Serious What Tattoos Should I get?

[Postal]

Debatable

im all for debates

 

[constantdisplay]

get WASD tattooed on your knuckles

 

[Civil Protection]

you should get unicorn tattoo if you ask why, let me say that why not

 

[Agitha]

As of someone who has multiple tattoos, I recommend getting a small one first. Just to make sure your skin and that yourself can handle sitting in a chair for hours getting tatted. It's not fun lol. The choices you are looking at kinda look like they might take maybe 2 days. Depends on the artist.

Spoiler: This one took about 5 hours lol

But I think the second one looks really neat!

 

[Johnny B. Goode]

As of someone who has multiple tattoos, I recommend getting a small one first. Just to make sure your skin and that yourself can handle sitting in a chair for hours getting tatted. It's not fun lol. The choices you are looking at kinda look like they might take maybe 2 days. Depends on the artist.

Spoiler: This one took about 5 hours lol

But I think the second one looks really neat!

Finally, someone with experience. Is the forearm a good place to start or would you say it's too painful for a first timer?

 

[Jer]

Don't get no cheesy shit

 

[Erid]

Finally, someone with experience. Is the forearm a good place to start or would you say it's too painful for a first timer?

You're going to want to do it eventually so either way who cares how much it hurts, imho the pain of it is just a minor aspect as it's momentary and mental.
As for the location I've always wanted a forearm tattoo but decided to follow the tshirt rule, as long as you can cover it somehow it's all good imho.
Who knows when you might need to hide it sometime, while we live in a modern society and that, sometime prejudice or some subconscious discontent could surface when someone sees a tattoo, job interviews and all, official stuff.

I'd suggest upper arm, be it on your shoulder or on your tricep, something sprawled out across your chest and front shoulder's nice imho, but that's if you have a decent build and the tattoo is fairly large, which again if you're worried about time and pain will be a hassle, then again you can split the sessions into several, you don't have to get the entire piece done in a single session or sitting.

 

[Andrew]

just remember there's a rather lengthy healing process and the skin usually dries up big time so you'll want to get whatever lotion they recommend you

https://www.amazon.com/Hustle-Butte...&qid=1520861397&sr=8-3&keywords=hustle+butter
https://www.amazon.com/Hustle-Butte...&qid=1520861397&sr=8-3&keywords=hustle+butter
that's the lotion my sister & mother used when they got matching tattoos on their calves, I saw another offer on amazon for 3 for $44 so you might wanna peek around a bit

 

[Agitha]

Finally, someone with experience. Is the forearm a good place to start or would you say it's too painful for a first timer?

Well kind of what Eridian said. But it didn't hurt at all for me. Except for the end when she had to color in certain spots, due to my skin already open and swollen. Also depends on your pain tolerance- but the worst place to get a tattoo is your rib, feet or anywhere thats very boney.

just remember there's a rather lengthy healing process and the skin usually dries up big time so you'll want to get whatever lotion they recommend you

https://www.amazon.com/Hustle-Butte...&qid=1520861397&sr=8-3&keywords=hustle+butter
that's the lotion my sister & mother used when they got matching tattoos on their calves, I saw another offer on amazon for 3 for $44 so you might wanna peek around a bit

You don't have to go out and buy expensive stuff. You can just buy A+D Ointment. It's cheap and works really well. I don't know if you have that in the UK.

Also, when it starts peeling-don't peel it Dx.

 

[Chop]

 

[Erid]

Well kind of what Eridian said. But it didn't hurt at all for me. Except for the end when she had to color in certain spots, due to my skin already open and swollen. Also depends on your pain tolerance- but the worst place to get a tattoo is your rib, feet or anywhere thats very boney.



You don't have to go out and buy expensive stuff. You can just buy A+D Ointment. It's cheap and works really well. I don't know if you have that in the UK.

Also, when it starts peeling-don't peel it Dx.

Women have higher pain tolerance by nature btw, just an FYI.

 

[Postal]

get an ocean man tattoo

 

[Killstar]

Spoiler: On my right bicep.

Your body, your life. Fuck anyone that tells you that you need to have some kind of meaning. So long as you can wake up every morning and be happy about what you've got that's all that matters.

@Agitha is right though. If you ever feel like you might want small pieces anywhere on your body do one of those first. I had a friend who's skin really didn't take well to the ink. Now her Gengar tattoo looks like it was done in shitty Sharpie. You probably don't really want to get a big piece worth hundreds of dollars done just to find out it doesn't work for you. Personally I just plunged right in with a big piece though.

I really gotta get more stuff done, but I haven't had the chance. The one I showed isn't far at all from my elbow. Can't say the pain was excruciating or anything though aside from when the artist started getting to my tricep. As for aftercare, I just bought Cocobutter. Not sure what is available over in Euro land but my artist said the expensive stuff isn't super necessary. The tattoo just needs to be wrapped, and moisturized regularly for awhile.

Definitely don't fucking peel it when you get it done. I remember being horrified when I showered the night I got everything finished. It looked like all the ink was just running down the drain, and my flesh was looking crazy. It's natural, just looks bad. Don't touch it.

As for your ideas... Definitely more partial to the Japanese themed one. My artist only did original pieces so I just threw all my thoughts, and color ideas at him. He then showed me the sketch he'd come up with days later. That's probably what'll happen to you so make sure to be really descriptive about what you want. "Portrait of a blindfolded, and bleeding chick," is a great start.

 

[Johnny B. Goode]

Euro land

Nah ty for the advice, really appreciated

what do you reckon i'd be looking at price wise for the jap style one?

 

[Postal]

get some album artwork on you

 

[Killstar]

I'm not really sure how things are done in the UK so I couldn't tell you. I know in New Jersey in the US it's usually about $100 an hour. The piece I have was like $500-ish, but it's also customary to tip your artist over here. Pretty sure I shelled out like $650 total.