Odd question....

[deathpixie]

For those on my friendslist who have tattoos... I know the amount of pain depends on where the tat is done - bony places or areas that are sensitive any way (like the inside of your upper arm) are painful, but is it bad just during the tattooing, or does it hurt for a while afterwards? And it's a sort of burning pain, yes?

No, I'm not about to go get one tonight. This is for something I'm writing. ;)

Comments

[caliban18.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm scrawny, so that didn't help, but mine was on the shoulder blade I think that made it a little more uncomfortable. However, I think that the pain is part of the moment. As indelible as the ink, I remember staring out at the roof of the building next door, the buzzing, the burning, the decision that would last until the flesh moulders away in the ground.

Pain lends the experience more permanence then the ink itself. But I think I'm waxing poetic.