aww puzzles . the tattooing itself was painful but inside my arms are amazingly soft ( and a chubby )
i get a few stretch marks that you normally can not see , they have been there years and completely faded away and when she went over them slightly they swelled up and thats what really hurt .
however i did sit for 3 hours on my last session and i was watching the clock after 2 and a half hours had past
if she had gone over the 3rd hour by a minute i think i would have started to cry LOL
had my session on friday and today the swellings gone right down 🙂
the soft skins tend to hurt more than other places. and right on the shoulder blades. and yes shading does hurt more than just outlines. the tattoo on the back of my neck i didn’t feel at all. the one on my back hurt only if a few places – left and right of my spine and shoulder blades. now the clovers on my side would be the most painful one i’ve had. especially the largest group because it’s right on my side where as the others are more on the abdomen area.
tbh i never find it all painless or painfree! however the forearm wasn’t so bad. as for my most recent session which concentrated on the top part of my upper arm and onto the top of my shoulder that certainly tickled! especially around the collar bone. feeling the vibrations come right up my neck was a weird experience!
i think on my next session its going to be the dreaded inside of the bicep but always remember….its a bit of pain/discomfort for a few hours…its a lifetime of pleasing ink!
I recently had a tat on my chest going a bit down the top of my arm.
I found the chest was a bit nippy, more so as it edged towards my armpit.
The collar bone was the worst for me:eek:
I think though, for me it was the length of time. First session was 2 1/2 hours and the last 45mins was agony. Every time the needle bit I was gritting my teeth and the longer the stops between each bit made it worse.
When I went back a month later for the last 1 1/2, I found that quite nippy as well. Not sure if it was because the surrounding skin had already been worked on?
Also took a bit of a whitey due to not having had enough food or drink beforehand!!!
It’s worth it in the end and as much as I was thinking ‘never again’, I was in the week later booking my next session for Sept. 🙂
everyones pain threashold is different, a skinny person will go through a lot more pain than a well built person, having had no food that day will cause you to feel the pain quicker and make you feel like your going to pass out…..
anywhere over bone is going to hurt like a fecker 😉
just make sure you have a good meal with plenty of carbohydrates before you go for the tattoo and have a good sugar drink before hand and take a bottle of coke or similar with you if its a long sitting…. the body uses up its sugar content real quickly and you will require a sugar rush to prevent you going into pain shock
that being said, i went for an 8 and half hour sitting after travelling for 4 hours to get there without anything to eat, i did have a cup of tea about 6 hrs in though
Hi there,
I have 5 tattoos (right shoulder blade, left calf, both feet and right upper arm) the ones that hurt the most were my feet. I’ve found that anywhere ticklish or sensitve for you is gonna hurt, but tattoos are well worth the pain.
I’ve also found that the more you get the more they hurt. Some people dis-agree though, and some people like the feeling of the tattoo. I can sit here and tell you that it doesn’t hurt, and that it’s just slightly irritating and uncomfortable, but you’ll have to see for yourself.
A bit of pain is worth a lifetime of beautiful artwork!! 😀
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