Tattoo

So, I got my tattoo today. It took a whole hour to complete.

Roi did end up taking me and he was a good sport about me breaking his fingers in the process of getting inked.

He even took me out to dinner at a real place instead of fast food like I thought.

What it felt like:: Well the outline of the design wasn't really that bad. Yeah, it hurt, felt like i was getting scraped or cut by a knife but it wasn't unbearable. The worst parts were the large wing and anything that was right on top of the bone (which is like my whole foot, but the middle near the head and large wing were the worst). It was like a T-zone of pain. The first thing to get over was the sound of the buzzing of the needle, but luckily they had some rough rock music playing to focus on. I spent the time of the outline focusing on various things inside the room and focusing on not moving. By the time he was done just doing the outline, however, I had adrenaline coursing through my body making me shake and I was barely able to control the involuntary twitches through my leg.

Then after the outline came the shading and the filling in with color. This is where it started to be ridiculously painful. The outline was only a thin line, while the fill in was over and over "coloring" in the rest of it, which required, I think he used a wider type instrument tip instead of just a fine point. I think at this point, my foot was becoming more sensitive to pain instead of less so. It did bleed a lot more than I had expected it to. What it felt like though was like a drill bit going through my whole foot. It was just the vibrations from the needle, especially when it was straight on the bone, could be felt through my whole foot. And this kept going over and over again. I'm sure I squeezed the heck out of Roi's hand, but I didn't make a sound the whole time. The worst part was that where it hurt most (on the big wing) was the largest area to be filled in.

So, now it's 10:07, and we finished at 8:30. He told me to come back in a month when it was healed to see if I needed a touch up or just to check it out. I have to wait about three hours and then I can take the bandage off and am supposed to soak it in hot water. Honestly, I'm dead tired now, and I don't know if I'm going to be awake in another hour. Right now my foot feels either like it is on fire or that I have a really bad sunburn on it. I don't really fancy taking the bandage off right now. I'm not going to take anything for the pain though because I figure if I can sit through the actual tattooing part, than I should be man enough to sit through a littler after effect stinging. One thing that was weird is that my whole left leg cramped up a lot so I was barely able to move it, after I tried to get up after sitting at the restaurant table. I don't know if that's because my leg was propped up in a non moving position for an hour and then I sat don for an hour and the muscles were just tired from the adrenaline having them tense for so long or what. Well, it's fine now. I handled it. I just don't think I'll want to handle that again. Haha. It looks fabulous though. I can't wait until it heals up and isn't all poofy and red.

Side note:: So the restaurant that we went to eat at after the tattooing was the La Cuezuela (Mexican, my favorite)and the booth we sat in was by the window. The window had a bullet hole in it. Hah, I just remembered that we forgot to ask the waitress about it.

Pictures to follow later as soon as I have more time or energy (probably tomorrow). Bed.