Awesome, thank you! That helps clear up what I should take to the artist. I just have a final question though: How did you know that you wouldn’t end up hating what the artist designed? For me, I like to mull over different designs for quite a while before deciding to get it tattoo’ed, just to make sure I will be happy with it for the rest of my life. I just don’t want the artist to spend their time designing something that I’ll end up not liking after a while. I guess I’m just very conservative and like to take my time with tattoos.

Thanks for the help though. I’m very curious to see what the artist can do. I just need to get the OK from my parents now (being young sucks…).

Thanks for the replies! I guess if 2-3 days isn’t quite ideal, I could stretch it out to 5 days at most.

msmercury, thanks for the info! Glad to hear 2 days was enough to not damage the tattoo. Like you, I can’t stand to miss a day I was supposed to run. Unfortunately, the 3 week no running policy is off of the website for the studio I want to go to. I’ll talk to them and ask if there’s anything I can do to shorten that time down to less than a week. From reading online, 3 weeks seems a bit excessive.

The tattoo I have in mind is also definitely running related, and I’ll be sure to share! I’m planning on doing it next week, as the San Francisco Marathon is on Sunday. If I do get it next week, I’ll have to wait for 3 weeks before being able to start swimming again, though, so I may postpone it for two months, though I don’t really want to.