AtomicMagpye

I was going to have my back worked on last night, but it was still tender from the shading of last week.
She knew I wanted an old demon head covered up on my bicep, so we went with that. Took like 3 hours with all the BSing back and forth, cutting a stencil from something already drawn up.
 

Back in to my friendly local tattoo emporium this Thursday - rework of 25 (ish) year old dragon - 
before and after in the pics - 

Back in to my friendly local tattoo emporium this Thursday - rework of 25 (ish) year old dragon - 
before and after in the pics - 

Back in to my friendly local tattoo emporium this Thursday - rework of 25 (ish) year old dragon - 
before and after in the pics - 

Back in to my friendly local tattoo emporium this Thursday - rework of 25 (ish) year old dragon - 
before and after in the pics - 

Got this today by Nathan Blankenship at Exile Tattoo,KC.
 
 

Super honored to have new peonies from Henning on my right calf. Done at Kings Avenue last Friday. More than a little thrilled!

Back in to my friendly local tattoo emporium this Thursday - rework of 25 (ish) year old dragon - 
before and after in the pics - 

Back in to my friendly local tattoo emporium this Thursday - rework of 25 (ish) year old dragon - 
before and after in the pics - 

Back in to my friendly local tattoo emporium this Thursday - rework of 25 (ish) year old dragon - 
before and after in the pics - 

Ah feck it, here have a fresh pic of my new tattoo. 
On 2nd October I got this tattooed. A Honda CB Twin Motorcycle, with Giger style touches.  Tattooed in memory of biker friends who recently passed. 
Tattooed by Tommygunn at Belfast City Skinworks, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Fresh pic (taken 4 Oct 17)
 

Here's a little boat then......  about 3 weeks ago now....
 

Here's a little boat then......  about 3 weeks ago now....
 

Here's a little boat then......  about 3 weeks ago now....
 

Bumping this for others to re-up their latest tattoos.  Here's one on me by Jeff P. at Art Work Rebels from earlier this summer:

Had the latest additions to this last Saturday - (king magpye, atom, additional magpye (not shown) further up the arm and a little treble clef gap filler....)...
Still healing right now - this will eventually be a sleeve.... eventually.... :-)
 

looks normal to me...

looks normal to me...

If I was a cat, I'd be down to 1 life left..at best. In fact, I may be ahead of the game. In just my 26 years in the Army, I had an 8" artillery shell detonate over my head and was hit with shrapnel but without injury, I've ridden 2 helicopters to the ground with engine failures...one hard enough to compress the skids...and walked away and was in the area of the Pentagon hit by the plane on 9/11 and twice escaped (at least) from circumstances where I could have not made it out. My uniform is part of the Smithsonian exhibition form that day....I stared Death down and smiled back.
My second tattoo is attribute to the 9/11 experiences. Not focused on death but on the determination to live and to face the threat head on. That's why I chose an eagle standing on a pentagonal shaped rock with sun rays shining overhead. Death doesn't scare me nor does it control my actions. When it comes it comes...and I am ready to face the life after.
 

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Finished - Butterfly, dogwood flowers and mandala. Stitch detail around the outside is referencing classic embroidery patterns


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today's shenanigans - or at least bits of it - 

Forgot to update this- 
Well, yeah I don't have any tattoo reference points as it was my first tattoo, but he started on my ribs, worked up into my armpit, then outlined across my collar bone, and on my nipple. This was all Excruciatingly painful.
I once crushed my finger off in an industrial guillotine, I would do this again on all 5 fingers and it wouldn't feel as painful at that. I'm not being pussy about it, i'm just stating how much it hurt for me, in all honesty. Someone mentioned rubbing sunburn? Maybe if Edward F***ing scissorhands was doing the rubbing, I dunno... anyway.
After about 2.5 hours, the artist tells me its taking longer than he expected, hes moving slower because he can tell it hurts, I'm lying there still and quiet, but i think if i tensed my other bicep any harder it would have popped, so he actually told me to take the cream because if he didn't finish today, I would be leaving the country and I wouldn't be able to come back for another session to finish.
So I got experience with and without.
Once the cream went on it wasn't just less painful, it was nothing, literally nothing, I swear if it wasn't for the vibrations i could feel in my bones or the buzzing I wouldn't know I was getting tattooed. So at this point he doubles his pace and I can feel how much faster the lines are going down. He said it would take 3-4 hours, it took a little under 5 in the end.
Notes -
When I could watch him tattooing it hurt less than staring at the ceiling.
The perfect way to describe how it felt was slowly pulling a stanley blade across yourself like our a surgeon making an incision. I've slipped a few times with my stanley lol only difference is as soon as he lifts off the pain stops immediately.
I dunno, I felt like a massive pussy taking the cream but I needed to finish up, my next one i'll still go in for with no cream.
So there is my embarrassing, but genuinely honest experience. (better that just the BS 'It barley hurt I was fine' lie haha)