At A Glance Author Brittany Contact gothicflirt_6969@hotmail.com When It just happened Artist Keith Studio Solor Productions tattoo and body piercing Location 406 1\2 South Main Street Corbin, Ky. 40701
Well I do have to say that over the last year and a half all I have wanted was a tattoo, but me being under 18, it makes it up to your parent. I began asking my mother around my 16th birthday for one, and of course it was a big 'no'. But I never gave up. Finally on Wednesday, march the 18, 2004; my mother let me go into a tattoo parlor to just look around. I knew she probably was just going to let me look around and make me want one so much more.
As I had wanted one for awhile already, I already had my mind fixed on either a Celtic heart, or the Japanese symbol of love. So anyway when we went in I was going through the books they had, and noticed the symbol of love, and I showed it to my mother who at first said, no. Soon after being there for over an hour she began to come around. Soon she was saying well you can get the Celtic heart on your own time, but if I am paying for it then you are getting the love one. Since she had said that she would only let me get the love one, I decided well if I plan on getting on today I minds well compromise. So I went to the guy who done that tattoos and asked how much it would be and he told me. After he told us, I knew by my mothers face I was going to get a tattoo. Even though I was so overwhelmed that it was finally going to happen, in the back of my head I was terrified. The sound of the tattoo gun, scared me, the thought of a needle going over and over in my back, thoug hts kept coming into my mind. But no matter how scared I become I knew I wouldn't give up my dream. This made become less nervous and scared.
Well be being a little weakling like I am, I got scared again. I was beginning to back out of the whole thing. But when I walked into a room where someone was already getting one, I asked 'Does it hurt?'. The man just looked at me and said 'no, it's a kind of pleasure mixed with pain.' Liking the sound of this and knowing if I backed out my sister would make fun of me the rest of my life. I finally decided Yep I am going to do this.
So with much joy I walked into what they called their 'The skull room'. They had two rooms, 'The butterfly room' and the one I was in. I didn't want to sit in the butterfly room for an hour staring at the same things over and over. Well anyway I walked in and leaned over the seat. The place I had chosen to get it was on my lower back. To get the main points of this story started I then heard the tattoo gun start. This made me a little scared and exited at the same time. Soon after he had began, and to my surprise it didn't hurt nearly as bad as I thought it would.
After he had done the outline, he took a small break and told me he was going to be doing the coloring\shading next. I had heard that the coloring hurt much worse, so I began to get a little nervous. I was scared that this man was going to see me cry. But he insured me that the worst was over with. To me though the outline hadn't hurt at all, so I was thinking this will probably be my painful area. But was I wrong. It was over in a breeze, I must say that Keith, the man at the parlor, was an excellent artist. I cannot believe that it didn't hurt. So now I am a tattoo addict. I have appointment for my next one in 2 weeks, this time it will be between my shoulders.
I came out of the back room, smiling so hard my mouth hurt. I couldn't believe I had just gone through with it. The man just looked at me and said I can already tell you are going to be back, I said hell yea I am, that was great. It was a feeling I had never experienced before, and I am so very happy that I did. Well for anyone out there who thinks tattoos are painful and are scared to get one. I am here to let you know, I have found a new love and that I used to be one of you. So if you have a design or some thing you would like to have, don't be scared of it, go have it done, I am sure you won't regret it. Unless you just get something you're not so sure about then in that case, I wouldn't go through with it. I would think about it a bunch first, I mean a couple years down the road you don't want to go have a big operation to have it removed.