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behndy wrote:

OldGeorge wrote:Does anyone else HATE getting their back tattooed? I think my back piece is the most miserable experience of my life and that includes my last ex

hurm. i didna mind mine. i'm not happy with how it LOOKS and would love to redo most of it, but it wasna particularly bad?

no meat parts of the leg i think was my most NOPE DON'T LIKE THIS YEAH THIS SUCKS tat?

Mine is a GIANT cover up from a stupid 18yr old choice... so it's been 25 mags over scar tissue and I'll take a line over shading any day

I have my back tatted from shoulder blade to shoulder black, so I guess I can't fully answer the question. It's one piece and isn't finished because the guy moved mid progress of the piece about 17 years ago. LOL.

My worst of was near the armpit. That was horrible. The skin is just so thin there. Also, finger webbing hurts like a bitch.

Hand and fingers were the worst for me by far, followed closely by chest.

Good thing I only have two hands I wouldn't wanna do it a third time.

I've only done my arms, and didn't think anything hurt spectacularly. Except for the fleshy part of my thumb.
Fuck that shit.

I've only got forearms and one upper arm, all I think are low on the pain scale. But my upper arm tattoo took 7 hours, and after the 4th or 5th hour the pain became excruciating....shading over shading!

Was talking to my wife's cousins husband who's Samoan...he's going back next year for a full traditional chieftain tattoo...all around his belly, waist and back, he's butt cheeks, back of the thighs around to the front and through to the crutch and join back up to his abdomen...it's set to go for 7 days...full day sessions...just thinking about is painful

Yeah those Islander Rites are brutal.
Motherfuckers are hard as nails.
And ditto on the "fuck shading" sentiment.

That tribal Samoan sounds pretty aweful. Most I'll do now is 4 hours, after that it's just miserable. I did 2 7hr and a 4hr back to back to back once on vacation to wrap up my sleave and I will never do anything like that again...

This discussion is reminding me about an article I read a few weeks ago:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pg5q ... aesthetics

Well that's...something else. Maybe dial back the sadistic Nazi overtones, guys? What a bunch of edgelords.

Maybe read this while they're at it:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sourc ... AHG9Kjm5MQ

That's a real link for an article called "the myth of modern primitivism"

Cammy Stewart does rad work, though. Hadn't heard of the other two. I think I can cosign this idea, and I'm going to presume that this is just Vice reporters being Vice reporters.

'Reporters.'

References to atavism and the 'primitive' always seem kinda weird to me. There's a pretty long and boring debate about the merits/nomenclature of primitivism and whether or not it actually makes any sense. It usually doesn't apply to this kind of stuff, but when talking about ritualistic practices and tattoos...usually a throwback to something you don't really belong to. Like a claim to authenticity that is inauthentic.

Most tattoos wouldn't fall into that category (the brvtal blk wouldn't, either). Basically it's shit like "(s)tripped back to the tribal, you were once a warrior. Remember it. It's easy to become a drone in the bland world we're forced to exist in" is some Fight Club/entry-level rhetoric.

Oh yeah I definitely agree with that.

That said I think that a lot of bleeding edge (all puns intended) body modification folks do have a yearning for outsider status that used to, but no longer, can be achieved with just tattoos. Not that this is a particularly new phenomenon.

The weird thing is that tattoos appear to be necessary-but-not-sufficient for outsider status.

Sleeves are part of an 'arms race,' though I don't begrudge anyone for having them if that's what they want.

Take all of this with a grain of salt, though. I own a minivan, live in a suburb, have a good job that supports a family, pay my bills on time, &c. If you define 'edge' in the typical, way, I have zero. My problem with this--not that it's super related to the topic of this thread--is that resistance/provocation/&c are usually still defined in terms of how and what you use your money to buy, and not the direction, purpose, and potency of your mind or your actions.

Basically folks end up playing by the same rules as the 'don't be a drone in a bland world' logic espoused above, they just go left instead of right. The only part of that article that interested me was the 'you must have a strong mind' bit. I don't know that I'd define a strong mind as one that can withstand pain, though.

Tattoos meant so much to me 17 years ago. I could give you some really passionate opinions and explanations on tattoos in general and the ones I had/wanted. Now, if I woke up tomorrow and all my tattoos were gone I wouldn't care at all. I don't hate them or want to pay to have them laser removed or anything, I just don't care at all and haven't gotten a new one in probably 10 years. I got tattoos right at the point where having any visible ones was probably edgy, but before everyone got whole sleeves at a time. I've just kind of got the punk/rockabilly special of a smattering of a bunch of tattoos all over, they're not connected and coherent. Anytime I say I would get rid of mine in front of anyone who's super into tattoos though, they act like someone who lives in NYC if you told them living there wasn't for you. Like I'm a quitter and they won. It just seems so meaningless to anything in my life in any real way at this point. Same way I don't care about band shirts or bumper stickers anymore. No opinion or judgement about what anyone else does with them.