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When I was 18, my mom called me while I was away at college and told me she was sitting in a tattoo parlor, about to get a tattoo, and one of the girls she was with cancelled. She wanted to know if I wanted to get one, too. So I drove down and got a cute little tattoo of the silhouette of a fairy with these pretty, intricate butterfly wings sitting on a crescent moon. She had her hands on her knees, so there was a very small space between her body and her arm. There were a few stars around it. It was cute, and I loved it.

A fifteen years later, you can't really tell what it is. When I explain it, it becomes obvious. But the ink that was used back then tended to spread the older it got, so small spaces would fill in. So you could no longer distinguish between her body and her arm.

For a few years, I'd been thinking of trying to get it covered up. August this year, I finally did it. They did a brilliant job, you can't tell there is a tattoo under this one:



The butterfly has pretty sparkles around it because it didn't completely cover up all of the stars in the original, so the tattoo artist had to improvise. I think it's gorgeous.

After I got my coverup done, I thought getting a paw print would be cute... namely my dog's paw print. I figured it would mean something special to me, and paw prints are always "in style" if you will. So I tried a couple of times and finally got a decent print from Akira. I took it back to the tattoo parlor tonight and got my second tattoo of the year:



About four years ago, I got a tattoo on my back, and here's an old, not very good picture of it. The tattoo looks cute, this picture, not so much:

I love tattoos. It is my favorite form of art.
Do you hate bees so much you want to set them on fire?

Pics?



No... But I thought the picture was cute.



I don't want anything huge, but that's freaking hilarious.

But... If I can't answer that problem in 30 seconds, does that mean I wouldn't be able to Spoilermasturbate...?

The mirrors help.

<3 you, Allegory.

I had a tattoo done many years back and over time the colors faded. I was told that that tends to happen. I'm about to go have it recolored and bring it back to what it used to be.

Ray has 3 tattoos. I have none by preference. He has my name tattooed on his bicep and has been trying to get me to get his name inked for the last 10 years. It's not happening.

Did that hurt, Monkey???

I think the real question on everyone's mind is why did she neglect the Jacobian for that integration transformation from spherical to Cartesian. Where's the rho, Allegory, Where is the rho???

That is awesomeness right there!

Your other arm should say "None shall pass!".

We already went over this too, and BT suggested that if I'm going to go with a LotR tattoo, I need to get "Speak friend, and enter," tattooed across my ass.

As long as it's in Elvish, this meets with my approval.

The only part that really hurt was the upper outside corners. That stung like a bitch. People told me the spine would be murder, but it was actually less painful then the rest of the job. But man, those outside top edges... it was like being set on fire then put out with a baseball bat.

Honestly that's a boring equation. Why couldn't it be the integral that develops the formula for the volume of a sphere or something cool. I mean it's so close and yet so far.

Edited, Oct 26th 2011 10:02pm by Xsarus

That's the joke, It is.

I've always wanted one, but I haven't found the time or money for it. I'd like to design it myself...something abstract, w/ just black ink, and probably on my left shoulder/back. I think I'd like it to look a little different than the typical tattoo styles that you usually see, too.

Wonder if I'll ever get around to it while I'm still young enough for it to not look weird.

Edited, Oct 27th 2011 4:52pm by Eske

Well, if you think a tattoo looks weird on older people, then perhaps you should reconsider ever getting one.

Think about it this way. Select an age at which you think having a tattoo looks weird. Subtract from that your current age. That is how many years you'll have of it not looking weird to you. Then subtract that weird age from your lifespan. That is how many years it will look weird to you.

The point is, assuming you don't think tattoos start looking weird around 80, you're probably going to spend more years with having a weird tattoo than you are going to have with it looking right for your age, according to you. So you should probably either readjust your feelings towards old people having tattoos or just put it off the table altogether.

Aye. I actually don't think they look weird on older folks. I was just being tongue-in-cheek about how other people might see it. It's not a factor for me.

It's NixNot, show some goddam respect.

My first tattoo was a result of a trauma kinda putting me on a path to study women's rights. It is the words anima:sophia forming the female symbol.

My second tattoo was the result of an affair with a married tattoo artist(whom I didn't know was married)
It's e.e. cumming's "you are tired" in full, She wrote it on my back over the course of two nights in my living room (I laid out the couch flat and she set up shop, the only rule I had was I wanted to see her open clean needles for the gun) It spans from my shoulder to my waist all the way down my back.

My most recent (18 months oldish)is the gravestone from slaughterhouse-5. I've went through a lot of really nasty things I don't really talk at length about with anyone, which is odd because I spend a lot of time talking to people about their problems. In serious-er relationships it leads to trust issues, and lead to to one of my exs calling me an "unfeeling sex robot" It was suppose to be some sort of serious concern for me, but I still laugh at the phrasing today. In any event, a gravestone reassuring every you leave behind that they are going to be okay (because no really - life is good) really spoke to me. The only problem I have with this one is I used the picture of the stone right out the book to make the stencil, and later found out on google about 500 million people have this exact tattoo. Other than that though, I am quite found of it.

My first tat shortly after turning 18, was a dog paw similar to the one you have up there. Not sure if I have any pics, or where they're uploaded.

Second, was a gargoyle I drew and put on for a trampstamp. (Originally done with henna, so I could get used to it and make any adjustments to size/location later).

Third was the normal 'chinese' word on my shoulders, actually the title of a haiku that I wrote.

Fourth & Fifth, Capricorn on one arm, and the Chinese character for Horse on the other (though I found out later I was born in the year of the Snake). Got those done while vacationing in Charlotte, NC on my 24th birthday.

Which is why I got Sixth, a snake biting its tail to go around that one...why cover it up, its in Chinese so not like anyway I see can tell.

Edited, Oct 28th 2011 1:49pm by Dyadem

If the left most bunch of flowers are supposed to be a V, then you really need to get it touched up and make it more pronounced. It looks like her name is 'icki' until you see the V in the flowers. It's nice work, but confusing at first.

This. It's a beautiful homage.

I saw Vicki right away. I think it's beautiful!