haha, the sound CAN be a bit entrancing…

will this be your first tattoo? Pain is subjective. Your pain tolerance may be way different than mine. You should just go ahead and do it, dont go in thinking about pain. You might just suprise yourself and breeze through the whole thing. Good luck and let everyone know how you did. I bet you’ll survive.

Patrick

Not be a total pussie?

Love. Peace. Metallica.

i just sleep most of the time.. I fell asleep in about an hour of my last one and then i fell asleep when i was getting the one on my side.. Its a nice surprise to have some new ink when i wake up 🙂

I remember my first one about ten years ago. I took a Discman (remember those?) and a great Underworld album. The tattoo was on my back so I sat backwards on a chair and leaned against the back, put in the headphones and zoned out to the music. The pain was warm and pleasant.

My next six were in various places, with different degrees of pain… both sides of my ribs being the most prickly. Each time, I just tried to zone out like that first time (funny I never repeated the headphones though) and the pain sort of enveloped my whole upper body and felt sort of electric. It was great… down-right addictive.

Do it straight. I highly recommend it.

Good luck.

I was thinking maybe some activity that would get your mind off of it. Maybe you could take a Nintendo DS or some other handheld game that would make you concentrate on that instead. Just an idea.

Bring some tissues with. Seriously my wife has a big rib piece, only once did she have to stop to use the ladies room. Zero complaining, zero tears, now she wants to do the otherside all ready.

Maybe you should get some fake tattoos I heard those are less painful…