^ Dude. That is BEAUTIFUL!!!!
I have to say i think well done tats are incredibly sexy. I love them!
I have to say i think well done tats are incredibly sexy. I love them!
Tattoos - Your Stories
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I like tats when other people get them. I'm too chicken to even try. 
If I want identifying marks upon my person, I stick to T-shirts.
If I want identifying marks upon my person, I stick to T-shirts.
Thanks. The only difference in mine is that I wanted Starbuck's design, not Anders', but I wanted it on my right arm like Anders' unlike Starbucks' which is on her left.
Something funny you'll notice - idk if it was intentional (like she got a 'bad' tattoo on New Caprica) or accidental, but the little zero with the line through it and above it, it's supposed to be the Caprican symbol, but later it appears on a plaque in the hall where the Quorum met (right after they're massacred) and it is a 0 with a line above it and a DOT beneath it, not a connected line. Separately it appears in the trial of Gaius Baltar on a Caprican flag behind the judges, so presumably that is the correct way and the tattoo is the "wrong" way, but I had it done "the wrong way" just like hers.
I like tats when other people get them. I'm too chicken to even try.
If I want identifying marks upon my person, I stick to T-shirts.
No Yankees tatt on your upper arm?
I think you guys know what this is!
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/45708_538490330113_121201289_31603723_5647011_n.jpg
at least the BSG fans do
Nice! I don't know if I could get something from a TV show tattooed on me, but that's a pretty neat one.
I've got a couple others in mind, but I tend to go years between tattoos as I've never been in a big hurry. I'll have to have someone photograph these properly so I can link to them here.
I like tats when other people get them. I'm too chicken to even try.
If I want identifying marks upon my person, I stick to T-shirts.
No Yankees tatt on your upper arm?
No, not even that.
Not only do I not want tattoos in general, but I'm also a Mets fan.
I took this in May. The story behind is this: I have three incurable diseases and I had to be over a year on a sick leave struggling for my health. I decided once that if I ever walk properly and can turn side while sleeping without the pain I'll take a tattoo which represents my battle with illnesses. So in May I went to see my dear friend and she made me this. Because I am a Warrior! 
Now when ever I think that my life sucks I can look this and it reminds me that things could be a lot worse
Now when ever I think that my life sucks I can look this and it reminds me that things could be a lot worse
May, great tattoo, great story to go with it, and welcome aboard! Hope you'll like it here, it's warm and cosy, most days. 
I have one on my back left shoulder blade, it's a deep red with a black outline. I think I want to have some more shading done, and have it framed by a shield with a little more detailing, but I am a sissy as far as pain goes. It's a wonder I ever got this! Plus, I'd want to go see Louis Molloy who did the famous angel tattoo on David Beckham and get a bit of feed-back from the artist first, I think he has a riverside salon close by if I'm not mistaken.
I have one on my back left shoulder blade, it's a deep red with a black outline. I think I want to have some more shading done, and have it framed by a shield with a little more detailing, but I am a sissy as far as pain goes. It's a wonder I ever got this! Plus, I'd want to go see Louis Molloy who did the famous angel tattoo on David Beckham and get a bit of feed-back from the artist first, I think he has a riverside salon close by if I'm not mistaken.
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Thanks! I'm sure I will enjoyMay, great tattoo, great story to go with it, and welcome aboard! Hope you'll like it here, it's warm and cosy, most days.
Think about not only if you but also your loved ones would want to look at it ten or twenty years hence, but also how it would look on your skin down the road. Skin stretches, it sags with age, and you may gain or lose weight that would affect how the tattoo looks...and consequently how you might feel about having it.
I ran into a coworker in a shower at a health club a few years back, and COULD NOT HELP BUT NOTICE the ass tattoo. He said he had it done in the Navy, twelve years and a hundred pounds ago. It was a small PT boat...but in the intervening years and tonnage, it had attained aircraft carrier status. He said the wife slaps it, and the fleet rides at anchor.
Think it over, kids.
Personally, I'm not into tattoos; I think the choice to keep your flesh unadorned with tats and/or piercings is a more significant reflection of your individuality than to do something to yourself that attracts attention, but I recognize that not everyone feels that way. And that's fine. To each their own.
As a general rule of thumb, I try to avoid activities that would result in my incarceration, but if it all came down and I would be placed in a penal facility, I might contemplate a tattoo over my anus that reads "EXIT ONLY!"
With my shit luck, they'd put me in a cell with a big, hairy con who can't read...
I ran into a coworker in a shower at a health club a few years back, and COULD NOT HELP BUT NOTICE the ass tattoo. He said he had it done in the Navy, twelve years and a hundred pounds ago. It was a small PT boat...but in the intervening years and tonnage, it had attained aircraft carrier status. He said the wife slaps it, and the fleet rides at anchor.
Think it over, kids.
Personally, I'm not into tattoos; I think the choice to keep your flesh unadorned with tats and/or piercings is a more significant reflection of your individuality than to do something to yourself that attracts attention, but I recognize that not everyone feels that way. And that's fine. To each their own.
As a general rule of thumb, I try to avoid activities that would result in my incarceration, but if it all came down and I would be placed in a penal facility, I might contemplate a tattoo over my anus that reads "EXIT ONLY!"
With my shit luck, they'd put me in a cell with a big, hairy con who can't read...
^Sorry, but I think the whole "think of what the tattoo will look like when you're 70" argument is the stupidest thing in the world. Do you know what my tattoos will look like when I'm 70? Old and wrinkly. Like the rest of me. I sincerely doubt that I will be such a vain septuagenarian that the fact that my ink has age spots will be of great concern to me.
I've seen some pretty amazing ones full of beauty and apparently done by a really skillful tattoo artist.
Then i've also seen pure crap and especially with a former colleague of mine who wanted some kind of tribal which turned out to be done awfully and which he had to have removed (at additional great cost).
Personally i wouldn't get one.. i've got nothing so important in my life to feel the need to imprint it on my skin and for sure won't follow some fashion trend and get one (still laugh every time i see a woman/girl with a lower back tattoo while i think about them in their 40s).
My advice? Do a thorough research about local tattoo artists and speak with people you met who have one you like and where they got it. Don't cheap out because you will have it for life (unless you plan on spending even more money to have it changed or even removed).
Additionally.. fun story: My dad has one on his lower arm from his days in the (then) Yugoslav Special Forces. He always tried to scare me as a kid about how hard it was and what he had to do/learn (biting of a chickens head to drink its blood to both replenish fluids and salts for example). So when he left the army his buddys from his unit all decided to get the same tattoo to mark their entry and departure from the army. My dad, the big bad special forces guy who still has the reflexes of a cat, couldn't endure the whole process so he only got the (simple outline) eagle but not the entry/departure date.
To this day i can shut him up when he tries to act all manly and how i'm an office wuss
Then i've also seen pure crap and especially with a former colleague of mine who wanted some kind of tribal which turned out to be done awfully and which he had to have removed (at additional great cost).
Personally i wouldn't get one.. i've got nothing so important in my life to feel the need to imprint it on my skin and for sure won't follow some fashion trend and get one (still laugh every time i see a woman/girl with a lower back tattoo while i think about them in their 40s).
My advice? Do a thorough research about local tattoo artists and speak with people you met who have one you like and where they got it. Don't cheap out because you will have it for life (unless you plan on spending even more money to have it changed or even removed).
Additionally.. fun story: My dad has one on his lower arm from his days in the (then) Yugoslav Special Forces. He always tried to scare me as a kid about how hard it was and what he had to do/learn (biting of a chickens head to drink its blood to both replenish fluids and salts for example). So when he left the army his buddys from his unit all decided to get the same tattoo to mark their entry and departure from the army. My dad, the big bad special forces guy who still has the reflexes of a cat, couldn't endure the whole process so he only got the (simple outline) eagle but not the entry/departure date.
To this day i can shut him up when he tries to act all manly and how i'm an office wuss
That would be true if everyone did it, but they don't so the decision not to doesn't really say anything about you unless you draw attention to yourself by declaring you don't have any.
The argument also fails in that it presupposes the motivations of people who have tattoos. My tattoos are not for the sake of anyone but me. They are not a declaration of rebelliousness or individuality, but simply something I enjoy; I think many inked people share this perspective (though not all, of course).
It occurred to me that my tattoo is visible in one of the pics I uploaded yesterday. Nothing elaborate, just a big bold E and guiding star over my heart for my little girl. I got it while going through some pretty stressful child custody/divorce b.s.
May: I LOVE the Klingon tat! You and Randi should hang out!
I think my next one will need to be a Trek tattoo.
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Exactly so. Maybe he lives in a town dominated by biker gangs? Of course even then I cannot expect a lack of tattoos would be noticed unless you were walking around naked and then you'd stand out for other reasons...
Let me share this anecdote with you.
My idiot former son-in-law ("It seemed like a good idea at the time...") has, I shit you not, "Life is beautiful" in Italian tattooed in a 360-degree circle around his neck.
Which would make some small amount of sense if (1) he was Italian (he's descended from Irish and German immigrants), (2) he spends a helluva lot of time around Italian-speaking people or even people who can read Italian (and in cursive, nonetheless), and (3) those who can read Italian don't mind circling him 360-degrees (or asking him to slowly spin around in a circle) in order to read it.
I guess the moral of the story is, what seems like a good idea at the time isn't necessarily one.
So? Just as often it is a good idea. I mean, your anecdote is one of someone with a crap tattoo (or at least, what you perceive as a crap tattoo -- he might be happy with it), it doesn't really make a point about tatts in general. Or maybe what seems like a bad idea to you is right for the person who has the tatt.
It seems you assume too much in regard to this subject.
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