This is a long overdue post, one I should have posted last year. My work schedule was so crazy I didn’t realize that I forgot to post the photos on this blog till this afternoon when a friend asked why there’s no photos of the whole experience. Teehee. I told her that the photos are on facebook and then it turns out we were not connected in facebook. Haha. I added her up but decided to post the photos here too.
It was my second year in college when I knew that I wanted to get inked. I was surfing, looking for an article about images and power when I stumbled on a website about skin art and I was hooked. I was scared of the pain but the thought of getting inked appealed so much to me that I was willing to endure the pain. But I also knew that my parents and everyone in the family will give me hell if I just came home one day with a permanent tattoo on my back. So I waited…and waited… till I was out of the nest.
I knew what design I wanted too — an ankh. I can’t sketch to save my life so I resorted to the next best thing: look for artworks online. One boring Sunday night I stumbled on Witchling Ashara’s deviantart page and found 2 designs that I really really liked. One was an ankh with swirling butterflies and the other a pagan tattoo with vines that reminded me of celtic symbols.
- C. and A. fell asleep while waiting. Lol!
- ready to get inked
I wasn’t crazy about the butterflies so I created a modified version in my mind (I can’t draw, remember?) and then told the artist what I wanted. Good thing Jamie Tud, the artist, somehow knew what I wanted. Within minutes the image that I had in mind was on the paper and when I saw the draft I knew it was the design for me. So I sat down on the chair, held my breath, and endured the pain for as long as I could.
- outlining of the design – the most painful part
I couldn’t help but flinch and bite my lip during the outlining of the design, it was so damn painful. The artist actually stopped once to ask me to breath coz I wasn’t moving or breathing anymore. Haha!
- almost done…
The whole process took only an hour and a half but it felt like the pain would never end. OA lang. I cringed when I saw the redness of my skin but I was so happy with the way the tat turned out I gamely posed for photos. :p
- the final result – green leaves and red ankh
- with the artist Jaime de leon Tud of Wild Side Tattoo and Bar
I got inked 2 months after I was diagnosed with lymphocytic vasculitis thus the biopsy and chicken pox like scars :/ I thought the scars wouldn’t fade but they’re so much lighter now. :)
So there. My first tattoo. I’m thinking of getting another one, probably by the same artist still. I know the design that I want already but I’m holding off for now because the white blood cells have to behave just yet. As soon as the count’s ok, I’m getting inked again. Haha. Excited much?
Artist: Jamie De Leon Tud
Wild Side Tattoo and Bar
Unit 2:08B Sherwood Place,
Taft Avenue, Manila 1110
http://www.wildsidestudio.webs.com
