My girlfriend is a tattoo artist and told me about this cream, i use it for continuing her freehand blackwork on me and it was jawdropping. Seriously I never gonna have tattoo without this numbing cream, must of the time in this 3hours session I felt nothing and my gf told me that the cream help her cause the skin received more likely the ink! I'm about to order 6tubes. Try it, you're not gonna be deceived.