Tattoos Anyone?

I got one as a 60th birthday present to myself, a "tribal swirl". Unless I lose a bet really big and have to run naked down Main Street at high noon, it will never see the light of day. It was just something on my bucket list. Since I'm never going to run for President, climb Mt. Everest or take care of lepers with Mother Theresa, I looked down and WOW! there's #7 - GET A TATTOO! I CAN DO THAT!!! It hurt really bad. It'll be my one-and-only.
 

A funny story...when I got the Sophie tat, we were maybe into the second hour. Thrash metal for the artist and I was laying there. In comes this proud gangbanger and his buddy. Seems he was going to get his boo's name on his chest. He whipped off his shirt and got on the cot. He was talking into his phone the whole time...
" Yeah babee we're in the place, yes right below my shoulder, yeah I love you too, yeah well ayeeee ooh damn, no babee gotta go I'll call ayeeee I call ya later"

His buddy looked over at me and said "You know that lady is reading a book"...poor guy, I wanted to hold his hand.
 
No tats but I'm acquiring a collection of interesting surgical scars. :grin:

What happens to your tats when the surgeon wants to slice through them?
 

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Shalimar said:
I have one. It is a small red mortarboard over a tiny flame, surrounded by the letters U of H.
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YOU? Have a tattoo? Does that process hurt very much? How I hate G.D. needles. Oh,........... where is it located? :playful: imp
 
Cookie said:
Never wanted one, nor liked them enough to endure the pain.
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How can you envision the level of pain, not having experienced it? Pain is relative, person to person, they say. My own "tattoo" is actually not one at all, but rather a masked area where the sun cannot provide tanning. imp
 
lb1818 said:
The butterfly is beautiful. The lace up foot....not so much!
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Here is a disgustingly beautiful series (IMO) which goes beyond bizarre, to self-mutilation. However, bear in mind the 'Net has many non-descripts within it's content.

 
Hey, Shal, yer a longer timer than me, here. Ya suppose we might go ahead and produce some shock-level reaction by actually showing them here? I will again confer with SeaBreeze, if I can remember tomorrow.

More importantly, I need to know, do tattoos have a sexual connotation undertow, or are they simply an individualistic quirk? imp
 
Imp, there are many reasons, including sexual ones, why people choose to get inked. For some it is an art form, others use tattoos to commemorate an important event, or significant person, or animal, and so on, and so on.......
 
I'm not a fan of tattoos either so I don't have any which is probably not popular on a pro-tatt thread. :love_heart:
 
All that piercing metal can be removed for eating, as it is jewelry, like pierced earrings.

Ralphy can you do a selfie in the mirror to show us your eagle tat on your back?
 
Interesting to see there are lots of tattoos among us!

When my neuro forbade me going to watch the polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba [ I have CIDP which was in full force at that time ] because of walking on ice/snow/etc., I decided to do another couple bucket list items to celebrate my 75th birthday. Wanted to watch a very professional soccer/football/futbol match, which I did. And, since I love ladybugs and make ladybug paperweights, I wanted a cute, slightly funny, ladybug tattoo on my shoulder. I came with a simple line drawing, but the tattoo artist is well-known nationally and did a smashing job. I couldn't be more tickled!
 
imp said:
Hey, Shal, yer a longer timer than me, here. Ya suppose we might go ahead and produce some shock-level reaction by actually showing them here? I will again confer with SeaBreeze, if I can remember tomorrow.

More importantly, I need to know, do tattoos have a sexual connotation undertow, or are they simply an individualistic quirk? imp
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How about tattoo avatars!
 
I got one of a seahorse in 1958 when I was a sailor. It is on my upper arm and doesn't show when I have a shirt on. It is getting a bit fuzzy around the edges.
 
Dame Warrigal said:
No tats but I'm acquiring a collection of interesting surgical scars. :grin:

What happens to your tats when the surgeon wants to slice through them?
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Don't know if you have seen the add on TV DW ..think its for a type of cookware ,( haven't seen it for a while ) the lady shows her tuck shop arms with acording to her a once nice tattoo. to Compare the life of certain things ... ..which is now all saggy, skin with blue ink ..
 
Neither hubby of myself have tattoos , my younger sister who passed away 9 years ago had quite a few, then had most removed honestly don't know what looked worse ( some of the tats were not professional ) the tattoos or the scars left by the very early laser treatments available at that time ..
 
68 years old, a truck driver for 40+ years and 8 years in the Marine Corps, and NO tattoos. Never wanted one, still don't. Nothing against them, just not for me.
Gym I go to has a lot of young(er) women aerobics classes and the extent of tattoos on the participants would shame a pirates gallery. Not just little ones but damn near full body tats! Do they really like them that much or think they improve their looks? Women there are far more tattooed than the men!
 
I once worked with a Native American woman that had beautiful tatoos on just about every part of her body. This was long before extensive body tatooing became prevelant.
The art work was amazing...but, wasted and rather frightening on a human body. Needed to be on canvases.

I was waiting in a line pretty recently...the women in front of me were discussing and comparing their tatoos. All were horrible amateur cartoon type inks. Surprisingly, they were all mature women....that had them done for their birthdays...age 50-60.
 
What bothers me is celebrities promoting tats on hands, necks, faces. Piercings too, when I see some people's ears I don't think cool I think ouch that had to hurt. Besides the pain factor you've abandoned a lot of employment possibilities.
 

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