If I had to describe it: Hot sandpaper rubbing on your skin, while getting jabbed by a tiny prick over and over again. As the needle drags across your skin, you’ll feel a bit of a burning sensation. The moment you run over a bone, say the rib cage for example, you start to feel that metal needle pricking the hell out of you. It knocks into the bone and starts to vibrate against it. It’s like someone’s carving into stone, only it’s happening inside your body. Needless to say, it doesn’t feel wonderful. It’s certainly not a perfect day at the park.
Other people claim it feels like a cat scratch, or like being scratched by a dog with really long nails. When it comes to the burning or overall sensation, just think back to your last bad sunburn.
However, I want to be crystal clear here: It’s honestly not that bad! You don’t need to be macho man with the pain tolerance of a Navy Seal to handle it. Remember, millions upon millions of people get them every year. Most are simply average folks. They aren’t battle hardened warriors who can take various forms of torture like a champ. In other words, it often sounds scarier or even more painful than it actually really is.
Understand that skinny eighteen year old girls get tattoos. If you can’t handle it, I don’t know what to tell you. Don’t tell me that men and woman have different pain tolerances, because that’s just an excuse and that doesn’t even matter to begin with!
If you are worried about the pain, don’t be! The moment you sit in the chair and get inked, you’re going to look back and say, “Why did I make this into such a big deal? It’s truly nothing!” The only thing you’re going to feel is a mild level of discomfort. That’s it. The pain is certainly not going to kill you. At the end you’ll get up out of the chair, walk to the door and drive home. What’s the big deal? This isn’t surgery we are talking about here. If the pain was so bad, they’d have to knock you and everyone else out for it. The reality is, they don’t nor do they even have to!
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