you will be fine, just make sure you have a good meal with plenty of carbohydrates and a something sugary like a chocolate bar before hand…. take a bottle of coke cola with ya and you will be fine
dont be tempted to take any pain killers before hand and definately no alcohol, you can get rat arsed afterwards that dont matter 😉
the main thing is to go along and enjoy yourself, the pain aint as bad as you are worrying about
dont be tempted to take any pain killers before hand and definately no alcohol, you can get rat arsed afterwards that dont matter 😉
the main thing is to go along and enjoy yourself, the pain aint as bad as you are worrying about
That was actually going to be my next topic “do I eat and or drink (non alcoholic) before a tattoo” so you’ve savedd me there! 😀
I constantly eat anyway so no worries about that but why the coca cola ? to bring your blood sugar levels up with losing blood ?
Pain killers didn’t even cross my mind but I wont, im tempted by the numbing cream though.
And I don’t drink with training so that is no problems again 🙂
Tattooing ain’t no big deal, pain wise. It’s barely worse than a mild sunburn unless you’re getting it on a joint like an elbow or the boney parts of the wrist. Hell, I slept through most of my back piece, and if all those vapid sorority girls can take it, so can you man. As long as you have a meal in you right before and maybe bring a soda, you’ll be cool.
My sister weighs a hundred and ten pounds and got her inner-thighs, lips of her vagina, and supposedly somewhat inside of her (never seen it, taking her and our artist’s words for it) all done out in this intricate spider and spider web design.
Yet when I took my father up for his first piece of ink, dude who rode with the Iron Horsemen for twenty years, worked as their enforcer in his younger days, and as a bouncer at the bar they owned in his not so younger days, bitched out after the first mother fucking dot.
….and had my ex-wife not been sitting there making fun of me when I was getting my wrist gauntlet done, I’m 90% sure I would have burst out crying in my man’s tattoo parlor.
As for the original point of this thread, after I got done with a six hour sitting for my back piece I went right to the gym and did a heavy set of benchpress. Maybe it ain’t the same as getting hit, but, on the other hand, I did have 400 pounds pressing down on my arms and shoulders.
Don’t get me wrong, it ain’t a smart thing to do, but if you have to do it and aren’t smart enough to listen to your artist and just chill, it’s possible.
Love. Peace. Metallica.
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Don’t worry about it you will be fine – also chill a bit you are been teased a little – all first timers get a bit of a ribbin with the well
‘Back in my day I cut that tattoo with a broken beer glass I dragged out outta my skull and damn if I didn’t sleep through it’ 😉
The meal and coke stops your sugar levels from dropping and you fainting – which is very common (more than most like to admit).
Numbing cream well if you click on my sig it will explain about topical anesthetics and frankly they are not really worth using on anything other than a small to med size tattoo.
It rarely lasts more than 45 mins and can take upto 2 hours to settle in.
I used to do a bit of bare knuckle myself and whilst you can get used to been hit in the face I personally never got to like it 😀
Take Care
Matthew
I used to do a bit of bare knuckle myself and whilst you can get used to been hit in the face I personally never got to like it 😀
Take Care
Matthew
That’s because you had to overcome your natural Englishness. Between trying to forget to use the Queensbury rules, remembering the idea is to hit him with your closed fist and not your umbrella, and the effort not just to wander off for a tea and a crumpet, no wonder you didn’t have the concentration left to take the hit with a grin like a proper American.
Of course, I will concede if your soccer team loses, I want to be no less than three cities away.
Love. Peace. Metallica.
KH, Sherav, you two are something else!!!:D
Tattoos hurt. All of them! No matter where you get them, but you can do it. I tattooed a 120 lb. Mexican for 13 hours and he didn’t say a word. did an entire back piece on him with only 2 30 minute breaks and 2 ten minute breaks.
Listen to Outlaw. Eat hearty before the tattoo, carb up, and bring sodas with you. Sherav says it helps your sugars keep from dropping, he’s probably right, hell I don’t know, but I know it helps. We keep sodas at my shop and if someone starts looking queasy I give them one to drink. It helps fast.
Oh, and you are being teased
No I don’t know anything about boxing, I learned to fight when I was in gangs and riding motorcycles with Bandits, but I learned that the object is to hit and not be hit…unfortunately you always end up getting hit, so those who can’t take the pain quit boxing, those who can take the pain and keep on fighting should be able to handle a tattoo without being sissified about it.
I’m still ribbing you. Pretend your famous as a boxer and doing a Nike commercial
Just Do It.
Tattoos hurt?
Yeah, tell that to my sister. When she got what I call the “Cootchie Spider” tattooed on and around her vagina, she had a screaming god damned orgasm.
…did I mention that she has an autoimmune disease and that she’s always a wreck after getting a piece done, so someone has to drive her home, and I was sitting on the other side of the paper-thin wall trying to concentrate on my book?
Then there was my lesbian friend Sarah. Girl has a serious obsession with Scooby-Doo, so she got one of the few text only tattoos I’ve seen and liked: Scooby Snacks right at what would be her girl-friend’s eye level when they did the big horizontal lesbian mambo. She was supposed to hang around to watch me get my first piece done, but she left almost immediately, apparently to tear her girlfriend’s clothes off and give it a test drive.
Then there’s my best friend’s tattoo. I paid for her to get her tramp stamp (stars, moon, and the phrase Carpe Noctum to go with my own Carpe Diem), and sat with her while she got it. She asked to hold my hand while my artist did it, and I let her…and damned if that one hundred pound girl didn’t make sure it hurt more for me than her! My hand is almost three of hers, yet somehow I ended up with four small, ellipse shaped bruises.
So, sometimes tattoos don’t hurt, and sometimes they hurt the wrong damn person.
I just wish I was that lucky!
Love. Peace. Metallica.
my first tatt when i was 18 took like an hour and 45 min
and the guy didnt have the softest touch either… alot of grindin over and over and we only took one break and he suggested it because i was gettin pale…
i hadnt eaten for a couple hours before the tatt, i felt fine but everyone said iw as pale so we took a break i had a pop and a candy bar and finished up. so def eat first, and i wouldnt worry about the pain, for me, the longer i sit there, the more numb it goes
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