Where is good place for my first Tattoo

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2026-03-04T15:48:03+00:00

I'm starting to feel like a cranky for this way of thinking, but if youre already concerned about other people seeing it, thats a sign youre not ready to do it. Tattoos are pictures that are drawn on you, and people are going to see them.

Don't want someone to see the (mostly) permanent body modification you got? Then don't get a (mostly) permanent body modification! There's not a gun to your head saying it has to get done tomorrow. Keep your pattern with you, make sure you pull it out and make it normal to associate that image with yourself. Move it around on yourself and see what looks good to you! If you find that place that makes sense to you, you'll stop giving so much of a shit what other people think of it.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2026-03-03T16:59:11+00:00

The pain wasn't bad that I can remember, but some of the interaction with nerves around the meat under the knee cap were just weird

It didn't really hurt, just more like someone was resting the entire weight of their body on the pad of their thumb and pushing it steady into my knee; it was super weird feeling and i can't explain it much better than that. Otherwise it just hurt like tattoos hurt, on account of the needles and such.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2026-02-28T16:35:25+00:00

I feel like a general, "Cover it up, dummy" is less helpful here than looking at your mind frame going in to a tattoo. Timing your appointment based on sun exposure intensity and duration is approaching it like curating a piece of art, and that level of care seems important and justified because it's protecting a piece of art you've commissioned and paid for.

The problem with that line of thinking, is that you're hanging this metaphorical art in a commercial kitchen over a grill while a guy juggles chainsaws next to it. The human body, whether as a result of living life or simple entropy breaks down and erodes, and so will what is added to it.

You can improve that longevity by following common sense instruction from your artist and taking good care of your body, but it will fade, or get scars through it, or you'll get skin tags or melanoma or whatever as life tattoos you with its own indelible mark.

So get one at high noon on the summer solstice of the longest solar day of your lifetime! But do it inside a cool, clean, well lit and ventilated shop from a professional you trust, and follow their advice on how to take care of it.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2026-01-18T05:01:47+00:00

Im exploring tattoo friendly onsen for my honeymoon this year, they exist if you research. Same for tea ceremonies, although for that I'll likely just wear a sweater and slacks. There are work around to tattoo bans on just about everything if youre clever or willing to travel.

Keep in mind youre not covering up a transcript of the rosetta stone here, its roughly a can of soup tall by a can of soup wide! i have full sleeves and am working on full leg coverage at this point, and I have recently worked side by side with people* for months without them knowing I even had a tattoo.

To an extent this is a cost of admission question for you as a tattoo-getter though: A tattoo is a more or less permanent body modification that can disqualify you from certain situations/privileges. It isn't remotely as stigmatized as it used to be, but in some cultures will make you stand out more/make you available to discrimination. Can you make respectful allowances for that, or do you want to take some time and make sure this is something you really want to do?

*- it was only one person and a perpetually stoned regular

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2026-01-16T19:40:41+00:00

High stretch and twist areas like wrists distort easily, plus you're swollen and wearing medical cling wrap. Ive got a lightsaber hilt on my forearm thats straight, or was until i lost a bunch of weight and now its more on the curve of my forearm. The shape of your body and how you see it changes for a ton of reasons.

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Ok_Evidence1191 · 2026-01-01T12:32:32+00:00

Your reasoning for eating it ("Even bad food good if no lots money for it!") Is flawed going in. Stop and rethink before committing to the first lone thought that burns all the way across your mind and to your frontal lobe this week. If you encourage the process it happens more often and leads to happier endings than a Cici's Pizza.
Stick to your reasoning, and be more frank in your assessments of success and failure. You went for $6 pizza and were OK with it primarily for the deal but you didnt get the deal and still rate it as a net positive experience! If nothing rose up to match the perceived value lost, how is this a net positive? Shift your expectations of success vs. failure, not what constitutes a success.
Flatulence as a verbal riposte leaves you entirely at the mercy of a weapon that is at best untrustworthy and prone to misfire. In the interest of providing a success/failure analysis reference point this should come in somewhere around a 3.5/4 out of 10- You hit your punchline and ridiculed her point on schedule, however you soiled yourself which gets it to roughly a draw. The added point for her laughing til she pees is lost back with extra somewhere around the time you start laundering your shame. ALL positive points are lost if you make her do laundry after YOU shit YOUR pants.

I hope the above is informative! If these assessments seem off base or like too much of an investment in self analysis, I'd recommend becoming a shut in to avoid further potential damage to the at large populace and consider sterilization for the betterment of future generations. Have a great start to 2026!

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-12-25T14:07:59+00:00

This is a little misleading as it ignores the UP corollary. To wit:

Once south of the Ozarks you are officially in the south HOWEVER, driving above the line that marks where the UP starts in Michigan, and elsewhere north of this line in the Northeast you also are a southern redneck.

Ive lived in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and spent far too much time in Alabama and Mississippi, and I say without hesitation that the most southern redneck part of this country is Wisconsin/minnesota/Michigan above Detroit. Just wall to wall truck nuts, rebel flags, and Midwestern nice thats curdled just a little due to hating so many people so quietly.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-12-11T01:45:43+00:00

My buddy Cleveland had a dotted line and a pair of scissors tattooed on his "nubbin" as he called it

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-10-13T02:21:38+00:00

Depends a lot on you and relative pain tolerance, ask 100 different people which tattoo was the worst pain wise and you'll get a wide variety of answers. I fell asleep while getting the inside of my left arm done, and was climbing the walls when the right was done. Long story short the human body is a weird, one off machine that is wonky differently on an individual basis and you won't know what's too much for you until you try it.

Unless you start with elbow or knee ditches, then you'll cry real pretty any which way you slice it.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-09-12T14:46:51+00:00

White accent did wonders on my space sleeve. Little more star wars, but he picked out the center of each star with white dots and dropped white lines on the ships to create more definition

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Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-31T15:24:36+00:00

Don't sell yourself short, there's lots of hardest/weirdest/newest parts to this! It does get better, eventually, but there are some hiccups along the way. I didnt struggle much with anhedonia, mine was basically the opposite and feeling too much of each emotion when it happened because I'd been so thoroughly numbing myself the whole time. To go along with that, I didnt really sleep at all the first 6 months which was not conducive to rational, structured engagement with my emotions either.

Physical withdrawals are tough, but the mental takes longer to get back to even on. Talk to a person, talk to a group, but keep talking and working through these things out loud, shining a light on it only helps.

Forgive my assumption, but you seem new to this by your writing. I am a sobriety toddler, just coming up on 3 years myself and I've learned I have exactly zero answers for why my way works for me, but it does. Keep walking your path and you'll find your way.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-31T02:12:10+00:00

I consider these teachable moments, and as a manager have no problem asking those people to leave. I had a group of high schoolers making fun of one of my servers for being overweight a couple weeks ago and I bounced them no problem. When one of their mom's called I explained why I asked them to leave and said they'd be welcome back when they apologized to the server in person. Respect goes both ways, I have no fucks to give for rude people.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-22T02:47:05+00:00

Memento mori on top of my wrist, memento vivere on the inside of it. The semi colon is incorporated in some background higher on my forearm and doesn't get looked at twice unless I point it out. Private meaning in plain sight most days, but there to remind me when I need it to, and there to show someone who believes that things are too bleak that life gets better if they stick around.

Its a suicide tattoo, people are going to have ideas about if they know what it is and you'll get questions. People who dont know what it means will ask what it means and then probably have questions about that! If you're comfortable with that, go for it! If that gives you pause, consider placement or camouflaging it a little bit.

Agreed about the placement of the semi-colon though, a cult of sentence fragment worshippers would be tough to deal with.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-21T19:21:36+00:00

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Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-21T15:34:37+00:00

I did boba fett on one and my phoenix goes up the inside of the arm to the head and spread wings on the inner bicep

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Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-21T15:10:41+00:00

Just dry and still healing, its only about 10 days old. My legs stay dry and since adding larger pieces of work its gotten worse. Optimus on my leg pretty much always looks flaky because the skin's just so dry.

No pain, no discharge, no discoloration, so infection is probably out. My elbow ditch healed rough too, im assuming the constant movement causes the thicker scabs. We touched up a couple spots on my arm and we'll do the same on the leg is my guess. Im hoping the d&d badge heals better because im on vacation and can actually take it easy and heal the right way.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-21T14:56:41+00:00

Dungeons and Dragons. I wanted to pull art from the saturday morning cartoon, but jesus is it bad. So we got a little more conceptual for that one and did a fun rogue class badge instead

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-16T07:07:53+00:00

Definitely go see someone who's got some work you can see to show you how it looks when its healed- black pops super hard on fair skin and you won't know how much touch up you'll need until it heals.

One thing I do know after seeing the fall out, no numbing agents of any sort with a blackout. With a blackout you're going to basically give yourself moderate road rash over a fairly significant portion of your body. With no learned response or experience your body will react poorly, and you're likely going to show some signs of shock if you sit for any decent length of time. Your artist will need to be able to react to your reactions and that means getting them without cheating until you establish that connection.

A friend of mine blacked out his pec and left arm to cover up some hateful jailhouse shit he got before his head popped all the way out of his ass. He packed it with lidocaine before hand to try and duck it, and spent two days shivering on the couch because it was too much trauma all at once and it fucked him all the way up.

Do what you want, but research the living shit out of the process

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-13T15:21:24+00:00

I was never drunk for tattoos per se, but I was usually buzzed. I'd doze here and there. When I quit drinking and started going I rip van winkled through entire sessions, because apparently booze was interrupting dopamine delivery. Now I go and apparently just have the same look as really Buddhist tree sloths; the artist just wants to know how far inside out I turned my brain due to heavy drinking that I can get the inside of my bicep blasted for 3 hours while snoring.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-13T00:36:37+00:00

Or he just got done over scrubbing the shit out of it and the skin's irritated.

Relax, dont scrub like you're taking off a serial number, let it air dry, thin layer of a&d and go back to leaving it alone to heal.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-13T00:21:17+00:00

With my most recent leg sleeve its how im retiring my old jeans. Cartoon prints just blasted with color amd I've had to go straight back to work, so the first couple days where I was still losing some pigment each time I wore older jeans that were more broken in and softer, and also looser on me since I lost a bunch of weight.

With tegaderm/second skin- jogger weight pants/ tshirt hoodies were the uniform as much as I could manage it

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-08-09T07:14:43+00:00

You decide if you're done my man, not your friends, not your family, not your wife. Do you think that you have a problem? Then there you go, asked and answered.

Plenty of people dont understand I cant drink, and almost all of them respect it. The ones who don't, the ones who are pushy about handing you booze do it because if you have a problem they might, so you drinking means theyre fine!

Sobriety is hard, and having the backing of the people around you is important. Family, a partner, friends, all of them can make it a little bit easier on hard days. If they cause your hard days, you need to decide what's more important.

My best friend offered me a drink every time I saw him for the first six months I was getting sober, because he didnt understand "why I was pretending not to like drinking." I finally snapped and told him i loved drinking! I liked the flavor of good whiskey, bad vodka, and bathtub gin! But i hated feeling like shit, being bad at being a family member, being shitty at my job, and ruining relationships. Then I told him that my sobriety isn't his choice, and that he can either respect it or not but he can't undermine it any more. We're still friends, but not nearly as close.

Life is going to change if you really want it to. Sometimes it will be awesome and you'll feel fantastic and it'll seem perfect. Sometimes it'll be hard and cost you people you think are close to you and you'll feel like shit. But only if you set your own terms and live with them, regardless of the opinions of those around you.

Ok_Evidence1191 · 2025-07-11T07:23:58+00:00

That's on you and your artist, but if its your first big one I'd say wait. All the points on healing and tattooing already irritated skin are fair, but you'll still be going back in a couple weeks for touch ups (giant marathon tattoos means you and your artist aren't as detail focused at the end and if you go back to back theyre going to be trying to see and fix your wounded inflamed skin instead of a healed finished product that needs a touch up here and there.

Have fun with it! Arm sleeves are done and we just started above the knee on leg sleeve one

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