Long time, no post, right? Its been too long! I've been a bit here, there and everywhere lately.
This Tuesday that just passed was my birthday! And what better way to celebrate than getting a brand new tattoo. Although, I had to wait till Thursday to get it because of work and all that jazz! I managed to convince my friend, Tom, to come get one with me too. It was Tom's first tattoo, so I decided to go first. We thought mine would take about 2 hours….yeah, no, not quite. 3 hours later and some serious pain later…I was done.
When I say serious pain, I don't really mean it. It was really the last half an hour of it that started to hurt purely because the tattoo artist, Dosa, was just going back over parts that he had already done. That was really the only time it started to hurt. The worst part of it all was having to lay still for 3hrs!!!! It was literally killing me! All I wanted to do by the 2 hour mark was get up and go run around the block. I am the most fidgety person ever, so having to lay there for 3 hours was absolute torture.
Then it was Tom's turn. He ended up getting something to do with one of his favourite bands, The Amity Affliction. His only took about an hour to an hour and a half.
I got my tattoo in memory of my Grandad. He always loved wolves and some of his last words to me were about how beautiful I looked in my grubby muscle tank that had a giant wolf on it.
The way I perceive this design may be completely different to how you, or someone else, may see it. The way I like to look at it is the aztecy-tribal side is the spiritual side. And the insanely detailed side that looks like a real wolf, is the physical side. Whilst I will always have physical memories of my grandad, it also calms me to think that there is a spiritual side of him too.
I would like to give a massive shout out and thank you to Dosa & Tattoo Xtreme for the amazing work and detail that you did. I'd like to add, that while Dosa had a very basic outline of the wolf on me, he did most of the detail free-hand. Dosa is an absolute legend.
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