So this is what it looks like now...

View of my back after Session 11 taken about 2-3 weeks since the tattoo session with everything healed.



This is another view, from the side this time since a lot of the work rests on the side of the right torso running from below the armpit, down the ribcage to the stomach. Photos of the front of the torso will come on after the last session is complete and the touch-up to that area is done.

The colours are settling into my skin and some are getting brighter and deeper, while others are becoming a little darker than when it was 1st tattooed on. I'm also getting used to having this piece on myself to the point that I can sometimes forget that its there. My last session for the phoenix is in mid-August.

Phoenix Session 11 of 12

Completed the flower on my right buttcheek and did the touch-up for the rest of the area already completed on the buttcheek, and the joining tailfeather that wraps around to the front of the right thigh.





Getting tattooed on the ass absolutely sucks on the pain threshold level.

phoenix session 10 of 12

This was a SIX HOUR major touch-up to completed areas and lots of areas were recolored and layered for vibrancy and intensity.


View of back


View of side: armpit to ribs

Interim Overview

This is what the phoenix project looks like now... an overview shot! :) It certainly looks different when u see the whole thing in perspective as opposed to the separate parts as the sections come together. I've completed 9 of 12 sessions and its really coming together now.

Session 9

phoenix session 8 of 12

after last week's killer rib tattoo session i thought i was going to be in for another excruciating session... but it was really very manageable and we accomplished everything that we set out to do. healing is progressing well too (with the exception of that problematic bit on the blue peony flower - but its also settling down and beginning to heal), and am pleased with the way things are going.

we completed the 'half-completed' tailfeather that runs from my armpit to my hip, as well as colored in the birdcage tattoo with the 2 small birds so that it would match with the phoenix piece. love the colors he used.



and then we completed the lower frontal tail feather that runs from my waist to the top of my right thigh.



so all that's left now is the right ass cheek, and then all outlines would've been filled in. there are another 3 sessions for my artist to add stuff, do all the finer detailing and intensifying the colors.

goodness! i'm so colorful! :-)

session 7

This session did me in - the ribs are a painful place.