Plus-Sized Pin Up

The outline is done. I need to head back in 1 -1.5mo. This was the hardest tattoo to get. I'm still going back and forth about sitting for another 1-2hrs. to get it coloured. Ouch!

I didn't see the draft until this afternoon. In some ways, I wanted a more artistic rendition of the Cheshire Cat, but I still think it turned out well. Originally, I asked him to try and incorporate white roses being painted red. He said it would have made it way too busy, so he just put roses are Cheshire. If I get it finished, he is going to have the red of the flowers taper out to white at the edges.

There was another couple in the parlor when I was getting mine done. When Diego had me turn around in the chair, the guy chuckled at me several times. I guess he thought my myriad of faces were hilarious. During the ending part, Diego told me I was twitching too much. Sheesh, I didn't even notice. And, strangely enough, the part that goes onto my breasts hurt, too! I figured that the fleshy/meaty areas wouldn't be too much of an issue. Wrong! The pain over the breastbone was very intense, but I think they hurt about the same.

If I get the full colour, I will definitely have to psych myself up to it. If I knew the pain would be that bad, I wouldn't have gotten it. That's not to say that I don't like it. I do. It is awesome! But the pain was over the top! Even the "phantom tattooing" and after bur
n is far more painful that my shoulder. The odd thing is my shoulder is less meaty/fleshy, and it didn't hurt that much. I remember the colouring hurt worse than the outlining.

Sheesh, it almost feels as though I got punched in the chest. When I got my Kanji, it didn't bleed; it bruised. On my shoulder piece, I bled like a stuck pig. Ronan -- my artist -- said that I wasn't bleeding over much, but Angel thought it was a ton. (Honestly, when I saw the paper towels he used to wipe up some ink, I thought it was a shitload myself!) This one feels like the first. Needless to say, punched in the chest :P

We ended up at Johnny Carino's for dinner. It was a wonderful treat to eat tiramisu! I ate maybe 4 bites of my dinner and a few pieces of the bread loaf. I had my priorities!
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Now I need to figure out how to sleep. I'll need to use a pretty big, lose fitting shirt. My favorite way to sleep is on my stomach. Every night I roll onto my stomach and stretch out.

It's time to relax and enjoy Final Destination 4. Nothing like a horror movie to make me feel better -- and to get me ready for bed ^_~

**In case it is hard to read, the text says, "We're all mad here."**