Got Ink? **DU WARNING**

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/a...2/IMG_0124.jpg

Wow, I really adore this thread, I always come back to it admiring the gorgeous tattoos! I thought I'd share my third tattoo, Ma-tsu thought she'd push my glasses here, lol. I adore my bindi tattoo and it means so much to me... It needs another retouch, but still. :) It's an inspiring symbol to awake to every morning when I look in the bathroom mirror.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...subindime5.jpg

And for anyone going "OMG, not your face!" Behold the miracle that is dermablend should I need to seek out a more conservative day job down the road. ;) For the record, no it didn't hurt. I was meditating while he worked and it was actually a pretty surreal warm feeling.

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After

well i would think such a small tat would be easy to cover. i would LOVE to get a facial tat...

Yeah, it would be really easy to cover if I had to. The hard part with a facial is finding someone experienced and willing to do it! There's a lot of artists who are afraid to do the face, I was actually interviewed to make sure I knew what I was doing and was positive this was what I wanted.

ya my regular tattoo artist has made it clear he won't do the face. he's done one person i'm aware of but refuses to do it normally (she was handicapped in a wheelchair and for some reason could not have work done on her arms/legs... so he did it for her)

That's very cool that he made an exception for her. :) The guy who's doing my bindi (I say doing, cause the retouch is still coming, probably after the Tuscon show so I have time to heal) I found at a tattoo expo down here. He does beautiful work and has a few facials himself. Not the same guy who did my wrist AUM, who was very intimidated by the idea.

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And the final product

http://members.cox.net/steelrain/final.jpg

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That is, seriously, an awesome tattoo :) Even the outlines in the first pics look sweet. Many artists will have shaky and incomplete outlines; granted, many of them can go in later and shade them to hide it, but yours was already great before it was even colored in :)
My husband tattoos, which is why I am a tattoo nerd; I have to listen to him go on for hours about the finer points of outlining, etc.

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That's very cool that he made an exception for her. :) The guy who's doing my bindi (I say doing, cause the retouch is still coming, probably after the Tuscon show so I have time to heal) I found at a tattoo expo down here. He does beautiful work and has a few facials himself. Not the same guy who did my wrist AUM, who was very intimidated by the idea.

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well you have re-inspired me sheree... i am jonesin' for one now!

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well you have re-inspired me sheree... i am jonesin' for one now!

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Woot! :D I love mine, look forward to the retouch (just too much going on just now for healing time :P)

i had an elderly lady stop me today and look at my sleeve... she told me she thinks it's so nice... much nicer than the other 'yucky' tattoos she's used to seeing. i smiled and her and we had a little chat about the process of mine etc. i love that. i love inspiring conversation with people!

here's an updated pic... before i go get work done this friday. (for denise!)

http://www.timelessspirit.com/images/tattoo/tat.jpg