我是纹身师gogo - Can’t you take the pain of tattoo?

By convention, the process of getting a tattoo done must be painful.
But I think this pain is also a part of the meanings of tattoos.
Of course, the pain is a normal phenomenon. But if the tattoo is correctly performed, the pain basically belongs to the range of pain that normal person can bear.

按常理来讲，纹身肯定是会疼的，你想那可是一针一针生生的戳在你的皮肤上，你说疼不疼？
纹身照理来说都是疼的，疼痛也算是纹身的意义之一。
当然纹身的疼痛完全属于正常现象，不过纹身如果操作正确的话，纹身的疼痛基本上是属于正常人能承受的疼痛范围之内的。

Everything needs to have a process. Perhaps because all these things which will be changed soon want to leave a little time for us to remain.
Just like a blank skin before tattoo is done.
It's possible that the outcome also seems valuable because of the hard process.
Just like going through the pain of tattoo experience, you will treasure your tattoo more afterwards.
If tattoos are made like stamps, which can easily be placed on body, how can we remember all those unforgettable meanings hidden in the tattoos.

凡事都需要有一个过程，也许是因为凡事都想给人再留下一点欣赏的时间，就像纹身前曾经空白的皮肤也是美丽的，在纹身之后就再也不能再次展现出来了；也许是因为没有过程就无法体现结局的可贵，如果纹身像敲章一样便捷，那么那些刻苦铭心的纹身理由又能被如何纪念。
（为了纪念过程和创建更好的纹身世界，所以有了gogo.tattoo）

Human nature is just like that: those things you can easily get, you would not cherish them later.
But if this something went through a hardest way to get, with much effort, that will have the largest value in the human heart.
So it is exactly like getting tattoos! If you want to have it, you gotta go through a proper course — pain!
Tattoos without painful process are just like patterns on the skin.
Cheers for all these tattoo process and the better tattoo world!

就好像鲜花需要绿叶的陪衬一样，纹身的疼痛是纹身应有的过程。
人的本性便是如此，一个轻易能够让你得到的东西，你不会去珍惜；但若这个东西是一件必须通过自己的努力而得来的，那在人心里才具有最大的意义价值。
纹身便也是是如此！如果要得到它，也必须经过一个应有的过程的！
脱离了疼痛过程的文身只是皮肤上的一个图案而已。

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而在这篇文章里我们所需要探讨的，都围绕着“纹身的疼痛体验”。
在读这篇文章的时候，也许你可以思考以下三个问题：
一，为什么纹身这样痛但是仍然有人对于纹身上瘾呢？
二，这种疼痛有好处吗？
三，你会不会想要无痛纹身呢？

And lets talk about the pain in the tattoo process.
Lets't think about following questions while reading this article:

1. Why tattoos are painful but there are still loads of people addicted to tattoos?
2. Can the pain of tattoo obtaining ever be good for you?
3. Would you like to have painless tattoo experience?

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不知你是否有这样的经历：
在便签条上写上了提醒自己的励志小事项，贴在冰箱上，贴在办公桌上，贴在家门口。
“再也不抽烟了！”“少吃零食！”“一定要记得洗碗！”“每天都要写有趣的Steemit！”
一开始，也许你满心以为从此可以做到便签条的小事项，也许在一开始，便签条上的字句真的提醒了你好几天。然而也许时间久了以后你便开始对便签条视若无睹，因为你已经习惯了它在那儿——

文身何尝不是呢。

I wonder if you ever experienced such thing before.
You write a reminder as a little inspirational tips for yourself. Stick it on the refrigerator, stick it on your desk, or stick it at your door.
"No more smoking!" "Eat less snacks!" "Remember to do the dishes!" " "Write interesting Steemit article every day!"

At first, perhaps you are full of passion for these reminders, these words on the notepaper really make you remember few things for a few days. However, maybe after a long time, you start to ignore these tips naturally, because you have used to them.

Same with tattoos.

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在思考自己到底要不要文身的过程中伴随着许许多多复杂的心理活动，而一旦这个行为结束，你的文身就成为了冰箱上的便签纸。随着新鲜感的褪去，纹身用来提醒自己铭记某件事的功能越来越弱，最终成为一个你已经习惯了的存在。

这也是为什么有好多向我咨询纹身的客人都声称“害怕自己过段时间不喜欢了，所以怎么也决定不了做什么文身”的原因——因为你心里知道，这个图案很快会变得不重要。

In the process of thinking about whether you want a tattoo or not, there are lots of complicated mental activities, and once this thinking behavior is over, your tattoo might also turn into a note on the refrigerator.
As the fresh feeling of new tattoos fades, the ability of tattoo which can be used to remind yourself is getting weaker and weaker. Eventually, it become a habit which you are used to.

This is why there are a lot of clients claimed that they "fear to lose interest in their own tattoos. Scared to get a tattoo."
Because they assume that this pattern might soon become less important.

而gogo.tattoo官方steemit推崇文身需要真实的意义。

But gogo.tattoo Official Steemit praises tattoos with real meanings, not just patterns.

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有的客人只是体验文身疼痛的过程，并通过体验，完成某种心理需求。
Some clients just want to experience the process of tattoo pain, and through experience achieve some psychological needs.

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但有些想要自我激励的客人觉得，纹身能“让自己变得更特别”；对于人的本能需求，纹身也可以用来“证明我是与众不同的”。

But some clients who want to be self-motivated claim that tattoos can make them be "more special"; for human instincts, tattoos can also be used to prove that "I'm different".

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有些客人想要用纹身寄托对于已发生或者未发生的事件结果的期望，或者是用它来自我警示，满足人“需要记录一种经历”的心愿。

Some clients want to use tattoos to show their expectations of what has happened or what has not happened, or use it to warn themselves. It is "the desire to record an experience".

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多数情况下纹身是各种心理需求的集合，比如你和前任分手了想做一个文身，就会同时具有上述几种需求。

In most cases, getting tattoos is a collection of psychological needs, such as breaking up with your ex and wanting to get a tattoo.

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这个满足心理需求的过程，从萌生“想做个文身”的想法开始，在文身完成的时刻达到顶峰，再到恢复期过后缓慢结束。

This process of satisfying psychological needs begins with the idea of "I want to have a tattoo", reaching its peak at the end of the tattoo process, and ending slowly after the recovery.

围绕“文身的疼痛体验”，我们有无数的话题可以讨论。
简短地可以总结出以下几点：

There are countless topics to discuss around the "pain of tattoo experience".
Briefly, the following points can be summarized:

1.满足感 Gratification

医学研究表明，痛苦能够使大脑分泌内啡肽引起轻微兴奋，从而获得生理上的快感和满足感。这是文身容易上瘾的一个原因，也是部分人虐恋或自残的原因之一。重点是，通过疼痛，能获得一种生理上的美好感受。

并且它真的是一种很特别的满足感呢。

Medical research has shown that pain can let your brain produce endorphin to cause mild excitement, then you will gain physiological pleasure and satisfaction. This is one of the reasons of the tattoo addiction, but it is also one of the reasons people do self harm or sadomasochism. The point is that you can get a good physical feeling through pain.
And it's really a special kind of satisfaction.

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2.知觉 Perception

满足感和痛苦一起，强化了文身者对于“活着”的体验，放大了“存在感”。

我本人曾经经历过一些心理问题，而你的生活状态良好且身心健康，也许不会注意到，“清醒地体验活着”和“肯定自我存在”是我们生而为人一直追求的状态。对于很多遭受着痛苦或者仍然被痛苦折磨着的人来说，“活着”和“存在”的知觉是被强烈需要的，即使是像文身这样带着轻微剂量的知觉满足感的体验，对于想要体验人生的人来说也是巨大的鼓励。

The combination of satisfaction and pain reinforces, making tattoo wearers experience a strong feeling of "alive" while amplifying the sense of "living".
I have experienced some psychological problems, but if you are in the state of satisfied with your current life and having a good health, you may not notice the difference of "clearly feeling alive" and "self affirmation", and they are both born as the pursuit of the state of our human kind. For those who suffered or those who are still suffering, perception of "alive" and "existence" is strongly necessary, even like tattoo experience which just with a slight dose of perceived satisfaction experience, but for people who want to experience life it is a great encouragement.

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3.转移注意力 Divert attention

通过身体的痛苦转移精神上的痛苦。这一点中重要的是，文身体验中的痛苦，是完全适度且能被控制的。

Transfer mental anguish through physical pain. What's important about this is that the pain in the tattoo experience is completely moderated and controllable.

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4.发泄 Abreast

宣泄无法言语的压力并释放情绪。

Vent the pressure of being unable to speak and release emotion.

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综上，如果说文身行为具有某种治愈意义，那么疼痛体验是其中很有力的一个点。
并不是说，只有心理健康差到需要到要自残的地步，人才需要“被治愈”。
我们生活在这世上时时刻刻所经受的苦难和挫折，如果不能被完全地转化为力量，就需要通过某种途径被释放出来。唱歌、运动、社交等等，无一不起着治愈的作用。

以上我所提出的观点，旨在证明文身的疼痛可以作为心理治疗的一种辅助手段。
有些客人会在咨询纹身的时候告诉我们“最近生活不顺所以想做个文身”“又皮痒了想被扎个图呢”。
以上也是对于这些想要挨扎受疼的动机的部分解读。
这也只是个开始，今后，【我是纹身师gogo】会更多地探讨文身行为的治愈意义。

If I say that tattoos have some kind of healing significance, then the pain experience is one of the most powerful point of it.
I am not saying that we should be cured only when our mental health is poor to the point to do self-harm.
I mean all of us living in this world feel the sufferings all these frustrations at all times. If they are not fully transformed into power, they will need to be released in some way. Singing, exercise, socializing, etc all playing a healing role.

The above point of view is intended to prove that tattoo pain can be an adjunct to psychological therapy.
Here I collected some sentences from my tattoo clients: "the recent life is not good, so I want to make a tattoo" "My skin itch, would like to get some ink"
Above points also explained some of the motives why the sentences claimed like this, explaining why we want to suffer pain.
This is only the beginning, and in the future, 【我是纹身师gogo】will explore more about the healing significance of tattoo behavior.

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在我们的工作室附近还有一些所谓的无痛纹身。
科技越来越发达，无痛纹身当然是有。无痛成为了一些纹身店的卖点，但是仍然我们坚持不用麻药。
所谓的无痛就是在表皮敷上麻药，麻醉局部，甚至有些和医院合作的纹身店会使用注射麻醉。

首先我不太清楚这些麻药的成分，更重要的是我不能确定麻药是否安全。
其次使用过麻药的皮肤，不容易上色，也会影响纹身视觉效果。当麻药已经充满了皮肤的至少20%，色料就只能至多占据皮肤的80%，恢复之后整体的颜色又会淡去20%。那原本要经历几十年才能淡去的图案，在刚完成没几天时就已经看起来经历了沧桑。

抛开这些种种理由先不说，最重要的是，体验纹身疼痛的过程是重要的。对于我们来说，纹身不仅仅是交易，而也是给予意义。用了麻药之后，你都不知道纹身是怎么到你身上去的，就像个贴纸，这还有何意义？

既然选择了纹身，就大胆的尝试纹身的全部乐趣吧。当你真正体会到了，说不定你还会上瘾呢。（60%的客人回来找我做了第二个纹身）

There are also some painless tattoo services near our studio.
With the developed technology, painless tattoos, of course, exist. "Painless" has become a selling point for some tattoo shops, but we still insist on "no anesthetic".
These tattoos are in the epidermis deposited anesthetic. Some creams can calm the skin surface, and some tattoo shops who collaborate with hospitals even use injection anesthesia.

First of all, I'm not sure what the ingredients in the anesthetics are, and what's more important, I'm not sure if they're safe.
Secondly, the skin which applied anesthetic is not only hard to color, but also affects the visual effects of healed tattoo. When the skin is filled with anesthetic with at least 20%, the pigment can only occupy 80% of the skin at most, and after recovery, the overall color will be lighter to 80%. The tattoo which could be fine for decades will seem to have wane through the vicissitudes of life if you apply anesthesia.

For all these reasons, first of all, the most important thing is that it is important to experience the painful process of tattooing. For us, tattooing is not just about trading, it's about giving meaning. After using the anesthetic, you don't know how the tattoo got on your skin. If it's like a sticker. What's the point?

You can be bold enough to try the full pleasure of tattooing. You might be addicted to it.
(60% of my clients came back for the second tattoo)

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现在让我来描述一下纹身的疼痛吧：
Now, let me describe the pain in the tattoo process:

纹身，无论在位置、是大还是小、用排针上色打雾还是用圆针割线，都是疼的。
但是不同的位置、大小、工序、疼痛感也是不一样的。
纹身原理是用针和颜料，一并刺入皮肤表皮层。也许只是割了一条线，但是这一条线是纹身机以每秒十几针的速度刺下了几千几万个小点点组成的，也就是说一根线拉完基本上就算是个挨千刀的了。

No matter where you get tattoos on your body, no matter the size of the tattoo. No matter if it is coloring, shading or just lining, tattoo process is pain.

Principle of tattoos is to use needle and pigment to pierce into epidermis of your skin. Maybe it seems like just a tattoo line, but that line is make in a speed of dozens of pierce per second by a tattoo machine. It contains maybe thousands of little dots.

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割线和上色疼痛感因人而已，有人觉得割线痛有人觉得上色痛。
割线使用的圆针虽然接触面积小，但是这也让那一小块皮肤受到了更大的压强。
上色和打雾用的排针接触面积大，扎破了一大块皮肤，很痛。

To make a line or to color is different kind of pain...
Although the circular needle for linings just contact a small area on skin, it also makes that small piece of skin suffer a greater pressure.
Coloring or shading using a wider needle to contact more area, it can broke a large piece of skin, it is very painful.

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但不管上色还是割线，基本上颜色越浅就会越痛，例如白色。因为越是浅色的颜料颗粒便越大。

疼痛感最强的区域主要以内侧皮肤为主，如大腿内侧、手臂内侧、和侧腰等部位的细腻皮肤。
疼痛感较强的区域主要集中在骨骼明显的地方，这些皮肤主要特征是皮下脂肪或肌肉较少。

But regardless if it is lining or shading, basically the lighter the color, the more painful the tattoo will feel.
For example, white color. The lighter the pigment, the bigger the particle.

The most painful areas are on the medial skin, such as the inner thighs, the inner arm, the waist or some delicate skin on your body.
And these areas where the bones are distinct also could feel extreme pain during getting tattoos. These are mainly characterized by subcutaneous fat or less muscle.

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除了区域可以影响疼痛感，纹身师也是疼痛感的关键。

如果你是很怕疼的人，但是却仍然想要纹身，作为纹身师，我的建议是：
不要去抵抗它，不要每一次在针接触到皮肤后鼓起肌肉。而是要松弛肌肉，慢慢的感受，这样痛感直接降低了好几个级别。
你也是可以盯着针头看，科学实验证明，人体对于未知来源的疼痛会加倍感知，所以如果看着针头，你的大脑意识到痛觉只是来源于纹身机，就会主动将痛觉变弱。

所以在纹身时，试着盯着针头并且放松肌肉，你便能坚持更久！

Tattoo artist is also the key to pain.
If you are bad at taking pain, but you still want a tattoo, as a tattoo artist, my advice is:
Don't resist it. Don't strain your muscles when the needle touches you. Just relax the muscles and take the pain, so that the pain can directly reduce on several levels.
You can also stare at the needle when you are getting inked. The scientific experiment proved that human body will double the pain perception for pain from unknown sources. So if you look at the needle while been tattooed, the brain will be aware that the pain is just from the tattoo machine, so that you won't feel that much pain.

So, when you get ink, try to observe the needle and relax your muscles, and then you can hold on longer!

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最后放上一张网络上流传着，我个人认为最正确的纹身的痛感图：
I personally think this is the best tattoo pain map all over internet:

再最后我想说，纹身真的没有你想象中那么疼，你可以去相信，这种疼痛是自己能够承受的，只要放松就好。
既然都是纹身爱好者，喜欢就大胆的去体会吧！

Tattoos really don't hurt as much as you think. You can believe yourself that this pain is something you can take, just relax.
Since we are tattoo lovers, just be bold and experience it!

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