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THIS THREAD WAS SO FUN! I've missed so much.. Lil panther guy by Mario Desa on my right, and on my left I've got a sleeve-background-skin triangle where a little "Mom" heart lives. That actually says, Ma. No photo of that one though.

Damn, nobody is disappointing! Got this little one from Andy Perez at the new shop Allied in Bushwick when I was back a couple months ago visiting. Bad cell phone picture, but you get the idea. First one above the collar, d'oh!

Damn, nobody is disappointing! Got this little one from Andy Perez at the new shop Allied in Bushwick when I was back a couple months ago visiting. Bad cell phone picture, but you get the idea. First one above the collar, d'oh!

THIS THREAD WAS SO FUN! I've missed so much.. Lil panther guy by Mario Desa on my right, and on my left I've got a sleeve-background-skin triangle where a little "Mom" heart lives. That actually says, Ma. No photo of that one though.

two of my favorites are on my inner biceps - by Rob Ryan and Steve Boltz - not a bad combo

A little late to this thread...I have this great horned owl tail feather on my inner bicep. I had it done in black and grey realism and couldn't be happier with it!

By Tim Pausinger, Pearl Harbor Giftshop, Toronto.
I don't have experience with the most painful spots (ribs, back, butt). This was not as brutal as I expected but certain spots closer to the armpit felt like hot pokers up and out through my shoulder haha !

fresh right inner bicep
Thou Shalt Hustle! :cool:

Having one color tattoo is fine! It worked out for Rick Genest.

Hannya with a dragon wrapped around it by George Hernandez. Video in the IG link.
https://instagram.com/p/sqwdo2vMab/

my right arm,inner bicep,

ya ya,I know,but I'm an "old guy" so I get a pass.

I don't really know how to answer that. I have tattoos over both collarbones and I don't recall them being especially bad, even though I know that collarbone is a notoriously bad spot. I remember during one that there were bits where it seemed that my entire skeleton was vibrating and that was distinctly unpleasant, and I hadn't felt that on any other tattoo until I started my back.
The inner arm skull I would rate as the most painful tattoo I've ever had--I would say in all honesty that it was worse than getting my back lined--but that had everything to do with me not being prepared for it. When I got the tattoo I had just finished working a week of twelve-hour long night shifts at a very physically demanding job and I was never in good shape after my work week during the best of circumstances, plus the appointment was at a convention so in addition to being excited about getting tattooed, I was also excited about being at the convention and seeing all the awesome stuff going on, which meant that I got two or three hours of poor-quality daytime sleep prior to the tattoo. And because it was at a convention everything was running behind, and that wasn't great for my physical well-being. Basically you know how during the first few minutes of a tattoo before the endorphins kick in you start to question your sanity and your motives because it turns out that a machine driving needles repeatedly through your skin really really hurts? That's how the entire tattoo was. It was miserable. I've been tattooed a few times by Ron: he also did one of my collarbones, and a good sized tattoo on the side of my lower leg, and I don't find him especially painful to get tattooed by (he's also a tremendous guy, for what it's worth), it was just that I was in bad shape. That tattoo ended up healing pretty badly because I babied it and I was pretty cagey about getting it touched up because of how it felt initially, but at one point he said he was going to do it and I got ready to grit my teeth and get it done...and it was almost painless. So who knows.

Just finished my left inner arm with Tim McAlary at Port City Tattoo, LBC. My recommendation is to book the appointment, then bounce ideas off your tattooer and something is bound to stick.
I definitely wasn't planning on getting a "Boxing Jesus surrounded by 4 eyes, and a flower and a spider and a black drop."

I have a dagger/knife done by Tony Nilsson!

A mermaid spanning from my upper arm into my lower. Positioned such that her belly button is in the inside crook of my elbow and when I bend my arm, she swims.

left
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a peony and waves, a part of my baby-sleeve.

Some awesome inner bi's here. I'm quite fond of skulls in this location.
Brian Bruno

Chris O'Donnell

Kind of tough to make out what goes where from this picture. It's the ball and chain. To give you reference, the girl head is above my elbow ditch.

This is a cool thread. Lots of really good tattoos. My contribution is as follows... Cross with Koru designs by Tommy Downs at Roger's Tattoo Art in Wellington, NZ. That is surrounded by a half sleeve by Gerry Carnelly at Octopus Tattoo, Derby, UK. The second piece then is a dotwork Aum gap filler by Patrick Huttlinger going in the little gap left by a half sleeve by Ian Flower at New Skool Tattoos in Ewell village, Surrey, UK.
I really like that the combination balances the two arms. When I had the gaps it felt totally unbalanced. I agree with the earlier comment though about not having to tattoo that part of my body again. The cross was my first ever tattoo and not the most pleasant introduction to say the least...

This is a real LST problem...

couple years old by max kuhn

bout a 1.5-2 years old by adam shrewsbury

Here we go.
Fudo by Matt Brotka
RFTC tattoo (and surrounding) by Andrew Conner.

Both by Chad Koeplinger.