tattoo phase 1
close up ish
perspectively how big the first square is
sat for nearly 5 hours. took it like a champ. brad seriously had no idea it was my first tattoo and when i told him that it wasn't afterwards he was in shock how calmly i sat. cuz it hurt like a bitch and he knew it. hurt the most in the middle and at the end of the process. and when people ask what getting a tattoo feels like, it feels like exactly what it is. a needle poking you in the back six thousand times a minute, being dragged across your skin, back and forth, tugging occassionally. it fucking hurts. but its worth it. now i just have to deal with it healing over the next three weeks. lots of lotion!
and then back to the chair in the summer for phase two- the bee/honeycomb and possibly three- the color for them.
by the way, that was exhausting. five hours of dealing with pain, and keeping yourself calm takes a lot more work than it may seem.