My ankle one hurt the most but still never made me scream..just made me growl at the ta2 artist and grit my teeth..(I might have left nail marks in his sofa too LOL)

Thats nice
I've got 4....different parts of different tattoos hurt....
My ankle KILLED
My thigh was quite bad near the top of my leg, it made my eyes water!
I have the top half of my back done - my neck and shoulders were the worst, and the bottom of my back (got a small one there) was the least painful!

Your so right.....I am having another done, designed it myself a P with a snake of a S shape

P for Pat
S for me
and snake because I was born in the year of the snake.

On my foot....yes pain....but I can cope

Hi,

I was also 29 when I had mine done and my Mom went absolutely spare at me. I come from a home where my grandmother is head of the family. She chased me with a rolling pin when I showed her!

Anyway, here's mine - done in 2002!


I used to be a Police Officer with West Midlands Police and this is the force motif. The only difference is that I didn't have the blue ring around the pain picture with the words "West Midlands Police" on it. I thought that was a little tacky to go on the top of my arm. (I'd forgotten I had muscles like that back then. Wow! All gone flabby now though. )
The scroll underneath says "Forward in Unity" which is also part of it. The scroll at the very bottom was an addition I asked for and has my collar number "9316" on it.

Remember, they do fade so you may want to get it touched up at some point. If you have them done on a painful part of the body, then it will hurt to get it redone too. I'm too much of a coward - would love more but don't have the guts. Although this one took almost 2 hours straight and other than feeling as though I was going to pass out after about 15 minutes, I was fine.

It definitely needs a touch up though. All the yellow has gone and the red and blakc have faded terribly.

Laura xx

mum! do you have tattoos?

Yeah, I'm going to end up with a few I think

I'm glad I didn't discover it when I was younger cos I'd have been covered head to toe by now

Let's see some photos Vicki

I waited until I was 37 lol! I went in to have 'just the one', 2 weeks later I had 3!
Becky

Sorry to butt in again - what happens afterwards, should you be cleaning it in any special way? daughters appears to be going crusty & is raised is this normal?
She said it didn't hurt (inside of her wrist) and yet when she had the new cervical cancer vaccination the following day she said it was such agony she cried!
I can't go to the place where she had it done now as she keeps telling me different places - I could cheerfully throttle her.

If I were you I'd drag her around all the tattoo places until you find the right one! She should have been told to wash it gently each day and pat dry. Do not pick the scabs off!
Becky