The Tattoo Thread • Page 67

I have 4 scheduled through the end of February lol.

 

I got this last month

 

ya’ll are not helping. thinking of getting something Hollow Knight related or finally doing some cover up work.

 

Finishing up my arm next month

 

The new ones will all be on my legs this time.

 

This the one where you kept bleeding?

 

yup, all on the lower left leg for me.

 

I’ve got my eye on this sick frog flash piece, thinking that’ll be next after Christmas/early new year

 

Lol yep

 

do it.

 

random thought: I pretty much mostly have american traditional

do ya’ll feel mostly contained to a certain style of tattoo that goes with everything on you or just what fits that specific piece

 

I've just been going with whatever looks cool to me, less focused on the style.

That said, there are a couple neotraditional artists I've considered for my eventual full sleeve. I think their work looks cool

 

I’m pretty strictly into traditional and plays on that style. I’ve got a few text ones and anothe proper piece that don’t fit the style from before I was getting tattooed more regularly. But I wouldn’t even really consider getting anything other than trad at this point.

 

As I posted, I only have one, but I seem really only drawn to black and grey.

These are my favorite artists in my area right now (Boston)

Adam - just did my first one : Adam LoRusso (@adamlorusso) • Instagram photos and videos

Josh McAlear : Josh McAlear (@joshmcalear) • 2,575 Instagram photos and videos

 

Day 5 post first tattoo. It's getting reallllll itchy.

 

Gotta slap that bish

 

Also I just realized it’s your first tattoo and I don’t want my bad advice to be taken too literally- don’t slap your tattoo lol that can blow out the ink. But like lightly slapping/tapping is the move

 

When does the chance of effecting the tattoo go away in the timeline? Like day 6 if I slap I can still mess up the ink?

 

As long as it’s still healing you can mess it up.

 

Yeah. I don’t think you’re out of the woods until it’s completely healed

 

When is it "completely healed"

 

I would say 2 weeks at least, 4 weeks at most?

 

Whurd, thanks for the info.

My artist said I could get back to hot yoga after a week, which is saturday. So I am hoping going to Monday's class is good.

 

My family all just caught a bacterial skin infection, which inevitably got into my healing stegosaurus tattoo. Had two big patches of raw, weeping skin and had to take antibiotics. Thank goodness it's pretty much healed now and hasn't affected the tattoo. Think I got lucky there.

 

Oh nice I think you’ll be good there, usually a week to two weeks is what it takes to heal the top layer so it’s not as prone to infection or anything but I would still avoid slapping it lol

honestly I always slap my tattoos to itch Lol because it itchesssss and it’s better than scratching at it. Or I will scratch “backwards” like with the backs of my nails instead of the normal way. Idk if that makes any fucking sense but yeah lmao. This is definitely a “do as I say not as I do” sorta thing lol