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I just read one of the questions you answered about tatoos and it said you have 12. I was just wondering something. What does it feel like. I want to get one of my foot,like some stars or something, but I'm defiantly not good with pain. DO you have one on your foot. Where did getting a tatoo hurt the least. Like one your body. Thanks :] (link)
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I have one on the inside of each ankle, however my two ankle tats were done at home with indian ink and a saftey pin so my pain on that score would be 10 xs worse than you would experience perfesionally. I will say this the least painful were my shoulder blade and my chest just above the breast. So its right on the muscle. If theres muscle its not as bad. As to exactly what it feels like, the closest I can describe it is to tell you to take one finger and scratch your hand back and forth as hard and fast as you can for like 5 seconds, the actual sharp stinging sensation it gives you is very close to the actual feeling of being inked, however the tat will be a lot slower. the good news after about ten minutes you get kinda used to it and its not too bad at all, it almost gets kinda like a dull numbing ache. my only concern for your pain is that you want it on your actual foot, lots of thin skin and bones there. I dont have any on my foot, but I've got two on my hand, one at the bottom of my thumb just above the wrist and one on top of my ring finger for my mother and father. Unfortunately thin skinned bony places hurt pretty bad. mine were ok simply because I had two others that same day so i was a little used to it. I do have a couple tips for you though, I get through mine by looking around the room, while he works, never watching the needle or anything. read whatevers on the wall over and over and just think of it as a rite of passage, the goal being to show no pain. youll get throu it hun, i promise. just set yourself up for one thing keep telling yourself before and durring as soon as he starts theres no quitting now, just keep mentally telling yourself I have to finish this no matter what. youll be done before you know it, loving your art. If you have really strong doubts about it, wait till your ready, you dont wanna be one of the wusses walkin around with half a tat. last tip, please choose something that has special meaning to you or youll be one of them old people going on an on about how ugly it got and how much you hate it. but if its speacial to you, youll never regret them. id actually like to hear how it goes, if you do it so please remember to drop me a line on what and where you got your tat.
Sorry, ps just remembered, thought id mention it, once you get kinda numb/used to it, youll still feel a lil more pain as the tat gets filled in when he goes near or over the outline, itll hurt a little again. okay im done yappin now.
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