I just booked an afternoon with Tanya to have her do my wrist dragon. *glee ( Read more... )

My sleeve is done. One final four-hour session this afternoon finished it off. Photos soon.

I've decided I need a shirt that says "Yes, it's a real tattoo. Yes, it hurt. Yes, it took a long time. Any other stupid questions?"

I've also decided I need a dragon curling around my right wrist. *contemplates*

*fall down go boom* Sleep now.

Random moment from inside my brain ( Read more... )

Shiny! I think I may have to get one of those with the "gam zeh ya'avor" engraving. It seems... apt. Especially lately ( Read more... )

I updated the photos of my sleeve tonight. It's really starting to look like a cohesive piece now, instead of just being random flowers scattered haphazardly around my arm. One more session to go, plus some final touch-up work. Looking at it tonight, I'm almost wishing I hadn't canceled next week's session (I need to give my body a break for a ( Read more... )

Oh, and the Stupid Tattoo Comment Of The Day:

"So, how long did that take, two or three hours?"

Seeing the dumbfounded look on the guy's face when I responded with "Actually, it's been about twenty hours so far, and it's not done yet" was entertaining, though.

You know you're suffering from a serious sleep deficit when you manage to fall asleep while someone is tattooing the inside of your wrist.

*thud* The tattoo work is starting to be a noticeable strain on my body; it's taking me longer and longer to recover from each session. Today was the hardest session yet, probably because she was doing the inside of my elbow. That part was just barely tolerable, but it evidently burned out all of my endorphins, as my shoulder was much, much ( Read more... )

I took last week off from working on my sleeve, because I was feeling too tired to deal with it and the previous week's ink wasn't healing well, but we did a good long session yesterday and it's all good. Tanya started shading the fairy wings, and while I'm glad she stopped where and when she did -- the skin there is very thin and sensitive -- a ( Read more... )

I ended up canceling this week's shading session, as I'm just not up to handling tattoo work right now. The parts we did last week are heailing slowly and painfully, and my body has been making it very clear that it would like a break RIGHT NOW. Since my body has the ability to land me flat on my back in bed if I don't listen to it, I figured I ( Read more... )