My back tattoo

[Lindsey]

Originally Posted by mistyinca

LOL, That is hysterical, and my 'puter screen is now doused in coffee!!! I've never had a tattoo, and I'd never have the guts to get one. One of the girls in my bunko group got one, and she has regretted it since. She had a little flower done on the inside of one of her ankles. The red for some reason caused a bad reaction in her skin. It is all raised and she said it itches her to death. It is really kinda neat looking. Every place there is red, it is all raised like a 3-d tattoo! She can't even get it lasered off because the laser doctor said the laser disperses the ink, so it would be tiny particles of the red ink throughout her skin and she could itch worse.

My tattoo is raised sometime too... actually it seems to raise when I'm sick! After I got it done it took a long time for it to go down, and it has never ever felt flat with my skin. I have heard that red ink causes the most reactions

[judy]

Who knew?

My flower on my foot (the petals are pink) always raises and itches if I have been out in the sun too long without putting anything on it..it freaked me out at first!! haha

[blowry]

Originally Posted by Lindsey

My tattoo is raised sometime too... actually it seems to raise when I'm sick! After I got it done it took a long time for it to go down, and it has never ever felt flat with my skin. I have heard that red ink causes the most reactions

If they go too deep this can happen. Also if you have a tattoo redone this will happen because of scarring.

[blowry]

Judy...I LOVE that tattoo!! I have a couple of them. The one on the back of my shoulder I am having redone...just haven't figured out what I want yet.

[Lindsey]

Originally Posted by blowry

If they go too deep this can happen. Also if you have a tattoo redone this will happen because of scarring.

That's interesting... Actually about a year after I had it done I was having a bath and when I got out I noticed a black streak down my back coming from the tattoo. It was ink. I went to another tattoo place (closest one I could find) and they said they'd never heard of that before. My assumption was that maybe in that one spot they didn't go deep ENOUGH and maybe there was a pocket of ink in my skin that just eventually got to the surface. Anyways, the tattoo doesn't look different at all, no less ink anywhere.

[judy]

How strange. Did you ever go back to the original tattooer to tell them?

[Lindsey]

Nope, I never went back there. I wasn't really happy with the place and I never really wanted to go back for anything. The place I did go I heard a lot of good things about so I trusted what they had to say, but they had nothing! But it's been 4 years since the ink leaked out and nothing else weird has happened since