Okay, I tried to be polite in my first post, but did you even read what I said? I said you would find help if you provided more information, but you respond trying to play the victim.

Yes. Like I said, I saw the stencil on me, but didn’t watch for the first half hour. He could have been completely ignoring the stencil for all I knew. (Obviously he wouldn’t.)

Not necessarily. I’m a wuss when it comes to needles, so I didn’t even look for the first half hour. I mean I saw the stencil on me, but stopped looking once he was working. The artist could have been ignoring the stencil and tattooing a butterfly on my shoulder for all I knew.

Ah. Sorry about that. Was responding quickly last time while I was at work. 🙂

I was refraining from chiming in, because I was afraid my differing opinion would get shot down, but I feel a need to comment now.

Depending entirely on how strongly he feels about it, I would definitely wait a while on it. I think it’s a matter of how much you value you his opinion and how much you are wanting to get them. I mean what’s a bit of ink compared to the person you love and want to spend the rest of your life with. It just seems to me that if you both of you just do what you want without regard for the other’s opinion, then that’s a recipe for disaster.

I see a lot of the responses saying that it’s your body, so why should he care what you do with it, but think about from his perspective. I personally know that if I were in your situation, I would hold off until my girlfriend/fiance/wife warmed up to the idea.

Anyway, I’m not even close to married, so take what I said with a grain of salt.

Just to clarify, because I realized my first post was unclear, but my tattoo only did something like that for a couple days. If you are worried, you could just give the place you got it at a call.