Tattoos

[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?

[SpeedyGirl]

We are not easily frightened.

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

[Big Dave]

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

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. 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 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.....

[Wolf]

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

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