How does a tattoo feel?

Answer 1

This depends on your skin's sensitivity and your threshold for pain but it's similar to a bee sting. A bee sting that repeats thousands of times a minute and travels across the surface of your skin.

It hurts more than a little cut or scrape but less than a piercing. You get used to the sensation after the first ten minutes or so and it starts to hurt less. It hurts more on areas of skin that are very sensitive or thin (like the skin over your collar bone or feet) and less on areas that are thicker with fat and muscle underneath (like the buttocks or biceps).

Answer 2

This is a good question.

The typical tattoo is annoying and has been described as "hot", "a pinch", "little hot kitten scratches", "intense", "electric", and many other ways.


All tattoos activate the nerves around the local area and possibly trigger nerve events like a shooting sensation up a leg or neck. Non-local pain can be triggered by tattoos where by the needles damaging the skin cause pain somewhere else entirely.


Initially the sensation is very bearable for most. After 10-20 minutes the body releases endorphins to help deal with the discomfort. This lasts for less than an hour in most people.


I tend to stop tattooing after no more than 3 hours. I find most American's tolerance is spent by then, but some like to go on, suffering for up to 7 hours at a time.


They are annoying, but I have never lost a patient during a procedure.


If you ask around for an artist with a "light touch" you might find an artist who pays attention to your condition, minute-to-minute, and adjusts their style to inflict as little pain as possible.

Answer 3

It depends where you get it. I have no tolerance for pain so mine hurt. However mine is on the inside of me left wrist where this is not alot of skin. Irritation is different for everyone. The size and place effects how it feels.

Answer 4

Well, obviously it is done with a needle, if it is a permanent tattoo, so it will hurt a bit, but on some parts of the body it will hurt more.

Answer 5

It doesn't hurt after a couple minutes you don't feel it, it just tingles an stings when they shade or go above a rib, remember tattoos Arnt as painful as everyone says (EXCEPT THE RIBS)

Answer 6

A wrist tattoo feels painful when you are getting the tattoo put on.

Answer 7

it tickeles and feel really cool