Utah. There are so many tattooers, working under the table, that we can not verify at this time who is legitimate and who isn’t.

    Unfortunately, we are just not strong enough to get past the politics, and establish a good
enough connection with enough good Professional Tattooers to continue this project as we intended.
The local politics and business people with the unethical business tactics have won, and the tattoo
profession has lost another opportunity to regain our professional footing.

    During the past year, through our efforts to unite the Utah Professionals we discovered a new
trend of professionalism that is effecting the Tattoo Profession in a very, very, negative way. We didn’t
intend to discover this situation, the situation presented its self to us through our accumulation of
names of - professional and not so professional - tattooers working in Utah

    We have recognized that not all Tattooers that claim to be legitimate Professionals actually are.
But, we can’t tell who is who. In other words we can’t tell the difference between legitimate and Illegitimate Tattooers because of the politics between Shop owners and tattooers.
    For some reason that is (not) very clear, many Shop owners will not allow the tattooers that work
in their studios to list their personal names in the Historical List or advertise their personal service with
SMARTTATTOO.COM.
    Just the fact that we asked these unknown tattooers to support us and list their names,this has
caused many shop owners a lot of animosity towards us, and they have demanded we remove both their personal and shop name from the historical list. But removing their name(s) is impossible, they are Utah’s history by their own choosing. All we are doing is giving them a place to advertise their legitimate service.

    Even though the animosity that this project has created was not intended, the results are obvious
and very real.

    Utah Professionals will just have to believe me when I say that smarttattoo.com does not want to
expose illegitimate tattooers as much as we want to support true to the profession Tattooers. But, unfortunately I am the first to tell everyone in the profession they need to do their fair share of getting rid of the gypsies and con men that are disrespecting the Profession, and show a little more respect for the profession themselves.

    Some Illegitimate tattooers are known as “Scratchers” and used to be the Only scab in the industry.
Now, some scabs of the industry are now becoming know as Gypsies because they actually have
professional skills and travel from place to place. Gypsies travel for a verity of reasons, but the bottom
line is they harm legitimate professionals because they don’t play with the same business ethics and
expenses as legitimate Professionals.

    We understand that the Shop Owners that support these unprofessional tattooers don’t want to
rock their boat, and they don’t want to support the real Professionals because they would have to give
up some of their easy money. This is a conundrum that nobody expected to discover, but is certainly
effecting the real Professionals with very negative results, and will continue to effect us this way until
professionals with integrity and good business ethics comes back into fashion.

    SMARTTATTOO.COM still intends to help connect both local and traveling Enthusiasts to Professional
Tattooers In Utah. But we here to say;
    Buyer Beware! you must be careful when selecting a Tattooer. Not all are professionals, are
legitimate.

    Even though their names are on the Historical List we do not endorse any Tattooer whose name is
not Highlighted in the list. In other words, if the Tattooers Name is highlighted we indorse that Tattooer or that Studio as legitimate and recommend you do business with them if you feel they can provide the results you are looking for.

To have your Studio Name Linked to your web site

please call 801-467-8282.

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