First tattoo experience?what was it like for you?

I was very very nervous and scared. I couldnt eat for a day!! After I got it done (on my shoulder blade) I felt so powerful. I wanted another one right away, but I waited for the next design to come along.. and I kept it for two years and decided to get another one.. 6 years later I have 5 tatts and I love them.

I remember when I had my first tatoo done. I was 18..... Before going to the tattoo shop I asked my step dad what the pain was like as he had tattoo done before. He replied " its just like getting your ear pierced", I thought to myself thats good then it wont hurt. Got in to the tattoo shop and I was really nervous, chose my tattoo and sat down. The first needle that went in, I was like omg that hurts. But after a few mins I go used to the pain, well I quess its kind of adtictive because I now have 7 tattoo done.

With my first tattoo, I found that it hurt more when my artist was going up my back, but not as bad when she was going down my back. I also found that it helped a LOT when my friend arrived and started chatting with me--before she got there, I was watching an inane soap opera, and it was hard to focus on something other than the pain. I'm up to 6 tattoos now, so the pain isn't much of a deterrent. :)

If this is your first tattoo, make sure you choose something that you will want on your body for the rest of your life. I have two and want to get another. My first one was a set of roses with wings simular to Harley wings. It hurt a little but not that bad. The absolute most important thing is to see what kind of place it is. Is it clean, do they have a licence, do they allow smoking and/or drinking inside. You have every right in the world to check the place out before you say "Let's do it"

I had just assumed it would hurt so I was a little nervous, and when I got on the bed (i had to be laying on my front for it) I automatically clenched my fist into the pillow - but i didn't hurt! At all. I spent the whole time atempting not to sleep. And it took me a while to get up afterwards because the room was spinning (it took about an hour). That's my only one so far!

I always get this question from friends who wanted to get their 1st tattoo. Does it hurts? No. Not at all! It's tingly. It's like mosquito bites. Once the tattoo is done, it tend to be itchy. Well, that what happens to me. Seriously! It doesnt hurt at all. Or maybe I'm just addicted to the pain and I don't feel it no more. :P Machines tattoo, it's nothing compare to the the traditional tattoo making, where 2 bamboos with needles at the end knocking against your skin over and over and over again. But for you punkgurl73, start it slow. Get a tattoo done on you sleeve, or you back, somewhere away from the boney area. I remember getting a Borneo scorpion on my rib cage, done traditionally. OMG! If people said getting a tattoo on you rib cage using a tattoo machine is painful, you don't know how I felt when I got it done traditionally. Took double the time of a normal tattoo machine. But, you know what, once you got a tattoo done on you, I could say, most probably you might get addicted with the pleasurable pain of tattoo making. LOL! Well, that what happens to me. And I have 5 now, huge ones, going for my 6 & 7 tattoo done... traditionally! In short, be excited! and make sure what the tattoo means to you, what it symbolize, and remember, it's going to be with you till the rest of your life!

I have four tattoos, each one of them is my own artwork and done by a very professional tattooist. I am very happy with my tattoos, and have no regrets at all, I have a small dragon, a portrait of Brandon Lee as The Crow, an ornate dreamcatcher with a black widow spider on the web and the image of The Crow. Getting these done was a lot like a small cat scratch, not particularly painful at all.