Had my fifth tattoo session today. Here's a photo. I'm not as crazy about the orange one as I thought I would be. It's so .. orange. I do like the purple and blue ones a lot. The red one (which you can't really see in the photo) has some veiny stuff inside the petals that I think it really cool, but it was a bit unexpected so I need a little time to get used to it. And I really like the light shading on the other sides of the long leaves. Very subtle.
Next time the biggest flowers will be blue and purple, which will be good. I'm not too stressed out about the radioactive orange. I'll give it a year, and if it hasn't faded to a softer color I can always have it done over in a more muted orange.
Nothing really interesting or note-worthy happened this time. Except that at one point, he leaned over too far and gave me a shock from the needle gun. Yow! We weren't sure at first what had happened, but it hurt a lot, way up higher than where he was working. And he pointed out one part of the gun that sometimes could give a shock. Maybe there's a loose wire or something? I guess it doesn't bother him because he always wears gloves while working. Does latex protect from electric shocks?
Again, the Advil made a big difference. Most of this session was pretty easy: I could tell that it hurt, but for the most part it didn't bother me. (if that makes sense.) We're going to try and finish next time. He thinks he can get it all done but the session may run a bit long. We still have four flowers, the backs of two more long leaves, and a bit more green vines down at the bottom. It will be tough to get all that done, I usually start to lose my tolerance after about 2 1/2 hours, but I'm really excited about being done.
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