hi

thanks for the welcome.

well, I got it done. was a little nervous but it wasnt so bad, the black outlining wasnt painful at all and after a while I found that I wasnt noticing anything…then he started colouring it….oh my god, is that so much more painful!

At the 3 hour mark….seriously, I was starting to breathe heavy and was tensing up. Apparently my bodies natural endorphins that block the pain were starting to run out. The guy sprayed some numbing suff on my back and tbh it still hurt but nowhere near as much. Kinda a shame I was getting it bad then as it was only around 20mins from finishing.

anyway, I’ve added a picture of it to my album if you want to view it. Its just after it was done so there’s quite a bit of blood and plasma messing with the colours. Hopefully some time later next week I can get another picture done after its all healed and then the colours will look right.

Hey all,

I’ve attached a picture taken this morning, its clearing up much more and also you can see the image more straight on, whereas the one posted above is from the side and it seems to make it look out of proportion. (edit, there’s a few more in the album…)

As for a little explanation. Its my 1st years anniversary in a few weeks and me and the wife had always said we should get tattoos to commerorate it.

Basically tho, I chose mine because she firstly is a disney fan (hence the disney feel and that the bear is baloo from Jungle Book). Also she likes butterflies and they were part of our wedding design, the S and the J on the butterfly wings are her initials. The butterfly is purple because again that was the main colour of our wedding theme.

Also I am a much bigger person than my wife, hence the size difference between the bear and the butterfly. Also one of her names for me is her bear.

Finally there was a running joke between us that I never buy her flowers, so I thought it’d be funny for her (the butterfly) to be presenting me (the bear) with a flower.