T
Joined: Jun 19, 2002
Posts: 775
|
T
First design
Shag has great Hula girl stickers at Poster Pop.
Sailor Jerry's Hula girl is awesome.
The hard part is finding something with an outline, most tats have an outline to start and stop color.
I took a Shag sticker in with me and just added an outline and changed the colors a bit.
I E-mailed Shag first and he said it was cool.
Now, this again is just my experience.
Sid said "NO blood thinners, no drinking, no Ginko Biloba,no aspirin, basiclly nothing to thin your blood ahead of time.
1st, shave the area to be worked on
2nd, Sid (my tatoo artist)put the sticker on some blue line paper and transfered it to my arm for location approval. That blue line could wash off and be moved if you did not like it.
3rd, follow the blue line with the black outline ink, (needle going in and out 90 degrees to the body part)
4th, add color (3needles going in on a scooping motion)(try to pick stock colors so it can be touched up by anyone)
5th, Sid says "Neosporin fades Tats" he gave me a tube of Tri-Bactin. And now just for a moment let us think of your Tat as a form of road rash. Would you cover it for ten min. or until it heals?
6th, I went straight to the Black Flys retail store and bought a tube of Tat Guard, SPF 35 and "color enhancer"(snake oil?)
Anyway it has been 2 1/2 years and I am not the best at keeping the sun off, but I think mine still looks great.
$150.00 about an hour and one half.
Now the pain part
Just grab that tender part under your arm about 4 inches from your pit, now pinch it as hard as you can and hold it for the duration.
Would I do it again? yes, I think about it all the time (beware Tat fever is real)
Good luck
Sorry this was so short, that is all I could remember!!
|
