So my first tattoo was when I was 17 (a little less than a year ago, I'm freshly 18). I got it done in San Francisco (where I live now) at a little sketchy place that would always pierce me even though they knew I was underage. The pierces and tattoo artists were always a little unprofessionally flirtatious with me, but I didn't care because their work was beautiful. To get my first tattoo done, the tattoo artist told me I needed to give him my phone number or else he wouldn't do it. I thought this was a little over the edge, but I gave it to him anyway. The entire time he was tattooing me, him and his coworkers were making sexual jokes towards me and being a little too flirty. I didn't know what to do, because he was in the middle of tattooing me. So I just kind of took it. I even tipped him, because the work was beautiful even though his personality wasn't. Even though I gave him my number he never ended up contacting me and I never went back there again.
My first tattoo was the lotus on my arm :)
