I got a tattoo kit for my 21st birthday, practiced on some fake skin before realising I really need to have a go at real skin before I actually tattoo anyone.
I chose my foot, made a cool design that goes straight down the middle, from the top to the bottom of my sole.
I thought it would be great because if I mess it up, It won’t even be visible most of the time.
The actual fup happens when I tattoo my foot, I do it, it looks great, I wash it…I haven’t gone deep enough. That’s okay though, it’s not like it hurt so I can just redo it a little deeper…
I cried. It hurt so badly that my manly little eyes blahed themselves blind. I’ve never had a tattoo before, and I thought I was so tough for not feeling anything during the first go.
Now there’s no going back, do I want an unfinished tattoo? Absolutely not. I have to finish this, little by excruciating little.
Tl;Dr – I tried tattooing my little manbaby foot and now I’m stuck with it as some type of messed up art project that I’m obligated to finish.
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Practice some more, let it heal, and try again.
Practice 20x more than you think before subjecting another person to that if you can’t handle your own technique yet.
Don’t tattoo yourself, but also please don’t practice on anyone else.
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Have someone else finish the tattoo so you can see if it hurts the same/how it’s done. And definitely apprentice under professionals before touching anyone. 👍
Omg, there’s a reason why you pretty much never see the soles of the foot tattooed. You have an incredible amount of nerve endings there, it’s why a very common torture method is striking the soles of the feet with a rod. Stop and pick a better place! Omg I’m squirming just thinking about how much pain you must have been in.
Manbaby foot
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How do you go from tattoo virgin to self tattooing one of the most sensitive part of your body?
In the old days, people didn’t get a tattoo until they finished at least a third of a bottle of tequila.
Mate, talk to some actual professional tattooists, not reddit.
You’ve already been dumb enough.
Apparently it hasn’t occurred to you to let yourself heal A LOT and come back to finish it later when you won’t be potentially harming yourself.
Im not gonna judge you at all for tattooing yourself, I was young too and stick and poked my own toes, these things happen, but you should definitely let it heal before going over it again.
That’s gonna hurt while it’s healing too. Hope you don’t get sweaty feet
You’ve never had a tattoo and your first is on yourself, brave all I’ll say.
PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN
Tattooing the bottom of your feet must be top 5 most painful spots
And on a foot it may fade in a few years…. So all the pain to gain a few more wrinkles and look the same a decade or two down the line. Mine faded from my whole foot up to the ankle bone.
I thought this was gonna be something similar to my own foot tattoo incident… I was wrong 😅 mine was… Unsure if it’s better or worse? Tldr I dropped the tattoo gun on my foot and it literally tattooed me. Why was I using it barefoot? I do not remember lmao
The top of the foot is pretty painful as far as locations go. Not for the faint of heart.
Don’t keep going over the same spots over and over again, especially with breaks in between. Breaking open freshly scabbed skin is going to introduce dead tissue into the inside of your skin from the needle shoving it in there. Put the machine down and go have a professional fix it.
If you don’t want to go to a professional, you need to do a chunk of it at a time and wait for the skin to fully heal before the next chunk. This is why people get trained to do tattooing for years. Your risk of infection from being a dumb ass is really high. And I call you a dumb ass in good fun. I have also been a dumb ass and tattooed myself
Edit to add: I just saw you’re doing this on the sole of your foot? Even if you went to a professional there’s literally zero chance of it looking great for more than a couple of months unless you literally don’t ever walk. You’d probably be fine letting it heal and then doing a nice little foot scrub a couple times a week until it’s essentially completely gone in about a year
Where’s the picture?
If you’ve never even gotten a tattoo before, you’re going to struggle to be a good tattoo artist.
I practiced on my foot too 🤣 I have a fucked up gengar face but thats ok i love my little dumbdumb gengar
Pork belly with the skin still on
Why? My first tattoo was on my foot, done professionally and I sat through it, zero pain. The tattoo artist did ask me if I really wanted it on my foot, he said that it was going to hurt a lot. I have a high pain tolerance & I have chronic pain, so a foot tattoo was nothing. Typically, feet tattoos hurt other people a lot lol! I can’t believe you chose the foot, the logic makes sense but not that it’s on your foot lol. Honestly, that’s pretty OG of you. I hope you can finish it, cause no one wants an unfinished tattoo.
Go to the butchers and get yourself some pigs trotters. They are great for practicing on.
The soles of your feet can collect a lot of bacteria and that grows when you have them trapped in socks and shoes. Not a great area to tattoo at home. Best of luck
It will disappear. I know someone who did that on purpose thinking it would be cool. It’s gone
Why wouldn’t you start on your thighs? Your palms and soles are some of the most difficult places to get ink to hold and they also hurt more than other places. This isn’t a flex it’s just learning bad technique. If you learn on the skin on your soles you’ll be going too deep on arm skin.
Got any pics of it?
You are a complete idiot. Do not tattoo ANYONE. Hopefully the people around you have at least a couple brain cells and won’t let you.
As someone with lots of tattoos…. Jesus Christ. Please Google MRSA, infected tattoos, anything…. There is a reason people have apprenticeships, and it’s not just for aesthetics. I hope your foot doesn’t fall off. Please for the love of god DO NOT keep going back over the design. Wash it twice daily with antibacterial soap and keep it moisturized. If it starts to feel hot go to the ER.
Tattooing is a long apprenticeship and something you need a license to do legally for a reason.
Please stop buying cheap machines on Amazon. Not knowing what you’re doing is how you scar skin and risk a serious blood borne illness like hepatitis. Knowing how to set needle depth, how different speeds and needle types are used, know to pack color are things you should not try and figure out on your own.
My wife is a tattooer and the number of college kids who come into the shop and ask if the tattoo they got at a party or from their friend is ok or not is wild. Most of them she refers to the emergency room because they got an infection either from the machines or environment not being sanitary or from the ignorant person who tattooed them didn’t know how to educate proper aftercare.
You wouldn’t and shouldn’t let your buddy fill a cavity with Temu dental tools. You wouldn’t and shouldn’t have someone perform plastic surgery in some apartment that isn’t a doctor.
I know it isn’t going to stop people, but I have zero respect for people who think it’s no big deal.
Bruh the bottom of your foot? I get wanting to hide it but that is a terrible spot to tattoo.
Man I’ve got a few, but never want a foot one. I’ve heard they’re some of the worst spots pain wise…
Lmao, I tattooed myself after maybe my 50th tattoo, but sweet child, your first time you decide to have a go yourself? Why?
I’ll just say, my foot hurt worse than spine and face and a 16 sitting. Give yourself grace.
As a person who has a tattoo on both feet. Are you jeffing mental?! – even the tattoo artists in the shop said they would get their feet done.
Highly commendable for a first go. But I would 476383657% get someone else to finish it for you
Hahahaha I have three little dots on my toes from trying to tattoo my own feet! Yeah it sucks!!
I mean, you shouldn’t be trying to tattoo anyone with no professional guidance, you can really fuck somebody up if you do it wrong. Get a fucking apprenticeship
I find it so amusing how many people post the same comments that have already been said twenty times, but somehow miss key details of the story. OP already said he had no intention of tattooing on other people at this point. And he already said multiple times that his father is a professional tattoo artist and he was going to have him fix it, yet everyone is yelling at OP to go find a professional. Jesus, does anyone read?
21 year olds are so dumb lol
Oh Christ the sole of your foot?!? I have the tops of both feet tattooed completely and it hurt like fuck
Your palms and soles are just about the two most painful places on your body for tattooing (or any other needles/injections/etc). They have some of the densest nerve endings in the body and a much larger portion of our brain pays attention to their stimuli than for other body parts.
Not only that, but the skin is much thicker and it’s a lot harder to get get ink to not blow out. If your goal is to practice for human skin, learning on your own foot will not teach you the right skills you need to start out. Best to focus on the basics first. You certainly wouldn’t want to work someone’s arm tattoo the same way, don’t set yourself up to make that mistake.
Bruh. Feet are arguably the most brutal place to get a tattoo.
lol
the foot is a super painful spot, your personal practice zone is your thigh.
I talked to an artist who did a sole tattoo. It’s a completely different technique to other parts of the skin. Anything you learn might not even be fully applicable to when you transition to other parts of the body
Dude it has to heal before you can do another pass. You can’t just go over a fresh tattoo lol you gotta give it a few weeks.
Dude feet are a particularly painful place to get a tattoo! Youre not manbabying it, it hurts lol
Stop and get laser?
This is why the sale of this equipment should be limited.
Let’s go just get a kit and we can all get MRSA together!!
That sucks dude but thanks for making me laugh and reminding me that plenty of other 21 year olds are doing dumb shit without even getting drunk first and I’m not that weird
Throw the tattoo machine away. Stop scratching. Live with your terrible decision. Learn for the future.
I have a pretty high pain tolerance. I have a tattoo on the bottom of my big toe. It was painful, but there are some parts of your toes that don’t touch the ground. The area I thought was most painful was where my big toe curves up to meet the end of the nail.
Please for the love of all that is holy, please do not give inexperienced tattoos to friends that will forever regret being your guinea pig.
did you even wait for it to heal at all before you went at it again? and the BOTTOM of your foot with a large design???? nothing small like on your leg or something like a sensible person?? stick and poke tattooing isn’t hard at all i think ur just stupid
My dude, I get tattooing yourself, that’s all fine and good… but YOUR FOOT? FOR THE FIRST TIME? Your feet are some of the most sensitive spots on your entire body, dude.
Stay away from home dentistry.
once sent a meme meant for a friend to my boss. It wasn’t terrible… but it was SpongeBob yelling ‘I quit!’ Not my best Monday
Oh darlin. Even the TOP of the foot hurts, I cannot IMAGINE how bad the sole hurts. I would just go barefoot and try to wear it off or something. Can’t imagine trying to walk on that.
I’m blown away by the bravery!!
This was an IQ test. You failed. Now you have to sell the tattoo kit.