What are the negatives of getting a tattoo behind your ear?

I want to get a small shamrock behind my ear and I was wondering what were some of the negatives of getting one there.

What are the negatives of getting a tattoo behind your ear?
I can't think of any negatives to getting a tattoo behind the ear. It might be abit painful but that area is tiny so it would all be over within 5mins. If your female you can use your hair to cover it when at work or somewhere formal. A tattoo at the back of the ear isn't very visable so no real negatives that i can think of.





Good Luck
Reply:well ure gonna be tatooing a bone. so


its gonna hurt like hell.
Reply:You're going to be tattooing on bone. There are a lot of nerves there, and it'll hurt like a holy mother.
Reply:There's no fat between the skin and the skull, which I suspect means it would hurt a lot. You'd want to be extra careful about infection.





I have a friend who has a tattoo that curves from behind her ear to around front, though, so I know it's done.
Reply:one of the problems with tattoos in that area is the skin is very elastic and moves a lot (and bleeds even more!) so sometimes the tattoo doesnt come out very well.


another downside is if its on show peole can judge you by it and potential employers can be put off so think carefully.


good luck.
Reply:Mika got one of the two things I've heard about with respect to this location. The other is that if you wear glasses, it might be tricky healing. I need to wear prescription glasses for just about anything, for example, and barring bopping around my house (which I can do in the dark if need be) it'd suck.
Reply:I don't think there are any negatives getting on there..
Reply:I actually have a tattoo behind my ear, and contrary to popular belief, it was not painful at all. I have 5 tattoos and the one behind my ear was the least painful. The only con I can think of is some tattoo artists refuse to tattoo on the neck because they think it's too close to the face and people will regret it.





But if you have longer hair, it's very easy to hide, but easy to show off just by wearing your hair up. It is not very painful and I constantly get compliments on it.
Reply:You wont see it and its a fairly small canvas for the tatoo artist he might screw it up if hes not professianol.(sorry for spelling.)