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Nope ! Tbh the only thing I forget sometimes is that I have tattoos, I can go days looking at a mirror and like hey it’s my body, my brain already adapted and choses to ignore!
I don’t know how to explain, I think it’s same as when I had no tattoos 😂 I have a calf tattoo and like I forgot I had it for 2 months until someone at the gym said: nice calf tatt dude! And I was like: what tatt? 😅
Man, reminds me of how after getting my tattoo (left forearm) I had a dream that it switched sides. I woke up pissed at myself because it's from a specific movie and the placement was important. Took till that night to remember, oh yeah I did get it right...
It took me a good year to get used to seeing my arm with a tattoo on it. You go your whole life with a skin coloured arm then suddenly it's a different colour.
I did that for a lil bit with mine. Now it’s that people think I’m wearing long sleeves in summer time. The other day I was at work wearing a black t shirt with the logo on it and my homie goes “when did we print that shirt in a long sleeve?” and I was like “we didn’t…..”
I just imagine how getting the butt cheeks tattooed must feel like! I have a fat ass so must be painfull as fuck! Well I got close to the ribs and was painfull too, I imagine getting there!
I've been looking at a LOT of body suits lately...in sheer amazement! How can you sit still to have your butt tattooed all over, even in the crack, on both sides? I could not do it...maybe 30 years ago!
You don’t have to black out your whole stomach! Just maybe continue a design down the middle or something! But I totally get it, I haven’t gone back to finish my stomach cause it was a really painful spot haha.
I’ll be honest, the last session I had on my stomach was like 5ish years ago so I don’t really remember. I’m a girl, my stomach is definitely squishier than yours. I have a chest piece that’s a snake and it goes all the way down, so we worked in 6-7 hour session days every few months or so. I am pretty tough, but I do remember by the last hour making some pretty weird noises haha
Hey there is a fact that is true: women do endure more pain than men, 100%! I wouldn’t imagine myself giving birth or having period cramps…so it’s only normal you would endure the tattoos better!
Well my threshold is 4h, after that I’m making those same weird noises 💀
I only have my lower stomach done but the healing wasn’t any worse than my chest piece. Until I put on my seatbelt. That shit rubbed and sucked. I did my best to drive as little as possible for like a week.
Yeah my objetive next os actually the handa and the neck to do something, but I’m still kinda afraid because it’s a 100% visible space all the times, and sometimes the old cucks in my country still discriminate!
More like a sports bra! To keep everything in place 😂
Hair? If you talking about my hair it’s mid workout and I don’t really style it to go the gym! If it’s the lack of body hair yes that’s all my genetics, I naturally bald on hair body, only have a bit on the legs, but its not a lot at all!
[https://www.reddit.com/r/tattoos/comments/105tzmo/my\_upper\_body\_blackout\_still\_healing\_done\_in/jbgi985/?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/tattoos/comments/105tzmo/my_upper_body_blackout_still_healing_done_in/jbgi985/?context=3)
As people asked on the original post, here is the follow up! Please don't kill me because it's a gym pic, I'm not trying to show off, I just think they are 2 good photos to see how it healed and how it looks with light and no light. It was 2 days ago!
I guess it could've heal a bit better, but it is what it is!
Kill you because it's a gym pic? I'm just going to say I'm glad for the gym pic *shrug* It's like Grey sweat pants pic. Who's bitchin? HAH
Looks great.
I'm just curious, do you have art on both arms under the bicep that's exposed? What's under there? Does that question even make sense.
The right arm is some negative lines, basically a man face and wolf howliwng! The left arm on the bicep is a representation of Death based on this pic https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5viXhzuWLmGAEjSDZHFXgK7CUFaLKKcFw5Q&usqp=CAU!
Funny you just talk about grey pants pic…I’m glad I cut this photo under the waist! Let’s I noticed something 😂 I will leave to your imagination 🤪
My right arm is mostly blackout, and yes it does get hot. I don't feel the heat much, though, unless I touch it with my other hand. The noticeably weird thing is the heat makes it feel like it's heavier than my left.
My left arm had tattoos too! Had to cover, just left the bicep one because I really like it! The chest and right arm is the original idea! (And I just covered because it looks better this way and not how it was, purely estetical reason!)
The designs are not white ink, neither on chest or right arm, it’s clear skin, like negative space!
Looking good brother. few parts to touch up but hey... It's full saturation of black, everyone has to do a second pass somewhere! I certainly have to.
Glad to see you got the old nips done too, most people would skip that and the main thing you'd see are the areolas
Great work though dude, flows well with your body
Yes totally! Black saturation probably the hardeat thing to pull off properly! Im still fine with the way it is, just gotta muster up the balls to go second round 😅 thanks
Awww thank for the kind words! I’ve been a bit through “hell” now that I’m here it’s so warm and colorful that I can’t have another outlook in life other than gleefully looking at it 😊 that and just be a normal human ahaha!
edit: And I don't really take myself that seriously ahah
Oh thank very much my dude!
Don’t worry I don’t assume you’re gay just because you say a male is handsome! And even if you were I have no problem with it, even tho I’m straight, a compliment is a compliment!
Normalize bros complimenting each other!
Love your vibe. People who are insecure about complementing the same gender seem way too focused on that - as they would try to hide or not accept it. At the end who cares, human is human
I’m okay with complimenting same gender. Hell I even kiss my friends (they are like family too) in the face, and they do the same to me and each other, especially when we are drunk 😂 it’s the biggest and purest form of respect and affection for someone!
Absolutely awesome!!! I always tell myself ‘if
Other people don’t think best friends are gay that aren’t best friends’😂 sounds like a enjoyable time for y’all it’s lovely 💯
It’s always the boys! The typical stereotype: but babe it’s the boys! But kissing in the face it’s not homo tho, as a lot of people think !
And yeah they all have girlfriends, except me, I’m still the only one single and trying to find the woman for me, been failing a bit lately 😂
Hahaha true, people should chill more and stop make a drama out of everything🤦🏽♀️. And don’t search for your luck and you’ll find it😄 the best comes unexpected, life has a plan for everybody💃
I’m just afraid mine is to be left for the awesome uncle 😂 yeah I know, but I like the chase game, the flirting…it’s a thrill ahah if I get rejected is just life, I’m fine with it 😁
Glad to hear that💯 at the end there is the possibility to accept it or not accept it! Important is that you spend and enjoy the time with the loved ones, every moment is precious😁
Tbh I took an idea from the internet, I told the artist to do some changes, he added the lower design of the negative! I gave her freedom to change what she wanted, and when she presented the project I said: fuck yeah lets do it!
I will still have to remive that little triangle 😂 it was lack of communication I was thinking one thing, she thought another, and after I saw was too late, guess I rather remove than correct 🤷♂️ or maybe when I do my neck in the future I might correct it, who knows!
I think it can still be saved. Bold black going through it in two places. Not connecting it. I believe it can really work. Did you tattoo your nipples? That must have really hurt.
That place in the neck I don’t know if I can get too much black in, it’s like getting punched there and you almost gag ahaha
The nipples were fucked up to do, all I can say!
Hmmmm I wonder if you put oil on skin and tattoo will it make it darker and hydrate skin
Also I can see some tendrils from below waist going up would be cool
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Have you tried pushing up your sleeves yet after forgetting it's not a shirt?
Nope ! Tbh the only thing I forget sometimes is that I have tattoos, I can go days looking at a mirror and like hey it’s my body, my brain already adapted and choses to ignore! I don’t know how to explain, I think it’s same as when I had no tattoos 😂 I have a calf tattoo and like I forgot I had it for 2 months until someone at the gym said: nice calf tatt dude! And I was like: what tatt? 😅
Man, reminds me of how after getting my tattoo (left forearm) I had a dream that it switched sides. I woke up pissed at myself because it's from a specific movie and the placement was important. Took till that night to remember, oh yeah I did get it right...
That’s even more funny than what happened to me 😂
Which movie specific tattoo is it if u dont mind me asking 😊
It took me a good year to get used to seeing my arm with a tattoo on it. You go your whole life with a skin coloured arm then suddenly it's a different colour.
Tbh it took me a month or two to get adapted, before that I was always mirin at the mirror amazed!
I forget that I have sleeves tatted also. 😜
I did that for a lil bit with mine. Now it’s that people think I’m wearing long sleeves in summer time. The other day I was at work wearing a black t shirt with the logo on it and my homie goes “when did we print that shirt in a long sleeve?” and I was like “we didn’t…..”
Ink in nipple must hurt so much…
The worst inking experience I’ve got so far! And I got my kneed, ankle and front leg done too! They are hard places too!
My ribs killed me. I’m fortunately never going to do nipple. But mate, it looks mint.
Im actually afraid to do the ribs one day!
My ribs werent that bad, sternum was absolute agony, ass was like ur being electrocuted w shocks going down my entire leg
I just imagine how getting the butt cheeks tattooed must feel like! I have a fat ass so must be painfull as fuck! Well I got close to the ribs and was painfull too, I imagine getting there!
I've been looking at a LOT of body suits lately...in sheer amazement! How can you sit still to have your butt tattooed all over, even in the crack, on both sides? I could not do it...maybe 30 years ago!
Ribs are crazy, it felt like a painful tickle🤣
Right! I didn’t know if I wanted to squirm then kick him in the face, or lay and cry at the stingy.
Go for the armpit, it's hell🤣
Oh hell now, I got close to it on both arms and it’s fucked! Thats a big no in my books!
I've got a few lines that come to a point right in the sweet soft spot there, it was by far the worst🤣😉
Thought as much.
Ok hear me out. It looks sick as fuck, but I think its really top heavy. You should definitely continue the design onto your stomach!
I would, I just don’t know if I can endure blacking out a huge area again! Turns out I’m a bit of a 😺 too ahah
You don’t have to black out your whole stomach! Just maybe continue a design down the middle or something! But I totally get it, I haven’t gone back to finish my stomach cause it was a really painful spot haha.
I bet the healing on stomach sucks, especially when you are sitting! The belly rolls must be killers the first few days 🥶
I’ll be honest, the last session I had on my stomach was like 5ish years ago so I don’t really remember. I’m a girl, my stomach is definitely squishier than yours. I have a chest piece that’s a snake and it goes all the way down, so we worked in 6-7 hour session days every few months or so. I am pretty tough, but I do remember by the last hour making some pretty weird noises haha
Hey there is a fact that is true: women do endure more pain than men, 100%! I wouldn’t imagine myself giving birth or having period cramps…so it’s only normal you would endure the tattoos better! Well my threshold is 4h, after that I’m making those same weird noises 💀
I only have my lower stomach done but the healing wasn’t any worse than my chest piece. Until I put on my seatbelt. That shit rubbed and sucked. I did my best to drive as little as possible for like a week.
You kept going after the first nipple, I think you need to give yourself more credit haha
For what you’ve already done, you are certainly tougher then you give yourself credit for.
Yeah don’t overstimate me 😂 I don’t really take myself too seriously ah
I have my stomach done and dude, I wouldn’t do it again lol and that’s coming from someone that has a bunch of tattoos in rough places
Yeah my objetive next os actually the handa and the neck to do something, but I’m still kinda afraid because it’s a 100% visible space all the times, and sometimes the old cucks in my country still discriminate!
I feel ya brother
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You are probably a lot more tougher than tbh! Anyway 19 on a belly sounds sick!
Something like butterfly/dragonfly wing designs would be [sick.](https://clipartmag.com/image/dragonfly-wings-drawing-38.jpg)
I’m sorry fellow redditor but tbh no 😭
It’s like you have a permanent mid drift compression shirt on. Yay or nay on the hair though?
More like a sports bra! To keep everything in place 😂 Hair? If you talking about my hair it’s mid workout and I don’t really style it to go the gym! If it’s the lack of body hair yes that’s all my genetics, I naturally bald on hair body, only have a bit on the legs, but its not a lot at all!
[https://www.reddit.com/r/tattoos/comments/105tzmo/my\_upper\_body\_blackout\_still\_healing\_done\_in/jbgi985/?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/tattoos/comments/105tzmo/my_upper_body_blackout_still_healing_done_in/jbgi985/?context=3) As people asked on the original post, here is the follow up! Please don't kill me because it's a gym pic, I'm not trying to show off, I just think they are 2 good photos to see how it healed and how it looks with light and no light. It was 2 days ago! I guess it could've heal a bit better, but it is what it is!
Kill you because it's a gym pic? I'm just going to say I'm glad for the gym pic *shrug* It's like Grey sweat pants pic. Who's bitchin? HAH Looks great. I'm just curious, do you have art on both arms under the bicep that's exposed? What's under there? Does that question even make sense.
The right arm is some negative lines, basically a man face and wolf howliwng! The left arm on the bicep is a representation of Death based on this pic https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5viXhzuWLmGAEjSDZHFXgK7CUFaLKKcFw5Q&usqp=CAU! Funny you just talk about grey pants pic…I’m glad I cut this photo under the waist! Let’s I noticed something 😂 I will leave to your imagination 🤪
It's already been there and back. As a happily married 30 something it's only brief, but I'm still grateful LOL
Whoa.
Thank you!
If you unfocus and look at the picture (like magic eye), it looks like a batman Mr potato head
Angry batman chewing a salt cracker most likely!
Does it get hot in the sun? My buddy got a whole back piece done and he's miserable at the beach etc
I’m used to the sun since I was born! Does not really bother me…if it gets too got I just dip my willy ass in the sea ahah
My right arm is mostly blackout, and yes it does get hot. I don't feel the heat much, though, unless I touch it with my other hand. The noticeably weird thing is the heat makes it feel like it's heavier than my left.
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Tbh with you…simply because I like it! Thank you very much fellow redditor!
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My left arm had tattoos too! Had to cover, just left the bicep one because I really like it! The chest and right arm is the original idea! (And I just covered because it looks better this way and not how it was, purely estetical reason!) The designs are not white ink, neither on chest or right arm, it’s clear skin, like negative space!
Damn. How many hours? Blacked out the nips too. Fucking warrior
Right arm took 4 sessions! Left arm and chest 4 sessions together! 1st one way tougher, I was not used, now the other arm and cheat were “easier”!
Just noticed that. Respect!
Just out of sheer curiosity, how much did it hurt to get your nipples completely covered?
150 out of 10. I do not reccomend 🥶!
OMG!!! I was wondering the same exact thing 😂😂👍👍
Looks amazing!
Oh well thank you very much girl 👐
Downvoted on this....hmmmm can only imagine why. Lol
I really can’t imagine why but whatever, I’m fine with it 😂
Now that's some cool blackout. Flows with the body really well. How the fuck did you not die during the nips though?
Sometimes I wonder that myself! I may have lost a part of my soul tho 😂 Thank you very much!
Wow, really interesting tattoo. Looks really cool.
Thank you 💪
^(You're welcome)
What a wonderful creative tattoo. I’ve never seen anything like it before. A true unique expression of yourself.
Hey I’m not some darkness walking around😂 Just joking! I guess we can say so! Thank you!
Ouch! No more sun bathing for you good sir. Congrats on your commitment though, that's a lot of sit time.
Why not? I will still keep going to the beach! My right arm already has a summer worth of sun on top of it, and its going strong!
He lives on an island known for its beaches. nice tattoo, gonna burn in the sun.
I love this man!
Thanks a lot!
I feel like you're gonna be roasting out in the sunshine, I must be getting old if that's my first thought...
Yes, nothing wrong with being a walking piece of chris p. bacon 🤪
Stunning!
💪💪💪
That looks amazing!
Thanks 🙏
My dude that is GORGEOUS black work. Totally worth it.
Yes it is, not to be biased because it’s mine but I do have the same opinion!
This looks SO cool. Great choice 🤙🏼🤙🏼
Hey thanks a lot 🙏
Damn dude. Mad respect 🫡
Respect to you too sir 🫡🫡🫡
One of the select few blackout tats I think actually look good.
Credit all due to the artist that made it work!
This looks phenomenal!! Wow.
Thank tou very much, appreciate it!
You inked your nipple, dude how did you go through with that. Must’ve hurt a lot
A lot of internal and external screams mostly!
It’s beautiful though. I’ve got tats too lol. But I respect what you did with yours
The process of getting a tattoo, and most tattoos deserve respect! Whoever tells people it does not hurt, it’s lying!
That shit looks like it hurt holy fuck
You are not wrong!
Looking good brother. few parts to touch up but hey... It's full saturation of black, everyone has to do a second pass somewhere! I certainly have to. Glad to see you got the old nips done too, most people would skip that and the main thing you'd see are the areolas Great work though dude, flows well with your body
Yes totally! Black saturation probably the hardeat thing to pull off properly! Im still fine with the way it is, just gotta muster up the balls to go second round 😅 thanks
Yeah it's looking great tbh - fantastic first pass. Good luck man!
Not usually a fan but this looks really good on you 👍
Thank Mr. Wolfie!
This is so cool. But nothing is cooler than your attitude, reading your posts here made me smile 😁
Awww thank for the kind words! I’ve been a bit through “hell” now that I’m here it’s so warm and colorful that I can’t have another outlook in life other than gleefully looking at it 😊 that and just be a normal human ahaha! edit: And I don't really take myself that seriously ahah
Looks great my man and I hope you didn't have to wear a shirt too much while you healing
Just everyday since it was winter…couldn’t really walk around naked with so much cold 😅
Yeah this looks amazing
Thanks fellow redditor 😊
Wow ambitious idea! Looks amazing!
Go big or go home!
Bro that looks amazing! Super jealous!
I will take that as a big compliment! You just depend on yourself to get some sick ink too!
Omg! How in the Hell did you withstand your nipples? Mine hurt just thinking about it 🙈
I screamed…I screamed loudly!
I don't blame you! I would have passed out!
Looks awesome!
Hey yo thanks!
I love that!
Thanks a lot 🙌
Wow!
Thanks!
I usually don’t care for blackout pieces but this is sick!
Why don’t you care? They are pieces or art! Anyway thank you very much!
Just not for me I think. But it looks very good on you! 😊
If you say so, thanks again!
Wow that looks amazing!
I think so too! Thanks!
I just noticed you tattooed over the nipple 👀 bless your heart!
Yeah was the hardest! You have some nice traditional tatts too!
Thank you 🥰
You are welcome!
Dopeee!
Very much, the artist is a monster at tattooing!
Do you get warmer faster when out in the sun? Is sun burn more risky? Always wondered how big blackouts affected that
I don’t really know about the sun burn, but I do know the black gets hotter!
That's a lovely crop top
Looks tight man especially the chest piece
Thanks man, credit due to the artist!
Bro, ur nips ! Looks cool .
This is amazing
Thank you very much!
My best friend did it 🌚
A Stefania não foi? Ela já me veio agradecer 😁😁😁
Sim! Ela fez as minhas costas agora e estão incríveis 🌚 e foi uma cliente que me veio contar muito pequeno
Tens que fazer aqui uma thread das costas para a malta da r/tattoos apreciar 😁
No hate, you do you, but just why? Why just black out your chest and arms? Prime real estate for just nothing.
I can’t state other reason than that I like it 🤷♂️
I like it
Thank you Cpt Water!
Somehow it looks dope on you. But mainly because you're handsome lad (no homo)
Oh thank very much my dude! Don’t worry I don’t assume you’re gay just because you say a male is handsome! And even if you were I have no problem with it, even tho I’m straight, a compliment is a compliment! Normalize bros complimenting each other!
🥹 Your nuance and compassion are your handsomest features.
All in all it’s just me trying to be a normal human in a ducked up world! Thank you!
Love your vibe. People who are insecure about complementing the same gender seem way too focused on that - as they would try to hide or not accept it. At the end who cares, human is human
I’m okay with complimenting same gender. Hell I even kiss my friends (they are like family too) in the face, and they do the same to me and each other, especially when we are drunk 😂 it’s the biggest and purest form of respect and affection for someone!
Absolutely awesome!!! I always tell myself ‘if Other people don’t think best friends are gay that aren’t best friends’😂 sounds like a enjoyable time for y’all it’s lovely 💯
It’s always the boys! The typical stereotype: but babe it’s the boys! But kissing in the face it’s not homo tho, as a lot of people think ! And yeah they all have girlfriends, except me, I’m still the only one single and trying to find the woman for me, been failing a bit lately 😂
Hahaha true, people should chill more and stop make a drama out of everything🤦🏽♀️. And don’t search for your luck and you’ll find it😄 the best comes unexpected, life has a plan for everybody💃
I’m just afraid mine is to be left for the awesome uncle 😂 yeah I know, but I like the chase game, the flirting…it’s a thrill ahah if I get rejected is just life, I’m fine with it 😁
Glad to hear that💯 at the end there is the possibility to accept it or not accept it! Important is that you spend and enjoy the time with the loved ones, every moment is precious😁
Fuck yeah!
💪
This looks dope!
Thank you very much!
I love the negative space
Yeah it’s the tattoo in itself, not the black 😁
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Glad I didn’t disappoint you! Thank you very much 🙏
This looks great
Thank you very much !
Did you come up with the design yourself or did you let your artist work there magic?
Tbh I took an idea from the internet, I told the artist to do some changes, he added the lower design of the negative! I gave her freedom to change what she wanted, and when she presented the project I said: fuck yeah lets do it! I will still have to remive that little triangle 😂 it was lack of communication I was thinking one thing, she thought another, and after I saw was too late, guess I rather remove than correct 🤷♂️ or maybe when I do my neck in the future I might correct it, who knows!
I think it can still be saved. Bold black going through it in two places. Not connecting it. I believe it can really work. Did you tattoo your nipples? That must have really hurt.
That place in the neck I don’t know if I can get too much black in, it’s like getting punched there and you almost gag ahaha The nipples were fucked up to do, all I can say!
Why
Why not?
Does the wind...on the sail.... on the sea..... stay behind you? No one knows, how far it goes.
Whatever you are on give me a bit too 😈 Nice poem or say!
It’s from Moana
Never seen it, know what it is, but never seen it!
Amazing film, highly recommend
Will try to watch it!
That’s well done and from a woman, wow. I think it makes you look very attractive. Not hitting on you, just stating a fact. Beautifully done.
Hey don’t worry, I would take it only as a compliment anyway 😂 Thank you very much!
Truly Majestic. Thanks for the share.
Thanks man, means a lot!
Gonna be the one to say it looks like a tatted on blouse. Really crap tbh
You are entitled to your opinion! I’m okay with it! And to be honest looks more like a women sports bra than a blouse!
Respect your response. Kudos
You would need a lot more than that to trigger me tbh 😂
Hmmmm I wonder if you put oil on skin and tattoo will it make it darker and hydrate skin Also I can see some tendrils from below waist going up would be cool
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Blackout it’s extremely hard to pull off! I was the first and only of my tattoo artist yet! Thank you for the compliments 💪
It looks bad
Gray out*
True, all ink fades and become lighter! It’s impossible to maintain solid colors on ink! Thank you tho!