Inked!

As those of you that know me in real life know(and I’m sure I’ve mentioned it here at least once), I’ve been talking about getting a tattoo pretty much forever. Ok, maybe not forever, but for at least the last couple of years. So today I did it. It wasn’t really planned. It was mostly of an ‘I woke up and decided that it was as good a day as any’. Printed off the picture because I can’t draw worth a damn(not even a straight line and my old math teacher can attest to the fact that my circles closely resemble squares or aliens-just not circles), took the bus into city center, walked in the tattoo shop and presented the guy at the front desk with the picture. Really nice guy looked at it, gave me a price(way less then I was expecting. As in almost half what I was prepared to pay) and told me the tattoo guy was free at 4PM. I said ‘Ok’ and presented myself at 4PM. The guy that did my tat was awesome, we talked about graphic novels(yes, he is obsessed too), Watchmen, just how excited we were about Wolverine coming out this week, Heroes(the second time today I had a random conversation about Heroes-the first one was with the guy at WH Smith, where I bought the Heroes magazine), Star Trek, my hatred of CSI and his of Miami Ink and pretty much geeked it out. He’s awesome. For those of you thinking of getting one, it really doesn’t hurt(and if you're in Leicester, go to Abody. Great people and incredible work-I got to see one of the guys do a sleeve on someone else while I was waiting-amazing). It’s mostly uncomfortable for the first couple of minutes, then you get used to it. It did sting a little when he was working over my shoulder blade but that’s it(it’s kind of like a cat’s scratching you-not very pleasant but I wouldn’t call it painful either).

Now for the mandatory pictures(I'll be posting more, detailing the healing process over the next few days. Oh, and sorry about the quality, it's rather hard to rake a picture of your own back):

Also note the pink highlights in this picture.

And a close-up: