e - "brand like" tattoo
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:04 pm
After years of intermittently discussing it, we have settled on a design and placement for a tattoo for e. We decided to do it on and for our anniversary. We spent a good deal of time designing the tatoo. It needed to convey our relationship while given consideration for how it might look 20 or 30 years from now. It needed to be of an design which would convey her identity and our sensibilities. It needed to be placed in such a way as to be complimentary with bathing suites - bikinis, micro thongs, and g-strings, without interfering with the fabric lines nor be visually inappropriate with them, while being appropriate when naked. We tested placement with a host of bathing suites and pelvic halters we own. We settled on a design consisting of a captive ball circular barbell with the letter "e", lower case - to convey e's submissive and pierced status. The design, the placement and the coloring we wanted all to convey the look like a "cattle" brand.
Once we settled on the design and had marked it up accurately -see the pictures below in which we digitized e's skin and rendered the tattoo full size in various near final designs and colors, we did a good deal of research to find an appropriate and respected tattoo artist. We went to 5 tattoo parlors. The artist and parlor we decided on, as it turns out, did a good deal of his training with, and was influenced to a good degree in his craft by, a friend of e's from the early 1990's - who was a well known tattooist in Los Angeles. We returned for a specific consultation regarding our specific tattoo and design. We then set the appointment, went to the tattoo shop with e wearing her pony pelvic halter for ease of working out final placement and details with the tattoist. We sat down with the tattoist for a final consultation. Once we were all satisfied to go ahead, he took a massage table and arranged it in his studio as a tattoo bench for e to lay down on for doing the actual tattooing. Then began the process of transferring our design to e's skin. After several attempts at placement and transferring the design to e, after testing its placement while standing, with e sitting and with her laying down, we finally settled on the exact placement and he finalized the design transfer on e. He then began the process of mixing final colors. We discussed the specific color and selected from a range of samples he mixed up while discussing how colors might likely behave on/in e's skin over time.
Once we settled on the design and had marked it up accurately -see the pictures below in which we digitized e's skin and rendered the tattoo full size in various near final designs and colors, we did a good deal of research to find an appropriate and respected tattoo artist. We went to 5 tattoo parlors. The artist and parlor we decided on, as it turns out, did a good deal of his training with, and was influenced to a good degree in his craft by, a friend of e's from the early 1990's - who was a well known tattooist in Los Angeles. We returned for a specific consultation regarding our specific tattoo and design. We then set the appointment, went to the tattoo shop with e wearing her pony pelvic halter for ease of working out final placement and details with the tattoist. We sat down with the tattoist for a final consultation. Once we were all satisfied to go ahead, he took a massage table and arranged it in his studio as a tattoo bench for e to lay down on for doing the actual tattooing. Then began the process of transferring our design to e's skin. After several attempts at placement and transferring the design to e, after testing its placement while standing, with e sitting and with her laying down, we finally settled on the exact placement and he finalized the design transfer on e. He then began the process of mixing final colors. We discussed the specific color and selected from a range of samples he mixed up while discussing how colors might likely behave on/in e's skin over time.
