Foot: Very painful. Remember, there’s a very small amount of skin covering up a large area of bone here. With every dip of the needle you’re going to feel it prodding at your bones.

Ribs: Another high pain area. Interestingly enough, inking the spaces in-between each rib bone feels like a mixture of being tickled, burned and poked with a sharp needle. However, when you cross over to the bones themselves, that’s where things get painful. You’ll feel the needle jabbing at your bone over and over again. It’s a mix of pain, burning, heavy pressure and oddly enough, a really annoying tickling sensation.

Chest: Generally average until you move towards the collarbone and sternum. In terms of being on the pain scale, the sternum won’t make you tap out, however, you will be glancing your fist in some serious pain. You can compare it to the elbow and knees. Another part of the chest to consider is the nipple area. Some gentlemen face extremely high sensitivity in that area, others simply don’t.

Inner Elbow: Without a doubt, one of the most painful spots on the body. Worse than the already excruciating outer elbow tattoo.

Collarbone: Very painful. Interestingly enough, while getting a tattoo on your collarbone it might feel like you’re actually getting one on the neck with all the vibration going on.

Calves: Often a cake walk; average.

Forearm and front arm: Considerably average and comfortable to tattoo without any concern.

Genitals: Extremely painful.

Throat: One of the worst places to get a tattoo when it comes to pain.

Hands: Just like the foot, there’s a lot of bone and not enough skin covering it. Hand tattoos are as just difficult to get artists to do as they are to have inked while sitting in the chair. The same is true for the fingers as well.

Ankle: When it comes to ankle tattoos, it’s a tossup between average and terribly awful. Based on the bone-y location you can still expect a lot of pain regardless of your tolerance.