FACT: aftercare of a new tattoo hurts more than actually getting it

[mark414]

ouch

does this mean i'm trashy?

edit: this was my second tattoo...the first being my family motto (i'm irish) scrolling the length of my forearm in the native language

this new one is the family crest, in full color, on my tricep...

i'll have some pics when i find someone with a camera...

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Is it on your lower back?

[mark414]

22. i must say

i don't know ANY guys with a tattoo on their lower back...and i know a lot of guys with tattoos

[ghostsofgiants]

26. Haha, then I think you're safe from the trashy label

[KitchenWitch]

2. LOL

You are the epitome of trash... :hide:

[Huckebein the Raven]

3. What kind of tattoo ?

[mark414]

23. i probably should've mentioned that to begin with...

look up top!

[Huckebein the Raven]

35. Nice tat

:thumbsup:

I'm without tattoo. Considered it at one time.

[mark414]

36. and hey off subject

i haven't talked to you in awhile!

how ya been??

[Huckebein the Raven]

48. Doing fine

Didn't have internet access for most of last week so I wasn't on.

[BlondieK143]

4. Details?

Sheesh, what were YOU thinking with that post? lol

[mark414]

21. look up darling

[BlondieK143]

28. HOT!

Can't wait for pics!

[Redstone]

5. No, it doesn't mean you're trashy; it means you're

being a weenie, complaining about a little bit of pain.

Don't you remember your high-school football coach's advice for anything that hurts?

Just run it off!

Redstone

[mark414]

6. ha

...i mostly just wanted to brag about my new tattoo...:shrug:

how ya livin RS???

[Redstone]

9. Doing well, thanks for asking.

Trying to get the ladies inflamed about the tat? Imply that it's a locomotive, that it's in a, err, sensitive region, and that it turns into a freight train under the right circumstances...

That oughta get 'em going. Though watch out for fact-checkers.

Redstone

[xmas74]

7. Wimp!

It doesn't hurt that much. I've had them done. Hurts like hell getting a few of them on (especially the one on my ankle-it was right over that knobby part and you could feel the needle vibrating down to the bone. That kind of sucked for a minute. Good thing I went in high). Aftercare was nothing. I always used A&D. And remember the sunscreen this time of year or it could fade out really fast.

[mark414]

8. yeah yeah yeah

i sat there the whole 3 hours and took it like a man! :silly:

[xmas74]

11. What does that make me?

I took my tats "like a man", even though I was bony and a bleeder. And I was dumb "Miss, do you really want it right over that bone? It might hurt." Me: "Fuck that-I want it done there right now. I can take it."
I did turn white at one point but that's because I had blood running up my leg and I had been skipping my ferrous sulfate tabs at the time (I have anemia). Probably not a good idea. Like I said, I'm a bleeder. But I didn't even flinch otherwise.

[mark414]

12. excellent

how many do you have?

i just got this one tuesday...and i'm getting ANOTHER one saturday (i keep coming across deals i can't turn down)

[xmas74]

17. three.

but I want more. I just can't justify getting them when the money could go to the kid instead.

[mark414]

20. they really are addicting

i have plans for a few more in the works as well...

just throw aside a little bit from every paycheck into a tattoo fund! it may take awhile but it'll be worth it...

[xmas74]

29. I tried that but

it seems like something always comes up! Daughter needs shoes, lessons,etc.

[uppityperson]

10. Whiner. Where is it?

one on my hiney kept sticking to the gauze and ripping it back open when I walked around at work. I kept wanting to ask the patients "guess why I'm walking funny", worked in a clinic.

[orleans]

27. that would've been funny....if you had asked them

their answers might have been really funny!

(did you sign the letter?
here's the link)

[mark414]

32. what do you have?

is that one your only one?

[uppityperson]

34. upper arm & hiney cheek

Red/black Ming vase /bird head thing wrapped on upper arm, for my child. Butt one is caduceus (staff/snake) with top of staff turning into an ankh with a twining rose (for healthcare, eternal life, mother). Heavy memorial stuff combined with color. Recommendation: butt tattoos are nice for others but you don't see them, get tattoos where you can see and enjoy them.

[Bouncy Ball]

13. When you've been through 26 hours of labor,

had a nine pound baby, and tore in places you would never want to tear, all with no drugs, then you can talk about pain!

:D

Otherwise, remember this motto of my husband's: pain is just weakness leaving the body.

[mark414]

14. hmm

i stand corrected

[Bouncy Ball]

15. You like the motto?

I like it. I think of it anytime I'm in pain. Even if I have to say it through gritted teeth: "just.....weakness....leaving....the body......rrrrrrrggggggg....."

:D

[mark414]

16. like it indeed

don't the marines use that motto?

there were a couple times during the inking process that SUCKED (especially with the wide needle on my inner arm...that there is a tender area)...but then i wisened up and grabbed a magazine to read while he was digging into my arm and i barely even noticed it

[Bouncy Ball]

18. ARMY!!!!

LOL

To be honest, I've never gotten a tattoo. I don't believe in unnecessary pain of any kind.

Yours sound neat!

[uppityperson]

19. Thanks for the update of what they are, sound neat.

post picts when you get them, I would to see them.

[Ladyhawk]

24. Hmmm...I didn't think so.

I got a rash from the antibiotic ointment I used, but it wasn't that bad. Are you sure it isn't infected? When in pain, I just go someplace else. That may sound whacky, but it works for all but the worst pain.

On edit: every person's experience is different. Your skin may be more sensitive than mine...and time may have dimmed my perceptions. :) It's been awhile since my tattoo. The guy who did it said it was in a fairly sensitive place: just below my left collar bone and above my boob. :)

[mark414]

25. nahh it's fine

i was mostly just being dramatic about it...the only time it hurts is rubbing ointment on it...

what do you have???

[Ladyhawk]

30. Hehe...I think you wanted an opportunity to share your story,

which is totally fine. :D Getting a tatt means you sat still through some really interesting sensations, eh? I know I did. By the time the artist was finished, I had endorphins surging through my body.

Mine is a full-color rose:



If I can find the money, I want to get some kind of tattoo to commemorate my surgery--if the surgery works. I'm moneyless (nice tatts cost boucoup bucks) and I don't know yet if the surgery was successful.

LH

[mark414]

31. very nice

is that on your back?

and yes the feeling is just so...different; it's hard to describe to someone who hasn't gotten one

it hurts so bad but feels so good!

i am lucky in that i have many seedy underground friends (ha...totally kidding) who also happen to be tattoo artists...so i've gotten both of mine done for super cheap (and i'm getting another one on saturday...just a small little flash piece, but also super cheap)

if i ever want to get something really big though...that will take some time to save up for

what would you get to commemorate your surgery?

[Ladyhawk]

39. Probably a flying redtail hawk on the back of my neck, signifying

freedom from pain. :)

[Ladyhawk]

55. BTW, we definitely need that picture of your tattoo. It's the law. n/t

[fleabert]

33. don't you know that only women can be trashy for this?

and only if it's on your lower back, of course!

I agree that the aftercare is a bitch, I had color transfer onto my clothes, that was annoying! I used witch hazel this time instead of antibiotics and creams, and it went so much more smoothly.

Show us your motto! and pics of the new ones soon...see you are getting another soon. :-) It does hurt so good, although my back didn't really hurt at all. seriously.

[mark414]

37. ohh right i forgot

bad, trashy fleabert!

but i am a man so my tattoos make me MORE of a man! :silly:

my motto, btw, is "lamh foistenach abu," meaning...the steady hand of friendship

[fleabert]

46. can't wait to see pics...

:bated breath:

[khashka]

38. Fleabert can we have more pix of you being trashy?

I mean, seriously, if that's trashy I'm all for it.

And girls with tats are like god's gift to men. (We got really stupid looking genitals but we also got girls with tattooes so it evens out.)


So why don't we do a Show Your Tats pic thread?


Khash.

[mark414]

41. good idea...can it wait a couple days???

i need to get pictures of mine!

and yes, i am all down for more fleabert pics

[khashka]

44. Hey sounds good to me

Only thing better than girls with tats is boys with tats, so I'm willing to wait.

And definitely more fleabert pix, she's so damn shy, I guess she just doesn't like the idea of men slobbering.....


Khash.

[fleabert]

47. LOL!

that is the FIRST time i have ever been called shy (modest? yes, shy? never)! I love it! I am an attention whore (goes well with trashy) but I am reticent to think that I send men into-slobber fests. If that is the case here, I am flattered, and will be happy to comply with your request. Here is another pic from the same set...



okay, it's the same pic, but I like the effect here, really highlights the tat. I now know I need more pics of my trashy tat! Oh, wait, it's not the tat that's trashy...IT'S ME! :crazy:

[khashka]

49. At the risk of being indelicate

I've alway's been entranced by fleabert's waist. Forget the tat! Look at those curves!

I hereby nominate fleabert for the Finest Ass On DU award!

Sorry to even bring this subject up.... but..... she wins it.



Khash.

(and there was some serious competition....)

[mark414]

50. well said and seconded

damn fine looking woman, front to back fleabert

[khashka]

51. Thirded

And I'm a major serious fag - so when I pump my fist in the air and shout Woohoo it counts a little more than when some straight frat boy does it.


Khash.

[fleabert]

54. oh I love you even more now!

I love gay boys, and for some reason, they love me too! I have had more than my fair share of the gays who want to feel my boobs or make out, LOL! I was such the fag hag in my younger days! (my dh's best man was/is gay, so I guess he is one too!)

:hug:

[fleabert]

53. oh my god, I am going to die...

:blush:

I can't take this kind of flattery, I am seriously blushing. I don't deserve this!





thanks though. :hug:

[fleabert]

52. It's the lighting!!!! I swear!!!!

while I appreciate the nomination and the win, I must humbly decline. I will accept the award for 'most decieving picture' though! LOL!

Really, I have the flattest ass ever. I am surprised pants stay on me without a belt. I fail the waist test too, there is some ratio that scientists say is genetically hardwired to make men want to have babies with us, I FAIL. BIG TIME. I have a boyish bod, when it comes to waist to hip ratio.

but you are a darling for your kind words, and I love you for it, made my week! hell, made my year! :hug: :loveya:

[fleabert]

45. :-)

sure baby. I only have the one, but I can take more soon. you are after my heart, aren't you?

[Ladyhawk]

56. Witch hazel, eh? I'll have to remember that for the redtail hawk

I want to put on my neck. :) I'm not sure, but I know I want a hawk theme: free bird, free from pain. It's over, thank goodness...you know, that sort of thing.

The tattoo following that will happen when I lose most of the weight I gained during an extreme bout with depression. The weight gain happened so quickly, I got diabetes, sleep apnea and degenerative disc disease because of it. I'm almost positive that's what happened.

The "weight loss" tattoo will be on my upper arm, I think.

I'm doing it, slowly but surely.

Take a look:

Very plump Ladyhawk with massive black cat:



Very plump Ladyhawk with silly green bird:



I took this with the web cam a few weeks ago to "document" my incision ;) I've lost quite a bit of flab during the past year or so:



This summer, I am going to snorkel my ass off. Literally. :) By summer's end, I should be even thinner. (And yes, I have a submersible cervical collar. :D)

Damn, I really need to be in bed...why am I still up????

[fleabert]

57. You look awesome!

and that is one big cat! (and some lovely birds too)

do you snorkel in CA or go elsewhere? It's good to see you are feeling better, how is recovery going?

[Ladyhawk]

61. Recovery is happening slowly.

I'm tired a lot of the time and for some reason, I've been so overaroused lately I've had trouble sleeping at night...you know, when you're supposed to sleep. :) Some days I think the surgery will work; other days I think it won't. I still have nerve pain, but the surgeon said that may take months to go away.

Last year I taught myself to snorkel in Pinecrest Lake. I also snorkeled a bit in Cherry Lake, both of which are in my county. I would love to snorkel in the ocean, preferrably over a nice coral reef in a tropical zone. I'm waiting for the day...hope it comes. I would love to take swimming lessons so I know the proper strokes in case something ever goes wrong.

Yeah, the cat belongs to a neighbor of my mothers, but he comes by to mooch occasionally. He weighs 25 pounds...hehe...maybe even more now.

The birdy is my mine. :)

[GirlinContempt]

40. trashy

to the max

[mark414]

42. takes one to know one...

[GirlinContempt]

43. .........

ouch

[AllegroRondo]

58. Mine still itches on hot days

and I've had it for 5 years.

[gypsy11]

59. Good for you!

I just got my second one in April. It takes 45 days for the skin to regenerate fully. For me, the after care of the second one went better than the first.
I love tats!
Even trashy ones on women, and being a woman, I guess that makes me trashy. :woohoo:

[hippiechick]

60. FICTION. It does not.

Although the wierdest thing happened the night after I got mine ... the 'saran wrap' they had put over it came off during the night while I was asleep and when I woke up the next morning I had a reverse imprint of my tatt on my pillowcase.

:wow:


Here's mine, no actual pics available ... sorry. :(