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"Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
I did it because reading William Blake was like drinking spring water.
My life changed dramatically one month after I tattooed that on my arm, and it served as a reminder that not everything is Black or White, Good or Bad.
I'm willing to do another one, but I don't have a compelling image/philosophy/statement that I want to make that I don't already make in another fashion.
:) Y
On the back of my right shoulder, about 9 inches diameter... a white cockatoo with his back to the viewer and his head turned and preening his feathers. It's from a watercolour painting by Raymond Harris Ching.. a very notable wildlife artist. The only alteration is a blue faded border around the white bird rather than Raymond's sand, just to give it more definition on my light skin.
Why? Cause I wanted to. No one in my family has one or is likely to get one. It sure wasn't peer pressure.
Why that picture? I bred parrots for 15 years. I loved my birds dearly and it's a remembering of them.. all 300 odd. That picture in particular.. this bird has such serenity, quiet confidence and perfectly relaxed... and some more meaning I'm not sharing :) It's a reminder of good times and some things I should aspire to more.
I'm willing to do another one, but I don't have a compelling image/philosophy/statement that I want to make that I don't already make in another fashion.
Me too on both counts. I'd also not rush to get another just because I don't want to minimise the import of the one I have.
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Ex-Navy/submariner -- what else! ;)
My great uncle Hec had navy tattoos... though they were very old and in rather a poor state... illegible. He died about five years ago aged (I think) 87... which made his tats about 68 years old.
A couple of years back I went through a bad phase personally. When I came out the other side I decided to do something just for me.
The tattoo reflects 2 things : (1) that I have made a career and a decent living out of Windows and (2) that I am a slave to the Windows OS, where it goes I follow....
do i regret them? nah, i don't even notice them or think about them. most women never notice them till the morning after. i'll probably get them removed one day though .....
I've had it for almost 20 years and really don't even think about it anymore. I'd like to HAVE another one, but don't really fancy GETTING another one; I haven't forgotten the pain yet.
But I'd like to hear from more of the girls! :)
I have a shark on my side! Tens years later, I love it an wouldn't trade it for anything.
you do it because it reflects who you are.
if you learn to regret it you learn to regret a part of your past. something that is not necessarily bad in my opionion.
...but just as clean in professional Web design, it can have the best meaning (functionality)if it doesn't look good, others will never see the meaning.
--i want to get a second one, my wife disagrees. My solution is to choose my next carefully, and design in well.
Happy sunday afternoon friends,
My wife has one though. :)
I think tattoos on women are unbelievably sexy. I don't really care what other people think of mine because they were solely for myself.
I think what people put on the outsides of their bodies tells a lot about what is inside. Tattoos are just permanent clothing. Maybe that way you are never truly naked. ;)
Now if everyone decided to have theirs removed, maybe . . .
lawman
[edited by: lawman at 7:31 pm (utc) on Mar. 2, 2003]
VII in green, white, and orange (one color per numeral) wrapped in vines on my left calf. another irish tattoo, along with my superstition. i love the number 7, and me being a sports freak doesn't help the cause :)
a green scorpion under my right pectoral muscle, highlighted in yellow where the light is hitting it. i'm a scorpio!
they are addicting, although i cannot see myself getting one that doesn't have deep personal meaning to me.
Yes i have 2.. one of a spade on my left shoulder (I was a big card player at one time) and another funky tribal symbol on my back.
>>>What made you do it?
Alcohol...;)
i went for it one nite at 'Tribal Gathering' (rave kinda thing in a field) perhaps 4 years back but they turned be down for being 'under the influence' - never got the confidence to get thru the pain since.. but one day!
I always thought tattoos looked bad but last summer I got to know somebody on whom it looked really sexy. I still think they look bad except on some rare people...
Andreas
What about other body modifications (piercings, brandings, etc.)?
Then I got one on my back (when I was 19 or 20?) of a lion in profile, with the front of his mane (under his chin) flowing into the side of a tiger's face. Next to it are chinese characters for loyalty, devotion, eternity. I was born in the year of the tiger, and my ex-husband was a Leo. hehehe. My family doctor saw that one, and said she normally doesn't like tattoos at all, but she really liked it.
Both of the designs were drawn myself, so I don't have to worry about anyone wearing the same design... but the ankle design is getting a little blurry, and I'm kinda wondering what to do about that in the long run.
I'd get another one, if I thought of an idea that really appealed to me as much as the first two did... I've wanted to get a round design on my lower back for years. I've got kewpie doll dimples on my hips, and it just seems like some kind of celtic knot would look really good between them.
[edited by: mivox at 4:04 am (utc) on Mar. 3, 2003]
Areas over bone are much much more painful than areas over muscle or fat tissue... and ankles are sure boney.
Mine took nearly four hours solid work on the first run and I was fine except for when Noel got to working out towards my armpit where it is glandular, and then again over towards the spine - over the edge of the shoulder blade. That was pretty teethgritting for a while.
It also took two hours in touch up six weeks later, which was mainly because the design was so fine (you can see the individual 'hairs' of the feathers) and because there was so much white involved... white's a hard colour to get to work.. they have to inject a lot of it. If it were a solid design with block colours it probably wouldn't have needed the touchup at all.
The other trick for avoiding pain is to avoid designs with a lot of fine or line work where they use a single needle. Blocks of colour where they use a multi-needle head and work in a particular area numb out pretty quick so they are a lot easier to deal with.
ps... if this post made you nauseous... DON'T GET ONE. :)
My tattooer saw my face go pale and ran out and bought me a soda. Very nice of him to be observant like that.
I visited 3 tattoo artists until I found one I thought had steady enough hands to tattoo a straight line.
The tattooist must've been real secure in his manhood. Or maybe . . . never mind.
lawman
