What's your longest tattoo session?

[Colored Guy]

I just sat for my longest and it was only 4 hours with 1 bathroom break only. I could have gone for another hour, but I was chewing on painkillers anyway and we agreed to wrap it up at the shop's regular closing time.

Rob

[Michael Chance]

Hey ! Got my first tat started last month . Done a 5 hour sitting done most of the out line . Done 5 nome Saturday to finish the out line in 2 hours. The 3 hour started shading on the ribs. Probley like 20 min breaks in total each time . A little choclate n drink ect What a killer I was in pain , but 4 days later Iv forgotten about the pain can wait to go again

[Dbeatdano]

8 hours on my ribs with one 30 minute break to eat. It hurt pretty bad, but I was still able to hold conversations during it. And yeah I also forgot about the pain after a couple days.

[TaeTae]

8 hours on my ribs with one 30 minute break to eat. It hurt pretty bad, but I was still able to hold conversations during it. And yeah I also forgot about the pain after a couple days.

Sounds rough, don't think I could sit that long. Still waiting for that shishi pic btw :p

[MadeIndelible]

Eight hours on the ribs definitely sounds like a game for the tough. I could only sit through an hour on my stomach, but that was from Ron Wells, and apparently he's notoriously heavy on the needle.

[polliwog]

Getting my inner bicep done by him. Greeeat.

[Dbeatdano]

Yeah I definitely wouldn't call myself tough. I just really wanted it done after the first session so I sat so long for the second session until it was finished. I finally have a picture of it uploaded in my gallery @TaeTae.

[graybones]

Getting my inner bicep done by him. Greeeat.

Me too, on Tuesday. Excited for the tattoo but not how it's gonna feel. haha.

[Noodles]

wholly momma! depends on what part of the body its on for me. Smaller pieces seem longer when its in a tender area. larger work I just get lost and don't pay attention.The fat handles were only a few hours (with a bit more to go,) christ almighty it felt like an eternity. but over all, four hours or so would be the most. This year I will be getting a bit of hand poked work, I am curious on how much is completed in "x" amount of time.

[Stax138]

When I was Getting my arm outlined ( wrist to elbow, WWII Dog Fight scene by Kyle Oxford at read st. tattoo) it took 6 hours for just the outline and then i sat for 6 more hours to get alot of the shading and color done, but its still un finished.

[polliwog]

@graybones - Looking forward to hearing about that!

[graybones]

@polliwog just got done my appt with Ron. It wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, but my appointment was only like 3 hrs so keep that in mind. Only part that sucked was a few lines close to the elbow ditch, other than that, not really different from my outer arm.

[cltattooing]

@graybones pictures!! do it!! :)

[Ducky15568]

My longest Tattoo session was on my chest piece, it was 6.5 hours. The session that felt like the longest was a 6 hour session on my ribs. Those two sessions were only half an hour difference, so i figured they were close enough to throw them both in.

[graybones]

@cltattooing finally got a pic up in the Latest Tattoo Lowdown thread!

[Bexter]

My first ever session is booked in for 5 hours. Hope I don't flake out.

[banksfam50]

Wow!! That is a really long sitting for a first tattoo!! In my opinion.

[Bexter]

That's what I was thinking! I'm pretty intrigued more than anything about how I handle it. They knew it was my first session. Guess I looked like I could hack it!

[banksfam50]

Where are you getting it placed?

[Bexter]

Most of my right arm.

[banksfam50]

I have 10 hours on my left, not all done at one sitting, and it wasn't too bad at all. I actually feel asleep for 2 hours during the outline. It was a different story with adding the color. I handled it but it did start to sting like hell.

[Bexter]

As if you fell asleep! Ha ha. Is that allowed? I'm not allowed to sleep in public. Too much dribbling.

[banksfam50]

Bahahaha. He didn't have a problem with it at all.

[bucky685]

My first tattoo was 5.5 hours on my chest.

[peterpoose]

Just did 19 hours on ribs with Carlos Torres, 1 session:)