I’M COVERED IN BEES
Jul. 8th, 2011 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teaberryblueGosh, I have a lot of things I meant to post this week, mostly to do with ice cream and food and other exciting things, but I sort of got caught up in other stuff and now I have exciting things that eclipse all that stuff that is only exciting in my head.
I went to Twelve 28 Tattoo today for my appointment with Joy. As you may remember, I went in last week for my consultation and it was fun telling Joy all my bee-nerd stuff.
Today, I went back. But before I went back, I took THE LAST PHOTO OF MY UN-BEED SHOULDER. EVER.
When I got there, she had four simple line-drawings of bees for me to look at, and I picked three of them to transfer to my skin. I also got to see Joy’s awesome work room which has many excellent Star Wars things in it, including many many Star Wars Pez dispensers that I do not own, such as a glow-in-the-dark Palpatine. How awesome is that?
Anyway, if you’ve never had a tattoo, the procedure was pretty much like my first one to begin. We talked a little bit about placement, and then Joy transferred one of the line drawings to my shoulder. I lay down on the chair, and Joy pinned up the pictures of bees that I had given her (bee pinups!) and got out a whole bunch of inks, and went to work.
The rest of it was nothing like my first one. First off, the first tattoo I got was all black. So I didn’t realize quite how much blood was being wiped away with the ink. It’s not a ton, but it’s enough to make everything smudgey red.
(However, I will also tell you the same thing I said the last time– for those of you who have thought about getting a tattoo but are afraid of the pain, it does not hurt very much. If you have ever gone to the dentist and gotten your teeth cleaned, the best thing I can compare it to is that scrapey sensation,. Sometimes it will hurt a little bit for just a second or two, and then it goes back to feeling scrapey. If anything, my neck hurt more from getting stiff than my skin hurt from having a tiny needle in it).
Joy finished the first bee, and it looked awesome. So she asked if we should continue and I said yessirree, Bob. I did not actually say that, but I was pretty enthusiastic, I think.
These bees, they are tiny pieces of art. I can’t tell you how happy I am with them. They are like little watercolor paintings on my skin, the way all the colors mix together.
Mirrored from Antagonia.net.
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Date: 2011-07-08 04:27 am (UTC)That is a lot of tattooing to have gotten done in one session!
Your shoulder looks very badass now. But in a way that makes me want to be friends with the pretty shoulder-bees.
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Date: 2011-07-08 04:37 am (UTC)I recently finished reading: "The Honey Thief" by Elizabeth Graver and I think you might like it (or have you already read it?)
Some reviews:
"Remarkably fine-tuned, it maintains a consistent delicacy and precision.-The New York Times Book Review
"Graver provides a wealth of vividly observed detail that makes us feel completely there with the characters."-The Boston Sunday Globe
"Elizabeth Graver is rapidly proving herself one of our finest writers on the grand drama of simply growing up....A quiet gem of a book."-Chicago Tribune
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Date: 2011-07-08 04:41 am (UTC)I suspect it is probably a book for my mom if not for me. I tend to like really fantastical stuff, but she enjoys realistic growing up stories.
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Date: 2011-07-08 09:29 am (UTC)When I had mine done, the artist said to me that it would feel like it's about to hurt really badly but it never does and that was spot on. It was most interesting. I could definitely see how they can become addictive, although I haven't had another one. Yet.
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Date: 2011-07-08 06:43 pm (UTC)Oh, and thanks! I was just so pleased with them.
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Date: 2011-07-08 01:36 pm (UTC)(Much love from my fuzzeh ladies to yours! ^^)
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Date: 2011-07-11 12:51 am (UTC)And I am just thrilled with them. They are so beautiful and exciting.
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Date: 2011-07-08 04:58 pm (UTC)I'm not a super tattoo fan, but these are lovely - they really are art.
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Date: 2011-07-09 02:07 am (UTC)( I think what you said about the pain has a lot to do with individual perception, and also what part of the body you have the tattoo on. I'm pretty confident that for some people and some places it HURTS for realz, not like scrapey. I'm very happy it didn't hurt you though!)
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Date: 2011-07-11 12:54 am (UTC)And yes, I have seen tons of bad tattoos. That's why I really looked around at different artists' work before picking someone who also had a good reference from a friend.
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Date: 2011-07-09 03:36 am (UTC)Not even kidding, that might be the prettiest tattoo I've ever seen!
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Date: 2011-07-10 01:15 pm (UTC)Also: there can be nothing more to life than owning a glow-in-the-dark Palpatine. (Except possibly a toddler Hallowe'en Palpatine costume. I was torn between that and a baby Voldemort, and then my family said it was child abuse and to turn him into a pumpkin. Boo.)
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Date: 2011-07-11 01:18 am (UTC)And yeah, it makes sense. Tattoo inks actually are available in pretty much any color you can think of-- Joy mixed some of the colors herself. But I think most places don't have that kind of availability.
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