Oh Kitten -

what? is that too wimpy?

It's like a sunburn- you should make it through it if you want it there.

Everyone has their degree of pain tolerance though.

No you are not wimpy. Meow

but i get a sunburn even with 70 SPF sunscreen.

then you already know what it feels like. You should be good to go!

the healing is the worst part, imo (is it weird that I think it kinda feels good, for the most part, while it's getting done). The non-stop itching. Especially if it's on the larger side = way uncomfortable to sleep....

The one on my side I wanted to scratch and rip off every nights I tried to sleep. I just kept slathering it with lotion...

^^true

the healing didn't bother me in the least..it was the needles so close to bone..there just is NO MEAT THERE to cushion it. The outlines were the worst, the fill wasn't that bad.

BUT...I had my one and only son all natural, so I can vouch that I do have a fairly high tolerance for pain...

and it still hurt, I won't lie, but it was tolerable.

My foot tattoo hurt like [censored]. A few BOLers saw a pic a couple days after, and my foot was SOO swollen.. probably close to twice the original size. I ended up having to ice it down at the end of the day for the first 3 or 4 days. I couldn't get a shoe on all the way for 2 weeks. The foot tat also itched WAY worse than my others; it would wake me up in the middle of the night itching. I love it, so it was worth it.

No more foot tats for me!

The two on either *chest* didn't hurt at all...more a mild irritation. the ones on my ankles had me white-knuckling the chair and wishing I had a bottle of Jack to dull the pain....my back is the location of my next one, but I don't think it will hurt as much as the ankles...and I DO have a very high tolerance to pain!

My foot tat didn't bother me at all. Beth had more done than me though so I can see her point.

The toes- I've seen a grown man cry on toe tatting- but I wouldn't one on my toe tho anyhow.

It's the price you pay for what you really want.

Yeah, my foot tattoo didn't really bother me either. The one on my chest probably hurt the most but I have a high tolerance for pain so it didn't really hurt that bad, to me. It did get uncomfortable the closer he got to my throat because of the nerve cluster there.

I plan on getting yet another tattoo

I'm rather excited about this one.

It's going to be on the back of my thighs. And its going to be corset laces.

My daughter just got one last week across her lower back. Please!! I tell her no more tats!

Oh peej - you let her get the "TS"

What did she get?

How many does she have peej?

Im thinking of having mine extended all the way down the back of my legs.

I've yet to meet anyone with tattoos that at some point didn't say "what was I thinking..."

and I know a ton of people with tattoos...

Like I could stop her

She got love is patient, love is kind ~in Romanian cursive.

Let's see 1,2,3,4,5,
And if you count each star on the sides of her hip..oh running out of this box cuz she has too many to say.

You need to meet me, just sayin'.

I haven't said that at any time but I just have 2.