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Here is what we got done this weekend. Here is what we had before.

So, I recall being asked if I was going to do the other side after I posted my left side's tattoo here some months ago... yes, yes yes, fine, you win; you were right. I couldn't leave it unbalanced. Discussed it with Horifuji after my last appointment for the left side and I asked him what he would suggest. He suggested Sojobo on the right shoulder to keep the theme consistent. The karasu tengu on the left shoulder would need to be supervised, anyway. Horifuji at State of Grace in San Jose USA. Outline and details machine, almost all colour tebori. Great shop, great people, great experience, great artist. Links to his Instagram posts as the photos are much clearer than what I can do. And both sides from the front...

Stop touching it. And it's wall to wall color, no reason to go see a doctor.... Unless you absolutely feel it's necessary, it's also on a bend.... Which tends to piss tattoos off healing wise. . . . Stick with a light moisturizer, let it breath and it should be ok in a couple days... Don't touch it. Jennifer

yep ! embrace the blowout or go crazy obsessing over it. I have a couple blowouts ,no sweat. live it,love it,show it off,wear it with pride,and start planning your next tattoo.

Back on topic... I have been eyeballing Bart Bingham for a contortionist tattoo... I like the straight up version of the design, but... BB just kills it with where he takes the shit... And it seems like he would be pretty cool since he's from the old stomping grounds. Just some random pic i snagged and am repopping, with his details... currently, trying to figure out when our ships will pass again to make this happen...

Sweet.... on a fresh tattoo Richard has a very funny story about using cocoa butter on his healing inner thigh tattoos from Boltz, and his entire leg swelling up into his leathers on the motorcycle, after Bert sleeved the leg out with the little SSTP filagree.. Said it stank like rotten .... and burned, he was real quick to get off the bike and shower... (to his defense, it was the only moisturizer available, supposedly)

I use it instead of lotion sometimes. Not when it's still super fresh. 😉

Well, don't tell the old man, you use that and what's in it.... He'd shit an iphone.... I can't say I back it... as too many things in an open wound, that just kinda freak me out..... Richard would say, "butter" really, food in a tattoo....

PS: those cloth sleeves you are talking about are for IV drug use, to keep people comfortable with their pic lines, etc.... ( I know this cause I spent most of last year in the hospital, and at home administering IV antibiotics 1 time every 8 hours, for 24 hours, for 3 months after getting out of the hospital....) Hit a local medical supply suited to elderly, or hospice....

Hi, Jen! It's Jen. It's a smell-good product that works well. Ingredients below. Ingredients: Shea, Mango and Aloe Butters, Coconut, Sunflower and Rice Bran Oils, Rosemary Oleoresin, Green Tea, Vitamin E Complex & Mint Arvenis Essential Oil. With Essence of Papaya and Coconut.

well, I'm guessing that product does not go bad for a long time, I have had Palmers cocoa butter sit around for a long time and it seems fine to me.

Script is really unforgiving. It's hard to make it uniform and lined up perfectly. You'll see every tiny mistake. Make sure you have someone really good do it.

Love this portrait piece I've found online!

I think I might be done, at least with big stuff, for a bit. I've got a few little ideas in my head that I might do but that might be it for a while. The amount of free skin I have left has really shrunk over the last couple years and I really should think out what, and who, for the rest of it. And then @suburbanxcore mentions Pagoda, which seems to be the place fir me to cross paths with Marina, so perhaps it is just a pause until Pagoda. For fun here is a pic of what Chad did to my arm a couple weeks ago, I've tried to post it a couple times but it was giving me trouble.

Called an artist who had been on my bucket list for a while and left multiple voicemails to no reply, so putting a pin in that one for a while. Shot an email to Scott hoping to get my stomach started/done at Pagoda City now that I was able to free that weekend up. Didn't realize the BlackHeart crew was in Hawaii until after I sent it though, so waiting on a reply. Fingers crossed. Been too long since he's tattooed me!

Would it surprise you if I said I have pondered that, @scottyg?