Noah @bee@honey.town

@swiff oh my goddddd

@swiff AAAAAAAA

if i could make sweet sexy love to excedrin , i would. god bless caffeine/acetaminophen/ibuprofen. such a babe of a drug.

@thatchers_piss_slut peeling probably won’t start until days 2-4 and you can skip the peeling phase if you use saniderm or another dermal film for healing. but just listen to your artist! they’ll tell u how to care for it. :)

cannot emphasize enough how much worse its gotten as the day has progressed lmfao i’m scared for when i next have to untuck.

@thatchers_piss_slut yes! every tattoo peels during the “dry heal” process, it’s super normal. its most noticeable for tattoos that have a lot of saturation, like full color or blackwork tattoos, as there’s more coverage of the ink and bigger flakes that will flake off, haha. usually a couple days of shedding like a bad sunburn and then it’s all good.

when i untucked my shirt a shower of skin flake confetti drifted to the floor. currently shamefully sweeping it up and putting my black tattoo skin flakes in the trash.

can’t find a good pic of argentine tegu’s shedding their skin so here is a leopard gecko shedding instead.

my back is shedding like a leopard gecko who has poor husbandry.

i am shedding skin like a fucking tegu

@shade haha no totally. but again! i feel like the artist brain naturally views just lineart as “unfinished” but there’s been this minimalism/pinterest movement that’s pushed no shading or fill as stylish.

never 2 late to go finish a tattoo either. no shame. go get that 2nd session, ur skin deserves it.

the funniest part of this process has been that every time i finished a session and shared pics someone would say “omg congrats on being finished!”

there are even like 3 ppl that have told me that more than once! but nobody who’s a tattooer or in the scene has said it; i think that pinterest has convinced ppl that linework alone is a finished piece and i’m just here to advocate for shading and fill. tattoos are better with shading. plz believe me.

@pagrus @mood oh i think i’ve heard that before! hopefully not too much of one, it sucked enough the first go around

@pagrus @mood just one day hah, back to regular work tomorrow 😮‍💨

@mood this is a seriously premium scab