tatoos

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  1. cabsmom40

    cabsmom40 Active Member

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    I sometimes think about getting a tatoo. It woud be small and probaby on my ankle. I would want it to represent my love of quilting.

    Do any of you have tatoos?

    Do you regret it or love it or something in between?
     
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  3. crazymama

    crazymama Active Member

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    I have one I regret. Not because I regret getting a tattoo though, if that makes sense. I regret it because I was young, I didn't think it through, didn't pick a good artist, etc. It's poorly drawn, poorly shaded and I would have gone with a different design had I thought it through longer.

    I made a rule after the realization of that tat hit me.... draw or find your design. Print it out/hang it up somewhere where you will see it every day for a year (6mos min!!!), if after that time, you still LOVE it THEN get it on your body. I'm getting ready to go for one I have sat on for 2 years! It's a stack of books with a bookworm, hubby
    Oh and your artist means EVERYTHING... ask around, look for local shops on facebook (seems they all have a FB these days), look at pics... of specific artists at that shop, know which one you would like to go with... does (s)he do work in the style you like? do they have anything similar to what you are looking for in their portfolio? Remember they are only going to show you their BEST work, they have done worse.... are you ok with that?
     
  4. Meg2006

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    My husband will tell you he deeply regrets his tattoo. lol
    When we were "flirting around with each other"...if you will...He decided to get a tattoo and I told him I would pay for it. I was a dummy. :) He got the initials of his fiancée. We were together a week later, and married 2 months after than. Been together for almost 8 years. lol No more tattoos for him. No tattoos for me. :)
     
  5. JosieB

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    I don't have one but I plan on having 2 in the future :) They are well thought out ones with meaning behind them.

    One will be a dogwood branch with an empty cocoon and a butterfly and the reference 2 Corinthians 5:17. Of course it's meaning is old life is gone, new life and the symbolism of the dogwood is 2 fold, I love the legend of the dogwood and also my grandmother (the only grandparent I had) loved them and I remember playign under her dogwood trees as a child.

    The other one will be my children's names in the shape of a heart. (it's much cooler looking in my head than it sounds in words LOL)

    My only thing left to decide is where to get them. I want them easily covered but no where inappropriate. :)

    The only tattoos I've known people to regret are:

    1. ones that can't easily be covered (makes it hard when you go from partying college student or tattoo apprentice to a business setting)

    2. Ones that weren't well thought out-Like Meg's hubby's tat, names of boy/girlfriends, matching tats with exs or friends, pointless tats gotten when drunk/high or because they were the 'in' design at the time (can anyone say tribal tramp stamp? LOL), or using a bad tattoo artist, etc. I've never heard anyone regret getting one that had a real, positive meaning to them, though I have heard them say they regret getting it put on their forearm or calf (women-because if later in a business setting skirts aren't an option, only pant suits, calf probably wouldn't be a regrettable place for a man...)

    3. Inappropriate tattoos-esp gang tats, and anti-Christian symbols...

    I have my designs in my head, I know a GREAT tattoo artist, mine have meaning and I have wanted them for YEARS...All I need now is the money to get them :D
     
  6. sloan127

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    My husband retired from law enforcement and had his badge tatooed on his arm with the word Retired on it. Our youngest son got a fire fighter tatoo for his 18th birthday. One of our twin daughters has small stars on one foot in memory of loved ones. Our oldest daughter in law has 3 tatoos I think and her husband, our oldest son, has some, but I can't remember how many. I know he has his wife's name tatooed on his ring finger like a wedding band. That one is my favorite. We have our own tatoo artist in the family but he is not licensed or anything. It is just a hobby for him. He does nice work on family only, but I can see him getting into it officially some day. Funny thing. He also loves to air brush helmets and motorcycles. He really missed his calling! He is a cop! As far as I know, they all love the tatoos they have. I don't have any any really don't plan on any, but our 15 year old wants "I love you to the moon....and back!" done on her shoulder in a pretty heart shape some day. I have always said those words to her and she would always repeat them back to me. Yeah, she's our Baby Girl for sure.
     
  7. Lindina

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    I love to watch a tv show called Bad Ink. The artist Dirk Vermin (I know it's Dirk, I think it's Vermin) makes a living doing beautiful coverups of bad tats. Some are so inappropriate that they put the "blur circle" over them, can't show them on tv, even though the show already exceeds the parental control limits I put on my show. I record this one and only watch it when DGS is asleep! All of them are "regrets", either because of being badly done, totally inappropriate words or pictures, breakups, no longer who they were when they got it, drunkenness (either them, their artist, or both), stuff like that.

    I love watching Ink Master, Best Ink, and shows like that. I've always wanted a tattoo, but I've never come up with a design I really really liked and wanted to wear the rest of my life. And now, I think I'm probably too old and my skin would be too difficult to do it well. But if I did get one, I'd get a black-and-grey, probably on my calf, of an old-school microphone with music wrapped around like ribbon, and a small silhouette of a dancing couple. A memorial for my mom, who in her much younger days was a dancing instructor at Arthur Murray's school, and often supplemented her income by winning "amateur night" singing contests.
     
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  8. cindyg

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    I personally love tattoos but do not have any myself! I am a chicken. I have a couple that I would love to get one day if I can ever make myself do it. They are ones that I have wanted for a very long time with a lot of meaning behind them.

    My husband has 3 and he regrets 2 of them because it was while he was young, crazy, single and a Marine! That explains a lot there! :lol:
     
  9. vantage

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    I would be afraid to get a tattoo. I do not want to have to stretch it out to show it off in the future. LOL
     
  10. Lindina

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    Yeah, Vantage, like the story of the 20 year old girl who got a rosebud tattoo'd -- let's say, "near her collarbone" -- and through the years it blossomed into a long-stemmed American Beauty.....
     
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    I have a very tiny Siberian Husky on the back of my left thigh (sort of my low butt). He is howling up at the Full Moon (my full butt).

    Not quite sure why I got it. My husband and my gynecologist find it amusing, however.
     

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