share your ink
instep of my left foot.
ouch and cool
My sons name on my right forearm…
Cheers…Stubob…
Why? Just asking. I don’t have any but whenever the subject comes up I ask the person why they got that particular tattoo? Always a good story behind the ink.
Hey Zan ever do time?
Old Pic but you get the idea
Tyler, yeah I did time…in Her Majesty’s Canadian Navy, 14 years.
And Hedo, sure there’s stories, but for me anyway, they’re the stories of my life, and although the tats are visible, the stories are private. sorry.
You can see my tats (that’s tattoo’s, not boobies) on a different thread, but thought that I’d add to this this one as well.
I started getting the big one on pure impulse while I was waiting for my clothes to dry at a laundromat one hungover morning. It took three 1 hour sessions. Ouch!
Here’s one.
Here’s the other. The first is quite a few years and pounds ago. The second is more recent.
I’m cool with tats, and yours are quality, steelyeyes, but I still don’t get it. The big ones, that is.
To cover that much skin with dye that’s gonna eventually fade and not look near as cool, kinda like that glossy, shiny black car I bought off the show room floor that’s never looked as good since…
Definitely don’t mean it as a criticism - to each his own - just wondering the motivation.
They look good for a pretty long time if you keep them out of the sun. You can also touch up details a few times and that gives you a few more years. Nobody looks good for their whole life. Things sag, hair quits growing in the good places and sprouts up in other places, you get scars from things that happen to you…and at some point you’re old enough that the people that are around you don’t really care what you look like all that much as long as you don’t shit before you get out of bed in the morning. I can deal with that. The idea of eternal youth and beauty is a good fantasy but that’s all it is.
Why? I like em. They have personal significance relating to events and themes in my life. They’re unique to me. The dragon was drawn in place so no paper copy of it ever existed. The pegasus scene was drawn roughly on paper but no copy of it exists either. So they’re mine from idea to finished product. I guess that means something to me to or I wouldn’t have mentioned it.
Oh, I forgot the size issue. I like detail and detail is the first thing to go. A small tattoo gets unrecognizable a lot faster and is a lot harder to refresh. Also if you look at any size tattoo on a body part, upper arm, calf, etc. it’s modifying the look of that part. It’s not like a palm sized upper arm tattoo isn’t going to be noticable and mine will be. You can just tell what mine are a bit better and for a while longer.
For longevity a tribal or other block design is the easiest to keep looking new. You can keep one of those looking pretty damn good until they put you on the boat and light it on fire…I mean bury you.
I’d love to post some pics of my tattoos (I have six with more on the way) but unfortunately I lack a scanner or a digital camera…
Steelyeyes-very nice work
i’m actually getting two of my tattoos laser removed. very painful-much more than the tattoo itself. I’m currently post-second session and honestly I don’t see them going away. [Have a weird feeling the doc is f***in with me]. So if all he can do is fade them, I guess I’ll have to get coverups. for me, its been a pretty frustrating experience but I blame no one but myself.
i can’t describe tattoos as anything but ‘growing pains’, mistakes I made acting on impulse and now I have to learn the hard way.
no offense intended to those with tattoos…i know alot of people who are proud of their tattoos.
However, If i had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t get any. I actually hope I discourage soemone who is thinking of getting one, but not quite sure… it aint worth it, even if it looks good good.