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[spritechan]

Woo! Miyazaki sleeve beginning gogogo! Soot sprites!


I look like I'm standing awkwardly...







I really love the personality each sprite has. They are too adorable. It looks exactly how I wanted it, to be honest. It wraps nicely - the tattooist, Mike, took that very seriously. Steve said I "win" on who has the better tattoo, because it looks really good and is "cuter" and more colorful than his. Not that he doesn't like his as well, of course :)


Cuuuute.


Steve's going to get his Charmander touched up in about a month, and while he's there he's going to get the cactuar outlined, and I'm going to get any light spots filled in and especially the white reworked on (it's like magic! the white didn't show up for like 5 hours so he obvs didn't know what spots he missed). The tattooist was really cool and fun (though he criticized both my leg tattoos - said the scorpion was backwards but I requested it that way at the time and still enjoy the orientation of it, and that the words on my Mikey tattoo will run together after awhile, which I assumed was inevitable. I thought about pointing out that he just got his wife's LIPS tattooed on his neck and that they looked like they were done in crayon, but refrained XD).

I can definitely see where girls who get like a set of 4 small stars think that tattooing is nothing - being able to jump around on a bunch of unconnected small spaces feels incredibly different than a larger piece. For some reason I don't remember my shoulder piece being all that painful, even though we did it in one four-hour session, but my Rika tattoo was incredibly painful in a few areas, especially where the artist wanted to ensure that the white would stick over the teal of her dress. I shudder when I think of him grinding the needle into the soft fat of my back over and over again XD

Comments

[millinakoa.livejournal.com]

OMG I LOVE YOUR TATTOOS. SO CUTE!!! =D And Gir shirt ftw!

[namidanotsuki.livejournal.com]

I love the soot balls from Spirited Away. whenever someone asks me why I'm not more altruistic, I play the clip where Chihiro helps them with the coal.

Also, it kind of prevents you from looking at dust bunnies the same way.

[miss-ljv.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I like to surround myself with awesomeness and win. ;)

[miss-ljv.livejournal.com]

Spirited Away is my favorite Miyazaki movie, and the soot never left me. If I can ensure it will be done RIGHT, I may get No-Face in the future as well.

Haha, it does. If only dust bunnies were more helpful :(

[silver-tiamat.livejournal.com]

I think it's awesome that they have their rice-star-candy-food. XD And I love how since it's a twisting arm wrap it's like IMPOSSIBLE to photograph it. XDD This is why we need floating cameras that we can control with telepathy. Obviously.

PS--I love that Steve's leg is framed by a bright pink blanket. XDDD