r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SnooKiwis8540 • 21h ago
Video What tattoo needles look like up close
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u/DMmeNiceTitties 21h ago edited 21h ago
Huh. So that's why a ball-point pen can leave an accidental tattoo when it falls on your hand. Interesting.
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u/fordamarites 21h ago
A classmate of mine accidentally stabbed me with a pencil more than 20 years ago (and it broke) and that mark is still in my leg.
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u/CMDR_Crook 20h ago
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u/JessePJames96 20h ago
No way there’s a community of ppl who got stabbed by pencils and kept the mark for over 10, 20+ years, I thought I was alone
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u/barnettwi 21h ago
I did that to my hand when I was a kid. ‘Twas an accident of course, but the mark remains some 20ish years later.
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u/kiln_monster 20h ago
A kid stabbed me in the palm with a pencil in the 4th grade. I still have the mark!! Guess it is a lead tattoo.
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u/Colossal_Penis_Haver 20h ago
Graphite, my friend. We just call them leads, they're not actually lead though.
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u/gaankedd 20h ago
2 "friends" a grade below me were at lunch together and one stood up the other friend put a pencil where his ass would be when he sat back down... shit went through his ass cheek and he was taken out on a stretcher laying on his stomach
Never seen his ass so can't confirm if he still has a mark but your story reminded me of that wild moment in school
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u/Justiciar_Meatsack 20h ago
I still have a tiny bit of pencil lead or graphite under a few layers of skin in my hand from high school when my friend was messing around and stabbed me accidentally. One 4th of July we were wrestling outside near some "safe and sane" fireworks and my jacket caught fire. Over 10 years later he apologized for intentionally trying to cause that. 5 years after that, he hung himself after finding out his newborn baby wasn't his. RIP Mike, still miss you.
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u/alwaysaloneinmyroom 19h ago
I was stapling years ago and accidentally stapled my hand, still have a tiny dot to show for it
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u/EnvironmentalBar3347 19h ago
My mom's in her 60s and she still has a tiny mark where she poked herself with a pencil as a kid.
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u/00ImagineThat00 18h ago
Same here but it's in my hand . Went to the nurse she said it will go away and never did.
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u/bluffyouback 18h ago
My sister stabbed her classmate with a pencil (40+ years ago) because he was bullying her. She meant it and was not accidental so I wonder how his mark is coming along.
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u/terrordactyl200 18h ago
I laughed at this because I, too, have a pencil mark on my leg from a classmate 😂
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u/hdckurdsasgjihvhhfdb 20h ago
That happened to a classmate of mine in 7th grade, too. Except I was the one holding the pencil and it wasn’t accidental.
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u/Minimum_Orange2516 20h ago
If you manage to stain the second layer of skin. Your top layer gradually falls off and you get a new layer but the second layer doesn't change anywhere near as much.
So the point of the needle is just to get through top layers.
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u/nick_corob 21h ago
What do you mean? Like a permanent tattoo?
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u/DMmeNiceTitties 21h ago
Like a permanent tattoo that doesn't wash away in the shower. For years.
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u/wattsbutter 21h ago
Yeah a kid threw his pen across the room and it stabbed my leg near my calf muscle. I still have the blueish mark to this day.
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u/DMmeNiceTitties 21h ago
Needle vs ball, sure. But the mechanism of delivering ink via piercing remains the same which I found interesting.
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u/Feisty-Flamingo-1809 21h ago
this feels weirdly sexual lol
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u/_Permanent_Marker_ 19h ago
I watched without sound but them slow mo shots created some very sensual music in my head
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u/Platonist_Astronaut 21h ago
It also feels kinda nice and addictive.
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u/TheGreatZephyr 21h ago
This video makes it look like a torture method 😂
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u/Platonist_Astronaut 21h ago
It's like a warm, spikey massage.
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u/pzzia02 20h ago
Until that 3rd or 4rth time shading it in and your arm feels like its had the skin ripped off it lmao but that was my first tattoo
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u/Be-Gone-Saytin 19h ago
Can’t be that bad. Had my corneas peeled away for a cross-linking procedure. Was in agony a couple days.
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u/TheAnonymousDoom 21h ago
I'm not sure I'd say the sensation is addictive for me but it's definitely worth it. I need to book another tattoo actually
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u/GrandmasCervix 21h ago
I agree. I currently have about 111 hours under the needle
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u/Platonist_Astronaut 21h ago
Shit, I got some catching up to do lol. Need to find a new artist first.
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u/Dry-Brick-79 20h ago
I used to think this but at some point in my mid to late 20's it stopped feeling nice. Definitely addictive though. I'm about 60% covered. Just need to finish up my legs
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u/CosmonautOnFire 20h ago
Very cathartic. Kinda want another one even though I have one healing atm.
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u/Shrekwise 20h ago
After a few hours, it definitely does not feel “kinda nice”
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u/Platonist_Astronaut 20h ago
What were you getting? Nothing was all that painful for me, even after a few hours, except my left chest, which took forever and hurt the entire time lol. She smashed that shit in.
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u/Inner_Advantage8323 21h ago
Nope, never getting a tattoo!
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u/Skadoodlemynoodles 21h ago
the needel is never actually going that deep, only enough to go into the first layer or two of skin. if you go to r/tattoobeginners and look up a post about a machine needle and the comments will explain it way better than i ever could
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u/SpiderSixer 20h ago
I went into my first tattoo whilst having a pretty bad needle phobia lmao (as in, I would start hyperventilating and crying before the needle was even brought out), because I just really really wanted that tattoo. So going into it, I was super bricking it. But then, when it started, I was just like 'Oh. This actually isn't bad at all! :D'
They don't go nearly as deep as muscular injection needles - only skin level - so they also don't hurt as much. They sting a little during the tattoo, but as soon as it stops, the sting stops (notable exceptions: if it's a particularly thin and boney part of the body, or if you've been going for hours in the same place). Unlike an injection that hurts for hours >:c. And it's also a different kind of pain? A tattoo sting at its worst (e.g. if you've gone in the same place for hours) feels like a very superficial tingly burning sensation (also, side note: the worst place I've had tattooed so far is my wrist and elbow. There are worse places, so I can't comment on those), whereas an injection feels like you've been miniaturely stabbed lmao. But my first tattoo being on the upper arm was genuinely super fine - there was no lingering sensation because it's a pretty thick part of the body; I was only there for an hour, so the length of time didn't start stinging, either. It honestly kind of helped me start to get over my needle phobia
And you come out of it with pretty artwork on your body :3. Much better than a healthy immune system, pfft, who needs that
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u/_Cosmoss__ 20h ago
I feel like the pain is similar to if you fall on concrete and scrape your palm. A kind of cold?, tingly sting. Doesn't hurt hurt, but still a bit painful.
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u/Princess_Slagathor 20h ago
I enjoy getting tattooed, to the point it's almost weird. Like that kind of enjoy.
But once I'm done, it's almost hard for me to function. My legs are weak, hands useless, and my whole body shakes like someone freezing to death shivers. Goes on for about an hour. No idea why any of this happens. My dad has lots of tattoos, and he always had flu like symptoms after a session, for a few days.
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u/MASUDASTR8SHOOTA 18h ago
I don’t really understand the people that get anesthesia or anything like that because I feel like the whole “pain” part is part of the process. The way I’ve always described it was like a scratching sensation that eventually goes numb. But I also can’t say that about the stomach, the stomach didn’t go numb.
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u/Inner_Advantage8323 20h ago
To clarify, I’m not afraid of needles but I do have low pain tolerance lol. Also, I don’t really see the need for it, blame my unartistic nature. Lastly, I think its cons outweigh its pros.
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u/Successful-Winter237 20h ago
nope
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u/Nikittele 19h ago
This video make it look way more painful than it really is. The actual process feels more like a consistent flow of light cat scratches. Afterwards it feels like a mild sunburn. The worst part is when it heals and gets itchy D:
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u/gamerjerome 19h ago
I mean, this makes me want to get a tattoo less. I don't want to know how my chicken nuggets are made.
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u/ariesmartian 19h ago
Well, this explains why I almost fainted several times over the next hour after leaving the tattoo parlor. That constant flow of endorphins was triiiiippy.
My friend walked me to an uber and then walked me to the closest chair. I was in space for quite a while.
My tattoo is only a few square inches and is mostly empty space between fine lines. It’s not that large or complex. 😂
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u/kaufmann_i_am_too 18h ago
So these are the mfs that made me almost cry for my mom during my last tattoo session.
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u/amusingleo 21h ago
good to know that its only meant to go about 1-2mm deep, you absolutely do not want the whole needle in you lmao
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u/KelpFox05 21h ago
That's genuinely super cool. It almost looks like a paintbrush but pointier, which makes sense.
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u/EnvironmentalBar3347 19h ago
The part that really hurts is the shading of solid colours. Outlines and patterns are quite bearable by comparison.
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u/WhaleskinHubcaps_ 18h ago
This instills a dread inside me I didn't know was possible.
Also, reminds me of a 90s Tool video.
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u/VeryShortLadder 19h ago
Eh, you realise it's like some millimeters at worse it's not so scary anymore. They still have to hold me while getting my blood drawn for tests, but for once I'm not panicked by needles!
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u/nick_corob 21h ago
It's crazy how people pay to inject all these chemicals to themselves.
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“all these chemicals” Water, Glycerine, and Propylene Glycol with a bit of pigment. “Chemicals” sounds scary when you only hear propagandists talk about chemicals.
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u/lipenick 21h ago
absolutely never ever in my life heard of poisoning, cancer or any kind of chemical induced injure from tattoo ink, bud
also wondering what’s your eating habits
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u/SageWinter24476 21h ago
I understand why you think that way but many people tend to get tattoos for sentimental value especially if they don’t have anything physical left to hold onto
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u/saterran 21h ago
I already have tattoos and this is freaking me out