Teigyr, that is a hilarious story! Where did you have the tattoo placed?

I shot a wedding the day after I got mine done and was on hug patrol. The bride and a few of the bridesmaids tried to give me a hug and I had to put my arms out to stop them. Thankfully they were ladies I knew, so it wasn't offensive. Unfortunately though, while I was taking photos of the reception toasts the flower girl found me and decided my tattoo should be poked.

As to how much I researched my tattoo artist, my husband has three tattoos (four now, he got another on Sat.) by the same artist here in town and all the people we referred him to have great pieces as well so I felt totally at ease with having him do the work.

It is all black, which I really like. The original design I put together had a setting sun between the camel and the man, but we decided to wait on that part. Right now I'm very content with it just being black so I may not add that in. We'll see.

I'm to the itchy, lotion it up every few hours phase now. So far I've managed not to itch it.