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“On the first day, the initial stings weren’t as painful as I expected. In fact, I thought I could do this all day long. But after a while, my skin became quite sensitive and the stings of the needle started to add up. What was hurting even more was the constant cleaning of the area around the tattoo. The rubbing of the cleaning paper on the skin over and over again made my skin go nuts. Imagine you take a credit card and rub the edges back and forth on your forearm until your skin turns red…and then you continue for 50 times more.”

“I decided to go first — since this was my brilliant idea. I am not gonna lie — I am a huge scaredy cat about pain — probably another reason why I didn’t get a tattoo sooner. Because my tattoo was going on the back of my neck — I had to sit in a seat and press my chin to my chest. When the gun started to buzz right by my ear — I totally jumped and almost quit. The first strike wasn’t so bad — but as it keeps moving and marking — it starts to really hurt. Basically — imagine someone taking a knife and slowly moving it up and down your body. That is how I would describe it.”

“I was told by my artist that some people faint and such from getting a tattoo the first time, but I was never a person to faint at the sight of needles, or blood, or anything, so I thought I was in the clear. As the needle went over that tendon I got severely nauseous and my vision became rather blurry and black. It wasn't necessarily the whole tattoo process that got to me it was just that one tendon. It wasn't long till I was back to normal, waited 10 minutes, and things started to subside.”