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Second session with Kelly:

Thanks for relaying your experience, folks, now I'm super stoked!

Thanks everyone. I apologize for the seeming laziness, I was pressed for time when I started this thread, but super excited about the idea, so I didn't wait to go back and search for myself later. Totally my party foul. Scott Sylvia is on my BUCKET LIST, but for some reason it didn't click that the shop was in SF. I would love to literally make an appt, pick something off the wall, and let him rip. Once I have a firm date on when I'll be going, I'll call the shop. Hopefully he'd have time to do a small banger from wall flash when I'll be there. I won't speculate on how far ahead he's booked.

I'm very ignorant of the current Bay Area tattoo situation, but I may be there for a weekend in a month or so, and I may want to get tattooed.

Ok, I've indentified it tentatively as Bert Grimm... Is like to find the original painted image from the sheet... Bueller?

I don't have a pic. It's kewpie doll face down passed out, with a pair of snake eyes die and a tipped over bottle that says "born to raise hell". Any help?

This weekend's brisket.

I think it's always a conversation worth having, and this is the type of place I'd be much more interested in listening to/reading it, as opposed to the cesspool of internet that lies out yonder. Thanks for the link!

This is a thread to express your opinions, vent, rationalize, etc. Since I started getting more tattooed, I've noticed a rise in so-called "social justice warriors" calling out of people and attempting to shame them for what a blogger, by their own estimation, deems to be racist tattoos. Vigilante tattoo shaming, if you will. I have some strong opinions, but I wanted to open the floor to the much more experience crowd here to give their specific stories or opinions. I'm really really curious to hear what you all have to say!

I have a shading session right before I head to to Boston for vacation/wedding. As in... the day before. Should be fun!!

My entire back itches like a lied down in a hammock over a cloud of mosquitos. It is the most itchy I have ever been during my healing of a tattoo.

Your comment about shading only being a 7.5 gave me a glimmer of hope! - - - Updated - - - Yes! I know exactly what you mean! God damn it drove me nuts, flinch tickle pain, flinch tickle pain. rinse, repeat.

I posted here a while back that I had never had a tattoo itch before. Cross that out. My entire back feels like it was attacked by a swarm giant mosquitos. I've never itched this bad even from poison ivy and contact dermatitis.

Started mine yesterday evening with Kelly Edwards. It was amazing... and much more painful than I anticipated, and he tattooed for something like 5 hours with only a short break. I was actually genuinely surprised at how hard it was. Took my breath away more than once. He tattoos fast and hard, and I am humbled and proud to even be wearing this line work, sat like a rock. Next appointment will be in August for scales on the rattlesnake and starting to shade. - - - Updated - - - Oh yeah, and did the left side, or one preferential side, hurt a LOT more than the other?

So this got started today. Kelly Edwards. Three words for getting all that line work in one sitting: Fuck. That. Shit. Worth every second of pain though!

Thanks everyone. Having grown up in Florida, I might definitely qualify there.

So I have some questions. Since I started dry healing (e.g.: Tattoo Aftercare advice @ Valerie Vargas Tattoo ), I've gotten four new tattoos. I have two tattoos from one artist. They took two months to look 100% settled in, and healed perfectly. No touch ups: dark black, bright, saturated colors. One is on my chest, the other on my shoulder to tricep area, both flesh areas. Two others I've gotten from a different artist, one on each collarbone/shoulder top, one is two months post-application and has small areas that still look "milky", either the color or black is missing or still under dead or new skin, but the colors and blacks of the overall tattoo are very bright and bold, much to my contentment. The second one is one month post application has a few tiny streaks where there is packed red color missing. Is this thin skinned up shoulder top area a more challenging area to heal? Do some areas just take longer and are more prone to needing touch ups? Thanks!

Maybe change the name of this subforum to "Don't even fucking think about posting anything"

Thank you! I'm sorry, I completely missed that. I wouldn't have started a new thread.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply SHE shouldn't be happy with them at all. If she's thrilled with them and loves them, more power to her. My posting them here is directed toward the tattooer and the quality of the work, which really caught me off guard.

One of the research assistants I work with found out I'm tattooed. Now she enjoys sharing such things with me. This is one of her high school acquaintances from suburban Ft. Worth, who brags and posts instagrams about her sick tatts.

http://millihelen.jezebel.com/dont-tell-me-i-cant-get-a-fucking-neck-tattoo-1707496653 And the response: https://www.inkedmag.com/cant-get-fucking-neck-tattoo-jane-marie/ I figured y'all would have strong opinions about this. I thought the response was perfect.

Some blatant Chris Conn worship... - - - Updated - - - I absolutely LOVE the way you draw and paint your roses. Sublime. Thank you for sharing.

I'm considering doing a limited run of giclee prints of this...