Tattoos

[Makarwise]

@EdH

[Makarwise]

This was actually the cover up... Just found this pic on a Google morning selection. The skull was added once the raven etc covered over the original tipsy snake[link text](link url)

[Daniel San]

finished the tiger stripes and hannya mask today and started with the sakuras .
guess only one more session to go🥳

[GoodtimeJohnny]

I had long planned a different skull and helmet but when this came it was too perfect, and with a divorce finalized it seemed a fitting marker

[Daniel San]

finished the right side today 🥳
will start with the left side in June .

[GoodtimeJohnny]

@Daniel-San Looks amazing! you're a champ the ribs and stomach sucked so bad!

[don_pipone]

I‘m getting a tattoo right now after a 5 year break. I know tattoo machines are constantly evolving but it feels way less painful than I remember it from the past. I‘m getting a tattoo on my upper back up to the neck. So I don’t know if this is just a less sensitive area. I only had my arms and legs tattooed so far.
Is it me or are the machines more gentle nowadays?

[Vik]

@don_pipone I was wondering about that myself - my regular tattooer used to use a traditional, very old school machine which always felt like it was shredding my skin (it didn't but sure felt like it). When he decided to give a new machine a try I genuinely laughed at how painful it wasn't. And while, sure, while it can depend on the needles, the area you're getting done, tattoo fatigue etc, I've asked myself the same question!

[GoodtimeJohnny]

@don_pipone I've had the same question over the years, seems placement does have a lot to do with it but in my experience people using the rotary machines are much lighter handed than some of the guys I used to go to.

[don_pipone]

@Vik @GoodtimeJohnny
That must be it. My regular tattooer also used and might still uses those traditional noisy „rattle“ machines - also I think he is a bit of a sadist
However, a few of my older tattoos were made with rotary machines as well but I still remember them as more painful than today. They must have become even better over the last couple of years.

[don_pipone]

For those who are curious, I got zodiac signs. Cancer for my twin boys and I am a Gemini - which fits double.

[Daniel San]

I was told its only the sound that makes you think it hurts more or less. the old loud ones make your brain think it’s loud , it must hurd bad

[don_pipone]

@Daniel-San haha…that might be true. You can‘t zone out if you are constantly getting reminded of being tattoed.

[EdH]

A lot depends on technique and the individual tattooer and their process. I saw a guy getting tattooed at a convention last summer by a celebrity tatter, the traditional machine was turned up to some crazy RPM and the tatter was bashing that bad boy in fast.

No joke, I stood there for the whole thing and it was just 25 minutes from drawing it on by hand to a fully lined, shaded and coloured tattoo about the size of a palm. For £400 or something like that I saw get counted out after. The tatter must have made serious bank that day.

Anyway, the person being tatted was having it done on a relatively less painful area, back of forearm, and already had copious tattoos - he was a tatter himself - and he was wincing and gripping the edge of the seat like it was his first time. It was gnarly to watch.

[don_pipone]

@EdH that sounds horrible
I mean, getting through the whole process much faster is tempting but like this? I don‘t know man…
Was the result at least decent? Or was it just quick and dirty?