Some tattoo artists will say no. Others will say yes. There 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 sensation you go through to find tattoo. This is quite outdated way of planning.
Many factors play into how much a tattoo will hurt. One important factor is where the tattoo will be located on your own body. Areas such as the outer arms, outer legs, upper back and upper chest are not very painful for tattooing. Other areas 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 to be more painful areas. The 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 made to give birth. This produces a normal woman’s pain tolerance usually higher than a gentleman’s. Women who have given birth usually tolerate pain better than ladies who have not been through childbirth.
Additionally, if you have now several tattoos, you know what to expect and have become more secure the feeling of having a tattoo because have had a chance to feel what it feels like to obtain a tattoo and nowadays you can convince your body that the pain is not that bad, because you’ve survived it sooner than. Those getting their first or second tattoo would be advised to pick smaller designs and put them in less painful areas until they become used for the feeling of using a tattoo needle pierce their skin 3,000 times a tiny. But, be careful where those small tattoos go. In the tattoo business, outer arms and upper backs, as well as calves from 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 in order to create that small tattoo look even lesser. And, if sometime in the future you decide to get a partial or full sleeve or leg piece, you’ve simply it more tough to design around that tiny tattoo smack dab in the middle of your planned large piece.
On the market today there are a couple of types of deadening agents available. Pre-deadeners usually have Lidocaine, Benzocaine and/or Tetracaine in them. Pre-deadeners should be applied to 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 young area first ensuring the person finding the pre-deadener is not going to have a bad reaction on the cream or creams. 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 you see a whitish coloring to the treated area making nearby areas appear pinker than normal. On darker skin famous . harder to comply with. If there is any doubt about whether the person will have respond to this procedure, you’ll want to have them discuss it with their doctor before using the product, several cases of reactions have been reported by people that did not follow these guidelines.
These pre-deadeners are around for professional tattoo artists through their tattoo supplier and aren’t generally available to the public. These pre-deadeners are designed in order to use on un-broken skin, meaning before the tattooing process commences.
Once the tattoo has been started, usually after all of the outlining is done, another type of deadener is available. It too can contain Lidocaine (5% concentration is the legal limit unless you have a medical license), Benzocaine and/or Tetracaine. Usually this ‘during-the-procedure’ treatment is there to liquid, spray form or gel. You can get someone sprayed on or applied to your skin once the skin is ‘broken’ by the tattoo needle and should also be tested on a small area beforehand to make sure the client will have no adverse reaction. Again, this product is not generally available to men and women but can be purchased by a professional tattoo artist working in a licensed studio. Are already usually lasts 45 minutes to sixty minutes per application as well as its advised not added with the product more than 4 times in one sitting with clients to avoid heart palpitations, and other unpleasant side experiences.
Some artists refuse to offer these deadeners saying it may cause the tattoo to heal poorly. Others refuse to offer them because with the cost involved in obtaining them. Most of these deadening products are very expensive for moderateness and because are usually sometimes in alcohol or witch hazel bases, they tend to evaporate quickly and have a long shelf life. Clients usually don’t understand or know their tattoo artists will talk about the tattoo experience once the client is absent. 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 to your same artist for many more work, because the artist knows it is going be a difficult tattoo to properly due to the actual pain vocalizations on the client, and wishing to get a complaining client to sit still. Sitting still is the number one reason some tattoos do not emerge out well. Talking on the cell phone, bringing children into the studio and paying more attention to them than the tattoo procedure, and poor aftercare are other reasons why a tattoo might not finally end up well. But, using deadeners usually do not have any effect of the quality of the tattoo or the healing process after.
The Wave tattoo studio
Carrer dels Assaonadors, 24, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
+34 603 30 76 87