Queued Tasting Note.
Made this one to drink during my tattoo appointment; I measured out porrly though and it was really watery and disappointing. Boo.
But…
I promised information on getting my tattoos done on Tuesday, so here it is! I went in a little bit nervous, but mostly really excited! I think I’ve mentioned it before in other tasting notes, but when I visualize myself, how I’ve always visualized myself – is with tattoos.
Getting my arms shaved was kinda weird; and my artist was like super, super tender about it. And then he put the stencils on and I checked them out in the mirror to make sure everything was laid out how I wanted it – when we actually started, I was so braced to be in a lot of pain. I know tattoos are supposed to hurt so I was ready to white knuckle through that pain; much to my surprise it didn’t feel like much of anything. In fact, it was really relaxing. I imagine that acupuncture would maybe feel similar. Honestly, taking the surgical tape from the bandages off the next morning probably hurt more.
So far everything’s healing up pretty nicely; I’m definitely making sure to follow all my after care instructions – these tattoos are gonna be with me the rest of my life; I want to make sure they look good! There’s a small bit of very light scabbing on the Tabula Rasa one but after checking several different websites it looks to fall very comfortably within the range of what is normal. I’m already getting a little sick of explaining to people what they mean, though. I explain Tabula Rasa (means blank slate, and to me means “Fresh Start” and symbolizes my moving to Saskatoon and starting fresh) and they all go “Oh!” and nod because they can at least emphasize with that. I explain Camellia Sinensis to them and they just look at me very blankly…
I’m very excited to go and get more work done though! Next up is probably either going to be the series of Shel Silverstein illustrations I want done (the Candle from Invitation, bearded man, and one of the panels from The Thinker of Tender thoughts) or getting the actual Camellia Sinensis plant done on the same arm my CS word tattoo is; but that’ll absolutely be a bigger piece since I plan on getting something that’ll cover most of the length of my forearm.
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Will we get pictures when they are all healed up? I have had a custom tattoo design that I got from a comic artist years ago but 1) I’m not sure I want it bad enough for it to hurt and 2) it’s pretty complex so I have to find a really good artist to do it.
Will definitely post pictures when they’re healed :)
Congratulations on your new ink! I have 9 and have plans for more when the money is available.
Will we get pictures when they are all healed up? I have had a custom tattoo design that I got from a comic artist years ago but 1) I’m not sure I want it bad enough for it to hurt and 2) it’s pretty complex so I have to find a really good artist to do it.
Will definitely post pictures when they’re healed :)
Congratulations on your new ink! I have 9 and have plans for more when the money is available.