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What a day!

Spent the day in the hospital, visiting my gf's dad on life support :( It really puts life in prospective when you see that. It makes me think what if that was my dad lying there. Life is short so savor every moment!!!

Do tattoos hurt?

When tattoos are applied, the needle enters and exits the skin at a rate of 1,200 or more times per minute which is about 20 times per second so you are going to feel some sort of pain or discomfort. Tattoos hurt differently for each person depending on the individual’s pain tolerance, but the type of pain itself is difficult to describe to someone who has never experienced having a tattoo before. Even though the needle is moving at an extremely rapid rate, it doesn’t go very deep into the skin therefore making it much more tolerable. It’s true that everyone has a different threshold of pain, as what one person considers not painful at all could be devastating to another. Some people have described the sensation of getting a tattoo as a burning heat feeling as the tattoo moves speedily over your skin, similar to a laser. Others say it feels more of a scratchy feeling, like a cat scratching its claws along your skin. The feeling also depends on the type of needle used; smaller tattoos require smaller needles that concentrate the pain in a much smaller area and there are also various grouping used for both the lining and the shading process, depending on your design. Most people agree that the shading hurts less that the lining because the needles are spread over a wider area, and they feel more like getting a scrape than having a cut. The pain of the tattoo also depends on the place of the tattoo as some areas on the body have less muscle, fat tissue and have tighter skin, such as on the ribs, feet, knee, elbows and hands. To help deal with this pain, some studios will offer to give you breaks...but at the end of the day, It's worth it!!!!

Cool back tattoo

Beautiful tribal tattoo

How tattoos work

Not too long ago, most Americans associated tattoos with sailors, bikers and sideshow artists. But tattoos have become more popular in recent years, and the people who get them are as diverse as the styles and designs they choose. And some people who would never think of tattooing pictures or symbols onto their bodies use permanent makeup -- a type of tattoo --to emphasize their eyes and lips. In this article, we'll look at how the tattoo process works and examine the safety and legal issues surrounding it. Artists create tattoos by injecting ink into a person's skin. To do this, they use an electrically powered tattoo machine that resembles (and sounds like) a dental drill. The machine moves a solid needle up and down to puncture the skin between 50 and 3,000 times per minute. The needle penetrates the skin by about a millimeter and deposits a drop of insoluble ink into the skin with each puncture. The tattoo machine has remained relatively unchanged since its invention by Samuel O'Reilly in the late 1800s. O'Reilly based his design on the autographic printer, an engraving machine invented by Thomas Edison. Edison created the printer to engrave hard surfaces. O'Reilly modified Edison's machine by changing the tube system and modifying its rotary-driven electromagnetic oscillating unit to enable the machine to drive the needle. Modern tattoo machines have several basic components: A sterilized needle A tube system, which draws the ink through the machine An electric motor A foot pedal, like those used on sewing machines, which controls the vertical movement of the needle. When you look at a person's tattoo, you're seeing the ink through the epidermis, or the outer layer of skin. The ink is actually in the dermis, which is the second layer of the skin. The cells of the dermis are far more stable than the cells of the epidermis, so the tattoo's ink will stay in place, with minor fading and dispersion, for a person's entire life.

Batman tattoos