Bahahaha... deep enough, well did you feel it enough? XD probably the ink. Actually come to think of it, I have a fox tattoo on my forearm that needs to be redone and its only been 2 years. It was the easiest tattoo I have ever gotten. Like to say if it was painful, I would disagree. If all tattoos were like that I would probably be working my ass off just to get more. So I am thinking that he probably didn't get it into the right layers of skin. The artist is a well known artist but well, I think he could have done better in my opinion. I'm just going to stick with the one I have for my back piece from now on.
I have this thing where I like to support the different artists we have in the area. I look them up and check out their stuff first before going to make sure they are legit. But it is now proving to be difficult if they don't give me their 100%

And so far this guy that I have now does exactly what you said you have with Noe. I explained what I wanted and he made it even better than what I had in mind yet still being exactly what I wanted. It's crazy how they can do that. They can envision it perfectly!