Oiocha

I spoke too soon.

really hopeful we can have pagoda this year to make up for the HUGE break tattooing took.  

On 4/3/2020 at 11:56 AM, Gingerninja said:

My appointments with Garver and Rubendall were cancelled. Blah. That being said, I do have a cool commission happening. 🙂

oooooh do we get a name as to who is doing the commission?  I also got something, from Luca Mamone

State of Grace just canceled all appointments, to be rescheduled at an undetermined date.

I'm doing what I can to pre-pay for sessions and buy some art.

Hope it feels better soon. I take benedryll when I have a little bit of shock.  

I think its just a tattooer trying to get into the market of tattoo aftercare so that the other niche non-tattooer companies stop getting a cut.

crispy

I use a custom compounded numbing cream before we start that has lidocaine tetracaine and some others, we use bactine during if I'm really roughed up and lastly breathing.  Ask your artist some dont allow it for quality reasons.  I recommend you take the time to do the digging rather than make a whole new thread next time, even just finding an advice thread where this fits instead of creating a new one. 

14 hours ago, Gingerninja said:

Happy healing @Oiocha! That is some heavy black. LOL.  I can't even imagine Tomo filling in my crack... 

You have first hand experience with him, it was pretty ding dang bad.  I'm going back for Easter and we're doing the other side of my crack and I'm already having an internal conversation about only have to do it so many times.  I only have one butt and once its done its done forever is what I keep telling myself.

Art is pain.  We have one inner thigh and cheek left to go and it was easily harder than the ribs.  We did some shading on the cat and the difference it made was beautiful. Without further adieu:

Anyone have some tips for the 'derm being extra stuck to your skin?  I've tried getting in the shower, using soap, using olive oil, peeling it over itself, pulling it away from itself and pushing my skin down.  I'm lost and in pain, help.

Cool tattoo ideas

Under cheek is by far my worst experience.  I have 1 down and 1 to go and the odds are good my healing is going to be an experience. Sitting, standing, walking, existing; I feel like a wimp.

Tomo time this weekend. Damage report to follow.  Keep my crack in your prayers, its time for what I assume will be the most uncomfortable part of this back.

Finished with Mike and finally got to posting it.  Super stoked on how it came out and how easy it was to get lines and shading in one session and color the next.

talk about numbing cream with your artist. I never used it, never thought about using it, until i started my back.  It'll be good when you have a day that just doesnt go right and you need to get through the session. 

a small example: my artist will only use custom compounded cream and only use it on shading.  find out if your artist will allow it, if they have a specific brand they will use, if there are any other stipulations.

 Fuji's clouds are gorgeous his work with gray is perfection.

Back to Horitomo in January after a season off, I took too long of a break and I'm ready to get back in. 

I got started with Mike Wilson on my calf, big ol' flying tiger.  I'm excited to share it once its done.

Those tattoos are gorgeous, as always.  Penny you have such great taste and your ideas always look like they come right out of the artists classic playbook, even when its an original idea.

There are still nothing but heavy hitters at Absolute Art, the indomitable Brian Bruno to name one. 

isn't Absolute Art in Richmond? Go there. Marina Inoue is in town.

A lot of my experiences have been with people who are heads down and quiet.  I can take the lacking conversation in exchange for wearing a better piece of art for the rest of my life time. Kiku is the only person I had a good time with and got a good tattoo from, we took a lot longer to do the tattoo but came away having much more fun.  I always book with the end product in mind, I can't form an interesting conversation during the experience anyways, I'm concentrating on not dying.

Ed Hardy’s new book at his Museum and Afterlife Volume 2 are out. The timing is terrible and my wallet hates me but, I ordered Afterlife and got a friend to go pick up a copy of Ed’s book.