@Sam-I-Am 129012 wrote:

I get a chuckle when little kids stare at my tattoos and it makes their parents uneasy. I usually smile or wink, and let them know it’s okeh.

I bet you could tell some stories.

I tend to be covered up mostly, but I do get the ‘I didn’t expected you to have a tattoo’ from friends of friends, at which point I show them two half sleeves. 😉 So not ‘a’ tattoo I guess they are half right.

Thought I’d put up a healed picture with a plain background. I think Buttwheat had asked for the plain background on BTP forum, but my BTP account is a little messed up at the moment.

@Call_me_Lola 128183 wrote:

Amazing piece. The light in it blows me away – it is almost luminous.

I keep coming back to this thread just to look at the pictures of it again and again.

Thanks, I can’t stop looking at it myself 😉

@Sam-I-Am 128128 wrote:

Awesome work! Great colors!

I recently switched to “Redemption”. It’s a non-petroleum lubricant no doubt similar to what you use. It is used during tattoo process, then I dry wrap too.

Yeah I think it probably is, Jeff uses it during the tattoo process too.

@Wardy 128103 wrote:

I prefare to scab than to me all sticky, if you scab it’s more likely to heal better because it’s got a hard protected layer over the tattoo.

That’s the irratating part of bepanthen, very sticky and quite viscous. But I found the wild rose herb stuff to be much less sticky. It doesn’t soak into your skin to leave it dry but it is a lot less sticky and it’s natural which is a plus for me. Although I’d like to say i’m not trying to convience you (not that I could) just expressing my experience. As I think healing is a very individual thing.

@Wardy 128095 wrote:

obviously very nice work you only have to say the name to know it’s amazing. Very nice piece take care of it.

Thanks I will be taking very good cae of this one ;). Seeing as we are on the subject I would recommend the wild rose herb products, the ink balm in particular. I usually heal with bepanthen but will be using the ink balm in the future as it has aided healing this tatoo very well so far.