How I did it: It took for me almost or more than a year. Since it's a thing you'll have forever, you should think very well if you really want. After this "internalizing" thing, the draw part: why are you doing this? what kind of draw you want that represent this? Big? Small? Color? Black? You want to see it? You don't want to see? You have to think carefully about the draw, because you should be proud of it and really love it, it's not just "one-day-of-love". I used to search at Internet a lot of draws and see many photos of tattoo people, ask to some friends of mine, the tattoo ones and not the tattoos one (it's important too!). After all this preparation, one day i felt that was the time to do it. I was prepare to do it.

Lessons & tips:

1. If you're undecided, talk w/ people that has tattoo and people who doesn't. Take your time to decide
2. If you decided ask to people who did, why they choose that guy and not the other, this things.
3. It's very important you talk before w/ the person that will tattoo you, know his work and his sytle. The person is an artist, and like all of them, he/she has own style, proper instruments, way to use colors and many others thing. Watch it carefully.
4. There're some places at the boy that's more sensible, mainly the places w/ soft skin and that's a skin/bone on it. So, if you don't like pain, think veeeeeeeeeeeeeery well where you gonna do it. That are many places that don't hurt almost nothing! And others a lot.

Nov 09, 2008, 12:09PM PST | 2 comments