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Does Getting a Tattoo Hurt? Pain by Placement

How much tattoos hurt, the most and least painful spots, and managing pain.

200 threads in this topic

• tattoo infection
  414 messages · 8/21/2014
• Most/Least Pain spots to get a tattoo
  284 messages · 12/6/2014
• Foot Tattoo
  166 messages · 3/26/2011
• PlayBoy Bunny
  98 messages · 9/15/2010
• rib cage
  94 messages · 10/2/2011
• Comparing Rib Tattoo Pain
  92 messages · 10/25/2014
• pain & drugs...
  88 messages · 9/30/2014
• Low back tattoos
  63 messages · 5/20/2008
• DOES A TATTOO ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK HURT
  63 messages · 2/20/2011
• Black light tattoos
  62 messages · 8/15/2014
• The Thick Skinned No Topic Thread
  59 messages · 7/20/2006
• Inner wrist tattoo
  49 messages · 6/25/2010
• It's almost time!
  45 messages · 6/23/2006
• Brused Tatto
  42 messages · 9/3/2006
• Can you cover up black tattoos with white ink?
  40 messages · 8/11/2014
• seminars
  40 messages · 4/12/2008
• Rosary Tattoos on the Foot
  37 messages · 9/5/2009
• Wedding Band Tattoo??
  31 messages · 8/23/2010
• LISTEN TO TAZ!!
  27 messages · 9/5/2006
• Inner Arm Tattoo
  25 messages · 11/1/2011
• Odd Placement
  25 messages · 9/18/2006
• sexy tattoo
  24 messages · 8/26/2006
• PLAIN AND SIMPLE INFO
  21 messages · 7/17/2006
• Tattoo Placement Meaning...
  20 messages · 11/9/2012
• About the wrist tattoos
  20 messages · 10/10/2010
• Salvador Dali: Clocks Tattoo
  20 messages · 9/24/2007
• Sexy or trashy?
  19 messages · 7/9/2006
• Vaginal Tat ... suggestions???
  19 messages · 7/14/2009
• tattoo pain
  18 messages · 6/1/2006
• Chemical burns from tattoo?
  18 messages · 4/1/2011
• FOOT TATTOO, INFECTED?
  18 messages · 9/9/2010
• Bottom of Wrist?
  18 messages · 7/20/2008
• DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A TOPICAL CREAM TO DECREASE THE PAIN WHILE GETTING A TATTOO?
  18 messages · 9/21/2008
• Old School pen and paper VS. New Skool photoshop type programs.
  17 messages · 9/26/2006
• GGGOOODDDAAAMMMNNITTT TTTAAAAZZZZ!!
  16 messages · 6/2/2006
• One week today
  16 messages · 10/5/2006
• Large Calf Tattoo Impeding Use of Leg
  16 messages · 7/2/2012
• Does it hurt between the legs
  15 messages · 9/21/2006
• Inner Arm Swelling
  15 messages · 8/12/2006
• blisters on my new tattoo
  15 messages · 4/12/2006
• Fuckwhistled.
  15 messages · 7/14/2006
• H8TERZ....FRIKKIN LAME
  13 messages · 12/16/2005
• Return of Sean OHara
  13 messages · 1/8/2006
• When to say when...
  13 messages · 9/20/2006
• looking for the best portrait tattoo artist
  12 messages · 9/7/2007
• Ray's Desert Ink inc.
  12 messages · 10/19/2005
• tounge ring
  12 messages · 12/12/2006
• Joke About Taz
  12 messages · 5/5/2006
• Can a person get ink on his nipple....
  11 messages · 10/19/2014
• Coil Wrapping
  11 messages · 6/13/2008
• BUMPS???
  11 messages · 3/7/2007
• input: grey washed "day of the dead" art
  11 messages · 9/24/2006
• my tattoo pain
  11 messages · 1/1/2008
• care for tattoo on NECK
  10 messages · 8/14/2010
• How much does it actually hurt??
  10 messages · 7/10/2006
• Oh the pain!
  10 messages · 11/6/2005
• Tattoo placement
  10 messages · 6/29/2006
• the honeymoon is over
  10 messages · 3/23/2007
• Anyone home?
  10 messages · 9/10/2006
• Yall gota hear this
  9 messages · 7/21/2006
• tattoo sheddin/extended aftercare
  9 messages · 2/20/2008
• Numbing Creams
  9 messages · 11/2/2010
• Help please....
  9 messages · 12/12/2006
• pain, swelling and difficulty in walking after tattoing
  9 messages · 3/19/2008
• Looking for Apprenticeship in Central Fl
  9 messages · 10/15/2011
• WHY REMOVE MY POST ON THIS FORUM?
  9 messages · 12/10/2005
• tattoo hurts like hell
  9 messages · 5/18/2007
• i have a hip tattoo, but dont kno where to put my 2nd one???
  9 messages · 5/13/2006
• BACK PAIN...
  9 messages · 5/12/2009
• SUNDAY THE 10TH WHO IS HERE
  8 messages · 9/11/2006
• I hate my tattoo!
  8 messages · 7/6/2007
• CALF PAIN
  8 messages · 5/1/2014
• Before My First Tat
  8 messages · 7/6/2005
• Forearm
  8 messages · 3/30/2007
• IrishRussian German... Help
  8 messages · 7/18/2006
• Infected Tattoo or rejecting ink
  8 messages · 4/25/2010
• tattoos on center of back
  8 messages · 9/20/2005
• Tattoo infection on foot
  8 messages · 9/4/2006
• look at this
  8 messages · 4/28/2008
• first tattoo, 50 yr female feedback on placement, size
  7 messages · 7/23/2006
• im a bit of a whimp with needles...
  7 messages · 10/17/2005
• Wanting a tat for the 1st time.
  7 messages · 6/9/2004
• blisters on my new tattoo
  7 messages · 7/22/2012
• tattoo yourself
  7 messages · 6/18/2009
• Tattooing around the Naval
  7 messages · 4/21/2006
• The first portriat I ever did
  7 messages · 4/27/2006
• PORTRAIT TATTOO ARTIST NEEDED IN SOCAL!!!!!!!!!
  7 messages · 8/21/2007
• I got 4 tattoos today
  7 messages · 9/26/2005
• Flashes done 4 U if you donate to Victims
  7 messages · 12/22/2006
• Got a tattoo around my ankle and now it's swollen like I twisted it
  7 messages · 3/10/2011
• Infection NOT in the tatoo...
  6 messages · 12/5/2006
• JWERK IS MISSING!!!
  6 messages · 7/5/2006
• tat healing?
  6 messages · 9/12/2006
• tattoo swollen after 3 months
  6 messages · 7/12/2006
• INKIT ON EBAY AUCTION!for the kids
  6 messages · 6/17/2005
• is this normal
  6 messages · 8/5/2006
• Looking for a very creative artist!
  6 messages · 11/23/2005
• Painkillers before a tat
  6 messages · 2/11/2007
• Artist recommendations and basic questions from a newb
  6 messages · 5/24/2006
• Foot tattoo- red (actually pink) and still hurts
  6 messages · 5/12/2006
• does getting a tatto on side of your neck hurts
  6 messages · 4/20/2007
• apprenticeship found.... now semi worried..
  6 messages · 1/7/2008
• Calf
  6 messages · 9/22/2009
• 14 tattoos later why now?
  6 messages · 2/10/2008
• removing a tat
  6 messages · 7/25/2006
• Red Almost Pimple-like bumps around tattoo?
  5 messages · 9/25/2014
• Foot Pain
  5 messages · 6/8/2005
• bumpy tatoo
  5 messages · 10/12/2006
• OK, I'm a pussy
  5 messages · 10/11/2005
• Tattooremoval??
  5 messages · 11/26/2005
• HUGE Pure Imagination Tattoos website re-launch!!
  5 messages · 12/9/2005
• first timer.. where should i get one?
  5 messages · 12/14/2005
• OMG i think its infected, someone help!!
  5 messages · 2/15/2006
• getiing a tattoo on the foot
  5 messages · 3/27/2006
• I'm getting my FIRST tat on my lower back, I NEED ADVISE PLZ!
  5 messages · 3/27/2006
• Infected Tattoo
  5 messages · 4/11/2006
• F%#&IN' LAZERS!!
  5 messages · 5/15/2006
• Infected or not?
  5 messages · 5/28/2006
• Tattoo Meanings for Pain
  5 messages · 6/9/2006
• tattoo infection
  5 messages · 6/13/2006
• Toe Tattoo
  5 messages · 6/17/2006
• First Tattoo, I'm In Need Of A Little Advice.
  5 messages · 8/8/2006
• ETHICAL/ARTIST QUESTION
  5 messages · 8/14/2006
• Flesh Tones For Portraits
  5 messages · 10/10/2006
• What's Wrong With My New Tattoo ?
  5 messages · 11/10/2006
• placement--sorry it's a little long
  5 messages · 12/8/2006
• Help please....
  5 messages · 12/11/2006
• Not to sound like a pus
  5 messages · 12/15/2006
• Inkless Tattoo?
  5 messages · 4/2/2008
• Is this normal?
  5 messages · 2/9/2007
• penis tatoos
  5 messages · 5/13/2007
• shiny scarring
  5 messages · 4/10/2007
• Pubic Tattoo
  5 messages · 10/31/2014
• advice on telaphone dial machene
  5 messages · 8/21/2007
• looking 4 an Irezumi / Japanese themed artist in Houston
  5 messages · 9/4/2007
• arabic tattoo
  5 messages · 10/10/2007
• Pain: By Hand Vs. Machine
  5 messages · 2/1/2008
• Pain and soreness
  5 messages · 3/31/2008
• i think my tats infected
  5 messages · 10/29/2008
• lump under tattoo
  5 messages · 2/10/2010
• Tattoo machine all machines arent created equal
  5 messages · 4/16/2009
• PAINFUL PLEASURES
  5 messages · 4/29/2010
• clients who rush
  5 messages · 7/29/2010
• Apprenticeship in Orlando FL.
  5 messages · 1/11/2011
• can i?
  5 messages · 8/8/2003
• Tattoo placement
  4 messages · 4/7/2006
• First Tattoo, have been sketching for about a year now i have what i want.
  4 messages · 7/14/2005
• new tattoo infection what do i do
  4 messages · 8/29/2005
• TATTOO'S and an MRI
  4 messages · 4/2/2006
• Icy hot type creams
  4 messages · 8/11/2006
• Swollen tattoo
  4 messages · 10/8/2007
• TROUBLE WITH YELLOW INK!!!
  4 messages · 11/14/2005
• tat on arch of foot
  4 messages · 10/21/2005
• cover up
  4 messages · 9/20/2006
• What has happened to Bob Tyrrell.
  4 messages · 11/11/2006
• new tattoo design website
  4 messages · 12/1/2005
• freezing skin before a tattoo
  4 messages · 10/20/2006
• tylenol
  4 messages · 3/10/2006
• foot tattoo troubles
  4 messages · 5/20/2006
• Rib Tattoo
  3 messages · 9/5/2007
• Japanese style in south/southeast US?
  3 messages · 11/11/2009
• tattoo on the bottom of toe
  3 messages · 11/5/2007
• pimple or reaction?
  3 messages · 11/11/2007
• Mad Ink
  3 messages · 1/7/2010
• stroke
  3 messages · 2/16/2008
• calves for pain
  3 messages · 3/12/2006
• Color peeling..
  3 messages · 9/21/2006
• tattoo infections
  3 messages · 9/14/2006
• tattoo on the chest
  3 messages · 8/14/2006
• what combination of flower or leaves go together with a traditional koi .
  3 messages · 10/15/2006
• First Timer
  3 messages · 2/21/2007
• tattoo price
  3 messages · 5/18/2006
• tattoos on foot or ankle??
  3 messages · 4/8/2007
• Infamous Wedding Band Tattoo
  3 messages · 4/15/2007
• my nre tatto is red sore and has stuff coming out of it
  3 messages · 5/21/2007
• side of the foot
  3 messages · 5/31/2007
• Cleared excema & a tat
  3 messages · 7/9/2007
• Lord's Prayer tattoo on foot
  3 messages · 6/16/2007
• Torso Area Tattoo
  3 messages · 6/26/2007
• first tatoo
  3 messages · 5/4/2006
• TAT BEHIND MY EAR!!
  3 messages · 8/10/2007
• is it infected
  3 messages · 8/6/2007
• trying to find a disign
  3 messages · 7/16/2010
• scabbing
  3 messages · 4/29/2006
• recent tattoo got me in a twist
  3 messages · 1/16/2006
• Commission Work for tattoos
  3 messages · 7/24/2006
• Male Pelvic region tattoo?? First timer
  3 messages · 4/30/2012
• tattoo placement
  3 messages · 12/28/2006
• emla
  3 messages · 6/7/2006
• N.Y. Shop recommendations
  3 messages · 2/10/2007
• first time
  3 messages · 11/2/2005
• tattoo
  3 messages · 2/28/2010
• Redness and tightness
  3 messages · 11/25/2006
• i think my tattoo is infeceted
  2 messages · 4/9/2006
• Rubbing vs UV light for all white tat
  2 messages · 5/29/2006
• colors fading and run together
  2 messages · 9/23/2005
• Losing weight after getting a tattoo
  2 messages · 5/20/2006
• How much swelling is normal?
  2 messages · 5/4/2006
• Understanding Taz's pain......
  2 messages · 5/8/2006
• Tattoos over scar tissue
  2 messages · 5/7/2006