i know it may look like bruising on the pics, but im 99.9% sure its not, as my whole upper leg was extremely swollen and bruised, and the bruises are now in their yellow/purple stage where as this ‘shadow’ is still blue/green…i jus want someone to tell me it will go with time!!!

i have had ink from machine too, and other traditional tats from borneo, i love the tradtional way, although this Samoan one was crazy painful..i think the machine can do finer details ( i had a fish hook put on the end of this one cos they couldnt do curves with their traditional tools), the detail is definitely finer…