I have 2, and neither one was all that painful. Actually, my shoulder tattoo didn't hurt at all and I almost fell asleep while getting it done. The one on my foot only hurt in certain spots, but overall wasn't a very painful experience.

My foot tattoo is a quill with "let it be" preceding it, like the quill wrote it, and the quill goes up my ankle.

My shoulder one is a tree with some foliage but not full with a bird flying away from it.

I thought long and hard about both of my tattoos before getting them (though less long for my second, mostly because I held off on my first because of my mother's view of tattoos, and since I already had one, what was another?) Both of them have meaning to me, and there's no way I would want to get rid of either one.

I want a third, but I'm too poor as of right now, so that's on the back burner.