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i'm booked in for my very first tattoo next week, i'm shitting myself as i'm not too good with pain but will go through with it, but do they REALLY hurt?

yes, GOD YES!!!!!!1 unspeakable agony! it gives you your first taste of the hell that inevitably awaits us all.

CHEERS!!!!!!! im looking forward to it now! there's no backing out either as i've got girlie friends getting theirs done too so i can't be the wimpy one now can i!

you will probably shit yourself

i've had a baby, got my lip and nose pierced, had a nail through my foot which needed medical attention, am i getting close to what i'm about to experiance!

Well, you get drugs for the baby.
It does depend a lot on where this tattoo is going to go - arm, back, etc...

i didn't have drugs when i had my baby, completely natural. the tattoo is going just above my wrist by the way.

what ya getting done?

I smoked so much weed before I got mine she had to tell me to stop laughing so she didn't fuck up the outline. I reccomend this.

I sat for 3 1/2 hours getting mine done, my back was covered in blood but it didnt hurt that much. I suppose it went slightly numb after 15/20 minutes.

No weed for me though :(

My tattoo hurt like hell! It bled an awful lot. But its worth doing if you have wanted one for ages and have thought about it alot.

LOL just heard a story on radio 2, this girl wanted the word Angel tattooed on her back! and she got it done, and then she showed her friends.
and her friends pointed out that actually it said "Angle"

HAHAHAHAHahaha
that made me day!
:D
funnnn-eeeee :D

I read that yesterday...she was one ugly chick te'boot

i couldnt find the story was it on ananova or yahoo or something?

No, i read papers mate..and it was the metro, a free paper you get on the bus.

i know what the Metro is.

i just wanted to see a picture of the poor unfortunate :)

She must have gone to a really really bad tattoo artist, silly sod.

I just recently got a tattoo on my lower back and yes, they do hurt. Not as bad as you would think though. the outlining hurts the most, after that you are numb so you won't feel it has much.

Good luck with your tattoo.

you havent show us your tat yet nov

ive had my bellend tattoo'ed

I have to get a picture first.

I want to get one on the inner side of my wrist , but all tell me that will hurt , like a shit load. Want to be of a damn big fish hook. Do not know why tho' ?

For Nov : what of plindoe's bellend?!

i'm having a daisy chain on my "watch strap", i'm also having my daughters name in chinese going around it.

he needs to send in a picture for proof Redmaiden.

he'd better not send pics of his end to my girlfriend

OOH!!! LOOK AT MR. MAN!!!!!

;)

:D

hi on saturday i'm having a small love heart tattoo. I dont know where to have it though either on the side of my stomach or the bottom of my back. Which one will hurt the least?
Please help i'm only 16 and have never experienced any sort of serious pain before.

The side of the stomach wont be as sore as the bottom of your back. Bottom of back has less fat so much more pain.

A wee love heart? Why?

The lower back hurts like hell. I sent my picture around to those I had email addresses for. So, if you like post the picture for me, cause I can't.

Hearts are very common chicchick, why not go with something that no one else has? I would give it sometime before you get one and think things through and make sure that it is what you really want. Start with a tempoary one and see how you like it.

I'd just like to ask November Eclectica or anyone else how bad a tattoo on your lower back hurts? I wanna get one really bad, but I am a sucker for pain. I cringe when I have to go get shots, I just can't imagine how much a tattoo will hurt. I've also heard that if you get the tattoo in color it hurts more, is this true? I'm also wonderin' what this bleeding is about, does everyone bleed? Please answer back, anyone cuz I wanna know, Thanx!

My tattoo was done in all black and it hurt very bad. You will bleed but only a little. If you can't take getting shots and have no pain tolerence then don't get a tattoo. I am not sure if color hurts more, but I do know that some people have a reaction to the colored ink.

Before you get a tattoo, I would go and talk with a tattoo artist and get their take on it.

Doesn't the blood help the ink to stay?

No, you need staples to keep it on.

hmmm I don't think so beargod. You bleed because they are pressing the ink into your skin.

can you get a tat on your toungue or on the roof of your mouth?

I dunno. Look it up and see.

I think you can tattoo anywhere. Apart from your eyeballs.....

eyeballs have a different type of skin. but can you tat teath?

Don't know! you can tat your fingernails though...

sounds horrible

I am getting my 1st one done on the 10th and I am scared a lil. I am getting it on my shoulder blade. I am getting a portrait of my sister who passed away. he said it will take an hour n a half. I am scared that it will hurt so bad I won't be able to let him finish. What do you think? Compare the pain to something..I've seen it described as scratching where u are badly sunburnt..any other comparisons?

oh for christ's sake.

I have heard that a paper cut is the worst pain ever, so get som paper and start getting used to the pain

I have never had a tat myself but I once saw a friends that had gone septic, put me off for life. Take care with your tattoo phoenix, good luck, hope its what you want.

Victor - I loved your comment, ha ha.

I have been put of tats, cos I think they look horrible, but that is just my opinion :)

I think that good quality temporary ones are a better idea, coz getting rid of them seems to be a problem, from what I have heard. What about Angelina Jolie's one of Billy Bob on her arm and then she had to erase it? I dont think I would ever have a permanent tattoo myself.

So beargod, you don't like my tattoo?

I would compare it to being stung by a bee but over and over again.

No I never said I don't like your tat, but I don't like tats in general.

I have a massive tattoo on my arse saying "DO NOT SPLIT". Dunno how it got there.

LOL.

They hurt like fuck. There you are.

Foggie has spoken.

It depends how much of a pussy you are, if you are a big limp-wristed cry-baby then you'll squeal in agony, writhe around so the tat gets screwed up and probably pass out in a big cloud of shame. if you are a man of steel (like me) then you might fall asleep for half an hour of it.

Well... on friday (this is vaguely related) I'm gonna go get my eyebrow pierced... people think it's gonna look good, and so do I. (Will just let it heal if it's shite.)

Any tips? (Not really bothered about pain, just after-care, don't want my eye falling out.)

The place I've decided to go is as nice-looking as a tattoo / piercing place can. £20... decided that's a decent price, I'd be worried if it was 50p and a bag of crisps. Of course I'll watch they use stuff out of packets etc etc...

My girlfriend when I told her: "OH MY GOD YOU'LL LOOK SO GAY!" me: "Well, a bit I guess..." her: "No no, definitely get it done. Gay is good."

hmmmm~

I have devised a mathematical formula to help your decision.

Eyebrow Piercing + Bloke = Twat

Hope this helps.

Hmmmm.... well how about I get my Prince Albert done? that's only a tenner extra.

I'm torn between the idea that £20 is a reasonable amount of beer, or permenantly mutilating myself.

I've never been described as a twat, if having a metal bar / ring through me changes that, I'm pretty sure I'll take it out. :P I've thought it'd be kinda neat for a while, my parents won't care, my school will hate it, one group of friends will hate it ("but you're so pretty!! why!?") and another group'll love it.

I can't really get a non-biased answer, they all have their own social reasons for liking/disliking these things. So I'm sticking with my idea of "Why not? Might as well give it a go." that I had before I told anyone, rather than be influenced.

Then again, now I think about it. I know few non-twats with eyebrow piercings :P (ear, navel, lip, tongue..?)

I have to agree with vic on this

thanks BG, your sure no Bic. whatever that turd sul says.

I used have my eyebrow peirced. I wasnt very twattish at the time I dont think. I dont particularly like them anymore though.

bah, I guess we all make mistakes in our youth... :P

inherited "wisdom" ain't as good as the shit you learn yourself.

So I guess I'm gonna ignore everyone and be a thick-headed 17-year-old, thank you very much.

Ah, thats because,

Bloke - Eyebrow piercing = non-twat

good on ya! Go get 'em sport!

I won't bother explaining what X means in this equation.

Schoolboy + Bar through old-chap = X

it'd be a nice point of conversation,
and my school doesn't allow facial piercings on guys.

Doesn't even allow a beard unless there's a religious reason... Muslim or whatever.

We had a protest... "MILLER (head) SAYS: NO BEARD FOR *YOU* WHITE MAN!"
Got us nothing but detention.

All-boys public schools are nothing but sexism, racisim and rampant homosexuality.
Like the football game, where we couldn't agree on teams.. so it was "Whites vs. Blacks" "Darkies vs. Whites", "Klan vs. Ghetto" or "Aryans vs. the Ethnically Challenged".

Good humoured, still worrying.

i say go for it. you can always just let it heal if it looks shit

i'd be more worried about your g/f though

Word of warning on the "healing". I still have a hole in the top and bottom of my eyebrow. And yes. Worry about the missus.

when did you take it out and leave it to heal, Sul?

errr about 4/5 years ago I think

damn, that is a long time

my missus has loads of piercings. i used to hate piercings but strangly hers are rather acceptable! :D

I always hated body piercings, or any other then ear piercings, and I have no idea why I like ear piercings :S

[edit: wrong thread dumbass]

I want to pierce my dog.

I want you to piece your dog :)

The heck with that. His g/f needs to accept him for who he is and it's his body. I would like for some guy to try to tell me I couldn't do something when it's my body and my money.

I would never date or have a relationship with somone who didn't accept me for who I am. If they think they can change me, they are wrong. I was with someone for 10 years who tried to do that and I left him. When I look back on it, I can't figure out why I didn't leave him sooner.

So Drago, do whatever makes you happy.

Nov Don't jump off that cliff

:)

I pretty much decided, "to heck with it"... that I'm gonna get it done. *Then* asked opinions, "the missus" was actually quite hurt I didn't tell her until this Tuesday, when some of my mates (and my ex-girlfriend) have known I've been thinking about it for 6-8 months.

If I'm getting it done, it needs doing in the summer (as school doesn't allow piercings), if I keep it, it heals and I wear a clear plastic bar. If I don't, I don't have questions about a big red patch on my eyebrow.

If I want to get rid of it, if I decide I don't like it within 2 months or so (the summer holidays) then it'll heal if I take it out within that time. It's only if you have it for an age that it *never* heals, the inside of the hole becomes normal skin.

November Eclectica, she's not trying to change me :/ I'm too stubborn for that. We've both made quite a few allowances though, which is healthy, 'course spending a lot of time around someone is going to change you, she probably has changed me... but they're all welcome and just part of being in a relationship.

Cal knows a lot of this from h8luff.
(Were you reffering to the gay thing or somehow thinking she's forcing me into something? A fetish for effeminate men ain't all that unusual :P)

As I say, I'm 17, if I want to be wise I have to do my time in ignorance and stupidity.

"Tom", rather than the psyudonym "Drago", by the by.

just referring to the gay thing. women with a fetish for effeminate men is fine, it's just the ones who want you to fuck off and go out with a man that are the issue ;)

Have any of ya'll ever fainted while gettin' a tattoo? What would happen if ya would? How can ya fall asleep while gettin' a tattoo? All that pain & ya fall asleep, how???

One of mine was done in a single four hour sitting, The only times it really hurt were once when he covered the muscle over the bone at the top of your shoulder and once when he had almost finished and he went to fill in some bits that he had missed, the part he was re-covering had been done for three hours and had started to puff up and swell, that wasn't pleasant. but after about two hours of the tattooing i drifted off for about twenty mins.

I got a tattoo on my shoulder blade, and yes it hurt. But so many people have them, and if they hurt that bad, you wouldn't see them around as much as you do

thats a very fair point

That's true, that is why i figured that a tat on your lower back wouldn"t hurt so much, cuz lots of girlie girls have them, so i figure i could stand to get 1 too!