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gonna post a pic soonish when its done i like it

oh did i mention i have a fear of needles?

Eh, tattoos aren't so bad. For the last 3 I had done, no one even held my hand. I was a big girl! And one of them took almost 3 hours! lol

yea im finding that out its not so bad actually lol

It's all a matter of location, some areas are worse than others. It's a very pleasant warm hurt.

The worst for me was the inside of my wrists. Fatty places like upper arms and thighs and such are not bad at all. I have to say I'm not really looking forward to getting the tops of my feet done - people have told me that's a sensitive spot. But, I'm tough. Even my artist says so!

*flexes tattooed girl muscles*

Mynka says the ankle hurts more too, but I hear the feet and I know that it hurts when you're close to bone from my spine. The back hurt like hell across the spine, that's why it took me a while to work up courage on the third rendition art, having sat through the ankh's middle being filled in before, the entire re-work cover kinda scared me a little. It was like 6-7 hours to finish, but I like to get everything done in one sitting and I've still never paid a penny for either filled in design. Thankfully the last artist was my best and was excited to make a big piece, I just did some computer work for him in trade. My arm hurt the least of all to me, but I'm sure it's partly because I could see what was being done to ease the focus off the sense of touch, because the back of my shoulder hurt a just a tiny bit more but the only way you know how far you've come is keeping track of the needle's movement through touch alone.

I've always joked about getting dotted lines along my wrist with a knife and directions "cut here," but I've always imagined that being a really sensitive area. hehe

That's a lot of ink for free, Synn! I think the total I have invested in tatts so far is around $800 or $900. If I weren't so totally in love with my new artist, I might ask you for a referral

Yeah I got so lucky with that one, I would never be able to spend the kind of money the work would have cost. Friends of ours own the shop he was working in at the time but he moved, if you see my ankh in a tat artist named Corey's book that's him. lol. Awesome design and great covering of a majority black tattoo.

The first time it was colored in with the original design a friend who was learning did it and I ran into him years later he said he wanted to redo it and I started hanging out occasionally at the shop with him, being right across the street from my then workplace... but when I finally decided "ok, now I'm ready..." he had just pulled a classic nomad move the day before. He was sharing the shop lease with the piercer so you can imagine how enthused he was at the guy when I came in. :/
He was always that way though, he'd just suddenly move with nearly no notice, haven't seen him since.