How does a tattoo feel?

This depends on your skin's sensitivity and your threshold for pain but it's similar to a bee sting. A bee sting that repeats thousands of times a minute and travels across the surface of your skin.

It hurts more than a little cut or scrape but less than a piercing. You get used to the sensation after the first ten minutes or so and it starts to hurt less. It hurts more on areas of skin that are very sensitive or thin (like the skin over your collar bone or feet) and less on areas that are thicker with fat and muscle underneath (like the buttocks or biceps).