Tattoos-do you have any?

[MeanJoePhaser]

If nature wanted a permanent mark on me, it would've given me one, which it did. I learned to tolerate it. Don't want anymore permanent markings, in fact I find them the antithesis of the chameleon nature that I'd prefer. Better to blend in than stick out.

 

[miraclefan]

I have this tattooed on my back, right below my neck, between my shoulder blades.

VEERRRYYYY Nice design!

 

[Cakes488]

I have one... pretty simple, though I took a few months planning out the design and another finding an artist I trusted to do the work. Obviously it wasn't a spur of the moment type of thing.

Is that you in the picture there?

I find tattoos to be rather stupid and short-sighted personally... one need only see an older person who got them in their youth to observe the obvious problem. That said, if people want to deface their own bodies, they should and do have the freedom to do so.

Who gives a shit when your "old"...your all wrinkled and gravity as taken it's toll on you at that point...are you really going to be suffering from vanity issues ----- from a tattoo? I think not.

So I have one a shamrock on my right ankle that I got in Florida and it looks great...I think it's one of the best shamrocks I've seen.

I plan on getting a few more...especially a TOS one...I need that!

 

[Laren]

Personally I'm not too fond of tattoos, which may stem from the fact that for my parents they were usually associated with prison inmates. Of course I realise that most people with a tattoo are not criminals, but I don't think I'll ever start to really like them. At least in most cases. I'm also one of those people who dislike to mark themselves in such a permanent way. After all laser removal is really painful and expensive, right?

 

[Goliath]

For years, my uncle had a really impressive tattoo of a stooping eagle on his forearm, but eventually had it lasered off.

Once I was old enough, he admitted to me that he'd had the eagle done to cover up an earlier tattoo of a naked woman sitting on a barstool.

"See?" he said, pointing. "You can still see part of her poking out, there."

 

[RoJoHen]

I have this tattooed on my back, right below my neck, between my shoulder blades.

VEERRRYYYY Nice design!

Thanks. I just wish I had a decent pic of the actual tattoo.

 

[Garak]

I have 4 - 1 on my chest, 3 on my arm.

 

[Shaw]

I have one... pretty simple, though I took a few months planning out the design and another finding an artist I trusted to do the work. Obviously it wasn't a spur of the moment type of thing.

Is that you in the picture there?

Yeah... and that is after having the tattoo for about 10 years (I got it in 1997 or 1998). It really hasn't faded that much for me (which was something I originally worried about). That is also a segment of the original pencil drawing I did that I brought to the artist.

Who gives a shit when your "old"...your all wrinkled and gravity as taken it's toll on you at that point...are you really going to be suffering from vanity issues ----- from a tattoo? I think not.

Most of the people I've met that regretted their tattoos when they were older regretted them while they were younger too. Usually they had gotten them for all the wrong reasons.

So I have one a shamrock on my right ankle that I got in Florida and it looks great...I think it's one of the best shamrocks I've seen.

My wife wants one on her ankle... she has wanted a panda their for years (she loves the WWF logo).

 

[RoJoHen]

I've got a tattoo question. My tattoo, featured upthread, has faded a bit. I also kind of regret getting just a solid black tattoo; I think it would look better with more detail or shading or something. Is it possible to go back over a tattoo and make certain parts darker?

 

[Finn]

No way!!! And if I did, it wouldn't be Trek.

 

[Emher]

I don't have any and don't think I would. I would put the money on clothes to look good. I don't hate tatoos or anything, I think there are some really nice ones (still dig that hummingbird of yours tsq) but it's just not for me.

 

[JonathonWally]

I've got a tattoo question. My tattoo, featured upthread, has faded a bit. I also kind of regret getting just a solid black tattoo; I think it would look better with more detail or shading or something. Is it possible to go back over a tattoo and make certain parts darker?

A shading effect isn't going to work so well over pure black ink. Depending on the skill of the artist though, they can use gray and silver to create lighting effects to change it up though.

It all depends on the skill of the artist.

 

[Sakrysta]

tsq, I have a question about your treble clef that has bugged me ever since I first saw the picture a few months ago. Is the picture a reflection or flipped, or is your actual tattoo a reversed clef? I think the dimensionality is quite lovely, but I've just always wondered why the image is backwards.

I don't want a tattoo. However, if I had regular access to henna, I would constantly have different decorations/patterns on me. I love that henna is just permanent enough to really enjoy and just temporary enough to fade before I'm tired of it. Every time I go to the Renaissance Festival, I have to get a henna design.

I do find tattooing fascinating. It's not for me, but I can appreciate a piece well done.

 

[auntiehill]

I would never want a tattoo. If I really like a picture, I'll hang it on my wall.

 

[FrontLine]

Im a fan of ink. I am amazed at the ability of some of the artists out there and the folks that held still long enough to get the work done. Inked women turn me on too. But I've never found a design that appealed enough to me, never found something that I wanted to be with me permanently until this....

None so far, but if I do get one, it will be a dolphin that is itself tattooed with a Chinese symbol and is holding a heart in its mouth and jumping over barbed wire that wraps around my ankle.

Its like the anti tatoo, I love it.

Oh and for you kids playing at home, I present this handy guide

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Well putting aside the fact that I have the kind of body that shouldn't be exposed for any reason no I don't have any tattoos and am one of those people that never really understood them. I could see getting a tattoo if it means something like crossing the equator or or being in the SEALS or how many of your enemeies you've slaughtered in battle. But otherwise I don't see how a tattoo is really representing anything about you. Most of the time you didn't draw the design. Somebody else put it on you. It's just somebody else's picture on your body.

 

[thestrangequark]

tsq, I have a question about your treble clef that has bugged me ever since I first saw the picture a few months ago. Is the picture a reflection or flipped, or is your actual tattoo a reversed clef? I think the dimensionality is quite lovely, but I've just always wondered why the image is backwards.

I took the picture with my webcam, so it is mirror image. I didn't even think about it, since I only ever really see the tattoo in the mirror myself! This is what it ought to look like:

I've got a tattoo question. My tattoo, featured upthread, has faded a bit. I also kind of regret getting just a solid black tattoo; I think it would look better with more detail or shading or something. Is it possible to go back over a tattoo and make certain parts darker?

My treble clef is a cover-up. It was originally solid black, I got it as a teenager, and by the time I was 24 it had faded quite a bit. The artist I went to for the hummingbird is highly regarded and specializes in cover ups. With a good enough artist, and depending on how faded yours is, you can really work with it.

 

[Kestra]

Somebody else put it on you. It's just somebody else's picture on your body.

Not everyone can express themselves in the same way. We enjoy art of any sort because it touches us in some way. Just because someone lacks the technical ability to express themselves in an artistic way, doesn't make the art any less significant to them.

One could say, why have art around at all? It would just be someone else's painting or photograph on your wall.

 

[RoJoHen]

My treble clef is a cover-up. It was originally solid black, I got it as a teenager, and by the time I was 24 it had faded quite a bit. The artist I went to for the hummingbird is highly regarded and specializes in cover ups. With a good enough artist, and depending on how faded yours is, you can really work with it.

That is exactly what I wanted to hear!

 

[Kommander]

Most of the time you didn't draw the design.

I'm one of the exceptions. The oak leaf I drew by hand, and the ankh with the treble clef and fountain pens I drew in Photoshop. Any more tattoos I get will also be of my own design, or, since I really suck when it comes to visual art, at the very least will be my concept. I'm not the kind of person than can just pick a design off the wall.