14 Things You Feel When You Get Your First Tattoo Done

A tattoo is not just a permanent mark on your body, but it is a work of art. Be it a phoenix or a a dragon or a simple text, it is your way of expressing yourself in ways beyond words can describe.

Here are 14 things that every person feels when they get themselves inked for the first time:

1. You plan about the tattoo for days, weeks and months in advance

 

2. You can’t stop browsing the internet for the perfect design/text

 

3. You also keep searching for the best tattoo artist

 

4. You keep pestering people with tattoos about how the process is

“Does it hurt?” “Does it bleed?”

 

5. You have to muster up all courage possible to call up your tattoo artist and make an appointment

 

6. Till the last day, you keep making excuses to drop the whole idea

But you know it mentally that if you don’t go through with it today, you will never be able to do it again

 

7. You always want somebody to accompany you as a morale booster

 

8. You seek constant reassurances from your tattoo artist that it won’t hurt

 

9. The size of the tattoo needle (and the fact that it will pierce your skin) scares the hell out of you

 

10.  And when the needle makes contact:

 

11. You have to bear the stinging and smarting with all the courage you can

 

12. But the feeling of exhilaration you feel when it’s done is indescribable

And you feel like hugging your tattoo artist for the amazing job

 

13. You can’t stop adoring your new tattoo and showing it to your friends and family

 

14. And you can’t hep being immensely happy because you have something close to your heart forever now

A tattoo is a mark of the soul. It can act as a window we can see in or it can be our shield to protect us from those who can’t see past the surface.