Tattoos Anyone?

[Toria]

Ooh - you got one designed! It looks great - congratulations for a few weeks time too.

 

[Eleanor]

Anniversary congratulations! Blessings for both of you for the next 20 years!

Lovely tattoo! You are a wonder!

 

[Deleted member 10686]

I have many tattoos. My most recent one is not finished, but it is a large beautiful elephant on the back of my calf. It is really meaningful to me, because I have always collected elephants and they always break. This goes along with the fact that my abuser always told me that he would "break me." So it is as if the elephant is powerfully standing there, looking back on my past and saying "you can't break me." It is really powerful, even if I don't always feel that strong.

 

[Britt.f7]

I am the only one of my sibs that does not have a tattoo. All of my nieces and nephews that are of age have them. One of my nephews is a tattoo artist.

Personally, though I like the ones that are artistic, I could never get one. I change my mind way too often to get anything permanent. Besides my many scars, inflicted and surgical, already tell my story.

 

[Suchafnldy2]

I have four. On my right shoulder I have the little devil "Hot Stuff" I thought it was cute and I was 19 and thought I was "bad" so a devil was fitting.
I have one that wraps around my wrist that says "what goes around comes around". The singer P!nk is my idol; I got the "what goes around comes around" idea from her two months after I lost custody of my daughter. Her music has really helped me in my recovery so the first time I got sober I got a tat on my right foot that says "Cuz I Can" to remind me I can do whatever I put my mind too, but it's also the name of one of her songs.
The last one is a super small butterfly on my lower back.

 

[anthony]

bump

 

[Kintsugi]

Wanted to share with you all that I'm about to get some new ink.

So far I have my semicolon on the back of my neck and a five-pointed celtic knot star on my left shoulder.

My right shoulder is reserved for a star of david (mogen David) made out of the Hebrew for "I am the smallest of your children and the last of your poets, Jerusalem, if I forget you" from the song that was nearly made the Israeli anthem.

But first I want to get cracking on a new project. I've always wanted my dogs' actual paw prints inked. I've finally decided on how.

I'm going to get Canis Familiaris tattooed down my spine vertically, with my dogs' prints walking to either side, with the prints of the dog who started it all--Annie--sitting on the beginning of my shoulders.

What an expensive ambition! I'm going to get a quote as soon as I can meet with my preferred local artist. Her prints and the words will come first, followed by the prints of Junot and Hamlet as soon as I can fund them.

Anyone else have real prints on their bodies? Handprints, footprints, pawprints?

I am super excited to share the results with you all on this awesome thread.

 

[jaccat]

I have a small flower on my left shoulder. It was an eighteenth birthday present from my sister (I got it the first day I was legal and shocked everybody.) It has a lot of meaning to me as it symbolised the year that changed my life. In my 17th year:

I was forced to give up dancing after an accident at school
Applied for university even though I was terrified
Received an operation that cured me of six years of constant headaches
My mother died and my family came together for the funeral and inquest
and I finally started 'coming out of my shell' at school.

I don't often tell people what it means. When I do people nearly always assume its a memorial for my mother. Nooo:meh:. I got it recoloured and extended a little when at university. It grew a stalk and a few leaves, making it a one off rather than just one from a template, which it was before. The guy that did it was amazing, it was done freehand!

I am one day going to get up the nerve to have a second tattoo on my back. It will be a tree. They have a lot of meaning for me.

 

[Kintsugi]

Something that always occurs to me as funny concerning tattoos is that my parents (and many parents 'round the world) warned children of the 80s and 90s not to get tattoos, because did they want to be in their 40s, 50s, 60s etc with tattoos. Well, if you were 20 in 1985, you're 50 now, and it's completely normal to see people headed to the Golden Years with tats! So much so I know lots of peoe in that range who are getting tattoos today. :)

 

[moonbeam]

My mum and her husband (my step-dad) both have tats. Though weirdly I'm the only one if 5 kids who got a tat.

I have a magnifying glass. In memorial of a friend who committed suicide. Her and I were both Sherlock Holmes fans and I took her to the Sherlock Holmes museum here in London when she came (if you get a chance to go its okay not amazing but okay). It remembers a happy time for us and a shared love. I usually don't tell people what it means unless I know they are okay. Its still very personal for me.

I have plans for my 2nd tattoo but I have to find a new artist first and that's proving kind of hmmm. Tons here. So many it feels overwhelming.

 

[Peach]

I have a UFO surrounded by stars and two planets on my right ankle.

Five weeks ago, I started designing a new one...then I quit my job three weeks ago, so it's on hold.:sorry: It's two sheep either snuggling or standing nose to nose. There is a game called Clouds And Sheep, that is where I got the idea for the overall look.

I love lots of color and cheerful, bubbly, cartoony drawnings.

 

[Friday]

Kanji Script along my spine.

I have a planned one (part shoulder, part back piece) I was supposed to get done in May, but I have to schlep over to the EU for it & I had a bunch of plans fall through this winter/Spring. Vexing, that.

My rule is that I have to want them for a solid year without variation (or the clock resets).

I never got my EGA, or Misguided Children, which I sometimes regret. It was Murphey's law, me & ink, my first year in... And then I didn't want anything to f*ck up a possible placement in a unit I wanted to be in which didn't allow ink except by waiver. I worked with these guys off and on, and it was a serious thing, naked skin. Since whether women were allowed to play or not kept getting bounced in & out, if the stars aligned? Last thing I wanted was to be passed over because I had ink & another WM didn't. I like to keep things simple ;)