" Every single one felt like cat nails lightly running across my skin . "
Last month we asked the BuzzFeed Community to let us know what their experience was like gettingtattoos. Here are some of the best responses:
1.“I have a number oftattoos, and the only ones I remember really hurting were my ribcage and the back of my neck (but that was mostly the position/chair the artist made me sit in).”
2.“I literally got my very first tattoo yesterday and am sitting on my couch with it wrapped in plastic wrap. I am 55 years old and have been deathly afraid of needles all my life…”
3.“The healing process was easy peasy. The tattoo came out great.”
4.“I love getting tattoos; I’m getting one next week.”
5.“The face didn’t hurt at all, the arm slightly, knuckles stung most but weren’t too bad.”
" I cause my first ( professionally done ) tattoo when I was 20 , correctly after commence a few months of COVID unemployment backpay , during a frenzied installment . I walk in and postulate for an upside down cross on my grimace , ACAB on my knuckles , and a character on my forearm .
I went to one tattoo removal fitting , but it ’ll be over one thousand dollars ( knuckles are arduous to take out ) so I have to wait for now . "
— sillyexgf
6.“My first tattoo is my large watercolor thigh tattoo that took three full days. I got a little woozy first session.”
7.“The first one itched like hell for about a month.”
8.“It’s a rose on the top of my foot.”
" I got my tattoo in Tahiti while on vacation 50 years ago . The tattooist used a sharpen finishing nail while I held a spoon with pressman ink . Very painful as there is little muscle on the top of the ft . Something to think back . "
— mushyshark99
9.“For me, every single one felt like cat nails lightly running across my skin.”
10.“He chose an elaborate tattoo of a bull for his bicep.”
11.“I have chronic pain so I find getting a tattoo so relaxing.”
" It gives my brain a specific country to focus on and leaves me feeling sleepy , cool down , and calm .
I have my married man ’s name in hieroglyph on my back , my son ’s step from when he was deport on one ramification , mydogspaw photographic print on my foot , and my mum sop up an Egyptian lotus flush and compose , ' Stay warm . lovemaking mummy x ' underneath it when she was diagnosed with last leukaemia , and so I have that on my other leg .
I get some people see tattoo as brassy or you ’ll regret them , etc . , but mine are all implausibly meaningful and schmalzy to me . "
— alclva
12.“Tattoos always hurt more on a bone.”
13.“The pain depends on the location — the one on my calf hurt like crazy due to its size and location over bone.”
14.“I currently have four tattoos, mostly on my thigh.”
" My first tattoo was of my best-loved singer properly above my knee . I recollect it being kinda long drive it was mostly shading and more dreadful the nearer it got to the articulatio genus but not unbearable . I did n’t take any time out , the session was 2 hours or so . It made me start have intercourse my second joint cause I was always unsafe about them and hate usher my legs . Another thigh art object is higher up near my hip joint . It ’s about the size of it of my hand and it felt so secure , like pleasurable . My last one was on my ribs , a little 4"x4 " ; I was a chicken for that one and used numbing cream . It endure until the last 20 minutes of shading ( the creative person was an 60 minutes behind my appointment fourth dimension ) but the bad pain in the ass was my mitt being number from being over my foreland . "
— justchillman
15.“My biggest takeaway is that the tattoo artist’s experience and technique really matters.”
16.“I have only one tattoo, a small one on my shoulder – a pretty easy job for the artist.”
" We talked as she worked and the conversation twist to the risky time she was having with her parents . The more she utter , the angrier she got and the deeper she excavate with the acerate leaf . I bug out express mirth and told her we should in all likelihood exchange the subject . She apologize and terminate an excellent job , still looking good 30 years by and by . "
— handsatlanta
17.“My worse one was for a small diamond I got on my hand.”
18.“I remember getting faint from the pain.”
And last, but not least.
19.“Whoever said legs tattoos are easy are LIARS!”
Some responses were edited for length and/or clarity .
