Maebus

I have a front torso piece and some rope that goes over one nipple. Whilst we tattooed right around it (including the areola) we left the actual nipple as is given that it blended reasonably well anyway and the other nipple isn't covered by the design. Thought it would look weird just having one. At work at the moment, but I'll try and post a picture soon.

As a general rule, I think it's all down to the specific piece. Mine has lots of colour in so seems to be a bit more lenient on having nipples not shaded, if it was black and grey I'd probably have had them done as it seems it would be a bit more jarring.

Bear head done by Jack Allender out of Worcester a few days ago, photo stolen from his Instagram as I didn't grab one before it scabbed up. My first piece of trad, super happy with it.

Bear head done today @fourleaf_tattoo thanks for coming down Tsam

i'm healing nothing right now and enjoying that :)

well - until next week when i get my knee done by rob ryan

which i imagine will be an interesting heal

my knees are banged up from bike and skateboard falls, etc

but always wanted to try the knee tattoo looking forward to this one

I've had one knee done and healing was surprisingly ok. Bruised like hell, but walking around wasn't anywhere near as bad as I'd imagined. I've been doing martial arts for years and years so have similarly banged up/calloused knees, I need a bit of a skim over to on the lower part of my knee but generally I'm really pleased with how well it all held up. Best of luck with yours!

I'm currently a couple of days into healing a trad bear head on the side of my lower leg. I thought it was going to be a breeze as I've had stuff in the vicinity before but this one has blown up! Major fat leg issues going on and unusually for me I've already got big thick scabs, so that's not feeling great right now. I'm hoping the fast reaction will mean fast healing, but we'll see...