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I Had To Pick Chicken Out Of My Blender
Jul. 22nd, 2021 10:26 am On Chewsday (Tuesday) it was pretty uneventful, I didn't get the opportunity to tattoo some friends since my mentor wasn't there to watch over, so I just worked on flash for a bit and painted with some gouache and called it a day. Me and Alex are still annoyingly into counting calories and fitness (I'm down to 155 lbs!) so we made chicken-crust pizza. Which was .... Puree-ing a chicken with a bunch of herbs and spreading the knockoff pate across a baking sheet and baking it to make the bread base. Yeah, it was okay, but man are health foods weird.
Did I gentrify pizza?
Anyways I tattoo'd a burning match and a devil kewpie yesterday. You need to stretch the skin really intensely to get a good line.
Think of trying to cut fabric -- would you cut the fabric when it's all bunched up on itself? Nah, you gotta lay it out and spread it. I had no problems with the match, but the kewpie gave me trouble since it was inner thigh and there was a lot of skin to stretch. It felt like I was kneading dough. It turned out okay, but I gotta figure out how to really stretch the fattier areas of skin properly. One of my coworkers insists on stretching with your fingers as close to the needle as possible but I'm a puss and don't wanna get pricked but MAYBE that's what I need to do.
I'm a little frustrated since tattooing is so old school, they tend to haze people. I get a lot of negative reinforcement at work rather than positive because it's just that kind of industry, and it's giving me one hell of an attitude lol... My coworker is very nice, she is gentle when teaching me and I learn so much more. My mentor just calls me an idiot or sloppy, she's really moody and likes to yell so I tend to just shut up if she goes off. Her negative reinforcement gives me an attitude, but my coworker's kindness helps me learn more. Not sure how I'm gonna get out of this without clocking someone at this point ... It'll likely be the oldest guy there, who likes to call me a pussy and a fag. I usually ignore it or just shoot back, but he gets butthurt easily so I'm usually the one in trouble.
Okay I'm complaining A LOT. Woops. I think that wraps this up.
Did I gentrify pizza?
Anyways I tattoo'd a burning match and a devil kewpie yesterday. You need to stretch the skin really intensely to get a good line.
Think of trying to cut fabric -- would you cut the fabric when it's all bunched up on itself? Nah, you gotta lay it out and spread it. I had no problems with the match, but the kewpie gave me trouble since it was inner thigh and there was a lot of skin to stretch. It felt like I was kneading dough. It turned out okay, but I gotta figure out how to really stretch the fattier areas of skin properly. One of my coworkers insists on stretching with your fingers as close to the needle as possible but I'm a puss and don't wanna get pricked but MAYBE that's what I need to do.
I'm a little frustrated since tattooing is so old school, they tend to haze people. I get a lot of negative reinforcement at work rather than positive because it's just that kind of industry, and it's giving me one hell of an attitude lol... My coworker is very nice, she is gentle when teaching me and I learn so much more. My mentor just calls me an idiot or sloppy, she's really moody and likes to yell so I tend to just shut up if she goes off. Her negative reinforcement gives me an attitude, but my coworker's kindness helps me learn more. Not sure how I'm gonna get out of this without clocking someone at this point ... It'll likely be the oldest guy there, who likes to call me a pussy and a fag. I usually ignore it or just shoot back, but he gets butthurt easily so I'm usually the one in trouble.
Okay I'm complaining A LOT. Woops. I think that wraps this up.
