33 Years Old Women, Large Back Tattoo - Barcelona, Spain

Thank you a lot! Unfortunately it does give me sleepless nights, I think it is a good work, but it turned out not ow i had seen it, therefore disappointment. Technically it is immaculate and I would recommend the artist to anybody. I really hope Alec cream goes out soon, it removes colors, cause honestly summer is coming and i cannot see myself going to the beach.

Hey dear!! First, thanks for commenting on my own page. I already replied to you :) I just read all your posts, and saw your back tattoo. (Also just realized your from Barcelona, I could totally speak in Spanish since I'm bilingual but I think it's nicer for all the people here that I keep on with English so everybody understands!). I'm so sorry that you don't like your back piece, I feel totally the same with my thigh, I know how it feels. But unlike me, you didn't try to change the colors and details of your phoenix cover up, and that's a good thing, because as everybody already told you: your tattoo is AB-SO-LU-TE-LY amazing!!! That being said, it's your body, and it's normal to have doubts about wanting something that big on your skin for ever. I also understand that you don't like the balance between the body of the phoenix and the tail, which looks very tiny compared to the whole design. BUT, you should not be ashamed at all of your tattoo, the colors are beautiful, and I think everybody here will tell you the same: we don't think the tiny tail of the phoenix is altering the balance of the whole design, we really don't! I totally understand you when you say you have nightmares about your tattoo. I had nightmares for almost a year, that's a looooooong time! But keep that in mind: it's temporary. I don't have nightmares anymore. I also had many tattoos since then, and my new tattoos are really helping me to get through the removal process: even if I don't feel like going to the beach because my thigh tattoo looks weird after one cover up attempt, 1 Q-Switch and 1 Pico treatments, I think the only limits you have are in your mind. It's also still a bit hard for me to get naked in front of somebody, but I'm sure I'll be able to do it again sometime sooner or later. But REALLY, don't ever feel ashamed of showing off your body on the beach, you'll see you'll only have good comments on your tattoo, unlike me!! When the few friends I told about my leg saw my tattoo, they said it was not so bad but they understand the design did not match my expectations. On the contrary, my arm tattoos seem to fascinate my friends, and they are really happy for me and everybody likes my ink on my arm :) I don't know what else to say!! :P Ok I'll stop there :D

Last funny thing: I got a fan tattoo two months ago while I was in Mexico. I had an idea in mind about how it should have looked. It ended up very different. And guess what?? I love it!! Pretty much the same with my Mexican heart and my perfume bottle done 3 weeks ago, before leaving Mexico. Sometimes you have an idea in mind, you go with a tattooist, explaining what you want, but the design is not really matching what you thought. I think the thing there is also to accept that we are going to see tattoo "artists" for what they do, and sometimes, maybe when we are not fully ready to get tattooed, we feel disappointed about what we get. You maybe need to find THE tattooist you won't fear to give your skin to, just as I luckily did with Moises Jimenez in Mexico (btw, Moises is going to move from Mexico to Barcelona in August, I will definitely go to Barcelona in September of October this year to start new projects with him, maybe we could meet? :D). Long story short, as far as I am concerned, and analyzing my own story, I guess I wasn't ready for such a big tattoo and was not able to accept it. But now that I am getting small/medium pieces on my arms, I can say that I today know exactly what I like, what I don't, what I want and don't want. Maybe you need to go through the same process? :)

Ah thanks Elias! Its is really insightful and truthful what you have just wrote, and you are most probably right about everything. I hope, and i know its how it will be, I will come to acceptance of my own body with it, because it is still the same body... but I will await for the cream to come out! And I also thru my lessons tend to say that it is better to find artist you like and give him full power. In this case it was me (being polish) trying to explain my tattoo artist (being Argentinian) in English - as I still struggle with Spanish (but i hope in September when you arrive we can speak fluently - we should met up totally! The tattoo itself was to be inspired by Polish folk art. So yes, i believe if I would ask him to make a cover up based on his own perception it would probably be more balances maybe he would have chosen the different design and probably better. But well, that's one lesson learned. On my previous tattoo i gave the whole power to the artist and it was absolutely awful, maybe thats why i didnt trusted this time that much! And mostly, thank you for advice on getting another tattoo, maybe this is the way... I was thinking to extend that ethnical colorful design to my arm - is time with smaller elements! If you wish we can exchange emails - I always love to met new people and i am a avid cook - so you can count on invitation while you are here! All the best, Anna

Thank you Louise of course!

No problem!!! i'm glad I could help!! Here's my email address: lea.labz@yahoo.fr or you can find me on fb: Ael Lz :)))

Hi miss, thank you for your suggestion! this is what I was thinking too... actually it was an idea of a friend who is a tattoo artist. I also think it should have more contrast too it... All the best! Anna

Ah thank you so much :-) I would gladly exchange it too :-) Are you going thru removal yourself?

Thank you so mich Niccola :-) I am afraid I cannot grow liking it for some reason :-( just too big I guess. But yes it is done perfectly.

I understand. And in that case you must do everything you can to change it. Or remove it. I wish you luck . Thanks for sharing and I'll be interested to see how it goes for you as I follow your journey.

Thank you so much. Unfortunatelly with laser it is impossible /would take min 5 years So for me the hope is that cream that is being developed. For me and for all of us going thru removal :-)

Yes this tattoo does look awesome! I have something others seem to appreciate more than me also. Thanks for your input and sharing your journey.

HI Eva, thank you for asking. I still have not come to peace with that particular tattoo. I have spent whole summer (the warmest we had in Barcelona in years) hidding it. But because of the information given by the technic, I didn´t follow with the laser removal. Just seemed like it is not worth it. I would spend years hidding with it, before I could only cover it, which with my main concert being a size of it would not make any sense.

As I wrote before, I hope that the tattoo removal cream will get out, and I do think that the technology behind it is promising. If it gets to the market, I will probably use it, if not I guess another technology will come, or I get to accept the tattoo as many people did before the laser came. And as I was told it would take 5y only to be prepared to cover up, it is so much time for a new technology to be developed. No need to spend money on the painful and damaging laser removal process.

However I am reading such a surpricing news every day - today about the HIV prevention pill - another day about 3D printed prostetic hands - all of the are something I would not think months ago to happen. I am pretty sure there are many people working on the technology to remove the tattoos.

Have a lovely day!

Ania

Thanks for your reply Ania, nice to hear from you. :) 

Sounds like you made the best decision for yourself, and that is what's important. I really love your tattoo, I know I have told you this before, and I realize that it doesn't change how you feel. 

3D printers blow my mind, I never would have imagined that...who knows what will comes next - time can only tell! ;) 

 

Hola lullaby! si me dijeron que no es posible por razón de los colores. con esta intensidad de colour y también me dijeron que es un tattoo "muy insertó" en el piel, no es possible borrar totalmente. sólo podrían bajar la intensidad de colores para cover up. Tu deseas eliminar completamente o sólo preparar for cover up? La intensidad de colores es la misma que mía? Que vaya bien! Anna

En mi opinión tu tatuaje se ve muy bien hecho! Yo definitivamente quiero que se vaya... fue cosa de impulso, y no estaba lista para un tatuaje así, puedes ver las fotos en mi review. En su mayoría es negro pero sí tiene colores verdes, azul claro y oscuro, y amarillo. El amarillo no me preocupa puesto que se confunde con mi tonalidad. Todos los demás me tienen preocupada, y aún no sé qué tan profunda esté localizada la tinta :( En 1 mes tengo mi primera sesión, ya actualizaré para decir cómo va! Por cierto, en tu antiguo tatuaje, cuántas sesiones necesitaste para borrar la tinta negra?

Depende de laser, los colores reaccionan differente. Y todo depende de qualidad de tatuaje tambien. Es importante que vea muy buen technico, que te explico fuction de machina que tiene y que trabaja con otra colores. En caso mio, me dije que el varde y azul oscuro pueden ser desparecer, pero necessitan muchas sessiones. En el case de Q-Switch es 12 sessiones para ellos. Cada cos 2 meses de descansa. En el caso de negro depende de profundidad y densidad del tinto, pero en este caso pienso que 6-8 sessiones es demasiado. Tatuaje mio no es antiguo. En el primer foto parece que es, pero es solo porque hay una gran candidad de luz. Si me preguntas, en el caso de tu tatuaje, pienso que no vale la pena eliminar. No es feo, es bonito, y el process de emimination es muy doloroso y toma mucho tiempo. Pienso que a meno que el tatuaje es super feo, o es el nombre del tu ex-novio, o si desea un cover up; no vale el process de elimination (y tambien es una opinia de technicos con quien estaba hablando en estos dias.