Does the pain of a tattoo put you off?

before i got mine i did what you are doing now. i asked loads of people and got varying responses from "it hurt like hell" to "i nearly fell asleep whilst it was being done" and i hyped up the pain in my own mind. if your pain threshold is, to you anyway, fairly high then just go for it.

i think by far the worst thing was the buzz off the needle more so than the pain of it. but thats just me.

i remember i got my first one at 18. i have the CRAPPIEST pain threshold known to man. i cried when i got my ears pierced (but not my eyebrow or tongue!!!! or lip [more recent]) and therefore was scared ****less!!

and of course i chose a tattoo that was pure lines for my first piece, on the inside of my wrist. maddeningly though it barely hurt. it was a smidge uncomfortable in places but not sore.

didn't get my next one til april of last yr. got a large one on my right calf. again a little irritating in places but no more.

two months later i got a big piece on my left foot and going upward. took two plus hours (i think). generally wasn't sore, altho towards the end when the artist was putting the white on the bit by my big toe i was kinda thinking please be over already. but i put that down to location. and it didn't put me off.

a month later i was back and got another on my left arm!! no pain.

two months later one on my right arm. no pain.

then early this year another on the back of my neck. just the irritation!

i have two more planned. one is a 400 euro + piece that is huge so lots of savings. the other i don't have a clue of size or cost. it is four lines of script. still trying to work out the finer details!

i would say don't psyche yourself out too much. it is worth it!

It hurts a bit, but it's nothing that puts me off. A few moments of discomfort but that's about it. Depends on location too. After getting my foot tattooed I'd be a bit hesitant to get the other one done.

The first 1minute of the needle on your skin is sore, but not because its painful, just because all of what you have heard is spilling out into fear. Once you realize that all the bad stories or fears you have are nothing but stupid hesitations you will actually feel oddly happy.

My first tattoo was down the center of my spine, now i was told that on bone it kills but it actually felt relieving. I suppose some people are more sensitive to pain but all the people i know and myself agree that getting a tattoo is a great feeling and one to which is strangely addictive.

Fear not the needle but the hand that sows!

bodice ripper wrote: »

who you going to?

http://conspiracyinctattoo.blogspot.com/p/eckel.html

Pauleeeeeeee wrote: »

I've just spent €350 on flights and accommodation to go get a tattoo in Copenhagen in a few months. Now that's painful.

I flew to Bangkok to get Jimmy Wong to tattoo me. He's the lad who tattooed most of the GIs on R+R during the Vietnam war. Legend. The flight cost a fortune and he stuck the arm in, both financially and with the needle (he's not as young as he used to be.)
Flew abroad again to get a backpiece from another artist. Was a holiday too so I didn't mind the cost of the flight. Three hours of line work on the spine was probably about where my pain threshold limit stands, I discovered. The last 15 minutes hurt more than the first two and a half hours combined.
For the average person considering a first tat, thinking of something small, maybe a graphic or a bit of text, few square inches or so at most, pain shouldn't be a consideration.
Yes, it will be an unusual sensation. It will be sort of uncomfortable. But it's easily manageable.

i've had about 30 hours of tattooing done. the one on my shin was sore but got threw it, on my elbow was a bitch and inner bicep hurt, but it was great, as someone said if you haven't felt pain before you ain't alive. a few hours tattooing and pain is good then to have art on your body priceless. already planning 2 more on my inside calf and between my neather region and my belly button should be fun