Patience and high pain threshold
Patience. Pain. These were the two words that came to mind while I was walking around the tattoo expo last Friday. Two words that also reveal why I don’t have any tattoos. This was my first year covering the event and I wished I had more time. I was kindly given a room to set up a mini portrait studio. I walked around the floor spotting interesting ink, asking folks to step inside my space for a moment. Two hours later, I looked down at my watch to see I had already missed my deadline. But boy, did I see some beautiful work! And, a lot of patience and high thresholds for pain. For example, yoga instructor Dierdra Michelle’s ravens’ wings tattoo. by Bill Henshaw, took 38 hours to complete.
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