Udder Randomness

[Yanagi-sen]

I've always been too afraid of the permanence of a tattoo. They're pretty and very cool, but they're forever (mostly). I know one could remove them or cover over them but that sounds expensive and painful. :-p I used to say that the only way I'd get one was if I actually got my book published. I'd get a tiny little book tattooed on me somewhere discreet.

I can live vicariously through my dolls. I've got one that I want do do a full set of sleeves on! hehe

I knew I couldn't get a tattoo unless I designed it myself, and it had to MEAN something. I have a celtic knotwork crescent moon (yes, I designed it) in woad blue on my upper thigh. You can't see it unless I'm wearing a swimsuit or REALLY short shorts. I got it as a symbol of dedication to my goddess.

[Trethowan]

I've always been too afraid of the permanence of a tattoo. They're pretty and very cool, but they're forever (mostly). I know one could remove them or cover over them but that sounds expensive and painful. :-p I used to say that the only way I'd get one was if I actually got my book published. I'd get a tiny little book tattooed on me somewhere discreet.

I can live vicariously through my dolls. I've got one that I want do do a full set of sleeves on! hehe

I knew I couldn't get a tattoo unless I designed it myself, and it had to MEAN something. I have a celtic knotwork crescent moon (yes, I designed it) in woad blue on my upper thigh. You can't see it unless I'm wearing a swimsuit or REALLY short shorts. I got it as a symbol of dedication to my goddess.

That makes sense. Most of the people I know who have gotten tats did so for very personal and meaningful reasons. I don't know too many folks who mark themselves without a deeper meaning. There are lots of 'drunken tattoos' on those tattoo art shows. Those are fun to watch.

[MeltedCaramel]

I've always been too afraid of the permanence of a tattoo. They're pretty and very cool, but they're forever (mostly). I know one could remove them or cover over them but that sounds expensive and painful. :-p I used to say that the only way I'd get one was if I actually got my book published. I'd get a tiny little book tattooed on me somewhere discreet.

I can live vicariously through my dolls. I've got one that I want do do a full set of sleeves on! hehe

I knew I couldn't get a tattoo unless I designed it myself, and it had to MEAN something. I have a celtic knotwork crescent moon (yes, I designed it) in woad blue on my upper thigh. You can't see it unless I'm wearing a swimsuit or REALLY short shorts. I got it as a symbol of dedication to my goddess.

That makes sense. Most of the people I know who have gotten tats did so for very personal and meaningful reasons. I don't know too many folks who mark themselves without a deeper meaning. There are lots of 'drunken tattoos' on those tattoo art shows. Those are fun to watch.

It always mystifies me when people get tattoos on a drunken whim, and whooo-boy some of the stinkers they get!! The one that takes the cake for me is the fat French guy who got a pinup girl on his chest and torso...and used his own man-boob as a substitute for one of hers. It was...a well done piece artistically if not taste-wise, but it looked like something a body painter would paint on for a hilarious joke, not something you woke up to every day. I was looking at his wife (who was understandably horrified by his tattoo) and thinking "How do you go to bed with this man?" When he finally got the coverup (a beautiful Chinese style tiger tattoo that I commend the artist for being able to cover up the tattoo so well) he was so happy he started crying. I would too if I finally got that monstrosity off me!

I treat tattoos with a reverence one might treat one's faith with. If something is going to be permanently inked into my body, it's damn well not going to be a tramp stamp or dolphins leaping over the sun. It's going to, as Yanagi-sen said, have to mean something, and that something needs to be worth getting a tattoo over!

[VirgoVertigo]

did my job interview. since they had to interview really quickly to get to the billions of other kids waiting, they only asked be one question and had me sign like 8 forms. oi vey!
i was the only white person there, so people looked at me weird. i was also very formally dressed while everyone else was wearing hoodies and jeans and sneakers ... it was nerve-wracking but the prospect of getting a job made it so much better! i'll know if i got the job some time next month or after. yay!

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

lol I am totally getting a tattoo today. I have a butterfly on my hand, and I want to get a few more going up my arm. I think it'd be pretty! I even took Friday and Monday off so I have a little more time to heal up before going back to my very hands-on job requiring wearing gloves and handling toxic lead. Eh-heh. ^^;

I'd have gotten it yesterday but my sister has been considering getting one, so she wanted to come with and see what its all about. So she's coming with me after her classes today. Hopefully I won't do something like pass out and turn her off it. lol But I've done this three times before and have managed to NOT succumb to the pain, so this should be a snap. Always a little nervous, though. No matter how much I think I remember how much it actually hurts, I never really do until I'm under the needle, when it's way too late to back out and run screaming from the room. ^^;

Butterflies going up the arm does sound pretty

I've only got the one - a sort tribal-style-ish cat climbing down one shoulder. I freaked the tattooist out a bit by trying not to giggle the whole time - it really tickled! I suspect if I'd had it somewhere with less padding (like back of hand) it would have hurt instead.

In the 15 odd years since I've got it, I've been trying to come up with a complementary design for the cat to be climbing down into to explore.

[Siead]

i can vouch for the hand tattoos being painful-as-swearword. got my wedding band done (twice, retouching) and ommfg never a hand tattoo again.
i have on on my collarbone-ish area as well, hurt way less. anywhere that you got some muscle in the way of the bones.

dunno what i'm gonna get next. but i do enjoy getting inked. my only issue is that because i heal weird i always have to do two rounds it seems.

[MeltedCaramel]

ShortNCuddlyAm and Siead now I totally want to see your ink, but I don't know what the etiquette is for asking people about their tattoos online, especially because I don't know exactly where they're placed. If I can see it when someone is out and about I always just ask, but if it's in a more sensitive area I can't exactly be like "Yank down your pants so I can see your inner thigh tattoo!"

ShortNCuddlyAm Hmnnn, every time I see cats slinking down I always think of them by a pond, ready to dip a paw in and snatch a fish. I have no idea what your tattoo looks like so I don't know if that would be complimentary or look horrible, but that's just immediately what comes to mind when you described your tattoo. Sneaky kitties.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Siead - OK, that's interesting to know about the wedding band Interesting as in "goes to the back of my list of possible tattoos to get" sort of interesting. It's something I've considered off and on, most recently when someone started at work with a tattooed wedding band (along with hands, arms, neck... and presumably most of the rest of him)

MC - If I remember, I'll ask the yeti to take a pic of it - it's on a shoulder blade so perfectly safe

I quite like the idea of a fishpond of some sort I was toying with some kind of jungle scene, too, but I keep imaging it as some kind of hideous settee cover from the 70s, which isn't quite the look I'm going for...

[MeltedCaramel]

I'd love to see your tattoo ShortNCuddlyAm! (The yeti? Dare I ask if this is a petname for a significant other? ) As for the jungle scene...XD, now all I can think of is a settee cover now that you said that!! But depending upon what the tattoo looks like, a jungle scene might look gorgeous. Rainforest flowers, those giant wet leaves...it could look very nice. It all depends on what kind of cat it is. When you said "cat" I thought of a short-haired, domestic type of cat, which is why a pond and lily pads with a mischievous cat dipping a paw in immediately sprang to mind. I'd have to see your tattoo to visualize something besides the abstract.

[OkamiKodomo]

I have the kanji for "wolf child" on my inner forearm. Wolves are very personal to me, being not only my spirit guardian but also my power totem. I also believe in reincarnation and believe I have spent many past lives as wolves. Eventually, I will have one arm with a full sleeve all wolf themed. The kanji will have a wolf pawprint behind it, in grayscale, and my upper arm will have a design I made involving a 7 of Diamonds and a tribal howling wolf, then going down my arm between the two will be a packc of running wolves. All of my ink will be my own designs. I have plans for others but that's what I really want.