just got ink done

yeah, i was in school too. i remember it exactly... i was in biology and my teacher was telling our class we suck at doing homework, haha. but the principal came on the speakers and was like "teachers, please turn your tv's to channel 7." so yeah then we saw it and i didnt understand either... i was just like wait, a plane crashed? big deal!

hard to believe that was 3 years ago

seems like just yesterday. we had another teacher come into our room. it wasnt explained to me until 2 hours later, by my history teacher

Awh, Blink, you're not so bad yourself. ;)
Angela, here's a pic of my foot pre-touchup:
http://home.ripway.com/2003-11/38177/beetle.JPG
I have the same on both feet, after the touchup they're much more symmetrical, I cleaned up some ink I lost while healing and made the shell darker. It's now a royal rather than a turquoise blue. They're Egyptian scarab beetles, a symbol of protection and rebirth.

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blink, thats a really great idea. when i saw the towers go down (on t.v) i was in health class and i thought it was a movie. i didnt get what was happening until every class dropped the assignment and had us watch the tv. really sad day. id lik to get my hands on bin laden for just 5 min...

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Sadly, I saw it in person :(
I actually went to Stuyvesant High School.
Which is really close to the Twin Towers.

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Awh, Blink, you're not so bad yourself. ;)
Angela, here's a pic of my foot pre-touchup:
ttp://home.ripway.com/2003-11/38177/beetle.JPG
I have the same on both feet, after the touchup they're much more symmetrical, I cleaned up some ink I lost while healing and made the shell darker. It's now a royal rather than a turquoise blue. They're Egyptian scarab beetles, a symbol of protection and rebirth.

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Those beetles look awesome. :shock:
Even pre-touchup they look really good.
Females with tattoos turn me on :P

Also, you forgot to put the h at the beginning of the link :P

well, its peeling. i have to go back and get it recolored, half the back just faded away to skin. im having a really bad day

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I've tried to describe it to non-inked people and the best I can come up with is that it feels like a drag and a burn.

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That's a pretty good analogy. That's what it kind of felt for me as well, but more like a cat dragging it's nail across my back slowly back and forth in the same place (lots of fill on mine)....I only have one and it's on my left shoulder blade. I would love to get another but haven't decided what/where yet as, like most here, it is a very personal experience for me and it needs to mean something...so, I'll get another when I figure out what I want/need.

I'm the same way. I keep coming up with these ideas that on someone else would look phenomenal (i.e. the molotov cocktail with a heart in the bottle and the banner reading "flameproof", designed as a chest tattoo) but just wouldn't work for me and my lifestyle. I've been aching for a Skinny Puppy-inspired piece for years, but I'm forcing myself to wait for it a few more years until I'm no longer allowed to dress like a rivethead and see if I still desperately want it so much then. ;)

Rex, what kind of aftercare were you using on it? That's often the reason most tats don't heal up well. It's not uncommon to lose some ink while healing; most artists anticipate that you'll be coming in afterward for a touchup and often include that in the price.

bagbalm, andrial suggested it to me

Skinny Puppy! Haven't heard anyone mention them for years...now that I think about it, what happened to those people I used to hang out w/that listened to them and bands such as them?? Guess a lot changes when you have a child....thanks for bringing back some really great memories!! :wink:

I think I sat in on that chat...how much were you using? When I got my first pieces done I drowned them in ointment, and lost a lot of ink too.I didn't learn until later it's best to only apply enough to barely feel a little greasiness when you touch the skin. With something like your arm that has a lot of rubbing contact, I'd keep it wrapped up with a breathable bandage after the touchup until it starts to scab and "toughen up".
Good luck.

No problem, Sophie. ;) I'm a HUGE SP fan, they're what got me into industrial music in the first place. I'm not the rabid fan (no pun intended) I used to be, but they still mean a lot to me. I'm not a fan of band logo tattoos, but I love some of the artwork on the inside of the Vivisect and Too Dark Park albums. I'm still thinking about adapting one of the pieces into a tattoo with the script "Be mine Sister Salvation" (from KMFDM's "Juke Joint Jezebel") but the really prime locations are either already tattooed or I'll need to hold off on for a few years.
Argh! So many tattoos....so little skin.....

Skinny Puppy is actually on tour.

KMFDM, there's another blast from the past...damn, I used to have all the time in the world to delve into all my musical tastes, now it seems a lot of the stuff I used to listen to has faded into the background...kinda sad :(

Yup, closest they came to me was Chicago or Pittsburgh though. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I had to work and wasn't able to go to either one of the shows. Ministry and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult are touring now, I'm seeing them in Cincy 2 days before my 20th birthday as a gift from a friend. It's gonna be chaos, I can't wait.

yea, well when i get it touched up, im just gonna leaveit the hell alone

The old LITHA method. ;) Worked well for my stomach tattoo, just make sure to keep it hydrated if it looks too dry/flaky.

i used betadine cream (NOT the brown liquid stuff in a bottle--this is like gel and comes in a tube) on my tattoos and it worked extremely well. it has antibiotic and moisturizer in it, so perhaps that helps out a bit. just a thin layer though, like uberalice said, and not globbed on. you just don't want it to dry out. i'm sure once you get it touched up it will be awesome. 8)

Hehe gem of a thread for so many reasons - Skinny Puppy fan from way back, followed a lot of what cEvin did for years as well before kind of drifting out of industrial and into sombient. Some awesome looking tatts as well - I've been thinking hard about yet another and it will definitely be snake-related - likely either a top down of Kali's head showing off her ankh, or if i can design it well enough that it doesnt too closely resemble something cliche (oh noes coiled snakes) or a caduceus i'd like to get one of black and red blood pythons twined up my spine. I'd originally wanted the design in my avatar (snaked from Samael's "Ceremony of Opposites") but the reverse image's details ("lines" which would have to be uninked skin) would likely not have good contrast).

That was a good bit ago so if they've since come out with a nice opaque white ink . . . hehe.

Alice, was there a particular angle of (ball) python skull you were looking for?


(EDIT: sorry for the parenthetical hell there - don't think i am totally back yet )

smulkin, im interested in the ball python tattoo as she is to. i think i wanna get something with a BP and a BCI mixed

Smulkin, I was look for a dorsal view, so I could show them how little skull is actually covering the brain area in most snakes. While there is some amount of braincase, it's so thin in comparison to ours that it doesn't provide much protection.
BTW: WHOA! Kali really does have an ankh on her head! THat's awesome.
I've been wanting a snake tattoo as well; I considered getting the veterinary symbol (cadecus with a "V" in front of it) on the middle of my chest when I finish vet school, but man, that's not gonna be pretty when I'm 60. ;) I've always liked the snake-coiled-around-the-upper-arm look, but my upper arms are already reserved for my tebori pieces. I like the infinity symbol personally:
http://www.escher.info/images/Snakes.jpg <-- A variation, very Escher-esque.
http://www.gencem.org/images/photos/ques_snakes.jpg <-- Standard type symbol.

Hehe - I've got a septagram made entirely of overlaid "7"s with an Om and a lemniscate (that infinity diddly) embedded in it. I'd considered the arm-wrap if the back design looked hokie - it'll be hard to coil a coupe of really thick-bodied snakes and be really hard to NOT leave it reminiscent of the caduceus - even with the heads turned out.

Rex - I am currently taking the head from the logo art and dropping it down to line art with the scales delineated if that helps.

Cool on the skull thought you were brewing up a design with it lol - and you are right in that the pate is relatively thin and wont withstand a lot of pressure from above.

did find a 'retic skull pic http://www.evolutionnyc.com/id-843/I...21_1004660.JPG but wrong angle to boot

wow i cant believe i actually got a tattoo. haha im SUCH a baby, my eyes actually started watering and i kept jumping. i dont have any pain tolerance, so this is HUGE for me. :-D im not sure im gona be runnin in next week to get another one.... but you never know, maybe one day i'll get brave again!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...r1321/tat1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...r1321/tat2.jpg

looks good

I've seen the triple cherries on a lot of things...I work at Hot Topic and we get *so* much stuff in with them on it. Does it have a specific meaning? I know the cherry in general stands for virginity or "innocence".....but what is the triple cherry?
It looks good. Who's your artist? I thought I remembered your saying you were 17...did a parent sign off for you?
Sorry for all the questions, new tattoos and people new *to* them intrigue me.

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I know the cherry in general stands for virginity or "innocence".....but what is the triple cherry?

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Extra Virgin...Like Olive oil maybe....lol

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Possible. ;) I always used to call them "mutant cherries" at work, until I accidentally said it in front of a girl who happened to have a triple cherry tat (that I didn't know about). She got really upset because I called her cherries mutant. Hey, I didn't know, I thought they were GMO!

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I've seen the triple cherries on a lot of things...I work at Hot Topic and we get *so* much stuff in with them on it. Does it have a specific meaning? I know the cherry in general stands for virginity or "innocence".....but what is the triple cherry?
It looks good. Who's your artist? I thought I remembered your saying you were 17...did a parent sign off for you?
Sorry for all the questions, new tattoos and people new *to* them intrigue me.

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Ah, I worked in Hot-Topic when I was 16.

That tattoo looks really good.

I'm not digging our new happy-shiny-pretty makeover, but the company's pretty good to its employees. Not sure if this was the way when you were working, but now we get concert reimbursements, 40% discount, scholarship opportunities and a few other really nice benefits. Wal-Mart of goth clothes or not, I really like working for them.
(Discount doesn't hurt either. ;) )

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I've seen the triple cherries on a lot of things...I work at Hot Topic and we get *so* much stuff in with them on it. Does it have a specific meaning? I know the cherry in general stands for virginity or "innocence".....but what is the triple cherry?
It looks good. Who's your artist? I thought I remembered your saying you were 17...did a parent sign off for you?
Sorry for all the questions, new tattoos and people new *to* them intrigue me.

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hehe well. i dont know if theres a meaning or not.... all i know is i didnt want anything TOO colorful now since its my first one, and my mom wouldnt let me get anything bigger than 2 inches. i just thought the cherries looked cool so i got them.
thanks, and my artist is some guy named Dwayne. i went to American Graffiti to get it done.. its such an awesome place, that have tattoos up the @$$!!! i've been to a few tattoo places but i've never seen as many as they have. i went to them cuz thats where my b/f got his.
and yes, my rents signed and went with me. so did my 2 friends... thank god, i woulda died without them. im such a p*ssy :)

I've heard of American Graffiti before, their work's been featured in a few tattoo mags I read. Nice pick, most people don't have such good luck with choosing artists for their first piece! :D

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most people don't have such good luck with choosing artists for their first piece! :D

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grrr, you can sure say that again. thanks to the not so good artist who worked (not for long though) in the good tatt shop i went to, i have a nice, slightly crooked and slightly off center butterfly on my back. i didn't even notice it until i went to a different place to get some stuff added to it and the artist was like, "um, where did you have this done?" i'm still trying to come up with a way to incorporate this thing into a nice design so that it looks like it was done that way on purpose. aargh!

Mlededee, I've seen a few pieces that have been re-worked to make up for an iffy first tattoo; one in particular incorporated an off-center butterfly with a dragon that looked like it was chasing it. Maybe not my first choice for design, but it turned out pretty well. I was lucky in that my artist for my first piece was a friend of mine, and I was doing her a favor by being her first foot tattoo. If there was anything seriously wrong with it, she knew she was gonna hear from me again! :D

that's cool that it was your first tattoo and her first attempt at a foot tattoo. kinda makes the whole thing a little more special. :wink: i'm thinking of doing some sort of montage/collage type thing on my back to incorportate the butterfly using symbols and elements of things that make up my life and/or are important to me. it will have some lizards and a snake, maybe a cat, symbols and little artsy things that i have drawn or put in sketchbooks over the years, and some greenery and vines to kind of weave throughout it all to tie the whole thing together. that's my idea right now anyhow, but i have yet to draw anything out on paper. so we'll see.