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Thank you!
...and yes I did, took almost four hours but turned out great in the end...

Probably wondering what all these weird looking creatures are that always show up to watch them eat...haha...

Added a pic, it's the last one in the series...mine was a little more conventional than yours, shark teeth? Wow...it was more the technique that was traditional than the gear, they used two different sized sterilized needles lashed to sticks of some sort...I'll include that pic as well at the end...do you have a pic of yours? Suspect this won't be the last travel tattoo I get...haha...

Not my design entirely, I wanted the flower part of the tattoo, called a Bunga Terung and then worked out the surrounding piece with the artist (based on Iban motifs, it is a tree of life morphing into a serpent and then a dragon). The Bunga Terung is a traditional tattoo, an eggplant flower with the coil in the middle representing the rope of life, the coming of age of a young man...these are typically done in pairs, one on each shoulder for balance...