No shit….Polaris is staying skin-tone until the rest of the arm is complete.

My artist was like “Im free all night if you want to color her in” and I was like “Nope…nope..Im good.”

Fuckity!

@Call_me_Lola 142451 wrote:

In the past I have had some quite severe swelling and also been a bit of a bleeder, now I do a few things differently and haven’t had much of a swelling (or bleeding) problem at all with the last 3 tattoos. What I do is to try to eat really ‘clean’ for a few days before a tattoo appointment. No junk food and no SALTY food at all. Just real meat/potatoes/veggies – made from real food – kinds of meals.

I also try to bump up my iron a little, either by taking supplements for a few weeks or by eating high iron foods (like beef, spinach or cream of wheat!) especially if the appointment will coincide with my cycle.

It has made a really big difference in how much I swell up and how much I bleed during the appointment.

My artist actually recommended iron supplements for a few weeks ahead of time as well, I eat fairly clean but I am bad about my water consumption so Im going to start watching that too and cut out the coffee/tea.

Im also *not* going to get tattoo’ed on my cycle again and see how that goes.

@DragonFanSA 142430 wrote:

Omg your tattoo is going to be amazing. You won’t get loose skin on your arm when you loose weight

Thanks! I hope so!

I go in for coloring on Tuesday and will talk details about expanding with my artist then…thinking I will do The Brotherhood on the inside of my arm and maybe a Sentinel and Apocalypse on my lower arm…not sure yet.

@buttwheat 142306 wrote:

The reason that I asked for the link was that on your tattoo some of the line work has a couple of wonky spots. From the pics on the link this seems to be a common theme for her BUT the rest of her stuff looks good, Her use of color and her color saturation look good your tattoo will turn out fine. Please don’t get angry I’m just calling it as I see it.
Bingo wings that’s hilarious.

Working directly off the comic art I told her to stay as true to it as possible, not sure what areas are wonky but for someone not used to comic style art the proportions can look weird (plus the whole fact that Wolverines camel-toe is all up on my arm). This was also taken during the flaky/peeling stage too.

This is the reference material, with some characters moved around.

Close up of some of the details, I can get pretty hung up on things but I am happy with it so far!

@buttwheat 142276 wrote:

Why the hell would you think that I assumed that? You seem very angry to make an assumption like that.
As for your question Your tattoo should be fine with your weight loss.
again link to your tattooists work?

Im not angry at all but the “Thats something all overweight people say” was a bit condescending.

I did not know linking to my artist was a requirement.

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