My friend apparently REALLY likes squirrels and requested this:
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/Squidoid667/juliesquirrel.jpg)
So I obliged. It was fun :)
She's a real champ though cause I've been told I'm heavy handed.
(other tats have no pics yet)
Hey, that looks pretty damn cool!
thanks :)
i can only do outline type stuff for now
haven't practiced any shading techniques yet.
will work on it though.
Where is that?
on her foot.
Dude, cute!
Foot tattoos are intense!
I've heard that the skin on oranges and grapefruits have the same resistance as skin when it comes to how the needle slides in.
you could practice on those...
Troof. Med/nursing students practice on fruit before jabbing needles into people.
CS: That's actually pretty impressive (and v. cute). How many have you done?
i do practice on fruits
they make this neato practice skin that reacts like human skin
need to get some of that to work on shading.
ive only done a couple
a few skulls, a henna heart and that squirrel.
it isnt as easy as it looks but it isnt real hard either.
it is a lot of fun however.
It looks fun, and seems like a fabulous skill to have for barter.
it is a lot of fun
they get tattooed for the price of a bottle of ink :)
Probably better that I pay $150/hr instead of just buying the ink. I'd already be completely covered, if that was the case. :|
this gave me a migraine.
then i puked.
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/Squidoid667/taruefoot.jpg)
it's green ink (not black) camera makes it look black.
i told her she should fill in the blank space between the doo-jiggies but she said "sounds painful"..... like the rest of it wasn't? she was twitching like a palsey patient.
I love that! I always wanted to do a paisle on each heel, but I haven't. So I guess I didn't want it that bad.
i dont recommend getting tattoos on your heels.
the skin there gets a lot of wear and tear and they'll eventually wear away.
so it would only be temporary.
How can it wear away if the ink is placed in the dermis, not the epidermis? I would think that the main concern would be the relative opacity of the epidermis making the tattoo less visible, as well as the difficulty of tattooing through the thick, tough epidermal layer. Oh, and the pain.
the skin on the heel wears away very quickly
its always regenerating because of all the use
pain? naw, the skin is really thick and you dont feel it much.
i did one of my first practice tattoos on my friend's heel.
it was gone in like a week or so.
the heel has some really thick, tough and rough skin.
example- a friend of mine has an in-law that used to let her friends practice on her.
after a while if she didnt like em she'd rub em off with salt, water and steel wool. granted thats not the best way to get rid of a tattoo (kinda hard core for an old lady if you ask me) but its effective and shows that with enough friction, time and...grit? you can remove one from anywhere.
so the heel really doesnt take a lot of effort.
Great work CS.
thanks :)
If it doesn't hurt it's not penetrating to the living dermal layer, which contains the nerve endings (quite a lot of them on the heel), and if it's not placed in the dermal layer it WILL disappear eventually due to the constant renewal of the epidermal layer. The dermal layer does not exfoliate which is why a properly placed tattoo is permanent. If you damage the skin enough, you can remove enough that the ink itself is exposed and comes off with the skin, which is why dermabrasion can work to remove shallower tattoos. It doesn't work on a tattoo that is inked more deeply, which is why laser tattoo removal was invented.
Quote from: Nigel on February 17, 2008, 09:44:11 PM
If it doesn't hurt it's not penetrating to the living dermal layer, which contains the nerve endings (quite a lot of them on the heel), and if it's not placed in the dermal layer it WILL disappear eventually due to the constant renewal of the epidermal layer. The dermal layer does not exfoliate which is why a properly placed tattoo is permanent. If you damage the skin enough, you can remove enough that the ink itself is exposed and comes off with the skin, which is why dermabrasion can work to remove shallower tattoos. It doesn't work on a tattoo that is inked more deeply, which is why laser tattoo removal was invented.
yes
however if you go too deep into the skin it will eventually "run" or "spread" over time and become blobulous and unclear (like the one on my right arm)
its kind of touchy. there's a happy medium where you go in just enough to make it stay but not too deep where it'll become ugly quickly.
but are you talking the actual bottom of your heel? where you constantly step?
or the side where there isnt that much wear and tear?
(and yes i do understand your point totally)
Yeah, if you go through the dermis down to the hypodermis the ink just spreads out in the fat, it's no good.
I was thinking the back of my heel, the roundish part that's visible when I'm standing. The skin is still very very thick there, but it should be doable.
oooooooooh.
ok yeah that would stay.