My 2penniesworth…

having just had a tattoo (3 days ago). The black outlining took around an hour, maybe 1.5 hours and tbh, after the initial 10mins I almost kinda got used to it and didnt really notice much pain. Not that there was excessive pain to start with but, without having it done before I was probably a bit hyper-sensitive to it, cuz its all I was thinking about.

The colouring in was deffo more painful, the tattooist said that because I was getting larger areas of flat colour meant it would be more painful.

By the 4 hour mark, I was in serious pain. the kind where I was holding my breath, sweating like a pig, tensing up and then breathing heavy when he wasnt inking me. The tattooist said that he wasnt doing anything differently when it was hurting more to when it wasnt hurting so much, he said it was simply that my body couldnt release any more pain-killing endorphins…so I was just feeling it more.

In the end he gave me a 5min break and sprayed some stuff on my back. He said it was like a weaker version of the stuff they put on your gums in dentistry.

tbh the first application made very little difference, so 5 mins later he applied a second spray and OMG, I could barely feel a thing after that!

The most annoying thing was when he sprayed the 2nd lot of numbing stuff, he was only 20mins from finishing the tattoo. So I do kinda wish he’d just pushed on through my pain!!