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You be surprise... People have reported a shop around my area to re-use needles. Now you cant believe everything.... But I am not risking it... It's my health... so I have asked about it... So level down for a second to those who don't know and are trying to learn and help us out understand, why re-using a needle cant be done?

I have ask them.... Do you autoclave needless? And the answer has been so far "No... and if you find a shop that does... run away." Just my experience. Everything else I actually over see the artist do. Most of the artist I have worked with I have develop a base of trust. Specially for big pieces you tend to spend allot of time together so you get to know each other. Most of my artist use fkirons and neotat machines and this new style machines "rotary" are mostly modular and the needle are like a cartridges and(to my knowledge) autoclave wont work on them... They must be trashed... The grips are also disposable and I see them trash them. Cables, machine, power control, and grips, all get sleeved with plastic. Lots of alcohol use to disinfect chairs and surroundings.. Work bench is also wrapped... I pay attention to all this... and no matter how many times or years I spend with my artist they never skip anything.

lol. ok.

peeling? I thought you weren't suppose to peel them but let them fall on their own?

/face palm... LOL

ROFL. - - - Updated - - - Its like bird food man. This thread just brings them all out...

This is what I meant ^^ :D As well as what @marley mission said... Placement is key to all this.

My 3rd planet sort of distorts when I am moving in certain ways.. I think is normal for round shapes to do that on specific spots. Specially where you have to adjust a circle to the flow of your body. If I make sense :) But I do know what you mean... :D

Link? Prove you are not a spammer :)

Tell me about it. The ankle its a bitch... LOL Going to get mine blasted on the 8th of next month... Uuuugghhhh LOL

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Spammers.

Its a coin toss some say ok and say no... I personally stay away from gym's till I am all healed.

Did the whole front of my leg. Chin "ok" very tolerable, Side of calf and calf tolerable, ankle and ankle area..... fffuuuuuckkkkk! No thank you. It hurts like a mofo but was able to tolerate the pain. Unlike my back that some spot just made want to punch something, the leg so far has been a walk in the park...

I am stoked! Saw a post from Jon on instagram that his appointment did a no show no call and was looking for somebody to fill the spot for 8hrs. wwww00000tttttt!!!! I am game homie! 1st Session 6hrs.

I am getting ink. Does that count? lol!

I used H2Ocean Nothing before. My first session was so painful that I couldn't even sit up straight... My artist used it a few times on the first planet... It has so many over passes that I lost count... I am usually ok with pain even though I am a wuss when it comes to it... My last session felt like shit!!! and didn't use it. 4hrs of grinding the last planet and details... uuuuffff don't want to remember.... Every time I see @SeeSea (and others!) I just cant imagine the pain she went through... I know that to archive the color variations that she has on her back costed many passes over the same area and not to use "some thing" to take the edge off at times is just truly amazing... I am sure is nothing compare to having a baby... A walk in the park I am sure :) Lets not forget that this is all new so imagine getting a tattoo like that back than.... If you look at my pics right in the shop you could see that the first session my lower right hand side of my back where thew planet is, You could see how red and swollen that part is. That's the part I used it a couple of times. Second session was walk in the park. Third Session not so much but like I said I didnt use it.

I wish I could be there :(

ROFL. Nice.

poilliwog, It happens. I am going to leave it at that. I am out of this one for now.

Do use the search feature to make sure your question is not already answered in another thread, before posting. We want to avoid duplicate threads as much as possible. Is that the rule? Way offffffff! Than... By all means I can post all I want about my tattoos and post all the pics I want.... BUT cant cause the sharks would eat me alive.

+1 This.

Than this should not be a public forum, And if you rather run a forum where I have to search thousands of threads to make sure that what I want to post it has not been posted 20 pages down to avoid a dick comment than, I am out. And forum rules? They get broken constantly by senior and all member's here including my self. By the way I didn't know that it was a rule to search forum before making new thread.

+1 This! ^^ To much of this happens around here...