Tattoos! Who has them?

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anyways i gotta buncha. this one is of two of my girls and it's on my butt!


i do well w/ the pain. i think where it hurts most for me is on the inner forearm like over the carpal tendons close to the wrist and bone ridges. but any session over 3hours i start feeling raw all over the area getting tattooed. there are a few factors in pain: your own tolerance, the artist's technique and the tattoo gun. old skool coil guns hit softer. my man main uses more modern rotary guns like a Cheyenne that uses the cartridge system. the skin/wound will heal in 3-4 weeks, so i wait 4-6 for any follow-ups to cover my bases. i like to use A&D for aftercare for 1-2 weeks, washing and reapplying 3-4 times a day and then nutrient lotion the rest of the way. i wait until after the summer for touchups b/c i wanna know how my skin and the tattoo reacts to tanning. and of course i want more. just waiting for the next inspiration.

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Yeah, my sessions were about 4 hours each. And yeah, the artist took a little break here and there to have a smoke but overall he has been doing it for years so he was used to sitting there for long periods i guess lol.

Oh forgot, we all took a break, even the other 2 artists when a deaf girl and her girlfriend started arguing in front of the shop. We kept hearing this muffled yelling so the guy stopped the gun and the sound was gone. Then he started it back up and we would hear it again. He was like ok this cant be my gun so we both got up and went out front to the waiting area and outside the big glass window pane, we saw the arguing. The other 2 artists were already there watching it. The gals finally noticed all of us gawking at them and they left lol. The things you see in Seattle around the Capital Hill areas back in the day. This was like 25 years ago lol...yes I'm an old fart now

umm Capitol Hill is as krazy (and fun) as ever. i hang out there alot. Lol all the stuff u will see at Nick's (replace the N w/ a D) parking lot on a Saturday night.

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