rambllingman: So, wondering, what is it that makes us want to keep going back for 'just one more' . I'm kinda lucky my daughter is an apprentice at a local shop and I get a family discount. But everytime I've gone back it's like, damn this hurts.............
You get one and it gets lonely, It wants more and then more , next thing you know ypu are working for the circus........or well maby not that extreme. but you get one, it heals you forget the pain, get used to seeing it , like it but wish you had gotten the other design, so you get the other one (then repeat) .
I have 5 and one half (my tattoo artist half finished one on my back and got arested on the way home from my house, Its his design so i dont want someone else to finish it ,but he assulted an officer and among other charges ,,, it may be a wile before i have a full six)
Some spots do not hurt as much as others, my experence is that where the bone is close to the surface hurts more , the solarplexis and inside the navel and across the spine hurt a lot more. On spots like the forarm, calf, basicly over large muscles or where the muscle is larger is kinda like being cut with a razorblade.
Our mind is unable to record the fealing of pain , it will ceartainly rember that we disliked the fealing, but once it is over then it is just a memory and a little more ink.