Ink/Tattoos: share and discussion about

[femmy1]

Originally Posted by Jackhammer

My wife's back took about 10 hours (2 sessions) and it cost $1000.00

My arm Tattoo and band cost me about $700.00

So Im thinking about a $100.00 an hour

cool... not so bad !!



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[Write14u]

My first tattoo, I was with a friend and her gf in Pensacola. My friend wanted a navel piercing, but at the last second was chickening out. I told her I would hold her hand and get a much-discussed tat afterward if she went through with it. She really wanted it. (and her useless, abusive gf was hungover and no help at all, hence ME holding her hand). My thinking? She'll be so happy with her piercing she'll forget about a tat for me. Yeah, no. When she was done, I was told to get get a tat. So I started looking through for something that could fit in my price range of oh, about $50. LOL I ended up getting Japanese script for "love" and "woman," so my tattoo basically said "To love women," and this was as I was coming out, so it seemed appropriate. It's on the outside of my right ankle. Funniest part about it was that two years later, my then-girlfriend and I were in Orlando and an Asian gentlemen spotted my tat and started saying (across a parking lot). "To love women, hah hah hah, to love women, hah hah hah." *shrug* At least I always knew it said what it was supposed to.

This tattoo is on my upper left shoulder. (OK, it doesn't like my flickr pic, so I'll try to post in the gallery)


I was in California visiting a friend, fresh off a bad breakup and talking about getting a Phoenix tattoo. This has long been my philosophy: Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, nothing can keep me down. Well, my friend's gf is an artist and used to do tats so she volunteered to do my tat. Only issue was some of her ink was bad and old, so she tattooed over it three times to try and make it darker. It still has a faded look. I thought once about getting it darkened, but I like the effect, plus it had a lot of meaning for me, so no, I kept it.

I came thisclose to getting a tat last month while I was in Cali again (hmmm, trend...LOL) but time was an issue. So now, I have to find time to get it done. I want a tribal armband.

This is the vein of what I want:


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[Jaques]

This is the vein of what I want:


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these are wonderful, though i wouldnt have anything so big for myself, i have a couple of celtic smaller tatoos (Im of Welsh origin)

you cant really see the one on my arm but it was painful - Im a big wuss - lol!

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[Jet]

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[Linus]

Ol' Jet: thanks for posting that. The Cherry Blossoms one was really interesting. I showed it to K and she's been wanting one. I suggested she get something like that (her favourite flower is Hibiscus and she loves swallows) with the birds swooping in the branches. (it's a promised tattoo I'd get her as a "marque" -- a reference to her favourite book, Kushiel's Dart).

[Pixie]

Originally Posted by Linus

Ol' Jet: thanks for posting that. The Cherry Blossoms one was really interesting. I showed it to K and she's been wanting one. I suggested she get something like that (her favourite flower is Hibiscus and she loves swallows) with the birds swooping in the branches. (it's a promised tattoo I'd get her as a "marque" -- a reference to her favourite book, Kushiel's Dart).

Love that book/series.

I marqued myself.....a time in my life where I got me. The tat sound gorgeous

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Ol' Jet

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Love, love, LOVE the blossoms tat! I wish I'd been that bold when I started getting inked but I wasn't and I got smaller ones that have a common thread, but don't "go" together. They aren't cohesive.