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Tattoos and other body mods
nekowafer:
The stripe down the back (as I am sure Kat knows, just saying for everyone else) is to show that anything over the spine fucking hurts. Any spot where the tattoo gun can make your bone vibrate hurts like fuck. Thankfully I have plenty of padding so it's not as big of a problem for me!
Barmymoo:
I saw a woman in clinic recently who had tribal scarification on her face and stomach. The facial scar was just a cut on one cheek, and I didn't realise it was deliberate until she said so, but on her stomach she had wavy lines coming out from her belly button like a sun. I involuntarily said "it's beautiful!" but when she said that it'd been done when she was a baby I felt a bit weird about it, and then she said that she hated it and I realised how awful it must be to have something that you can never get rid of, that's so visible. There's no way she can hide the scar on her face, and during pregnancy she must have to explain her abdomen to everyone who sees her which is a lot of people. She had also had type 2 circumcision, which I suppose isn't very surprising in a culture that ritually cuts babies' faces and abdomens as well. It was beautiful though, and if she had chosen to have it done as an adult I'd have thought it was great. The fact that it was forcibly done to her and she hated it made me feel really conflicted about having liked it, and really really wish I hadn't said so.
Noxx:
--- Quote from: nekowafer on 31 Jul 2014, 08:15 ---The stripe down the back (as I am sure Kat knows, just saying for everyone else) is to show that anything over the spine fucking hurts. Any spot where the tattoo gun can make your bone vibrate hurts like fuck. Thankfully I have plenty of padding so it's not as big of a problem for me!
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It's not? I'm fat as hell and any work on my back is MURDER. My full back piece is still only half done because I keep putting it off. I can sit forever for arms or legs, but I'm lucky if I can give up a full hour on my back before threatening to shoot my artist.
ChaoSera:
--- Quote from: nekowafer on 30 Jul 2014, 11:04 ---Generally, the more fat you have between your skin and your bone, the more tolerable it will be. But some places it doesn't matter. Here's a chart that seems to be fairly accurate:
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Well, seems like the tattoo I'm planning to get is going to hurt like fuck. Not that I'd expected anything else.
Barmymoo:
Are you getting your knees or your genitals tattooed?
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