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Originally Posted by JMan
For me it's more like collecting art from outstanding artist.
This is my back in progress, still a shitload of hours to go 
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Had a backpiece done myself about 15yrs ago now and never have regretted it. Easily coverable.
Some of it hurt like fuck. Other bits I literally read a book during it, but overall was painfull as the whole thing was done over a 5 week period so he was tattoing on 'unhealed' stuff.
I suppose my reasons were two-fold. I wanted something 'special' that nobody could ever take away from me (it was a bad period in my life) and I also wanted to prove to myself that I could endure the pain.
I always remember having a very large B/W piece on my leg done at a convention soon after. It took a little over 5 hours. 4 hours into it when it was VERY sore (anybody who's had a 3 hours plus sessions will know the feeling - after 2-3 hours the whole area of skin gets sore to the point that after 4 hours plus, the needle just touching the skin hurts like fuck) a guy shoves a TV camera into my face and asks if it hurts. At the time I seem to remember shaking, pulling my hair and biting on a towel.
