Fire

SB, one of the women I work with, wanted a tattoo. Specifically, the kanji for fire flipped and modded just a little is what she requested. It's the crest for her karate dojo, and she wanted it on her upper arm. She was a lot like I was when I first started looking into getting a tattoo. She has a fear of needles, and wasn't really sure she could tolerate getting a tattoo. She didn't decide color until she was here. I was nervous, she was nervous.

She tolerated this admirably well. So did I. And I am now officially a tattooist (accepted money for a tattoo), and I have officially broken the law.






This is the outline. You can see 2 small scratches right above where this is at. That was the dry run. The bluish circle going around the outline (you can see it very faintly) is the edge of the stencil.







Here's the finished product. It's Superior's Sky Blue, even though it looks vaguely black in the picture.






Here's the full-effect finish. And you can really see the scratches in this one. That's what she likened it to... cat scratches. I couldn't agree more.

Outline: 3L, 3/23/08
Fill: 14S, 3/23/08
Subject: SB/Fire

Fixed Fill In-Completion.

Here's what it looked like after I redid the top line. You can see the feathering in the already tattooed area and how absolutely icky it appears, correct? NOT the new black line, but the greyish looking area (dry skin, older ink). That's what I started with, pretty much all over.











But now... taDAAAAAA! This is FRESHLY done. You can see the lines where I put down another layer of color, so there isn't any question about where I touched it up.

A close up of the same area as the first picture, now fully done...

And the full finished after it's been sitting about 45 minutes or so in antibiotic ointment... it rehydrated the skin and darkened the ink all over.



Outline: 3L, 2/22/07
First Fill: 14S, 12/7/07
Final Fill: 14S, 3/19/2008