Permabee!
After many many years of fussing about it, I finally decided that my body is at the stage where all kinds of permanent changes are happening to her, whether I like it or not, so I might as well go ahead and make a change that I liked.
So I finally went ahead and had a tattoo done. I went to Craig Cooley, who was recommended to me by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
redbird on the basis of some detailed naturalistic work that she'd had done by him.
It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, and I found it significantly less unpleasant than the dental work I had had done the same week. I was surprised to find that the pain felt more like hot cutting than like repeated stabbity. And Craig was very friendly and sweet. We talked about bees a lot while he did the work. I'm really happy with both the whole experience and the actual tattoo.
I didn't want to post for a few days because the white part of the flowers was a little bloody and brown, but even though things are not totally healed, it's clear enough to take a decent picture. Obviously there's a skill to tattoo photography that I don't have, but you should be able to get the idea. It's on the outer side of my right calf, and it's about 4 inches tall.
(p.s. Just in case it's not obvious, if you have something negative to say about the image, please keep it to yourself. I'm going to be wearing this for the rest of my life, and I'm the kind of insecure that doesn't let stray comments let go easily.)
So I finally went ahead and had a tattoo done. I went to Craig Cooley, who was recommended to me by
redbird on the basis of some detailed naturalistic work that she'd had done by him.It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, and I found it significantly less unpleasant than the dental work I had had done the same week. I was surprised to find that the pain felt more like hot cutting than like repeated stabbity. And Craig was very friendly and sweet. We talked about bees a lot while he did the work. I'm really happy with both the whole experience and the actual tattoo.
I didn't want to post for a few days because the white part of the flowers was a little bloody and brown, but even though things are not totally healed, it's clear enough to take a decent picture. Obviously there's a skill to tattoo photography that I don't have, but you should be able to get the idea. It's on the outer side of my right calf, and it's about 4 inches tall.
(p.s. Just in case it's not obvious, if you have something negative to say about the image, please keep it to yourself. I'm going to be wearing this for the rest of my life, and I'm the kind of insecure that doesn't let stray comments let go easily.)
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Bee on Apple Blossom on Calf |
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That is a really good green. And yes, the white seems to have worked nicely.
You also, unsurprisingly, have a much more naturalistic bee than I do.
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Makes me wish I weren't so damn hairy. :)
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I must be kind of dumb about blossoming trees, because my first thought was "dogwood," but now I can see that it hasn't got the notches.
Pretty!
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Your reasons for getting ink is one of the things that's starting to edge me that way. Akycha has been talking about ink for a long time, and it's starting to get to me. :)
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(In other words, this looks super cool.)
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Congratulations!
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Looks cute!
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