Sorry Sherav didn’t see your post when I replied. Needless to say, I’m right there with you. Couldn’t have summed it up better myself. How are you doing? Haven’t been around in a while!

Marcus M6;40568 wrote:
these people aren’t being haters. A piercing or altering of the body should be that persons choice only, its something we like to call freedom of choice, not someone else deciding what you should look like. Parent or no parent thats not your fucking decesion. Plus teenagers never make the proper decesions that’s why you…[Read more]

Helsinki Harlot;40530 wrote:
(Haha, honestly, I hope to never be one. )

You’re still forcing a body modification on them because of your views instead of theirs.

One of the things that immediately came to mind was … what was it.. wife swap? And they had a rather ‘punk’ family’s mother trade places with a strict upper class mother. And the…[Read more]

Helsinki Harlot;40527 wrote:
It’s the exact same as telling her she CAN’T have piercings if she wanted them. If it ends up that she didn’t want piercings and you made her get some, it’s the same thing.

That has to be just about the most ridiculous theory I’ve ever heard lol. I can tell you’re not a parent. Try applying that to other things. A…[Read more]

SallyMac;39447 wrote:
😮 Heard they get fussy??!!!! MAYBE BECAUSE IT HURTS THEM???
Don’t you think young girls(let alone babies) are sexualised quite early enough in this day and age?
Obviously this is for your benefit not your babies,honest opinion dizzi-Grow up:mad:

Amen!
I don’t want to be harsh about young mums, I had my son at 19 and…[Read more]

Looks ok to me but really it’s impossible to tell much from a picture that size. Can’t figure out why you can’t upload a bigger pic?

Hey butterfly, just noticed you say you come from Notts! Where abouts? I’m in Leics! Used to live in Notts though. The studio you’re on about isn’t Rampant Ink by any chance is it??

I’m no Kanji expert, but to me that looks like gobbledigook. The bottom part is a symbol for power. But it’s connected to something else which doesn’t look like Kanji at all. Overall I would guess it has no meaning. But I might be wrong. One sure fire way of finding out – look up Hanzi Smatter in google, and send it in to him. Hopefully he’ll let you know!

Hey Matthew, been off the board for a little while, can’t believe I’ve come back to read this! I’m so sorry! I mean, brilliant that it’s nothing worse, but you know… is there absolutely nothing you can do? Did you have this problem when you had your other tattoos or has it come on/worsened since then? Would getting the backpiece in lots of tiny…[Read more]

As long as you’re not working over the same area I don’t think there’s a problem. I’ve heard some say that excessive tattooing over a period can run your body down. But I don’t think there’d be a real issue having two close together. I had two tattoos a few days apart from one another once, and went through a phase of having one a fortnight,…[Read more]

Hey, been AWOL for a while, nice to see Knighthawk is still as meek natured as ever 😉 He is spot on with his point though!
Me – I show it off straight away but after about two days I tend to keep it hidden again unless someone knows I’ve had it and asks to see, until around the one week mark, that’s usually my yuckiest phase. But I usually keep a…[Read more]

Love Matthews idea – it did briefly occur to me to suggest having it done both ways on top of each other but disregarded as thought it would look quite odd to have two lines of the same thing, but the drop shadow method would work and not look strange! If you had the bottom perhaps lighter in colour and slightly elongated to give the shadowed…[Read more]

That’s a tricky one! On one hand I love the concept of it being backwards but like you I think it looks better the standard way. I am pretty dumb, make allowances for that, but if I saw you in the street with it reversed (which I know I wouldn’t as it’s on your back anyway) my first thought would be, oh my god do you think his artist put the…[Read more]

Hmm that’s strange, never heard that one, I know lots of people who’ve had it done! You’re not in an area of the world where perhaps hand neck and head tattoos are illegal are you? Otherwise I have no idea, are you sure he wasn’t just referring to his shop not doing it, as opposed to all shops? I know some shops have various policies such as some…[Read more]

See, I swear I don’t get these endorphines that everyone talks about! The longer I sit for, the worse it gets for me. I never seem to get any adrenalin kicking in or numbness, so taking breaks for me makes no difference to the pain, only gives me chance to recover and start again! But for those who do I can see why that’d be an issue!

I, too, think you will be absolutely fine with this. I have the lowest pain threshhold in the world, literally, and I got to the end of 4 hours and could have probably done more if I’d pushed myself. I hear of plenty of people doing longer sittings and being just fine. And yes cigarette breaks are a godsend! I take way more than one but then I do…[Read more]

Oh yeah that’s another thing – I noticed that he’s forgotten to put the second wing in (this was the original pic – http://www.watton.org/clipart/cherubs/cherub103.gif) – do you think I ought to get that bit done too?

And you know on the bit of the lower leg where the lines don’t join up – do you think that looks okay (I think it’s what my artist…[Read more]

If the sponge is soft then it’s fine, you can continue using it, if it’s particularly abrasive then ditch it for a while. You haven’t made a fatal mistake even if it is abrasive – if any damage had been done already you’d know by now!

To what Matthew says: I personally stick with the bepanthan for about a week and then switch. The one tattoo I…[Read more]

Hmm this is making me feel a bit better about moaning so much towards the end of my 4 hour sesh! I was under the impression 5-6 hours was about average!

Looks great and I love the reverse idea! I love that font too, I have a little bit of small scriptina in one of my tattoos! I agree that the t’s need to be taken care of but I’m sure your artist will do you proud! Good luck with it – is that a picture of you?