Tattoos?

[Lovely Rita]

As for gauging, I was told if you go any higher than a 2 gauge..your holes will never shrink. That being said, mine were up to either a 4 or 2 and it took them about a month to shrink to what they are now, and even now I can still fit a regular 14 and 12g rings in them no problem, so I dont think theyll comepletely shrink back down. BUT dermal punching to that gauge is a whole other story. A friend of a friend got his conches dermal punched at a 4g....and they will permanently be there. If you go to your piercer, Im sure theyd have no problem tapering them for you, I got mine tapered at first by my piercer then I just did expanders. My bf got his tapered by our piercer from a 12g to a 6. He also got his lip tapered instead of just repiercing it.

I have also heard of the 2g rule, but I've also heard that many people can go as far as 0g or even 1/2" without a problem. I was considering dermal punching but a) I can't afford it, and b) there's much less chance it will shrink, although I think it can happen. Cartilage is different though, I don't think that it shrinks even if you stretch it slowly.

I would get my piercer to taper me, but it costs $30, WITHOUT JEWELRY, which is insane because I know that many studios will do it for five bucks or less. My studio is the closest one to me anyways, and it's also the best studio in the city, so I don't really mind. The tape method is working well for me, I'm just going to keep it up.

Good luck with w/e u do

Thanks .

 

[fieldfamily]

I love Tatoos, I have 5 very large pieces on my upper arms chest and back All can be concealed by a short sleave shirt due to the fact that i have always worked in a professional setting. I got my first one as soon as I turned 18 and have been getting more ever since, or keep adding to the ones I have. I am getting a new very large one done this december. I will be getting my fiance's or wife after oct 1st , her name across the top of my back
in a very cool script. I will also be getting a small one of Legend at some point down the road. After you start it is hard to stop.

 

[ILoveMyCasey]

Jeff, my boyfriend and I beleive its hard to stop, I have 5 tats and he has a whole sleev with a dragon bricks, a girl in a short skirt and a whole bunch of other stuff!

I have a flower on my left leg that is about 9 inches long, one on my chest of a flower and his name, a flower on my ankle that says Daddy's little girl (because i am) and chinese letters across my back and neck and my tongue peirced!

 

[Shanz]

Jeebus Sarah! 30$ is expensive.. my piercer does it for 10 but since my bf and i have gotten everything done there from piercings to tattoos, they do our tapering for free and knock money off of stuff for us.

I would really like to get a tattoo that ive designed myself so that no one else can have it. I sorta did that with my shooting star. I took a tatto i found online and just changed it around a bit... but i cant draw so

 

[KonaKoffe]

EAT! Eat a big meal- breakfast, whatever. It will help you stay level headed. ........................too pissed off to meditate, so I just gripped the chair real hard. It was on my lower back and hurt like a b*tch. Just don't tense up, you'll be fine. :D

Thanks for the advice.

 

[renielou]

Just got my first one and it wasn't nearly as bad as I was afraid of. Low pain tolerance here and I put it on my ankle. But I wanted the lowest risk of skin sagging,I'm heavy but I wanted one anyway. So just remember to breathe,KonaKoffee. Mine is two weeks old and I don't heal well so we are having a little bit of an issue there, but it's not to serious. It's my husbands name in a fancy script and a gold cross w/drape over that. Been watching too much Miami Ink also, but I have almost lost hubby twice already and thought I would do it if he died, so why wait. Tell's him how much I love him, when he can still appreciate it. My son has two, a tribal armband to commemorate one uncle and a blue dragon on the other arm to commemorate his other uncle who died in the navy. That one is my brother and I am trying to find a smaller dragon for me as well.

 

[RamonasMom]

One here

I have one - it is of a lion cub on my back over my lower left ribcage. It represents me - a Leo but not a very big, brave one. My husband is an artist/illustrator (he illustrates Dora the Explorer books as well as various other projects) and hates tattoos. He said I could get another one once I got my first one touched up - which I did last year. Now with Miami Ink and Inked, I have been craving another but my husband keeps grunting at me every time I mention it. I told him he could draw it up for me but he said he doesn't like to see his own art eveyday yet he doesn't trust the tattoo artists to do a good job. Whatever!! He will be out of town when I plan on getting my next one. Haven't decided if I should do a tramp stamp or around my shoulder blades but it will be of a flying fox bat. When I told my boss my plan, he started calling me "Bat Girl". That's not the reason for the bat...

 

[KonaKoffe]

Piece of cake

So I did it last Friday. It fdlt like a static shock - just continual. Not as bad as I had planned on. (Ladies - Easier than a mamogram! )

 

[simmons]

I got my Tattoo when I just turned 18 and my dad flipped. Never planned it, but it was Spring Break and in the moment. It is two dolphins at the lower left of my stomatch. You can only see it when I wear a bathing suit so I am not too worried about it. My family and friends say the same thing, when I get pregnant I will have two Whales on my stomach instead of the two dolphins. But not really worried about that now, we will see.

Good Luck!

 

[EKR16]

Well I'm back!

I'm back!! I went by Miami Ink over the weekend & it really wasn't that impressive. It is exactly the way it looks on the show & it is on just some non-descript street. Anyway, I went in thinking maybe I could at least get a t-shirt since my $$ situation isn't good enough to get new ink, but nope - no t-shirts! There were about 10 people in there & I heard the receptionist guy tell someone that the next time they could get him in was in 2 weeks! So I pretty much just looked around for a second and left. None of the guys from the show were there either! Oh well!