i got mine this past June and it is the talk of the town,Honoka'a here.I wear a tank top so it is visible and get many coments on it.Yes it does feal like a scratched sunburn and you have to keepAquapure on it.I repeated that every 4 hours for two weeks,stayed out of the sun and kept a bandaid over it just to be sure it wouldn't fade or darken during the crucial period of healing.Hawaii has lots of tattoo parlors and one of my "cousins" here,jennifer,has her own tattoo parlor in Oahu and did such a great job that I am going to get a few more bold ones on my right leg,a colorfull gecko and a 1958 FRIGIDAIRE Custom Imperial washer.