Quote Originally Posted by spix14 View Post
Quick question for those of you with a few tats-when I got my Cheshire Cat on my shoulderblade, it itched like CRAZY while it was healing. It was bad. I know a bit of itchiness is normal with healing, but none of my other tattoos itched like this. Does it have to do with the gauge of needle they use? I know he used a pretty big filler needle to do almost all of it. I'm just curious, because the healing was worse than getting the tattoo, and I always thought that was weird.

My nautical stars are about 4 months old, and yes, they do still itch like crazy from time to time.
You might have been over worked, like I was. I got mine done by a friend that is an apprentice at a local shop here, and he used a 15 round mag needle. Made my skin into chop meat. That's also why they are faded and a tad off on the lines.