palm tattoos

[MsRad]

since there has been a lot of discussion about them over at the Most Painful thread, i thought it might be time to set aside a thread devoted to palm tattooing alone.

i saw a set that Lizzie did and i thought it was extremely beautiful and elegant despite being so simple (and physically, understandably so!) i would be lying if i said i wasn't jealous and didn't wish that it was on me rather than the person in the picture (and i have never wanted hand tattoos before seeing this!)

anyone else seen any that they really love?

[ShawnPorter]

I saw one I really hated the other day- Some d-bag who visited one of my blogs (that featured a picture of my palms) had an almost exact copy of my left palm design put on his palm.

I realize that there's nothing new under the sun, and that I'm not the only person who's ever gotten a stylized Alpha-Omega. But to have seen this guy on my blog several times, and to see the SAME stylized alpha/omega... it got my blood angry!

I'm halfway through an article on palm tattoos, btw- I'll post some of the submitted images when I get back to my laptop!

[MsRad]

Sweet! that's really shitty about the tattoo though.

[ShawnPorter]

Sweet! that's really shitty about the tattoo though.

I shrugged it off after a day or so of being butthurt. If this guy is that big of a choad, I still win at life.

[AlannaCA]

since there has been a lot of discussion about them over at the Most Painful thread, i thought it might be time to set aside a thread devoted to palm tattooing alone.

i saw a set that Lizzie did and i thought it was extremely beautiful and elegant despite being so simple (and physically, understandably so!) i would be lying if i said i wasn't jealous and didn't wish that it was on me rather than the person in the picture (and i have never wanted hand tattoos before seeing this!)

anyone else seen any that they really love?

when i first saw this picture on Lizzies facebook page my jaw was on the floor! i love it so much and just like you said Robin i wish it was on me rather than that other guy. i wanted to skip over doing all the other tattoos i had floating around in my head and go straight to my palms. i think quite the opposite on the simplicity/detail front, i think it has just enough and its more detailed then i have seen on any other set of palms. i hope people post more pictures of palm tattoos, i find it so facinating and thanks for starting this thread Robin! (p.s. im like the proudest client of Lizzies ever!!)

[RockelMan]

I don't have a photos of these two but one friend of mine has a rose with a few star bursts around it with the script "Love Hurts" under the rose. Also another friend has brass knuckles on his palm. They both say its really hard to have the ink keep in that part of the skin as its so thick.

[ShawnPorter]

I forget who did this one; I photographed it at the APP conference and didn't write down the artist. Little bit of pigment loss, but impressive for blue.

[Lizzie]

Thanks for the nod, Ms. Rad. Those actually healed effing PERFECTLY. They look great. That is on a shop regular, and the same day that I did that, someone else did the same tattoo and we both posted them on tumblr. Mine was better though, haha

[ShawnPorter]

I photographed Mikey in Dallas; I believe the work was by his brother and this was after two or three sessions.

[gougetheeyes]

Mr. Thomas Hooper has done some really great ones.. Started to look through his blog but have to get some work done today! Take a look though.. you could spend all day on there.

[ShawnPorter]

He's the NICEST dude, too. Made the experience, which was gutwrenchingly awful, as pleasant as he could.

[briankelly]

here's my tattoo hand and the hand i take care of business with. both done by bjorn leibner. they were his first palm tattoos, i think he did a good job. both about 1 yr old.

[AbbyRoad]

for those of you with palm tattoos

how was the healing process? in my imagination i see writing being difficult for a lil while

[ShawnPorter]

For me it was achingly painful for two weeks. Cracking, redness. Hooper walked me through the process of healing with his method- "first it's going to look like it's blowing out. Then it's going to look like it's infected. Then it's going to look like it's fading. Then it's healed". It happened spot on per his synopsis.

[briankelly]

i made a tattoo directly after getting my right hand tattooed. and i didn't do anything to take care of the tattoo.

[AbbyRoad]

^

that sounds skecthy

[briankelly]

i wore gloves.

[Tight-Lines]

i wore gloves.

Why does one tattoo with gloves on?

[ShawnPorter]

Why does one tattoo with gloves on?

Gloves? Cliff Raven didn't even wear pants.

[Rebushido]

mine..

i love palm tattooes..

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[ShawnPorter]

I had mentioned that during the healing process it looked like my palms were blowing out- this "halo" was around the outline for a few days. It started around the outline and spread to my fingers.... then just went away.

[hogg]

Whoa...that must've freaked you out a bit, Shawn. So awesome that Thomas was able to predict exactly what would happen like that.

[ShawnPorter]

Yeah- even though Thomas told me specifically what to expect... when you see that cloud growing, you freak the heck out.

[MsRad]

looks like it might just be the way your skin bruises in that area from that particular type of wound? not that you're trying to problem solve, but just a guess for the sake of keeping this conversation going. seems like it's just following the little cracks and crevaces of your skin.

[spunkymonkey]

I have always been disappointed by the pigment loss due to the different skin type in this area.

go to dep and it look ugly and spread out

go to shallow and it falls out but this varys so much over the width of the hand.