Make sure you eat and get your blood suger up before you get tattooed. Most of the pass-outs I’ve seen its because they tried it on an empty stomach. Or a little fan.

The pain of tattooing is so over-rated

So is getting good tattoos, apparently.

Someone described on this board once as this:

Imagine the worst sunburn you’ve ever had, and then someone comes and scratches their nails on it.

I got my first two weeks ago and that was almost it to a tee. When I tried to rate the pain for someone who asked, I told them to imagine where your pain threshold is, that point where you don’t want to take it anymore. It’s just under that. As least that’s the way it was for me. It wasn’t bad enough to make me stop, but any stronger and there might have been a discussion. But I knew I was only in the chair for an hour, so I got off easy compared to some of you nuts that go half a day in one sitting.

But at the end of it all, it was never bad enough to not make me want to come back and get another one! So it can’t be that bad!

it’s all a mindset find a place in your own mind and pretty soon the majority of the pain is lost and just think of the finished product when all the pain is over

Don’t do this, ibuprofen makes you bleed more which just makes it harder for your tattooist. Also it won’t work to reduce the pain of a tattoo as it does not work quickly enough. There are drugs that will help with tattoo pain but I’m not going to mention them.

make sure you have a sugary drink like mountain dew or even some M&M’s. Sometimes peoples bodies get stressed and put out such symptoms. men are more likely to pass out than any woman and a lot of the time eating before will help with this.