hoshi69

That sounds awful, I'm so sorry. Is it really still red after a year or is that an old picture? Nice Alice in Wonderland piece though.

My two other machie done pieces:

Hi everyone, I'm Cat. I got my 3rd machine done and 8th in total tattoo yesterday, by an artist I haven't gone to before. My two other machine done tattoos bled minimally, and none of my five handpoked ones bled at all, but this new one bled excessively, and as it also hurt much more than any of the others did I'm a bit worried the artist may have gone too deep. He is licensed, a member of SRT (Sweden's Registered Tattooers), and his portfolio looked good, but I don't think this much blood is normal This is how it looked once I took the plastic off and cleaned it; Today it feels much more sore than any of my previous ones have, and moving my shoulders forwards or backwards hurts. Is this all just because the upper back is sensitive/prone to bleeding or did he indeed go to deep? If this is all fine I'd like to go back there as the place was very clean and professional and the people were nice, but if he went too deep I obviously wouldn't go back.