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Hi guys, first post, figured I'd give a brief intro and also say thanks for all the shared wisdom/input: I'm a middle aged guy (40) going in next week for his first tattoo (planning a small/medium-ish sized piece on the upper arm), after having a consultation with a local artist about my ideas. I let him know I may be interested in continuing/expanding on the idea later, depending how I feel about things. I've wanted to get a tattoo for a long time, but always held back due to concerns with all the usual tropes: job prospects, what friends/family/others will think, "omg what will it look like when you're older", not completely sold on an idea/implementation, etc. I've decided that I'm settled into my career and it will have 0 impact, and I don't care about what others think and I'm already "old" from some/most perspectives. 🙂 I've spent the past few weeks reading through quite a few older/archived posts from the past 3-4 years, and learning as much as I could about the whole process which I'm eternally grateful for. I didn't even know what I didn't know until reading various accounts/inputs of the process (choosing a design, finding and working with an artist about the implementation, aftercare, mental state throughout the process), so thank you to anyone who's posted a question/response here! I'll come back next week and post up a pic as things progress (it sounds like it's going to take two sessions to get everything completed), in the meantime: glad to be here!

Looks great!

Yeah he did. I think all good tattoo artists enjoy artistic freedom.

Session #3 done, I'm really happy with how things are shaping up! Looks like one more session to add in a few more fine details, and then fill in a bit of background/border. I still need to come up with something for the background, I think something relatively simple so it doesn't detract from the main subjects is probably best (any ideas or suggestions would be awesome too).