My brother did it within a month or two of practice. He practiced on pig skin a little bit but more on his homies leg lmao. The ones he did on my mom are actually WAY better tho. He was just pissed off when he was doing mine -_-. Also he stopped tattooing illegally so once he goes to Tattooing school and works at a shop, he's gonna go over it to make it look even better. The blue ink kinda came out within the first week of having it. I still love it tho :) <3, and he's the ONLY one that I'll let fix it up.