The pain is just temporary, no matter how bad it hurts it will end eventually and you’ll (hopefully) have a piece of art which will last forever 🙂

With my experiences getting tattoo’d, the only place that made me almost beg for it to end was the inside of my elbow. That was sore. My wrist area was completely painless and in fact it was actually relaxing, however my best friend said his wrist tat was incredibly sore. Every tattoo is different.

There is one way to keep them permanetly black, and that’s too tattoo over them over and over again lol

All my tattoos are black/grey and even the solid black bits have faded since I got them in september, there’s no getting around it unless you actually did redo them every 6 months or so but that’s just silly.

Looks really nice, I hope it turns out well!

Depending on when you get the tattoo and go on holiday, the sun can have bad effects on your tattoo. If you got the tattoo then next day sit out in 45C the sun will severly slow down or even stop the healing process. If you let it get sunburnt then you’ve ruined the tattoo. Simple solution is just cover it up when you go outside.

A wee old nun came up to my till today and gasped “what is that on yer arm!?” I said it’s a tattoo, she said what on Earth is it supposed to be? Not in any mood to sit and explain it all to her I just said it’s random designs (which it more or less is anyway). She asked if I had any more and I said yes, my cross on my left arm. I thought she’d at least appreciate that one but as soon as she seen it she claimed I had no sense whatsoever!
I said I’ll never have any sense at all if that’s the case lol she said I was very plesant but a very silly lad.

I hope tattoo ignorance disappears soon!

The only thing that hurts more than pain is the price! When you’re as skint as me anyway 😀 lol

Cool. Is there a meaning to it?

I work in retail and I don’t bother to cover up my tattoos. Only 1 of my managers told me to cover up, I just ignored him and went back to work. I have customers come up to me every day and ask about my tattoos. Not one of them has ever said anything bad or complained to management. Companies should learn that tattoos are more and more common everywhere, they aren’t taboo anymore.

As soon as I get my next full sleeve done though I will be covering up while in work.