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Sending love @Colored Guy I can only imagine the mix of emotions you're going through right now. You, your wife and your family are all in my thoughts <3

The word that best describes today is 'itchy' !

That's my plan as well. I really want to have the rest of my arm as the last body part to have tattooed. My thigh sucked too! I thought it was going to be easy. Going for a bit if touch up work then I'll post it up.

I'm the same.. i've got a huge space on my right arm that i'm saving hopefully to get out to Texas and get tattooed by Steve Byrne..

On the whole i'm just getting stuff i want and not worrying about how shitty/not shitty it is.. after all the pain is temporary but the tattoo is permanent :)

I'm getting the tat for both myself and as a show piece. I think thats why most people get one, right? Will the tat fade or bubble if exposed to the sun?

I've never gotten a tattoo as a 'show piece'.. infact some of the tattoos i have that I love the most are in areas only the people very closest to me ever see..

and FYI we all know what the human body looks like... posting photographs of your body parts isn't gonna get you better tattoo advice ;)

why hasnt this thread been updated in three weeks?! I'm home alone on a saturday night and had a few glasses of wine... updated my gallery photos, about to eat pizza... the obvious essentials on a Saturday night!

What @Mick Weder said , all of my leg tattoos took longer to heal than anywhere else. My front of thigh tattoos seemed to take forever!

I had my side tattooed on Wednesday and FYI stretch marks that have been tattooed on suck in the days after in my opinion. Ouch :(

Sending love @Colored Guy x

Best of luck and positive thoughts @MadeIndelible , I'm another one who's struggled with addiction. You've already done the hardest part by realising it's a problem and taking the first steps. You've got to hit rock bottom to find your way back up as they say. Well done x

i can sort of see that. semen acts the same as lotion and it really softens up the skin, actually bull semen is used to make lotion so the only difference is i guess lotion you buy is more sanitary that taking it right of the cock. I mean hey, face cream is made out of human foreskins so it's not that far fetched an idea. If i didn't know better about cleanliness I'd totally do it and I'm really not all that surprised she did.

I have no words

Breathing was definitely a bit odd in that place but once I realised just breathing normally wasn't affecting him working on me I was all good . That was the only issue I had which was a total relief haha , thanks Mike :)

Healing my sternum is proving to be a pain in the ass. Bras suck at the best of times but right now I'm cursing their very existence!

I have never come across an artist who actively keeps me up to date with how things are going. If I want to see any drawing ahead of time it's my responsibility to contact them and ask. In saying that I've never had any artist draw anything up for me too far in advance if it's not a massive piece.

Sure you could contact the boss but in all honesty I'm not sure they would do much more than think you were being a bit of a difficult customer.

When I say rubbish obviously that's in my opinion. Really shouldn't judge !

This doesn't surprise me in the least... anyone youngish woman with tattoos or man with tattoos , a beard and skinny jeans now thinks they're a 'tattoo model'!

I agree with @TrixieFaux , @Eilin should definitly go on! Beautiful with fantastic tattoos... sadly most of these 'tattoo models' have rubbish tattoos just for the sake of it..

Hi, i just got a big tattoo on my upper left pec and am wondering if it's causing my breast to swell up. It's high up an inch below the collar bone and there is a dark yellow bruise that goes al around and ends 2 or 3 inches above my nipple. Yesterday i noticed that the tattoos breast was larger that the other and was really drooping low. I just wanted to check and see if this has happened to anyone else when they got a chest tattoo.

Hi Faolan,

I havent gotten my chest tattooed but it sounds to me like thats probably the cause.. however if you are concerned give your artist a ring.. don't hesitate to do so as they know far better than us the affects tattooing has on the body. Hope the swelling goes down for you and it's not causing you too much bother!

Well i managed to survive getting my sternum tattooed yesterday! I was really worried about it after being told horror stories and also because i'm incredibly self concious of that area! I did indeed need to have my boobs out for a short amount of time getting the stencil on etc... i was really really embarrased while that was happening.. however my tattoo artist was an absolute gentleman. He ensured we had privacy , talked to me the whole time i was derobed and put me totally at ease. Everyone else in the shop was incredibly respectful too. By the end of it i couldve walked around the shop with my top off and not cared haha!! Its amazing how quickly you get into it.

The suggestion of vest underneath a softer bra is an absolute godsend today so that's definitly got my vote too!

Too many to list! Most recently ..

'But you were such a pretty girl Holly' :rolleyes:

and from one of my older ladies who's nails i do

'You're never going to meet an oil baron and skip off happily into the distance now are you dear?'

On the whole i have to say most of the comments i get are pretty positive. In the early days of becoming visibly tattooed I was really conscious of being stared at especially by older women... now though i don't even notice!

Long time no post! :)

Tomorrow i'm getting a black and grey death head moth on my sternum from Piers Lee who's currently guesting at Red Hot and Blue tattoo here in Edinburgh..

Excited and nervous at the same time!

Hello Ladies (and Gents!), I havent posted in absolutely ages but i've been reading with interest ! I'm getting my sternum tattooed tomorrow and i have to admit i'm pretty nervous... Generally i've found being tattooed ok so far however my partner has a relatively small tattoo on his sternum and he really really struggled with it!

I'm planning to wear a crop top kind of sports bra that is now too big for me (one of the downsides of any type of weight loss for me!) and also a vest top which im going to pull down around my waist. I'm really really self conscious about my lower tummy area after having carried two single pregnancies and one twin pregnancy!

This thread has been incredibly useful in the run up to this tattoo so thanks folks!

Yes some really great advice here. Thanks folks its all much appreciated. One of the Many things I appreciate about this forum is good advice without being made to feel stupid :)

I have a big Pharoh's horses project that I have been planning for awhile, but probably not going to happen for a bit, with any luck we could both be getting one, although mine is a continuation of my back piece.

See if I was able to have a back piece this would just solve so many issues.

As an aside i would love to have my hands tattooed.

@semele that's really helpful - thanks. I don't have a desire to appear untatttooed and work self employed and anticipate doing so for my whole life. Being the only trade I have !

I've seen a few pharaohs horses design that come down between the breasts to the sternum and up to kind of should/collar. I'm gonna go buy me a sharpie tomorrow. Might try and persuade my ten year old to draw it for me haha

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@David Flores yup I totally hear ya. It's not something I'm aiming for in the next while for sure. I was actually just talking to the guys in the shop I go to today and the verdict was I'm definitely trying to completely disassociate from my 'old self' and it's definitely time to stop and enjoy the ones I have without always healing new ones.

Ah, someting about a Lady with a full chest-piece...

A positive something ? If I'm going to go for it I want it to be pretty spectacular.

This might well be tmi but I'm not very large breasted at all so my thinking is this may cause slightly less 'distortion' to the piece as I age ?!

Hi folks.

I'm gathering some opinions and information on ladies with chest pieces. I would really like a phaorohs horses chest piece however I'm hesitant for some reason. Firstly my mum would hate it (but I'm 27.. Should it matter?)

Secondly ladies who have chest pieces - did it drastically change how you appeared ? That sounds like a ridiculous question.

I don't have any torso tattoos. My backs a no go , after twins and two other kids my tummys a no go.

If I'm going to actually make the jump fr a chest piece I want it to be a fabulous one.

Has anyone ever drawn on themselves to get used to it or am I just totally mental ?