Durability-wise? Pain-wise? Covering or showing-wise? Where did you inked your first one?
Probably a tattoo parlour
I second this, don’t get in your friends basement OR garage after a night of drinking.
Best tattoos are done in prisons. Those are the tattoos with depth and meaning. Much more organic than store bought tattoos. The tattoo artist has a bond to their tools, as they’ve crafted the tools themselves and they mix the ink right in your cell. And besides, anyone can get a tattoo, but you will have a tattoo with a story and real price. Imagine instead of going oh that? I got that tat because I was bored and had spending cash, you can say I got that tat when I was locked up for robbing Wendy’s with an alligator, the infection almost cost me my arm, but it was worth it
Obviously that was all /s but somehow I think I need to point it out.
Somewhere uncomfortable, like the back of a Volkswagen.
I asked about getting one to cover up my open heart surgery scar.
“You know that’s really going to hurt, right?”
“More or less than open heart surgery?”
“. . . Good point.”
Turned out, the top 1/2 of the scar is too bumpy to take ink well, the bottom 1/2 too squishy. So still just a scar. :( or is that :) ?
I’ll be real, I miss my heart surgery scar, and I wouldn’t ever want to cover it up. I had an operation done when I was an infant, and had a huge scar that ran from my sternum, around my ribcage, and back up and around toward my shoulder blade. It ended up mostly fading at some point in my 20s and is very faint these days.
I’ve always liked scars. They’re stories. They’re lessons. They’re proof. Scars are dope, show them off! Unless it makes you uncomfortable, which is also understandable.
This is true, the recovery was tough though. They took a blood vessel out of my chest wall to patch the heart and for like 2 years I could feel this burning line of fire where they took it.
“Weird, you shouldn’t be able to feel that…”
“You are correct! I should NOT be able to feel that!”
Upper arm. Most times it is covered, but one can easily show it if desired. Pain is lower in the outside than say, the part underneath your pit.
Cornhole. Trust me, you’ll never forget it.
