get a priest to bless the house.

im not sure i believe all these ghost stories but some things just cant be explained. my mums very supersticious that way though and she used to get every house that she moved into blessed first.

my grans house had lots of weird things happening and they got it blessed and nothing has happened since. dont know if it was just coincidence but if you really believe its haunted its worth a try.

good luck!

The guys down at custom inc. in glasgow are really good. So is anthony firstbrooke in east kilbride – works at a place called Thirteen Tattoos its a custom place as well. I read the thread that the link lead to and sounds like something he could do really well. Good luck!

has it healed like this or is it still in the process of healing?

it is just that your skin has gone through a type of trauma, if you got a friction burn your skin would go red til it tried to heal and fix itself – its the same thing here. depends on the person but when my skin does that it goes away in 2-3 days, though i usually take a bit longer to heal than most people. and it tends to be that for me, it goes more red when they are using the light grey shading than the actual outlines or colour.

dont worry about it – just wait til your tattoo is completely healed and you will see.

i got a tattoo on my ribs a couple of weeks ago but it was nowhere near as bad as i thought it was going to be – for me it was more sore as it got towards my hip (but that could possibly have been because i have some very small scars there i dont know :S), but when he was actually on the ribs themselves i thought it was fine – it was just below the ribs that hurt me!!

probably the only thing that you could add would be water or some smoke behind it, maybe a couple more flowers too to make it big enough for a half sleeve. might be best to go to a custom place and they can take a stencil and see what they can come up with though – good luck!

if its in your photo album on yer profile then there will be a link under it – just put before and after the link and it will come up here (i only learned how to do that yesterday too lol)

and yeh it should be fine – i put it on 2 or 3 times a day at least for the first week then usually its just about healed so maybe for an extra couple of days if it needs it. just as long as you make sure it isnt too thick – i know sometimes this can be a wee bit difficult as like you said it is a bit of a thick cream. as long as you do it in parts with a small bit of cream instead of taking a big bit and just spreading it over the whole tattoo you should be ok. i only washed mines when i took the cling film off for the first time and then on the 2nd day just a wee bit when i went for a shower but after that i just left it to trap in all the colour.

i have 4 tattoos of varying sizes and i have used bepanthen for 3 out of the 4 coz it seems to work best for me. the colouring may seem to fade a bit or come away a bit but once it is fully healed it will come back and look fine. my latest tattoo has very bright colours in it (bright greens and reds) and when it was healing i was worried about this as well and the colours seemed to dull and it was a bit wet and sticky for the first wee while but its healed now and im very pleased with it – after me worrying about the colour coming away but its back to being bright again 🙂

hope this helps – good luck!