*** Warning : boring Jake story ahead ***
This guy Tony Malo I used to know was a really good freehand artist and decided to set himself up as a tattooist. Not that he knew anything about tattoing, he didn't even have any tattoos himself at the time - but how hard could it be, right?
So he bought all the gear out of the Exchange and Mart and set himself up in a little shop. The first customer that came in wanted a butterfly on his chest, Papillon stylee. So Tony draws a butterfly, the guy liked it and they went straight ahead and tattooed it on the guy.
As he was doing it the customer commented that it didn't hurt as much as he was expecting. He'd heard all the horror stories from other guys that already had tatts about what agony it was but he said actually it was quite bearable.
A few days later the same guy comes into the shop again. Tony asked if the guy wanted another tattoo but no, actually he had a complaint. The guy pulls some tissue out of his pocket and unwraps this large peeled scab with a complete butterfly tattoo in it! Tony was like WTF?
Apparently the guy was in the bath trying to loosen the scab by soaking it and when it came off there was no tattoo left on his chest!
It turned out that Tony wasn't setting the needle depth anywhere near deep enough! No wonder all his customers that first week said that it didn't hurt much!