- Hey, okay, oh my god.
Howdy hi, my name's Emily.
Oh my sweet god.
Hey!
(sighs)
Hey, I'm Emily and if you couldn't see on my arm
I have a couple of tattoos.
That being said, I really want to finish my sleeve.
It's been over a year since I got my last tattoo.
So I thought this would kind of be a fun opportunity
to follow a temporary tattoo tutorial that I saw on TikTok
to find things that I might want to get as tattoos
and kind of try them on
and see what my arm would really look like
when my sleeve is complete.
So I saw this tutorial on TikTok
by this user named stupidvegan.
It was the simplest freaking thing on the planet.
- [Girl in Tiktok Video] So you're gonna print out a photo,
and then you're going to cut it,
and then you're going to soak it in perfume.
Then you're going to put it in some water.
So then you take it out of the water
and you spray more perfume on it
and you spray your arm where you're going to put the tattoo.
And then you put the paper on
and you apply pressure for like a couple minutes.
And then when you take it off you have tattoo!
- All I'm really gonna need for this
is just a lot of perfume that I don't mine wasting,
a printer to print out my photos,
scissors to cut out those photos,
and that's pretty much it.
And then just some patience and some tenderness and...
So really I'm just kind of gonna see what I can find
on like a stock image source to kind of fill up my sleeve
and then we'll see what it looks like
and see if I actually want to go through
with getting the full thing done one day for real.
So I'm at my computer
and I'm gonna see what photos
I might want to temporarily put on my body.
I'm finding pretty much what looks like
flash sheets of tattoos.
I was worried I'd have to get like rude pictures of like
political figures and stuff.
(rock music)
- That a lot of alcohol tattoos.
(rock music)
- Welcome to my bathroom!
I apologize for how small my bathroom is during all of this.
I am gonna get started doing all of these tattoos.
So I have some different options.
Here are my scissors.
First things first, I'm not exactly sure
which spray will work.
So, oh god, in theory I mean they all should.
But I don't really know.
(funky music)
Twilight Mist.
Soak it in spray.
Soak it in water.
Spray it again.
Spray the arm
and then place and hold.
(playful music)
It just like, completely ripped in half.
That's a bust either way.
It doesn't even look...
It just looks wet.
This is not great.
(funky music)
Here we go.
Squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt.
This is gonna take forever
to do my whole arm, oh my god.
All right, success.
(rock music)
That's a tattoo!
Ew, man this stuff stinks.
Smells like old lady in here.
Aww those are so cute.
Let's do a rat.
Oh boy, I am really bored.
The hairier it gets, the like weirder it comes off.
You know what I mean?
All right so I think I may have to shave my arm.
Cause it seems like it goes on smooth and like fine
where there is no hair
and then where there is hair
it's been a litter wonkier.
So I think if I just shave
hopefully that'll take care of it.
I've never shaved my arms before.
(sighs)
It'll grow back.
(intense music)
This is miserable.
Wow, screw it, I gotta shave my arm.
(intense music)
Super (beep) bored.
Whoa.
That's nuts.
Thank god.
Well, what's next?
(intense music)
Thanks for cooking.
- [Boyfriend] You got it,
I put a different hot sauce on yours.
- Which one?
Oh who's calling me?
♪ The farmer in the dell. ♪
Well (beep).
Shapes a little wonky.
Oh yeah, shapes really wonky.
I didn't think about that through.
Pizza!
All right let's shave my (beep) arm.
Yes, yes, shaving my arm, (beep)
can't believe I'm doing this
for a stupid temporary tattoos, god dammit.
This isn't worth it.
So both of my cameras died
and the cards are also full,
and this is already taking a very long time
so I decided I'm just gonna do the rest with my phone here.
But look at my pizza.
Pizza looks pretty sweet.
This ones we got left.
(playful music)
Filling up.
It's upside down but...
Next we're gonna do spaghetti.
So it looks like the bottom half of my arm is filled up
but now there's a lot of empty space on the top half
so we're almost there.
Next is Shrek, but what I didn't realize is that
yes, when I put it on it will also be backwards.
We're just gonna have to deal with that
because I don't give a (beep) anymore.
Not fantastic, not terrible but certainly not correct.
So I'm gonna do my wine bottle and my wine glass.
The glass is good, the bottle sucks.
It gets a little weird near taught skin.
Doesn't matter if you shaved that part of your body or not.
(intense music)
Now I'm just gonna move on
to the part that I'm most excited about.
Giving myself knuckle tats.
But here's the fun part,
is that I have to shave each one of my freaking knuckles.
(intense music)
Cut myself shaving.
That's blood.
Truly blood sweat and tears today.
That's blood on my finger.
Oh I stopped having fun three hours ago.
Here's the "T".
Let it be known that fingers are tricky
but they can be done.
I'm not done yet.
Toot!
That was a good one.
Toot toot, my little horn.
So we lost the hat, but the shirts okay.
Let's clean that up a little.
The bear riding the bicycle.
(sighs)
Got a bear on a bike.
So I didn't realize it but I started this at 11:53 am,
it is now 3:55 pm.
I have been going at this for four hours.
This takes such a long time.
All right, now you're actually stained.
Except you lost his arm.
That's fine, that's kind of cool alternative, quirky.
I'm so over this.
This was a terrible idea.
There it is.
Better (beep) work, I'm done.
Place it.
Thank god that was worth it.
I finally did it.
I've completed the arm.
There's no turning back.
We've done it.
I went above and beyond, extra credit.
We did it and only took four hours.
But I like it.
I mean, hey I like it.
That looks pretty cool.
(funky music)
Couple of things that I learned.
One, is that this is very time consuming
and to do your whole arm it takes four hours.
You use a lot of perfume.
I'm gonna say that you probably should use one that you like
because you're gonna smell like it.
If you're going to put one of these on a body part of yours
that has hair on it,
you should definitely shave the hair first
and that's annoying.
But you know what?
I'm proud of what I did.
I like the work that it did, whatever.
I like it and I would definitely
still continue getting tattoos I think.
There's my lunch that my boyfriend made
that I wasn't able to finish eating
because I was busy doing this for four hours.
(playful music)