On the 2nd I left from Southampton to go to Hook to meet up with Sarah, an awesome friend I made when I was in Africa. She already has a couple tattoos, including one of a bushbaby and she was willing to go with me to get my tattoo. So around 8:30am on the 3rd we set off from Hook towards Rainham in Kent and arrived around 10:15. We were early as the shop only opened at 11, so we strolled around the graveyard of the nearby church for a bit (there wasn't really anything else to do and luckily Sarah likes graveyards as much as I do).
I got tattooed by David Corden, awesome guy! When we came in, he showed me the design which was beautiful. I had imagined a full body bushbaby, but it was just the head with a paw and it looked amazing, so of course my expectation had to make way for this, but that wasn't hard to do cause I really trusted him. We had to wait a little while for him to set up and around 11:30 we got started. He put on a stencil first and then did the outlines in the colours that would go there, no black ones. It didn't hurt as much as I expected, though later on it did start hurting a bit more as he went over bits he'd already been over before.
Around 2:15-ish I had lunch and David told me it would hurt a lot more afterwards since the endorphins and adrenaline would stop working a while, he was right. Though, he was really nice and put on a numbing cream so that the bits he had worked on would be less sensitive after lunch. So when he started again it was really quite odd, because I couldn't even feel the bits he'd been over before and the new skin hurt more than before... After a while the numbness stopped though, so I could feel everything again, but overall the pain wasn't too bad. David worked till about 6:45 or 7pm with some short 5 minute breaks in between and the finished tattoo was absolutely amazing! I couldn't stop looking at it all day XD
I'd asked David whether he was proud of his tattoos and he is, but he told me that usually just after a tattoo is finished he can only really see the mistakes he's made in it, so it takes him a while to appreciate the whole picture. I can understand that quite well, but I'm still intensely proud of him!
That day was definitely the best day of my year so far. Now the healing process begins and extra care will ensure that it doesn't scar, so I'll be on alert for quite a long time to make sure it keeps looking awesome.
So far I've only heard good comments about it and even my parents appreciate it ^-^ They did tell me to wait a year or so before getting another, but I think that'll be my decision. I've already got some ideas for new tattoos and it is true that getting a tattoo is addictive!
I'm extremely happy with my tattoo and hopefully it will heal well.
Cheers,
Fleur
p.s. The progress pictures will go up on the right-hand side.
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