Tattoos Anyone?

[NikkiNikki]

Wow, I love hearing about the stories behind these tattoos and there is some AMAZING work in here!!!! That alien is absolutely wicked, and I love the quotes that people have chosen.

Hehehe - and a good tattoo artist should be able to help you position a tattoo so that sagging has the least amount of impact - mine shouldn't move a bit as I age.

Stories behind mine-
My first tatt has no meaning & I didnt post a picture of it either. I hate it now.
The fairy on my leg I got right after 2 miscarriages in a row & I thought she was beautiful and made me smile during a dark time.
I have my sons name in Japanese kangi on my back.
The angel wings with the name is for my son Logan who died 33 hours after birth.
The lotus is symbolic for my life. A lotus is a flower that grows up from the bottom of a muddy pond to the top of the water and blooms into a beautiful flower.
The skullerfly on my wrist I got together with my best friend, we have a deep love of pirates. LOL
The swallows on my chest were going to represent loyalty & one partner for life. Right before I got them my boyfriend left me so I still wanted to get swallows I just had them shot with arrows.

 

[Cthulhu]

Thanks :).
I thought about getting a tattoo and where and which for many years before I finally did it.
It had to be something "big" because I always knew I wanted just one but this one tattoo had to be "perfect"- not a tiny spot which looks like a huge mole or something and nobody knows what it is. It had to be somewhere where it wouldn't be affected much by wrinkles as I age and, maybe most importantly- somewhere where I don't have to see it 30 times a day. I didn't want it to get "old" after a few years and that I begin to hate it. So its place is perfect- when I want to look at it I can but when I don't think about it it is as if I had no tattoo.

I have been fascinated by Giger's aliens and the films since I was 12 or so. I really think they are beautiful- animals, perfect predators, pure instinct, nothing bad or evil, just following their natural way of being. In a way that is exactly how I always wanted to be- powerful, neither good nore bad- just exist, no fear, no pain, no agony, no sorrow. Just exist.

Well, as I read this... Maybe I reached that goal to a far higher degree than I thought... Sometimes I don't know if it really is a good thing because it can feel like being dead while alive. But it's just my outer self, the inner core still is the way it has always been.

 

[Nicolette]

No offence to anyone but I dislike tattoos.... Accept people who have them but was brought up against them and still can't get my head around them. Each to their own. My son horrified me with getting one when he was of legal age but something I never encouraged let alone supported. Anthony has a tattoo too which I don't like but accept. He had his reasons for getting one so that's his choice.

Some of the tattoos here are beautiful. I love the artwork but then I see tattoos on old people and they are just all green and wrinkly and I think yuck.

 

[The Albatross]

Workng with the elderly, I put mine where it would be least likely to wrinkle... on my shoulder blade, and I get it re inked every 5 years.

 

[Teddy]

Jawn, I have to say that if I was ever to get a tattoo then the one with the lips would be the one. That is the best thought ever. Love ya work!!!!

 

[MurphyJB]

No offence to anyone but I dislike tattoos.... Accept people who have them but was brought up against them and still can't get my head around them. Each to their own.

You and my mom would be goodfriends! Lol
She was horrified when she found out about my tattoos...I think she's eventually gottennused to them. Bit without fail, whenever she sees me in a bathing suit...she always has something say. Lol

 

[The Albatross]

My mom got hers, when she was 65.

 

[Nicolette]

OMG The Albatross.... was that her mid-life crisis?

 

[The Albatross]

Naw... mid life crisis is around mid 40's to 50's... she really just wanted to commemorate her 65th birthday... she got a snake (born year of the snake) in the shape of her first initial.

I can't even think of that, I was born year of the rat. I was raised to not mark my body either, but since life has a way of doing that too... scars... I figure it's only adding some ink so why not?

 

[NikkiNikki]

I am jugded a lot by my tattoos. People think I am some wild crazy chick or whatever. I work in a professional setting and my boss has so far been pretty cool about them. I figure when I am old I am going to look like crap anyways, lol. Its not really going to matter if I have tattoos or not plus I take good care of them and always use sunblock so they wont fade out.

 

[Srain]

 

[Srain]

I have others but they are personal, this one is not yet. The guy that started it has moved to greener pastures and I have yet to find someone who works on earlobes. I have more I want done but that's the way it is with me, always more more more. I'm proud of this one. It was done for some personal reasons a while back. I have another one that was done several years ago I love even more. I am very picky about them. Thank you for letting me share.

Rain.