Tattoos

[Blind spot]

Whats other peoples opinion of tattoos?
Mrs blind spot got one high up on her inner thigh.
it looks ok but when i put my ear to it to hear the sea I can only smell the bloody ocean!

[mattt]

You mean "Tuff Stickers" :motu:
I'll give the first person to sport a KB tatt $5 :spudflip:

[Slim]

To take you seriously (sorry) ..... ouch!!!! :gob:


I like tattoos & have 4 of my own (3 on my back & 1 on my hysterectomy scar) and The Man has got a few of his own too. I love to see other peoples art work, but it's definitely a personal decision.

[scumdog]

You mean "Tuff Stickers" :motu:
I'll give the first person to sport a KB tatt $5 :spudflip:

No sweat, I was going to get one anyway, being paid for it is even better!!

$5? hmm, anybody else want to up that? Tattooos ain't that cheap these days!!

[Beemer]

$5? I think they'd want more than that just as a booking fee!

I've got four, all done about 20 years ago. Had a guy mouthing off once about tattoos (he didn't know I had any) and he said he'd only have them if they weren't cool - in his opinion, everyone had one nowadays because they were thought to be cool. I gave him a withering look and said "fuck you arsehole, I've had mine since way before they were cool!"

Personal thing, tattoos. I'm not a fan of homemade 'love' and 'hate' tattoos across the knuckles, nor facial tattoos, but some tattoos are real works of art and say a lot about the person who has them. My first one (a swallow) was done without a great deal of thought to the design but the other three all mean something to me. There is a tiger (born in the year of the tiger), the pisces symbol and the Chinese character for tiger.

My niece is married to a great tattooist and if I ever had the desire to add to them, I'd be happy for him to work on them.

[SARGE]

Whats other peoples opinion of tattoos?
Mrs blind spot got one high up on her inner thigh.
it looks ok but when i put my ear to it to hear the sea I can only smell the bloody ocean!


ive got a few.. first 2 were in an Ouzo induced haze, brought on by a handfull of Navy Seals and greek sailors in the phillipines 25 years ago..got 2 more a few years back( family crest on my shoulder and a very un-PC one on the back of my neck)

[SPman]

Bugger being cool or having works of art!
I got mine as a statement!

[scumdog]

Hmm, one of mine is a F100 bonnet ( hood to SARGE) BADGE, unique to Ford F100 trucks.
The other main one? It is a 'talisman to protect the wearer from those that would wish them evil".

[SARGE]

Hmm, one of mine is a F100 bonnet ( hood to SARGE) BADGE, unique to Ford F100 trucks.
The other main one? It is a 'talisman to protect the wearer from those that would wish them evil".


ahhh.. i think i know the emblem..i had a '54 F100 back when i was in school..total heap , but it had a 460 and c6.. ugly but fast as hell

[scumdog]

ahhh.. i think i know the emblem..i had a '54 F100 back when i was in school..total heap , but it had a 460 and c6.. ugly but fast as hell

Kinda sums up my truck, one day I'll find a tyre it can't smoke.....

[Big Dave]

It is a 'talisman to protect the wearer from those that would wish them evil".


This one?!?!

[SARGE]

cant host a pic on here for some reason... here's what i have on my neck..


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[scumdog]

This one?!?!

Would that it was so simple...

It's a Celtic symbol and not easy to reproduce.

[SARGE]

Kinda sums up my truck, one day I'll find a tyre it can't smoke.....


im a huge Ford fan since day 1 .. had over 15 various fords in my life.. mostly Mustangs, but a smattering of othrs ( including Fairlanes, Galaxies, pickups and one ex State Patrol LTD)

i still have 2 'Stangs and a 1959 American Falcon (140 CID counter-rotating Ford Marine engine with a 2 speed auto gearbox)

miss them bad :weep:

[NC]

I got my 23 to be cool and fit in...

[thehollowmen]

Cheesy tattoos are sexy

If someone is that silly to do something they'll regret in the future, it means they'll have a better chance doing something / somebody else again that they'll regret later...

*cough*

[placidfemme]

Eh... I've got two tattoo's and Sam has one...

[sels1]

Whats other peoples opinion of tattoos?

Not for this kid


Mrs blind spot got one high up on her inner thigh.
it looks ok but when i put my ear to it to hear the sea I can only smell the bloody ocean!

:rofl:

BTW -Welcome aboard the site Blind spot

[avgas]

The misses wants one for her bday - where is a good tatt shop in auckland?

[Wolf]

I have a 5-part symmetry knotwork pattern on my right arm where it is hidden by even short sleeves, I want to get another tattoo (left arm, this time) but I always seem to have something more important to do with the $85-$100 it would cost.

Juliet has a tattoo on her left arm partially covering up a tattoo that she had had done but the dickhead (professional tattooist) decided to not listen to what she wanted and "got creative" (he's since been sacked because too many people were complaining about him and tarnishing the rep of one of Hamilton's better parlours).

[SpeedyGirl]

Have 2, always wanting to add more :)

Can't tell you where they are thou

[MSTRS]

Have 2, always wanting to add more :)

Can't tell you where they are thou
No good telling us anyway. We are a 'visual' lot. Just post the photos. Thanks.

[SpeedyGirl]

:devil2: wouldn't want to scare you

[_Gina_]

$5? hmm, anybody else want to up that? Tattooos ain't that cheap these days!!

Zacchary what I was thinking, make that a "it'll cover my costs thing" and I would consider it!! maybe....

I have a few, gathered over the years, different reasons along the way.

They are personal to the owner really.

Love your wolf though (oops, edit I meant) SARGE! : )

Am I blonde?....not sure? Seem to have the odd moment......:no:

[SARGE]

Love your wolf though (oops, edit I meant) SARGE! : )

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i got that one to piss off the gawd botherers...

[placidfemme]

The misses wants one for her bday - where is a good tatt shop in auckland?

I'd personally recomend Dermagraphics on College Hill Road, up past Victoria Park Markets, Daz is the man! He did both of mine, has a great sense of humor and is really good at what he does.

Give them a call on 09 378-9366 or pop in and see them :)

[Big Dave]

There has been two previous threads along these lines.
Search tatoos perhaps - some shop reviews were posted and pics of everyones tats.

Mine are both patriotic.

[TonyB]

:devil2: wouldn't want to scare you
We are not easily frightened. :blip:

[feistyredhead]

a big black panther down my left arm i got that for half price 150 since i was a repeat customer and he really wanted to do it his way :woohoo: i was not complaing and a snake between my boobs well just above the cleavage for the chinese year i was born...and don't let ya teeny boobers get get em cause they are cool..those blighters will regret it when they are older!

oh yes i want more! the other half is a fantasy gothic artist but only as a hobby wish i had that talent i would be at it all the time..so he has designed one for me which i will get later..tattoos are an addiction that gets in you blood and lasts a lifetime. :devil2:

[Wolf]

tattoos are an addiction that gets in you blood and lasts a lifetime. :devil2:
Something in that ink they inject into your body. Don't tell the gummint, they'd class it as a controlled substance and/or tax the shit out of it...

[feistyredhead]

Something in that ink they inject into your body. Don't tell the gummint, they'd class it as a controlled substance and/or tax the shit out of it...

hell yes they tax eveything now1 hmmm wnoder when they start on the air we breath? :violin:

[SpeedyGirl]

We are not easily frightened. :blip:

Wait till you meet me.....enough alocmohol and I might show you :wait:

[Big Dave]

tattoos are an addiction that gets in you blood and lasts a lifetime. :devil2:


Co-pilot and I have some matching tats - a southern cross (with, ahem, 5 stars) but we have them in different spots - she has a 'sag' index on where she has had them.

I've thought about more, 'but I'm done'. - Lou Reed - The Great American Whale

[sunhuntin]

my latest addition. the work was done by barry at powerhouse tattoos palmerston north [across the road and down a bit from the harley dealer, lol] www.tattoos.co.nz (http://www.tattoos.co.nz). cost $200 and took 2 hours to do.

each butterfly represents someone i love who has died. from top to bottom: fluffy, the woman i lived with for 6 weeks last year, who died a week after i returned to ontario. the orange is for tania... a true friend who should not have died that way. the red is for mums aunty may, a wonderful woman who left a wonderful legacy of grandchildren and great grandchildren, and the bottom one is for scuzzy...one of hounddogs IRB brothers who hung himself last month.

yes, tattoos are personal choice. i love looking at other peoples ink and finding out any meaning behind the idea.

[Big Dave]

Lovely colour.

[Postie]

he really wanted to do it his way :woohoo: i was not complaing and a snake between my boobs well just above the cleavage :


so you paid some dude to put his snake between your breasts..... :Punk:

[Wolf]

so you paid some dude to put his snake between your breasts..... :Punk:
Well, guess what that makes him...









Ummm, lucky? (Thought I'd say it before buggy does)

[Eurygnomes]

My best friend and I purchased each other tattoos for our 21st birthdays. I don't know whether we'd be part of the "just cos everyone else has them" collective, but I'd wanted one for positively AGES, my parents had to stop me from getting one at 11.

I didn't get the damned thing done until I was about 22.5, because I wanted it to be something that I had drawn myself, so that no one else in the world had it. Eventually, I got to doodling in a food-safety lecture, and voila. Tattoo was done - photocopied and enlarged, filled ina bit, then put onto the small of my back (sag/stretch/shrink index).

There are two things I want done now. I want the middle section of this one filled into resemble a faceted emerald - yet no tattoo parlour I've seen has faceted stones on it's walls (they all have smooth 'jewels' instead - which I don't want). I was born in May - hence Emerald.

The other thing I want, and this is the biggie, is the second tattoo. I was born in the year of the snake too, and you know how snakes shed their skin? Well, you know how the skin that they shed is all brown/dried up looking - but underneath they're all green/glossy/iridescent (provided, of course, that the snake itself is usually that colour!)? Well...I want the tattoo to LOOK as though I AM a snake, and I AM in the process of sloughing off my old skin. It's all to do with growing. Again, using the sag index, I'm not sure where I'm gonna put this baby. And it's not even drawn yet. If anyone out there is artistic...

[duckman]

I've got four. one in each corner of my back ....

They represent the alchamist elements or elementals.....

Fire - Water - Earth - Air