About a month ago I got back in touch with my aunt after a few years because she'd just moved back from Detroit. I told her how much I was into body mods such as piercings and other shit like that and she had asked if I had any tats. I told her no, so she said her boyfriend does tattoos and that he could do one for me. I was only able to visit on weekends because I live on campus at a trade school and only have the oppurtunity to go home on the weekends.
At A Glance Author Johnny Sin Contact thesinhimself@gmail.com When A week ago Artist Omar Studio my aunts apartment Location irving texas The first couple of weekends we had a really hectic schedule and so on the third weekend he came over and I showed him exactly what I wanted because i had drawn it in photoshop. I'd left the print out in my dorm but I had the original picture stored on a usb drive so I plugged it into a piece of shit Mac OS9 and fired it right up and showed him. He told me he could do it, took one look at the picture and grabbed a pen and a ruler and did the outlining for it. He did the entire tattoo freehand and he did a godamned good job of it too. Its a tattoo on my forearm of a compass rose, with a rose in the center. It symbolizes finding my path in life and never losing sight of it.
After he did all the outlining and shading for the tat he was about to start on the rose when he asked me if I wanted the one in my picture or a different one. And so I hopped on BMEZINE and found one that I liked and he took another look at it and did the rose free hand. I had the outlining in black and the shading done and the next day he coloured it in.
I remember everyone telling me the tattoo would hurt. And so when he fired up the gun I tensed up. I heard the gun running and asked him when he was going to start and to my suprise he had already started and I wasnt even feeling a fucking thing. I find it sort of dissapointing. I mean for something thats going to last forever I dont think it hurt enough. Of course thats only because I define my life through pain.
I went back to my trade school and everyone that has seen it now wants tattoos by this guy. So I printed him up some business cards because I'm taking desktop publishing. And if he likes the business cards we'll do an exchange of services and I'll be able to get another tattoo done for free. He wouldnt let me pay for the one I just got because it was my first one.
I had the tattoo for about six days before it started peeling and shit like they told me it would. And I guess because I didnt keep Ink Fixx on it enough the leaf of my rose started to scab up and the colour is fading. Everyone I've asked so far tells me that this is normal. My tattoo artist should be stopping back by tommorrow to touch it up and add a litle more work to it. Hopefully soon I'll have this one finished and a second tattoo as well as pictures of both.
Alot of people told me that tattoos are addicting. And I never believed them. Well that is I never believed them until after I got my first one. About halfway through the process I loved the feeling. The feeling of the needle penetrating my skin and the feeling of a rag dipped in ice water across my skin and how numb it would make it feel until the needle started working my skin again. That feeling is right up there with a great massage and sex. And very few feelings can compare like that for me. I'm not sure how others would describe it but thats how my mind puts words to it. And when he was done I looked at my arm and I thought, wow, thats my tattoo, thats my first fucking tattoo. And I felt a sense of pride and accomplishment in having it done. Moreso because it really means something unlike alot of people that just get a tatto everytime they pass a shop and pick one off the wall just because they like the way it looks, or like those kids who get tattoos because thats whats "in" or "trendy" or "scene". I want my tattoos to mean something so that I can still have that sense of pride when I grow old and my grand kids ask me about them and what they mean. And they were right tattoo's are addicting because five minutes after my first one I was ready for another.
I'm proud of my first tattoo because it looks so great and everyone I know, their first tattoo they'd ever gotten always looked like shit and mine is so amazing. Its the first of many. I plan to be covered from the waist up eventually. Its going to take alot of hard thinking because I believe that if it lasts forever that it should mean something. That was my experience of my first tattoo. Now that I've shared it with you I hope that you enjoyed reading it. Hopefully I will be able to share many more of these experiences with you in the way of tattoos and my own self done piercings.