Some tattoo artists will say no. Others will say yes. There are numerous factors to consider when getting a tattoo and obviously the amount of pain you must go through for that tattoo will vary.
Old school tattoo artists are of the mind, that you must earn your tattoo with the pain you go through to get your tattoo. This is rather outdated way of thought process.
Many factors play into how much a tattoo will hurt. One important factor is where the tattoo will be located onto your body. Areas such as the outer arms, outer legs, upper back and upper chest are not very painful for tattooing. Locations such as the lower back, inside the arms, or legs, near elbows and knees, along the spine, along the ribs, the lower front torso are all considered staying more painful areas. Feet and ankles are definitely more painful than locations. This applies also to inside the wrist and hands.
Another factor is how good you tolerate pain. Women are built to take pain better than men, because women are designed to give birth. This makes a normal woman’s pain tolerance usually higher than a guys. Women who have given birth usually tolerate pain better than females who have not been through childbirth.
Additionally, if you have now several tattoos, you know what to expect and obtain become more immune to the feeling acquiring a tattoo because you have had a chance to feel what it feels like for almost any tattoo and now you can convince your body that the pain is not that bad, because you’ve survived it before. Those getting their first or second tattoo would be advisable to pick smaller designs and put them in less painful areas until they become used on the feeling of working with a tattoo needle pierce their skin 3,000 times a little. But, be careful where those small tattoos go. The actual tattoo business, outer arms and upper backs, as well as calves in the legs are considered ‘prime real estate’ and to plant a tiny tattoo in an area that leaves a lot of untouched skin around it tends noticable that small tattoo look even littler. And, if sometime in the future you decide to get a partial or full sleeve or leg piece, you’ve simply it more hard to design around that tiny tattoo smack dab in center of your planned large piece.
On the market today there are many types of deadening agents available. Pre-deadeners usually have Lidocaine, Benzocaine and/or Tetracaine in them. Pre-deadeners should be suited for cleaned, shaved skin in a thin coat, then seal the area with clear cellophane and taped airtight. The artist applying this pre-deadener is wise to test a small area first ensuring the person receiving the pre-deadener is not going to possess a bad reaction into the cream or treatment. Most pre-deadeners take 45 minutes to a single hour to become effective and usually last 1 to 2 hours. Most times you can tell it is taking effect when look at a whitish coloring to the treated area making the encircling areas appear pinker than normal. On darker skin this is harder to determine. If there is any doubt about whether the person will have step to this procedure, always have them discuss it with their doctor before using the product, several cases of reactions have been reported by people who did not follow these guidelines.
These pre-deadeners are available to professional tattoo artists through their tattoo supplier and are not generally available towards the public. These pre-deadeners are designed as replacements on un-broken skin, meaning before the tattooing process commences.
Once the tattoo has been started, usually after all the outlining is done, another type of deadener is available on the market. It too can contain Lidocaine (5% concentration is the legal limit a person have a medical license), Benzocaine and/or Tetracaine. Usually this ‘during-the-procedure’ treatment has liquid, spray form or gel. You can get someone sprayed on or applied to your skin once the skin is ‘broken’ from the tattoo needle and could also be tested on a small area beforehand to check the client can have no adverse reaction. Again, this product is not generally available to the public but can be found by a professional tattoo artist working in a licensed studio. Are already usually lasts 45 minutes to an hour per application and this is advised not incorporated with this the product more than 4 times inside a sitting with litigant to avoid heart palpitations, and other unpleasant side effects.
Some artists refuse to offer these deadeners saying it may cause the tattoo to heal poorly. Others refuse to offer them because of the cost involved in obtaining them. Most of these deadening products have become expensive for small amounts and because these sometimes in alcohol or witch hazel bases, they very often will evaporate quickly and won’t have a long shelf life. Clients usually don’t find that their tattoo artists will talk about the tattoo experience when the client is no more. Tattoo artists have been overheard commenting about what a wimp a client is because they moaned, groaned, complained incessantly, constantly wiggled throughout the whole tattoo. Some artists will charge more for the next tattoo if customer comes back towards same artist to get more detail work, because the artist knows it truly is be a difficult tattoo to excel due to could be pain vocalizations of the client, and wishing to get a complaining client to sit still. Sitting still is the number one reason some tattoos do not prove well. Talking to the cell phone, bringing children into the studio and paying more attention to them than the tattoo procedure, and poor aftercare are some other reasons why a tattoo might not be well. But, using deadeners usually do not have any effect located on the quality of the tattoo or the healing process then.
The Wave tattoo studio
Carrer dels Assaonadors, 24, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
+34 603 30 76 87