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Went to the rather excellent Brighton Tattoo Convention yesterday - didn't plan on getting a tattoo... but the marvellous Habba Nero was there handpoking runes.... it seemed rude not to really.... Tis on my lower leg. Never been non-machined before - it was very gentle.

Settled close to a year I think? Neither of us could remember off the top of our heads.

nice ! that's on my short list for sure to add to my collection.

Tougher than anybody I've ever met if you sat 5 days in a row @Dominiccjs I can't even imagine sitting for 8 hours for one day.

My answer to any question would be... this thing? Nah, I've had it for years! But I did eat a really expensive meal while I was there.

love the colour of the flowers. you’re tough!

Getting there on the color

All folk on my maternal grandmother's side were gypsies who traveled pre-WW1 Europe chasing the fruit/vegetable harvests and telling tarot cards to make a living. Always on the road they carried their stories/possessions on their skin instead of in their homes (they had none). Fast-forward to the '80s and me growing up among these faded blue-grey tattoos of my landlocked relatives. At funerals/weddings/weekends, some showed their tattoos and told the toddler me: when I died St Peter would ask to prove ID at The Gates; while the plainskins patted down their now-nude bodies for proof of who they were, my kinfolk told me, they - the gypsies - only needed to point to their tattoos and stroll smiling right in through Heaven's doors. For a decade the thought of dying plain and ID-less terrified me so much that finally as a (young) teenager I blagged an older cousin's driver's license, faked my way into the town's only tattoo parlour and got my first tattoo.

It's a waste of good real estate.