I have a very high pain tolerance - partially due, I'm sure, to having ankle problems and upper back/neck problems for most of my life.
Most of my tattoos didn't really hurt while I was getting them, honestly. They tingled and burned a bit, but they didn't hurt.
One tattoo was very, very painful (the fill colorwork on my backpiece), but that's more because I was in a eating disorder relapse at the time and I was 1) taking appetite suppressants; 2) not eating; 3) dehydrated from the appetite suppressants.
I'm lucky, I guess. It doesn't hurt afterward, not unless I bruised around the tattoo (which happened on my chest and a little toward the inside of my elbow), but I'm lucky. I tattoo well.
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Date: 2009-04-05 05:27 pm (UTC)Most of my tattoos didn't really hurt while I was getting them, honestly. They tingled and burned a bit, but they didn't hurt.
One tattoo was very, very painful (the fill colorwork on my backpiece), but that's more because I was in a eating disorder relapse at the time and I was 1) taking appetite suppressants; 2) not eating; 3) dehydrated from the appetite suppressants.
I'm lucky, I guess. It doesn't hurt afterward, not unless I bruised around the tattoo (which happened on my chest and a little toward the inside of my elbow), but I'm lucky. I tattoo well.