It hurts more than a vacination. It's destroying the top layer of skin which is a pain in itself. I personally wouldn't have got mine had I known the pain. He started and ink was in so there ws no going back. I can't drown things out so I had no help in that category.

I have never got a Tattoo, but people have told me Stories. They said it depends on where you get it. My friend got a Tattoo on his Upper Arm, he said that on the Border of his Shoulder and his Arm (Upper Arm, below the Shoulder) is where it hurt most.

I have a few tatoos and I do not think they are too bad. But where you get it at and how well you can take pain matters.
For me it was more annoying than painful.