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  1. SeeSea
    I am too. I used what I *thought* was a very thin layer of product but I realize now I can thin it out even more waiting for it to warm up before applying and then patting it on rather than rubbing initially. Then when I rub, there is barely anything there. i wasn't slathering before, but I realize I can go thinner. We'll see what happens. I've never tried dry healing like @MadeIndelible or others here. I'm on day 4, too.Good luck with the itchies!
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    Thanks! I'm pretty excited. I haven't seen too many underwater back pieces so there's not much to compare to. We got so much done on Friday. The sea snake was in the Solomon Islands. I just happened to spot him wandering around on the sandy bottom. He's the only one like that I've ever seen. I can't wait to see that part of the tattoo finished - my artist is going to do a drop shadow under the snake and it will make him look like he's 3D and jumping right off my back!
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    @Tesseracts - what sucks, maybe you're getting this, is a tattoo on your torso or some part that moves/jiggles at all when you walk or climb stairs. The side of my back is screaming every time I go down the stairs. I'm working on that elevator move where you can go up and down the stairs without bouncing and it looks like you are riding up and down an elevator, LOL. Sucks. Just had to soak out of my T-shirt in the shower this morning. Itching hasn't really started yet :-(
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    It won't be finished any time soon, but I posted a pic over in the What's Your Longest Tattoo Session. It's just the first pass but you get the idea - I can't wait for more color and detail. Since this is a JELLYFISH thread, I'll add that 2 moon jellies will be around my right shoulder. That should be my next session at the end of the month. This goes right to my post: http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/crazy-tattoo-stories/358-whats-your-longest-tattoo-session-page26.html#post88190
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    Okay, this is just a first pass - nothing is done except maybe the sea snake but there are no highlights or shadows for him yet either. On the right, hidden are two unfinished clownfish in an anemone. He'll keep laying things out to get the whole design before he goes back to finish each part completely. Next up will be some fish and coral on the right, and in the middle will be the deep blue with some shadowed critters in the distance. Kinda frustrating that nothing will be finished until everything is finished at the last minute! FYI - This is a sea scene made from a number of pictures I've taken while diving. The sea snake I chased all over the bottom trying to get a close-up of him, only later to find out how poisonous he is! Oops! And I just love my eels!
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    I like this a lot. I saw the PDF that describes the mantras. Thank you very much for the reference!
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    Okay, here's the lowdown on the chants. I had an album and a couple songs worked out pretty good - I had already gotten a bit of a meditation thing going on with the music at the end of a movie (Despicable Me). But I couldn't maintain it, and I think the reason why is because I wasn't familiar with the group or the songs. I think that if I had known the pieces and could mentally roll with them, chants would be a good distraction for a while. I think I'll search around for some ones I like and play them for a while, and maybe try it again. Last night was a mix of loud thumpy large music - stuff I run to to try to keep up motivation while running - some pop/rock/hip-hop/classic rock. So, kind of eclectic but stuff my brain is already used to using for other types of pain.
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    Yeah, let me get some from my guy. Nothing is done yet, but you can certainly see where this is going now. Oh boy I have tattoo hangover right now. I know, bitch bitch whine whine.
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    Set a new PR last night with an 8 hour sitting on my back piece. Just got home. Probably a total of 1 hour of breaks in there. And @BrianH, now I've got the formula to deal with the exhaustion and shivering. I drink a cup of no-caffeine hot tea at every break (we had about 5) and eat some food. I'm wearing leggings under sweat pants and two hoodies on backwards, with a camisole at my waist because he was working above my waist today. And fleece gloves. But the clencher was a heating pad. I tied it to the post that connects the face rest to the chair and leaned against the heating pad with my chest and stomach. It worked perfectly! That and the tea kept every single shiver away, and I finished up in much better shape after this session than my other shorter ones. Even drove 90 minutes home at 5am. Yay! Take THAT, damn shivers!
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    Stunning. The details on the hair on each of them is just amazing. Not to mention your ability to sit for ridiculous amounts of time!
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    Ugh, sorry to hear that. Maybe someone here has a recommendation for an artist in your area instead. (Get diving again - @scubaron and I will drag you to the Galapagos for whale shark mania! :-) )
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    Good to hear you've come to a decision you know you'll be happy with. I hope it all works out for you.
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    Funny you should say that. I'm bring some on an iPod on Friday to see if that helps me zone out. I think it will either work great or fail miserably.
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    It would be great to see this in person - the contours look so real. Very nice. This looks so familiar the contour lines and all - you got me digging - this is a pic I took in Galapagos. Colors are not enhanced - this is slide film. I had to dodge the tail to get this, and the videographer in front of me almost got nailed. But that's another picture.
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    @scubaron - the gills look amazing! Congrats!
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    A blanket would probably be too awkward - there isn't a lot of room there, but that could be a good idea if I was laying down on a table, but I'm in the massage chair so I'm sort of upright and leaning forward. I know which candy you are talking about - I actually bought some for my second session. They had it in my local grocery store - I was surprised to see it there. Ginger is good stuff. Thanks for throwing that out there.
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    I'm sure that's probably just fine for some. But my limits have been well beaten into me and I'm trying to fight back. Snickers does sound good though..
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    LOL that's what I'm doing, including overnight stuff if I find I can't drive home after (I couldn't the first session). Don't forget to add appropriate battery chargers! I'm going to call ahead and see if they have a microwave - I'd like to bring a mug and bags of tea to keep the core temp up.
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    6 hours and it was pretty terrible at the end - shivering and mentally spent. He took hours to draw it on my back and we didn't start tattooing until around 10 pm. It was my first session ever and I didn't know what to expect, so I just took it as long as I could. My tattooer only does 1 appointment a day so his goal is to get as much done as possible. I have the 3rd session on my back on Friday around 7 pm, and I'm trying to gear up to go 8 hours if I can manage. I'm bringing movies, food, water, candy, layers of clothing, gloves (yes, I get so cold quickly). They ragged me a little for the gloves but were cool about it. Hey, whatever I can do, right? He uses one of those massage chairs where you lean forward and put your face in the ring so I can't exactly use a blanket. I'm seriously thinking of bringing a heating pad to put under my chest but I wonder if I'll just look like a nut job. But once I start getting cold, the pain feels a lot worse. Any other advice is welcome.
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    Yup! Glad to hear your artist could work up something you love - it's hard to imagine it myself I find, but some people are just amazing and constructing a cohesive whole from disparate parts in any type of medium.
  21. SeeSea
    Thanks for the reply. Sorry - I was a little testy from something else.
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    I already read the thread before I posted. I saw what people said. I searched for that particular product BEFORE I POSTED and found no one had ever said anything about it. That is why I asked the question. If no one has experience with that product, that's fine. But there's no need to sound like I was too lazy to read the thread. I'm not changing my aftercare because something has worked for other people for ages. As everyone around here is fond of saying, listen to your artist regarding aftercare.
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    I have spent hours and hours lurking on this site, reading thread after thread. Learning. The search function on the site sucks. It returns hundreds of hits by individual words, and it doesn't accept quotes (or does and returns NO results even though I later find the exact quotes in posts), doesn't accept booleans, and after reading for hours, I trip across the information I'm looking for and wonder why the hell the search engine couldn't pick it up when the info, word-for-word, obviously exists. If some questions come up so often and you're getting tired of seeing them and the search function sucks, then take the common questions and make stickies out of them. Make a sticky that has links to the common questions/common answers. I see this appears haphazardly here (like cut-and-paste lists of useful links that appears randomly in longer threads but dammit if I can find one of those posts when I'm looking for it). This particular forum could take better advantage of the underlying functionality. Flame away at me. At least I'm suggesting a solution to your derailment rather than just ranting. I've been holding off on asking a question and I'm sure as hell not going to ask it now.
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    But that's exactly the kind of information that it would be really useful to explore - the details beyond picture/price/hours. Here's why. I don't know who the hell some of these artists are, but when I see a particular artist discussed in glowing terms, I go look them up. And sometimes drool. And when someone says, "They did this in 1 sitting" I get blown away. Or I look at a piece and wonder why it took XXX hours when the same size work on my back took 2*XXX hours ... and I start studying the works. Well, I see some backs done in 50 hours and realize there is no freaking way my back will be done in that time. And I wonder why. Then I realize after some looking, I have some intricate little areas with a bunch of shading and blends and details (one part is a clownfish partially hidden in anemone with detailed scales and sunlight accents) that's probably 5x6 inches, only 70% done now, and has taken 6 hours so far. And then, I realize that the same square footage on another back without the details, but still nice blends, etc. is gonna be a lot quicker, probably no matter who the artist is. Maybe my artist is slow. :: shrugs :: I don't know and I have nothing to compare it with, but when the time comes I'll post a pic and share the details - the pic, how I sat, how my skin takes ink, how long it took to heal, and other stuff I haven't learned yet that could be relevant. I'm in the same newbie boat trying to learn, and a "basic question" like time isn't something so easy to understand, but I'm learning aspects of the answer too. /vent
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    Yup - that was the picture that got me hooked. I met him at a tattoo convention in Baltimore when I was looking for someone doing realistic sea life scenes. The easiest way to see some of his stuff I think is to just plug his name into Google Images. He's opening a shop and has taken a lot off line, i guess in planning. I wish he had more of his stuff up. Yoni's grey and white looks really cool - I'd love a design like that. Both of those guys look great. I think finding someone who fits what you are looking for makes a lot of sense, and that's how I ended up with Sean Zee.
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