Tattoos

[Loveabull]

It's tricky, when you get older you have so much important $%&* that needs paying for. But I am saving my nickels and dimes. By the summer I'm getting a photo of my Callie done under the picture of my Sophie. Fun story, last year we attended my niece's wedding. She teaches dance and is late twenties so it was a swinging affair.

Part of our family is conservative hillbilly. By late night they had the dub step blasting, me and my grown kids got on the dance floor. It was hot so I took off the shrug I was wearing over my dress. Nothing showy at all but you could see the detailed dog and cat on each shoulder. Yeah I'm sure they were shocked and appalled...oh well.

Needless to say the hillbillies evaporated until late the next morning...don't know if it was Skryllix throb or all these people doing inappropriate dancing...but it was absolutely one of the best weddings ever!

[Amsha]

I would love to have one but I can't think of something that I would like to permanently inked on my skin.

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

Definitely the Unfinished Zen brushstroke circle...on my right inner wrist

[laci_baby]

Everyone knows about the goldfish behind my ear but since then I have the words Holocene on the inside of my left wrist and a small tattoo of the side view of snow whites face on the outside of my right wrist.

A few years ago I was really down having anxiety problems. I would just wake up in a panic attack for no reason. Fear of aging. Fear of bills taking over. Fear of being barren. Any fear you can come up with I would wake up with it. And I found this song named Holocene and it would instantly calm me every time. The song itself was saying how you are not magnificent and what I took from the song was that no matter what happens to you it's already happened to someone else. It's instantly calming anytime I have problems with anything. So I got it to remind myself that everything is going to be okay. Even when its hard.

I got snow white because growing up I was constantly trying to be this perfect kid, clean the house top to bottom every day, three meals on the table every day, it was exhausting. Then after I got engaged to my now husband and I was trying to learn new recipes that's kept burning I would just get really down on myself for not being perfect and not being able to do anything right. My husband took me to the side and made me realize he loved md even if I'm not perfect. His exact words were that I didn't have to be a Disney princess for him to love me, he loves me the way I am. So I got snow white to represent my past and my fears of imperfections.

Nerd as I am, I have two tattoos lined up. I have a harry potter one (until the very end) though I dont know where I want it and I have a Doctor Who one (bad wolf) that I'm getting below the inside of my right elbow.

[Cheryl Rendone]

Currently, I only have one tattoo. It's of a skull, a rose, a butterfly and a cross. I plan to get at least 3 more. My husband has 3 and when his mom seen my tattoo, she was not very happy mainly because of the skull. I feel like it's my body and I should be allowed to put what I want on it; it's art, and the art that YOU choose expresses who YOU are, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

[jhollan2]

I love my tattoos and I don't see them as any form of rebellion or a facade. My tattoos and piercings are a way for me to keep memories of important times and places alive for me, something I can look at every day to remind me of who I was in that moment. I do know that there is quite a stigma attached to them, although that is fading. I have all of mine in easily hid places, so that I can still appear professional at work. I am thinking of getting one on my wrist, though I don't know if I'm ready for that/if my employers will approve.

[emski100]

I used to not like tattoos too much but after reading Divergent I kind of understood their purpose and think they are kind of cool. As to getting one? Ya ask my parents that question...I don't know I would be alive for too long after that decision.

[Loveabull]

I love my tattoos and I don't see them as any form of rebellion or a facade. My tattoos and piercings are a way for me to keep memories of important times and places alive for me, something I can look at every day to remind me of who I was in that moment. I do know that there is quite a stigma attached to them, although that is fading. I have all of mine in easily hid places, so that I can still appear professional at work. I am thinking of getting one on my wrist, though I don't know if I'm ready for that/if my employers will approve.

Just a helpful hint...my first tat at maybe 16 was flowers and hearts around my left wrist. I work at a job now where they don't even blink at neck ink...But I have collected fine beaded bracelets over the years. If you put on maybe ten in contrasting colors with gold or silver inbetween...It's a pretty look and the tattoo is hidden. Other days I just show it off

The most important thing I would tell someone about getting a tattoo is make it uniquely yours. Don't use one of the flash books in the tattoo parlor. You want an image that is uniquely yours and it takes time to think of the right one. I had looked around the internet for a bull dog cartoon that looked like my Callie, something that would show his playful side.

I'm glad I waited. A friend took the perfect photo of him at Halloween with a big ol' smile on his puss. That is going to be the image I'm going to get inked under Sophie's picture...my beautiful boy! Just have bills to pay first, but my birthday is in the summer

[suzy1124]

I used to not like tattoos too much but after reading Divergent I kind of understood their purpose and think they are kind of cool. As to getting one? Ya ask my parents that question...I don't know I would be alive for too long after that decision.

LOLOL, you may be unhappy and frustrated now, but trust me one day you'll thank your mother...

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

Happy this morning as Brandon my tattoo guy is going to load up his kits and make a house call for my next one To your door tattoo! Like pizza delivery only this lasts forever!

[suzy1124]

oy vey dios mio! what next!!!.... ....heeee...hilarious

thanks for the LAUGH this morning.................

[Jolijt]

I like tattoos very much on others, but I really think that everyone will regret a tattoo sooner or later.

(I especially like the tribal ones)

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

I like tattoos very much on others, but I really think that everyone will regret a tattoo sooner or later.

(I especially like the tribal ones)

I agree to an extent. I have never met anyone with one of those early "jailhouse" tattoos (you know...the ink and needle...done when you were a kid) across their knuckles or some such that didn't regret it.

However...I have met young and old that have had some beautiful body art...or a well-thought out tribute piece....and I can't imagine them ever regretting those. I didn't get my first tat until I was 45...and have four now. Tastefully done. All with a special meaning behind them. And no...I will never regret them for a moment.

[suzy1124]

I like tattoos very much on others, but I really think that everyone will regret a tattoo sooner or later.

(I especially like the tribal ones)

Statistics back you up Jolijt............from sailors w/ " buyers regret " from a drunken night at a bar, to young ppl in general looking for whatever.............

the only /diehards are the " 60's Woodstock crowd "...............

[Bighuey]

I got one in Hong Kong while in a drunken stupor. Never really regretted it, but I never would have done it sober.