First ink done yesterday :)

[kevinb]

I've been told by plenty of people that the color and shading hurts way worse. I would think it would.

[kevinb]

This is a scarification that my piercer did a few years ago. I think it looks awesome.

[babyknees]

Who's your piercer?

Scarification heals differently on everyone. That's part of the appeal.

[kevinb]

Well the one who does the scarification's name is Daniel k (not sure how to spell his last name) and my other piercer is Dustin Schoelier (I think that's how it's spelled) but he just pierces. My tattoo artist is Shawn Van Oven.

[Mike41793]

I've been told by plenty of people that the color and shading hurts way worse. I would think it would.

Im no tattoo veteran but the shading/coloring hurt way less imo. The outline uses bigger and fewer needles. The shading uses more needles and smaller ones. At least thats how i understood it lol.

[kevinb]

With my outline he used a 7 needle but he said the needles are so small I wouldn't be able to see them. The girl I work with got her side done and said it was like murder for the color.

I guess I'll never know until I get it done. There is actually another artist stoping in to help and I might see about getting one done by him in the next week or two, but this one will be on my leg. Not sure what it will be though haha.

[VooDooDoc]

In my experience the outline hurts the most, then when they get to the shading it's actually sort of a relief.

[kevinb]

Well I just my outline done, and I won't have the color and shading till October 26, so I'm sure it will hurt just the same since its not done all at the same time.

[Vasiliki]

Outline hurts the worst, because it is so sharp. I would shake on a few lines he did on my shoulder piece where it went over a bone then found the soft spot immediately after the bone (it would dig, no matter how careful you were).

The shading actually wasn't too bad....

UNTIL he started re-shading and re-shading the same area to get the right depth. That's when it started to hurt. Yes there are more needles, but if the artist works on an area numerous times, then it starts to really burn. All you do is grit your teeth and hope that they move onto a new area soon.

So, yes... Coloring doesn't hurt as much if you're not getting too much color done, or areas reworked. But the moment your artist starts playing with 'layers'. Yep. That hurts. Not as sharply as outlines do, but it turns into a nice deep ache.

[kevinb]

Mines going to be dark so I expect lots of pain.