The other day I decided to stop at the tattoo shop for no reason other than socialize a bit with my tattooist. I showed up before the shop opened but he let me in right away. He looked a little surprised and the first thing he said was “Curt, you’re not supposed to get tattooed today”. I Laughed and told him that I was just there to hang out for a bit.
About that time I had an idea pop into my head that I’ve been thinking about for quite some time. I asked my tattooist if he had 10 minutes to spare during the day to give me a quick shot of ink. He looked puzzled again, probably because I only ever get large tattoo pieces. I explained I wanted a single color teardrop tattoo on the side of my index finger. He got the joke immediately and while chuckling agreed to spare some time for my new ink.
I set an appointment for about two hours later, left the tattoo shop and continued doing some errands.
Upon return the shop was empty and I went almost immediately into the chair. It took about ten minutes to set up the ink and tattoo machines. He pulled out a sharpie marker and quickly drew the outline of a simple teardrop. It was time to start.
Up until this point I hadn’t even thought of the pain that could be involved since it’s such a small tattoo. From halfway up the side of my finger to the top of my finger it burned a bit, but not anything too bad. Now when the needle went over the lower half of my finger and towards the webbing between the fingers it hurt quite a bit and was more of a stabbing pain then a burn.
I really didn’t mind it since it took all of five minutes to complete the tattoo. I love this little bugger. Now whenever someone cries the blues and I don’t want to hear it I can just throw up a tear in sympathy.
14 responses so far ↓
1 Bilinda // May 13, 2008 at 11:19 am
Very cool tattoo, plus we all now get to see your face!
2 inkboy // Sep 7, 2008 at 7:44 am
i got that in black on my pinky, couple of mustaches on the inside of other fingers too :)
3 DouG // Sep 9, 2008 at 9:58 am
awesome!!!!
4 Bry // Sep 14, 2008 at 5:32 pm
i just got one done today in the same spot its outline in black but colored blue, it hurt like hell!
5 Bill // Sep 29, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Really cool tat!!! You should get a tattoo of barbed wire wrapped around your arm next. Maybe get a butterfly on your hip. That would be way sweet!!
6 francisonline // Nov 13, 2008 at 1:14 am
i’ve got a tattoo of barbed wire around my right thigh; shit, but it was painful!
7 knave // Nov 13, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Bill broke my sarcasm meter.
8 Abbey // Dec 15, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Lol at Bill. haha
9 Lee // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Yeah I got one on one all my fingers because I am a big cry baby, tit mouth ))) you guy are sises.
10 B BABY // Apr 4, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Is the tattoo still there today?
11 Curt // Apr 5, 2011 at 12:29 am
B BABY,
Yes, it is still there 3 years later. It looks pretty much the same.
I still love it.
12 ale // May 24, 2011 at 2:24 pm
ahaa..! sick das how i want my bt a <3 tho (; on my rinq finger bt on da side of itt..
13 Chels // Aug 5, 2011 at 5:04 am
I just got my finger done last night… How did u take care of it???
14 Aaron // Oct 22, 2011 at 8:10 pm
I want a teardrop tattoo in the same spot not colored …… Ive heard it means numerous things such as raped in prison and killing a person also to represent a passed away family member
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