Honestly? It feels like a sharp pen that's jabbing you repeatedly. As long as you don't have a crazy amount of lines or too much color shading, it doesn't take very long to do the outline. I got a small tattoo on my left arm in March, and it took about 20 minutes because it was just black ink... that was with a three-minute breather, so less than 25 minutes.
The pain factor depends on your pain tolerance and how thin the skin/muscle is on the spot you're getting tattooed because when that happens, the needle will be pretty close to your bones. If you get a tattoo on your shoulder blades or ribs, it's going to hurt like a bitch since there's not much muscle covering the bone. Since you'd be getting one on your inner wrist, it won't be too bad.
Advice... ask the artist if you can take a breather every now and then when the needles get to be too much Altho the artist might ask you that beforehand anyway... but it doesn't hurt to ask in case they forgot to.
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