#84618
Blue1
Participant
@blue1

Zone into the sound of the machine and take a nap. lol Its what I do

#84626
Apostle 228
Participant
@apostle-228
Blue1;64132 wrote:
Zone into the sound of the machine and take a nap. lol Its what I do

haha, the sound CAN be a bit entrancing…

#84683
ElevenEleven
Participant
@eleveneleven

The pain is part of the fun.

#84709
ppornan
Participant
@ppornan

will this be your first tattoo? Pain is subjective. Your pain tolerance may be way different than mine. You should just go ahead and do it, dont go in thinking about pain. You might just suprise yourself and breeze through the whole thing. Good luck and let everyone know how you did. I bet you’ll survive.

Patrick

#84715
ryannnnn
Participant
@ryannnnn

I love the feeling of getting tattooed… pain with pleasure for me, wouldn’t want to minimize it 😀

#84716
KnightHawk
Participant
@knighthawk

Not be a total pussie?

Love. Peace. Metallica.

#84719
MrSultan531
Participant
@mrsultan531

pshh who eats anything before getting a tattoo? I didn’t eat anything all day and nothing bad happened.:D

I just get bored and ended up texting through my last one, the friends who were supposed to join me couldn’t.

#84720
Ddenzik
Participant
@ddenzik

i just sleep most of the time.. I fell asleep in about an hour of my last one and then i fell asleep when i was getting the one on my side.. Its a nice surprise to have some new ink when i wake up 🙂

#84834
tattoofan91
Participant
@tattoofan91

Will most tattoo artists let you listen to music MP3 when getting a tattoo?

I’m sure that is a way I can keep my mind of it 🙂

#84837
wak
Participant
@wak

I remember my first one about ten years ago. I took a Discman (remember those?) and a great Underworld album. The tattoo was on my back so I sat backwards on a chair and leaned against the back, put in the headphones and zoned out to the music. The pain was warm and pleasant.

My next six were in various places, with different degrees of pain… both sides of my ribs being the most prickly. Each time, I just tried to zone out like that first time (funny I never repeated the headphones though) and the pain sort of enveloped my whole upper body and felt sort of electric. It was great… down-right addictive.

Do it straight. I highly recommend it.

Good luck.

#84840
tattoofan91
Participant
@tattoofan91

So no artist will refuse me to listen to my mp3 though no?

I don’t like needles hugely as I said and kind of thinking listen to mp3 = block it out?

#84848
MrSultan531
Participant
@mrsultan531

I was thinking maybe some activity that would get your mind off of it. Maybe you could take a Nintendo DS or some other handheld game that would make you concentrate on that instead. Just an idea.

#84870
LuckyLass
Participant
@luckylass

Why would u wanna minimize the pain? Part of getting a tattoo is the sensation as well. Im getting my very 1st tat tommorow and I can’t wait to feel the 1st zap, btu thats just me.:p

#84871
Bdubbs
Participant
@bdubbs

Bring some tissues with. Seriously my wife has a big rib piece, only once did she have to stop to use the ladies room. Zero complaining, zero tears, now she wants to do the otherside all ready.

Maybe you should get some fake tattoos I heard those are less painful…

#84876
Joker1
Participant
@joker1
Bdubbs;64438 wrote:
Maybe you should get some fake tattoos I heard those are less painful…

Nah don’t do that man, you could get a papercut, that would hurt too much…

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