Opinion on Tattoo

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[quote]Lackzoom wrote:
Wait a second, you don’t want a panther even though that means something to you(your fav animal) because everyone has one, but you want to get chinese symbols? Yeah, no one has those(rolls eyes).

Sorry man, no offense. As someone with a tattoo for 12 years my advice would be “do not get a tattoo, period”. But no one listens to me anyway.[/quote]

Here here!

I also got one, a symbol I designed myself. It’s part of me now. But I wouldn’t do it again.

If you’re not Chinese, and can’t read Chinese, and have no special interest in China, then… you get my drift.

If you really want one, find a tattoo artist who can do a panther or something like that, but beautifully, not like some ‘off the parlour wall’ image. It’s permanent, spend the money on someone really talented.

Also, find someone who will work WITH you on the design, not just take your shitty design (hey, if you’re not an artist, don’t start practicing now) and mindlessly ink you with it, and not someone who tells you that your idea sucks and you should let him do what he wants.

But I’d still say don’t do it at all.

I’ve also heard tattoo ink isn’t highly healthy…

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[quote]Agent Frost wrote:
2. Never get words, character, numbers, or letters in your first tattoo. quote]

So whats left for choices??

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[quote]Roy wrote:

I don’t know who started this whole rumor, but 99% of decent tattoo parlors have the fucking books on hand.[/quote]

My point is that the books aren’t correct. You think they have a bilingual dictionary in the parlor to double check? I doubt it, since most people wouldn’t even know where to start looking.

Chill out man. I know the difference between Asian written languages (I speak some Mandarin Chinese), and those were Chinese characters that he posted. Not Japanese, not Thai, not Vietnamese, not Korean. CHINESE. Now whether they mean what is written below them or not is a whole different story, but I’m not going to call it “Asian” because “Asian” isn’t a language.

If I saw something that is clearly written in German, would you also expect me not to call it German, but “European,” for fear of being racist?

I speak American, and I speak a little Asian, and a decent amount of South American. Maybe next I’ll learn European, then African and Australian. I’ll be able to communicate with anyone in the entire world soon!

Dumbass. Way to fly off the handle for no damn reason.

EDIT: the second does look a little more Japanese, but neither looks like a real character to my eyes.

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Asian characters are bad if not translated correctly. My brother in law has two characters on his arm that was intrepreted to him when he got them as meaning, hope and faith. One day at the local corner store the old Asian man working wanted to know why he had BAD Prisoner tattooed on his arm.

Bullpup

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[quote]OneEye wrote:

I speak American, and I speak a little Asian, and a decent amount of South American. Maybe next I’ll learn European, then African and Australian. I’ll be able to communicate with anyone in the entire world soon!

Dumbass. Way to fly off the handle for no damn reason.

i live in maryland. should i learn American?

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I hate 'em all.

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[quote]Tedpod wrote:
let me know where your from and maybe i can direct you to a tattooer whos worth a shit[/quote]

I’m hijacking this thread… I live in the Phoenix area, do you know of anyone that you could recommend?

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Honest truth, I worked temp @ a tattoo shop. The other guy that worked there was from China.

A girl came in that was a stripper, a business man that saw her dancing told her what she had tattoed on her lower back was the equivalent of the word “whore”; it was supposed to be “kitten”…the guy that worked @ the shop confirmed it, it did indeed say “whore” it was put there by an ex-that was a tattoo artist she thought was still her good friend.

Either way, she eventually had it covered up w/ a flower design.

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My advice, get whatever you want. Just make sure it’s in a place that doesn’t show in court.

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My g/f has 2, one is cute and the other looks like an ink splotch. The ink splotch is either getting removed or covered up. The ink splotch was gotten on a whim with an ex/bf at some random tattoo parlor. I hear his looks WORSE.

I, on the otherhand, have yet to get one because I’ve been searching for years for something I want on me for the rest of my life. I was going to get it last year for my 30th birthday, but I couldn’t find a tattoo artist I liked. I think I’ve found one I trust to do the work.

Find what YOU want, find who YOU want to do it, and then find out if YOU still think it’s cool. When it’s all said and done, the only thing that matters is if it suits YOU.

(and yeah I do feel kind of weird dating someone with tats and I don’t have any)

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The first word the op posted doesn’t exactly translate to strength. I guess some white guy decided that it that word was close enough to strength to be considered so, however if you asked any Chinese what that word meant, they’d tell you it doesn’t mean strength.

Also, I would not suggest getting any chinese writings as tatoos unles it’s been done by a Chinese or you’re in China. The reason is that Chinese writing is composed of several strokes. Each of the stroke must be made in a certain proportion to one another. Again, the first word the OP posted is a really shittily written word. It looks like an 8 year old wrote that word- everything’s out of proportion. Of course, you’d never know unless you actually know what that word should look like in Chinese.

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[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
My advice, get whatever you want. Just make sure it’s in a place that doesn’t show in court.[/quote]

Hilarious!

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Don’t be a pussy, get a branding.

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[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
Can you actually get those? I asked around a few years back and was told that they are illegal and seriously underground. Now I don’t know any ‘seriously underground’ characters, but I would still be interested in at least investigating having one done.[/quote]

Come on bushy, get with the program, scarification and branding are old hat these days. Though this place does them, along with implants (you know how you felt your whole life like something was missing? Like you couldn’t live another day without a lightning bolt shaped protrusion on your bicep or a series of beads running along your wang? Now you can finally achieve your dreams) :

http://www.irezumistudio.com/entrada.htm

All the cool kids these days are getting eye Jewels:

http://vision.about.com/od/eyesurgery/bb/eyejewelry.htm

God damn I must be getting old or something.

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[quote]Jinx Me wrote:
Lackzoom wrote:
Wait a second, you don’t want a panther even though that means something to you(your fav animal) because everyone has one, but you want to get chinese symbols? Yeah, no one has those(rolls eyes).

Sorry man, no offense. As someone with a tattoo for 12 years my advice would be “do not get a tattoo, period”. But no one listens to me anyway.

Here here!

I also got one, a symbol I designed myself. It’s part of me now. But I wouldn’t do it again.

If you’re not Chinese, and can’t read Chinese, and have no special interest in China, then… you get my drift.

If you really want one, find a tattoo artist who can do a panther or something like that, but beautifully, not like some ‘off the parlour wall’ image. It’s permanent, spend the money on someone really talented.

Also, find someone who will work WITH you on the design, not just take your shitty design (hey, if you’re not an artist, don’t start practicing now) and mindlessly ink you with it, and not someone who tells you that your idea sucks and you should let him do what he wants.

But I’d still say don’t do it at all.

I’ve also heard tattoo ink isn’t highly healthy…[/quote]

I’m with you on this… I don’t get the whole Chinese thing by people who aren’t really into the culture. But…you can get whatever you want… I think the panther idea is better. Get it on your forearm with the fangs sinking into a vein or something…Do whatever you want

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[quote]oldcrabbybastard wrote:
Jinx Me wrote:
Lackzoom wrote:
Wait a second, you don’t want a panther even though that means something to you(your fav animal) because everyone has one, but you want to get chinese symbols? Yeah, no one has those(rolls eyes).

Sorry man, no offense. As someone with a tattoo for 12 years my advice would be “do not get a tattoo, period”. But no one listens to me anyway.

Here here!

I also got one, a symbol I designed myself. It’s part of me now. But I wouldn’t do it again.

If you’re not Chinese, and can’t read Chinese, and have no special interest in China, then… you get my drift.

If you really want one, find a tattoo artist who can do a panther or something like that, but beautifully, not like some ‘off the parlour wall’ image. It’s permanent, spend the money on someone really talented.

Also, find someone who will work WITH you on the design, not just take your shitty design (hey, if you’re not an artist, don’t start practicing now) and mindlessly ink you with it, and not someone who tells you that your idea sucks and you should let him do what he wants.

But I’d still say don’t do it at all.

I’ve also heard tattoo ink isn’t highly healthy…

I’m with you on this… I don’t get the whole Chinese thing by people who aren’t really into the culture. But…you can get whatever you want… I think the panther idea is better. Get it on your forearm with the fangs sinking into a vein or something…Do whatever you want
[/quote]

You’ll have to explain why you have a tat of a language you don’t even understand, and what it means. Tatoos are to show a meaning. Why not just write the words in English?

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[quote]Easy E wrote:
Agent Frost wrote:
2. Never get words, character, numbers, or letters in your first tattoo. quote]

So whats left for choices??[/quote]

All the other images in the world are left. I didnt have any wording or lettering in any of my tattoos until maybe my 8th or 9th (i cant remember now) and still only have a few that have any lettering or wording in any language.

Of my 27 tattoos i have Elektra, 2 geisha, a merman warrior, a snake, 2 dragons, an anime panther head, a thorn arm band (that is slowly being covered up because of the sleeve that is being worked on) 4 of Madonna (yeah im gay, get over it!

The 5th tattoo of Madonna, on the cross, does have Hebrew wording), an ankh, a cat with some tribal stuff, a Hello Kitty with a devil and an angel Hello Kitty (yeah yeah yeah… i just admitted i was a homo, and a small design that runs along part of my spine… none of these have any lettering, numbering, or wording of any sort.

There are litterally millions of options that dont include lettering, numbering or wording.

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[quote]OneEye wrote:
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I also don’t know who decided that all east asian countries were now called “Chinese”, fucking racists. If you’re going to be broad and ignorant, atleast use the term “Asian”.

Chill out man. I know the difference between Asian written languages (I speak some Mandarin Chinese), and those were Chinese characters that he posted. Not Japanese, not Thai, not Vietnamese, not Korean. CHINESE. Now whether they mean what is written below them or not is a whole different story, but I’m not going to call it “Asian” because “Asian” isn’t a language.

…[/quote]

Don’t the Japanese use Chinese characters but give them a different meaning?

The Korean characters I have seen look radically different.

I think the use of the term Chinese character is valid.

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[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
Ghost22 wrote:
Don’t be a pussy, get a branding.

Can you actually get those? I asked around a few years back and was told that they are illegal and seriously underground. Now I don’t know any ‘seriously underground’ characters, but I would still be interested in at least investigating having one done.[/quote]

I played rugby with a dude that had an omega brand. I think he had one on his arm and one on his ass.