hey everyone good afternoon hope you're doing well i am uploading
this video with nomad internet eventually but
uh we're talking tattoos in this video and by the magic of
some time passing and some editing and approvals hopefully
i'm pretty sure this video is going to include me getting a new tattoo
kind of not a new tattoo to add to my collection
but a new tattoo cover-up so i found a tattoo artist
to help design a custom cover-up now it's taken a little bit of time to
get my first appointment but i've already put a down payment on the design
the design has begun and i wanted to share that with you before i go in and
improve the final design here's the tattoo with some very crude
purple markings on it okay basically with the red and the blue
inside the actual circle there you're kind of stuck with those colors
so if you can imagine with me a patriotic half
circle banner that you would see on the fourth of july or memorial day labor day
that that's gonna be replacing it with red
white and blue banners that stretch out and then some white stars in the middle
so he's traced my arm tattoo he knows the
dimensions and size and everything and um bear with me guys a cover-up
tattoo is never going to be perfect it's just like when i put the vinyl wrap
on yoda and it kind of hid what was underneath that's all we're
trying to do is is trick your mind into seeing something totally different
and no tattoo artist out there likes doing
cover-ups it was very difficult for me to find
anyone to do this i'm going to be leaving the
area and then coming back in the area and having other videos show up between
this one and everything but anyway want to let you know once i get
this cover-up tattoo done then we can start moving forward and i'm looking
forward to a very neat custom drawn nomadic fanatic tattoo okay
but first say goodbye to jack daniel's redneck confederate flag tattoo on my
arm because that may be the last time you
see it all right going to merge onto the highway today everyone hope
you're doing well i'm nervous it's been about six years
since i've got a new tattoo and today is the day
i've noticed that my viewers are kind of split on tattoos
it's just a fun thing that's permanent semi-permanent i guess
little fun fact for you too some misconceptions about tattoos
59 of americans with tattoos are women did you know that that's an actual
fact more women get tattoos than men in this
country also it's reported that americans spend
about 1.6 billion dollars on ink tattoos every year
the tattoo gun the needle pin that they use to give you tattoos
it is piercing your skin at a rate of about 2 000 to 3
000 pricks per minute it's a lot of punctures on your skin and
uh and i think the longest tattoo like the
guinness world book longest tattoo sitting one time
was a woman that did 60 hours straight of tattooing when i got beavis and butt
head done on my back calves we did it in one day it was uh four and
a half hours on one then we took a lunch and then four and a half hours on the
other calf literally took all day to get that done and then i was
limping for weeks but today should be easy i think this is
going to be like a two hour tattoo maybe two and a half
hours and ironically the tattoo gun that they
used today it derived from an invention of thomas
edison in 1891 he invented the electric
pen and that idea morphed into the tattoo gun
pen okay enough tattoo facts we got to get over to tiki tattoo and
get checked in for my appointment i don't know if i'm gonna film any of
this or part of it we'll just i'll bring my phone with me
and uh we'll see how it goes i'm excited though jax man are you ready
today is the day what's in it for me well you get peace
and quiet for a few hours okay all right don't worry i'll do all
the driving all right i got goosebumps now guys it's
starting to hit me i'm getting excited uh i did some google
earth research last night to find out where i could park exactly
and uh of course i get here and the map was old
they've already built a building over there where i was gonna park near tiki
tattoo so uh i found another cool little shaded spot
over here but i gotta walk a couple blocks over there so
i'm gonna secure up everything make sure jax is fed all the windows are cracked a
little bit the high today is 80 and i'm parked in
the shade so i'm not too worried about it
but i'll bring my iphone in and uh i'll ask my tattoo artist
i'm getting tattooed by the sarge today david tiki tattoo lacey washington
and i'll ask him if it's okay if i take some video if he says no we gotta
respect his wishes but we'll see what happens
we are officially saying goodbye to the confederate tattoo
on my arm all right all right here we are
expert tattooing here tiki tattoo it's time
face mask required yeah did all this fun stuff in here it's early i got the
first appointment with the sarge today so yep
love all the artwork and a little beer clock
that's it tattoo time okay i'm kind of scared now
so there's what the design looks like the curved edges yeah
that's gonna be replacing that
just taking a bathroom break while he gets set up over there got it uh
put on there so you can see
it's gonna be interesting
got the blue coming in
taking a little break before we go into the white there's going to be a lot of
white accents but
there's what it looks like so far man i don't see a rebel flag so it's already
gone the confederate flag is already gone now it's just a matter
of uh making it look good on its own man he's
a good artist the sarge is kicking butt takes a little while to get used to
the
oh needles i'm gonna stand up and stretch all right guys
the confederate flag is gone so i got to put a bandage on it and clean it up for
the day and then i'll wash it tonight but uh
pretty awesome huh all right i'm back in the rv
my arm stings like crazy i'm gonna i'm gonna keep it wrapped
until tonight tonight i will unwrap it i will clean it and then i will show you
how i go through that process and just me personally um how i treat a
tattoo aftercare but uh we'll cut back in tonight i want to go
see my mom again since i'm in town all right it is time for some tattoo
care here at the house it's been about five
hours since i left the tattoo place the stinging
painful feeling will go away in about four to six weeks if i remember
correctly it's been a while now back in the day uh what you the only
way you used to treat a tattoo is with triple antibiotic
and in fact every tattoo except my beatus and butt head that's what i did i
applied this three times a day to the infected area but uh
there's there's some new stuff out there that has worked really well and it
worked really well for beavis and butthead i think it helped save the
color and just made it look great and that's this
aquaphor healing treatment advanced therapy this is at walmart for like four
bucks and it's almost like a vaseline material
so that's what i'm going to be using for one week i'm gonna be using that
after one week i'm gonna switch to just a regular
like lotion type thing but let's take this off because i gotta clean this
i will warn you that if you're picky to like
blood and stuff like that that you might want to want to skip this part right
here because it tends to get a little messy the first
time you take this off and my whole arm is just a stinging sensation
a burning stinging sensation and it's really tender now oh my gosh
one other thing i forgot to mention though let me put this in here is that
my tattoo artist even kind of cleaned up the jack daniels in redneck
you can see a few lines in there right now it looks like it's brighter than the
existing jack daniels black on there but over time
the the new black is going to go away and it'll just look more defined
that was the idea of that and also he wants me to come in next month
to touch up the white stars and the white stripes because remember we
covered stuff up underneath there i'm not going to be
here next month hopefully i may get it done on the road oh my gosh
it stings so bad i want to put something on it the first thing we're going to do
right now is clean it with some non-scented
antibiotic bacterial soap and i'm going to do that in the shower because that's
the easiest way i'm going to clean it once more i hate
touching it it does not feel good not when it's this fresh
pat it dry the paper towel i think like after the needle starts
going in it takes a good like five minutes before
you actually start getting used to the pain
oh gosh all right so there's our dry look
or our non-bloody dry look and no matter what you look at that
i don't see a confederate flag and i don't think anybody ever will again
so i'm happy with it but i'm not done with this tattoo either
so again we're gonna apply some of this it just looks like that basically
and it absolutely feels so good it's it's like triple antibiotic ointment
but it's different the other thing is you want to avoid sun
on a new tattoo i'm going to think about that since this is definitely
below my sleeve i'm just going to have to be careful about
being outside i can't go in the water but that feels good there we go guys
i'm gonna wash my hands and close out this video
i just wanted to share some of the experience with you i know
tattoos are not for everyone back to normal
scheduling here in our next video in 48 hours okay guys
bye take care
me