Tattoos

[ojodeazul19]

I have a tatoo on my big toe. It is of the japanese symbol for friends and my best friends have the same one. The pain threshold issue is defintely something to consider. I thought that the tatoo didn't hurt at all and actually laughed throughout the whole thing. My friends who both have another tatoo said that it was the most painful experience of their life. So it is definitely and individual thing and where it is is definitely somethign to consider.

Also, I thought I was going to HATE my tatoo because I have a professional job and though that it would be somethign that I regretted getting one summer, but after having it for about 5 minutes, I realized that the meaning was so much better..

 

[adi]

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Also a lack of pretty tattoos on there which is good. More original ones. I don't understand stars, or little animals for no other reason than 'I like the animal' or ribbons or bows or star signs or flowers or hearts or fairies or... you get my drift. So silly. Sarah Michelle Gellar has a dragonfly because 'she likes dragonflies' (I bet she has spent hours pondering on the nature of dragonflies) and Alyssa Milano has a fairy "as a token of [her] youth'? What?

this might sound very stupid, but i actually don't think about the meaning of my tattoos.. this excludes texts of course, but as for the pictures they usually don't have any deeper meaning. of course i think carefully before i go to the artist but that's just to make sure that i really want this picture. if the picture is on some level personal for me, i go a head and take it. it might be just a pretty picture, but it still turns out to be personal thing. i take tattoos for me and not for someone else

 

[greeen]

^ I agree. I have a very simple design, there's a deeper meaning I guess..but it's not that deep truly, it's more a reflection of myself. Anyone who knows me, knows I'm kind of a health- nut-backpacking-see-the-forests-for-the-trees-smile-at-blue-skies kinda gal. It sort of reaffirms my sense of self but I mean I totally didn't think for 6 months about what I'd get, I found the stencils online and told my tattoo guy to "have at it" thus making it more my own, I knew he wouldn't disappoint me =) But I didn't think too much about it. I knew I already had seen the beauty in it.

 

[SiennaInLondon]

Oh really?! I spend months planning my tattoos and they are only of things that I have loved for years and will always love. The one time I broke this -the Libertines tattoo behind my left ear which says 'Albion sails on course' I now want removed! So, meaning is really really crucial to me

 

[LifeNatureLove]

^Bummer.
I love my two tattoos. Meaning is very important to me since I'll be looking at them for the rest of my life.

 

[Mk's Beauty Shop]

if i dont chicken out i am getting a tattoo in a couple of weeks. I know what i want and where just whether i chicken out lol

I really love how the guys from lord of the rings all got the same tattoo which symbolised their time on the movies. Those sort of meanings in tattoos are awesome! It just makes me want to be a part of something like that

 

[greeen]

I thought about the action of getting a tattoo for the past 5 years. If I can live with a tattoo in general, I feel I should be able to live with whatever design comes from it. I'm not indecisive either, so I know I'll be just fine. I still wake up thinking my tattoo is the prettiest

you cad do it mk's beauty shop! .

 

[Deleted member 49693]

I just don't get why people want to hid their beautiful skin...I'm talking about the people who are covered in tattoos...

 

[snowqueen]

I really want a dove tattoo as it symbolises so much .. peace, the holy spirit and like me birds are free spirits .. but im stilll undesided weather or not to take the plunge.

 

[thebeautybrains]

The problem with tattoos is that as they get older they look terrible. Who wants to be 76 years olds with a faded, wrinkled dove above your privates? And the tattoo removal creams like Wrecking Balm don't work too well.

 

[Mk's Beauty Shop]

by the time i'm 76 i'm hoping technology would ( it should be!) be more advanced and they'd have laser removal or something similar if i really wanted to get it off.

 

[SiennaInLondon]

Becky I don't know, those are all really unspecific symbolisms... but then I am the freak who obsesses forever over a new tat.

And who wants to be the 76 year old who wants to show that wrinkly dove to everyone?

 

[thebeautybrains]

by the time i'm 76 i'm hoping technology would ( it should be!) be more advanced and they'd have laser removal or something similar if i really wanted to get it off.

Ah, one could only hope. But I wouldn't count on it. There aren't many scientists doing research into tattoo laser removal. There was a new discovery in tattoo ink recently, but that won't do you much good if you have a tattoo made with the traditional tattoo ink.

I for one am holding out for the erasable tattoo. I just can't stay committed.

 

[Elegance.Is.Refusal.]

^^^ but you can get tattoos lazered off now compared to getting the thing cut off its a better option.

even the tattoo parlour i go to for my piercings offers tattoo removal by lazers

 

[thebeautybrains]

^^^ but you can get tattoos lazered off now compared to getting the thing cut off its a better option.

even the tattoo parlour i go to for my piercings offers tattoo removal by lazers

A tattoo artist performing a medical procedure that could lead to permanent skin damage?! Yikes! Of course, if it's cheap enough...

 

[Elegance.Is.Refusal.]

i dont know if its a tattoo artist and if it is they would be trained in it its a very reputable shop its not unlike going to a beauty salon and getting laser hair removal done.

 

[snowqueen]

The problem with tattoos is that as they get older they look terrible. Who wants to be 76 years olds with a faded, wrinkled dove above your privates? And the tattoo removal creams like Wrecking Balm don't work too well.

i dont want it above my privates i want one one each ankle flying towards each other or on the soles of my feet or even on my hips ..... but most probally some were consealed i could easily hide, And i dont ever show off my stomach now so why i would be doing it at 76 is anyones guess there would only be one person seeing it and hopefully by the time i was that age people would like me for who i am and not cae about an old tattoo.

and im seventy six i would not care to be honest .. im not really a shallow person and also i would have lived my live i would be past caring.

 

[snowqueen]

Becky I don't know, those are all really unspecific symbolisms... but then I am the freak who obsesses forever over a new tat.

i could expnad more on why i want it but that was just the summery lol didnt want to bore you and plus some things are a bit personal which im sure you wouldnt want to know lol ... trust me on this one

 

[J67X4]

My aunt is 64 and got a huge one on her arm 3 years ago and it looks fine.. you dont wrinkle THAT badly with age..yes your face ..but your body not so much.

Its not as if you tattoo your breast and end up with an ankle tattoo. I have alot of experience on the old tattoo subject (my family tattoos with age) and none of their tattoos look 'bad'. Then again noone got tacky hearts, roses (yawn) chinese symbols etc they got artwork!

I guess it also depends on what you get and if it means something to you or is just a 'why not' thing. A wrinkled name (not of a spouse, im thinking deceased loved one) wont look as bad as a wrinkled heart and arrow.

Unless you age badly.. look at your family and you should be able to see what your fate is

 

[SiennaInLondon]

i could expnad more on why i want it but that was just the summery lol didnt want to bore you and plus some things are a bit personal which im sure you wouldnt want to know lol ... trust me on this one

Oh I see that makes sense! See I've been on TFS so long, I assume people splurge EVERYTHING about themselves. I need a life!