Got Ink? **DU WARNING**

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Originally Posted by elocina

i just got my 7th and 8th ones the other week!
http://b4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/0...41001004_l.jpg *not the best picture of the ones on my back and neck, but its all i have for now, i left my camera at my house*


now thats hot.

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thanks :) i want to add onto the moon/fairy one, i want to cover the black... thing (its supposed to be the shadow of a fairy but everyone thinks its a dragonfly)

omg! i was watching LA Ink earlier and this girl got cherry blossoms on her rib cage... so hot!!! i was crazy jealous! i don't think i have the balls for a rib cage tat tho!

i thought it was a fairy shadow... looks nice IMO.

i saw the la ink as well... i would never do ribs... :P

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

i saw the la ink as well... i would never do ribs... :P

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maybe if i get myself really drunk!... wait... that won't work.... i'd throw up first and then be sober again! drat!!! sleeping pills? laughing gas? hmm... i'll have to research!

perhaps your doctor could just put you out for a few hours LOL

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88...ily/Stage1.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88...1-underarm.jpg

First stage is done. One more couple hour sitting to go! sorry for the lousy pics, but it's really hard to hold yer arm out and snap a pic like that.

Lookin' good Jimi! Those wolf eyes look like they are going to be sweeeeeet! :gj:

Thanks girl. They will be and they aren't even close to being finished yet. Lots more shading going on.

i love watching a tat come to life!

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Originally Posted by python.princess

omg! i was watching LA Ink earlier and this girl got cherry blossoms on her rib cage... so hot!!! i was crazy jealous! i don't think i have the balls for a rib cage tat tho!

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lol the side/rib one didn't hurt IMO, the chest ones hurt more. like i said, eat a lot of high-sugar foods, and what generally helps me is to have something to get my mind off of it (which, for me, is reading so i always bring a book to all of my sittings) but i couldn't exactly hold a book up while getting the chest tattoos so i was just laying there counting the ceiling tiles!


recycling goddess- lol thanks. it's crooked though, and about 2 people out of 10 actually get that its a fairy shadow. im going to cover it up with something that looks 100% like a fairy shadow and is bigger so it isn't crooked anymore.

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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Originally Posted by steelrain

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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Originally Posted by MedusasOwl

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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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

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

*Note to everyone who reads this post*
I had plans of packing up and moving into Aleesha's living room... so I can drink all her organic coffee and veg in front of her fish tanks (and play with her snakes) for the rest of my life...

Let it be noted for the record... I have, as of this minute, changed my mind.
I'm going to move onto (into) her sleeve and live on one of those flowers and swing on those leaves for the rest of my life. :D :carrot:

That is looking soooo cool... I hate you! :mad: :P

i lub you 2 denise!!! :hug:

So gorgeous! :love: That's so awesome too, opening that lady's mind about the art of tattooing. So many people don't think of it as an art form so full of possibility, which it really is!

oh isn't it though. i'm so addicted. i figure most of my body will be covered with ink when i'm done. i just can't seem to get enough of it. i loooooove showing off my ink too.

and what is nice... if i want to cover it, a long sleeve shirt does the trick!

Hold the phone y'all.... I have to comment on the spider web!
Cool move!!!! :D

(yes, I'm bias... can't imagine why? :P)

yup i thought you'd like that! it's an australian orb spider on the web... with bright green and yellow knee joints (or whatever they are called LOL)

Very cool! The only reason my blind eyes even saw it was because my 6 year old wanted to check it out so I put the pix in the magnifier so she (and I) could see the details better.
She was mad at first because she's like "well where's her face?" I told her "Brandi, the pictures were taken to show her tattoo, not her face", so I had to go into your profile so she could see you.... that made her happy. :D

ahhhh i love that. she wanted to see my face :hug: give her a squeeze for me please!

well, i got more work done yesterday. i'd like to introduce you all to chester... my new adorable caterpillar!

i must have read the book "the very hungry caterpillar" over and over and over again when the kids were small. so... in honour of them... i added this little guy to the mix!

http://www.timelessspirit.com/images...chestertat.jpg

i also got the rest of my flowers coloured in. wow, what a treat this is. to have what appears to be a full sleeve. at the end of the month, we are adding a buddha to my inner wrist with vines all around it, as i have it sitting in my garden... (it's the one in my avatar)... adding some more colour and very thin black lining to the goddess... and then... this sleeve... should be done! it's only taken 3.5 years!

no one can ever say... i don't have patience!

looks awesome aleesha! and i loved that book too!!! ;)

Awesome, Aleesh :) Your husband and you both have the coolest tats. Seriously!

Here are some of my husband Mark's. He is going for three-quarter or full sleeves (as he is a tattoo artist now.) My friend's husband also does tats, so they just exchange tats; a good deal for all :)
Top: Skulls and tattoo machine by Mike Taylor at Iron Horse South in Buffalo. The rest: pumpkins, graveyard, and everything else designed by Mark and done by Jarrod Fruehauf of Stylin' Tattoo.

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...rmtattoooo.jpg

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...s/marktat2.jpg

what's that tat in your sig jen? do you have a better pic?

thanks gen :)

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Originally Posted by python.princess

what's that tat in your sig jen? do you have a better pic?

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I know I changed it; it's the cougar thingie on my right ankle. I might get it changed into a black cat; I have to get a better shot of it!

i'd be so screwed if i had a tattooist for a hubby! they're so addicting!

i'll be covered anyway... i'd love to marry a tattooist!!! :P

I am working on a design for my left arm.. branches, leaves, a few creatures lurking in there.. and a stone angel or lady statue in the background.. I will get it down someday! I oddly only have 2 smaller tattoos; one on my ankle, one on my arm. But I swear more are in the works :)

Stage 2, final, is done:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88...2007/Tat11.jpg

Under bicep:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88...2007/Tat22.jpg

6.5 hours total! Wow, I'm glad that's over...what next? lol

I just got her today....


Healing very nicely already in the first 12 hours...

Going back in 2 weeks for the color.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h1...8/SD531025.jpg

Everyone here has some amazing artwork. I have a tat but it's nothing pictoral. It's three words that REALLY mean a lot to me (no it's not "I love you") but I put them in Japanese since I'm in love with that culture, and that way not every joe schmoe on the street would know what my tat says. It's one of those really meaningful tats, but I have to say, seeing all the outstanding artwork really makes me feel like mine's not so great. -lol-

you're not gonna tell us what it says??? awww.... come on! pretty please?

ANY tattoo is a great one..unless its like a prison tattoo lol


I cant wait to go get my color in the eagle and flag.

Then getting another on the other arm around christmas..

OMG that's going to be a heart-stopping, awesome tatt Psl with the color!!!


Can't wait to see it!

I'm thinking of adding something like that, or another fantasy creature. I only have two, and they're very descretely placed :D, but I'm considering adding to the collection. These first were a birthday present to myself. Once I've enough $$, I'm thinking of going back for a present again. :)

Very nice art, everyone....Jimi, yours turned out awesome. What a cool totem spirit....the wolf..!

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Very nice art, everyone....Jimi, yours turned out awesome. What a cool totem spirit....the wolf..!

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Thanks. It was a lot of detail and is now shedding like crazy! lol. Looks like ET right now, haha. Totem Spirits are very cool. I've had many come in and out of my life. The wolf has stood by me for many years now and I shroud myself in their beauty. Just recently I had the fox appear, which means I need to be more cunning than ever before and that's proved right so far and I'm glad he gave me a head's up before hand.

Thanks Sweety.

Its scabbing up now and it looks like crap.

Ive been putting lotion on every few hours and washing it like 10 times aday.

My artist said i can come back next sunday for color.

When I go for my color my girl friend is gonna get butterflies on her lower stomach...a little bit under the waste line.

I found what I want on the other arm


Tell me what you guys think.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h1...es18/usa11.jpg

is that someone else's tat? i like to make a tat my own... rather than copy someone else's. ;)

Indeed it is.

Im going to have it changed around..with the twin towers falling in the back round or something like that. I fell in love with the earthy colors and the dark shades and such.

Its funny, I got my first tattoo 10/12, havent even finished it yet, now im planning my next one..

this is addicting!:cool:

alright... well... I can't really explain why, but over the last couple weeks I have been getting very interested in getting a tattoo. Not for the sake of a tattoo, but for what the tattoo will mean to me. Those of you who know me *cough*Aleesha*cough* will probably understand.

Here's a little doodle that I made and am considering getting done. ALthough there will be many changes, mostly in finding an artist who is better than myself, lol, I am looking to finding a way to add in a phrase. I'm still debating between "freedom isn't free", and "the high price of freedom", as well as contemplating several others. Given everything going on right now, I cannot get an arm or back tattoo, so I'm thinking of putting it down the side of my thigh... any comments/tips/advice/etc from people more tattoo savvy are more than welcome and actually invited!!!!

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...untitled-3.jpg

I LOVE IT!!! i love the drawing... i think you should get it just like that! take a good quality close up so the artist can copy it for ya.

and i loooove "freedom isn't free"