This has been quite a rough tattoo experience, however. I've never had a tattoo hurt quite so much (I don't mean the actual tattooing process either). I have had to wear pants on a constant basis since I got it done nearly a week ago. It's is STILL sore and it's STILL painful when I walk. There have always been issues walking around happily after getting a thigh tattoo done for a few days, but certainly nothing like this. This time it actually got infected (cue sad face). I have seen infected tattoos and always thought, "well, that will never be me because I know how to care for my tattoos." Well, it is me, and I've still cared for my tattoos the same as always. It isn't one of those horrendous infections that is going to affect the appearance of my tattoo, or even one that caused me to have to make a visit to the doctor, but it's still quite painful. It's begun to get better, but there is still some redness along a couple of edges of the TARDIS and there is still some not so pretty scabbing on it. I do think it has a lot to do with where the tattoo is located. The inner portion of the thigh is lined by some very thin and delicate skin, so I don't think it's dealing with this tattoo business very well. I remember the outlining not being so great, but it wasn't anything like this. Then again, the outlining is just that, lines. The coloring in process is always much more painful and is a much more time consuming healing process.
So, what am I thinking? I'm thinking that the continuation of finishing this tattoo is going to be incredibly arduous, so it may require getting a little here and a little there. I still have a lot that needs to be done on the top portion of my thigh and the back portion of my thigh, so I can just break up the work. It will certainly be necessary when I'm going to have to be driving back to Kearney after each session (or at the very least, the day after the session).
November 2, 2014 - Authentic Ink (Omaha, NE )
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- Location: Inner portion of right thigh
- Tattoo: TARDIS flying through space (coloring in)
For the majority of this tattoo I hardly felt a thing. It was almost as if I weren't getting tattooed at all, which was quite strange since I remember the entirety outlining process being incredibly painful. I was somewhat nursing a hangover and that always makes the tattooing process a trial. I just laid back and let him do his thing. I'm pretty sure I almost took a nap - ha! Like normal we were listening to music, but then his little speaker system he has took a giant crap and ceased to function. Apparently you cannot access Pandora on PlayStation (go figure - you can on Xbox), so Netflix was the next best thing. By the time Roger the Rabbit was playing I started to feel the pain... It was a struggle to keep my cool. I never really get to the point where I actually want to say "stop," but at that point I wanted to... I was getting a mild shiver and felt like I falling down a deep dark hole. I figured it was just because of the mild hangover I had and that everything would be fine. Besides, it's not as if I'm living in Omaha anymore and can just go in whenever anymore. In fact, that was the first time I had been to Omaha (aside from flying in) since I made my great debut at the London Heathrow Airport, so I wanted to get as much done as possible. I especially didn't want to leave with a partially colored TARDIS. So, like usual, I made it through. Man was that baby swollen! Like WOAH, swollen. I have literally never seen a tattoo that freaking swollen before. It was unreal. Again, I attribute that to the thinness of the skin in the inner thigh, as did he.
ENTER THE TARDIS
I'm sure this isn't everyone's cup of tea, and I'm fairly certain some people think I'm absolutely nuts for getting a tattoo on the inside of my thigh, but I don't care. People get tattoos in all kinds of places. I have my reasons for doing it this way. I never thought that I'd get a tattoo here, but when my thigh was beginning to become a total "thigh piece," it all came to me. I wanted to blend the entire thing together, and what a better way to do that than to have the TARDIS spinning through space in the middle of it all (that's a rhetorical question)?
I wished that this session would include swirling and making it look like it really is in space, or at least travelling somewhere, but getting such a large tattoo is a lengthy process and one must be paitient, or have a lot of money to do a lot at one time, haha.
I look forward to seeing how it all turns out.
