Here it is…one final session for touch up and minor detailing…

Well folks…after another bloody four hours, this one is finally finished. I’m going to wait a few days to post pictures so that the color can settle in and the swelling can go down.

I must say, of all my ink, and I have a lot, this was the most painful piece. The chest is just such a surprisingly sensitive area and there are so many nerves…[Read more]

Thanks for the positive feedback guys. I’m going in for the third session this Friday. After there is some color in it, I’ll take new photos.

In the meantime, the tattoo has healed nicely…very little peeling, no scabbing and hardly any loss of ink.

S/F

Sherav;39563 wrote:
Hi Jarhead

I have been following the trend with interest as I visit Israel quite frequently and was quite suprised at the increase of ‘open tattooing’ from the 90’s to present.

It has always existed but tended to be an underground thing and was very much considered the ‘western curse’.

That said as you know the Hasidim…[Read more]

This has turned into quite an interesting thread. There are a couple of issues here that are interesting. The first one being age. The second one being the phenomenon of Jews getting inked in Israel. My mother, a German Jew and Holocaust survivor, raised me to never get tattoos. According to her, it was against the Jewish religion. Unfortunately…[Read more]

Look at the bright side…when you decide to get it removed, it will be cheap and relatively painless…:(