sleeve tattoos

Can you get an indigo tattoo? Will it crock? I have nothing useful to add.

No ink but nothing against it. (Unless it's someplace that can not be covered with clothing) Some chicks look sexy with one sleeve.
Pain, a lot. Cost would depend on the artist. Not something you want to skimp on.

I have a half sleeve that i got done about a year n half ago. I was on my way to shot show the next morning so I endured 12.5 hours straight of getting tatted. My gf was the real MVP cause she stayed with me the entire time and got me snacks around Lake Merritt in Oakland. I could have gotten tatted longer but I didn't have that much cash left plus I had to leave in the early AM. I always wanted to tip a decent amount for helping me out.

Cost-wise it was a couple of thousand but it was worth it to me since I waited 5 years between my other tats and found an artist that understood the symbolism as well as did it in his way.

Pain-wise it doesn't really hurt to me until he was shading in my tat. Mine is mostly black and grey but there was a whole lot of shading happening for like 4+ hours. Areas near my armpit and around bone is where you feel it the most. This artist was light handed compared to my previous guy. If you can't take the pain, they can apply a topical analgesic which would work for a couple of hours but after that you going to feel it.

I don't like ultra-realistic artists as it's just copying a photo or character. They look cool but other than that it's not really creative in my book. Portraits are a different story especially if its your loved ones.

Will I finish my sleeve or get more? Of course, planning on finishing my right sleeve sometime next year and getting my left sleeve started in 2-3 years.

What I hate more than "meaningless tattoos" (Whatever that means) are strangers who ask me what the meaning of my tattoos are. It's quite presumptuous of anyone that doesn't know a person to ask a question that they assume the answer to be personal. Obviously, if I wanted anyone or everyone to easily know what my tattoos mean, they wouldn't be cryptic, or at least they would have captions.

Yup!!! I'm the guy that says "Yes, I do mind you asking... It's personal.", even for the ones that aren't.

I posted those pics to show the detail of the tattoos, which not many tattoo artists are capable of. I'm personally not into celebrity portraits, but to each their own

Someone did this.

I wish I knew. I suspect that will depend on the physical attributes of the person with the tattoo. If you're in reasonably good shape then I think a photo-realistic tattoo will look good so long as you look good. But if you're obese then no tattoo will look good on you, especially if you have a lot of flacid body parts

Other than gaining a lot of weight. All tattoos age and change with time. I'd guess the pigment migrates, fades etc.

I work healthcare so I get to see a lot of tattoos while doing skin checks on a daily basis. The more impressive aged tattoos I've seen are American and Japanese traditional designs that were professionally done. Even at 30+ years they're easily legible and show off the image really well. A lot of 10+ year old photo realistic stuff is showing up these days and rarely can I tell what it is without asking. The few that are still readable are only black and gray, not color. Color realism ages really bad from what I've seen. The subject marerial of the better realistic tattoos is always simple and iconically recognizable like a famous bridge or Statue of Liberty. I could see something like a face becoming really muddled with time.

You mean like this?

This is what I'd expect. Even the most simple graphic designs look blurry with age.
A guilty pleasure of mine is watching "ink master". The ones I am most drawn to are American traditional.