Tattoo?
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- brooke0
I should show you the before & after of a tattoo I had removed from my chest. What an idiot I once was! It'll never be completely gone.
My tastes change with the seasons. And I'm sure everything that interested you last year has been blockaded by your current interests. Besides, bare skin is so precious & beautiful, especially on a woman... Why would you want to taint that?
- -leah-0
nice brooke :) that is true, but i love tattoos and i think they can look really beautiful as well.
what did you have on your chest?
- winter0
leah, tatoos are dumb.
it is a costum from tribal societies to represent some passage to a higher social status in the tribal community hierarchy. in the west they don't have any meaning whatsoever except some kind of sincretism found on cheap magazines and, curiosly, california, AHAH!
there's nothing like the woman's (or man's) skin itself, unblemished and clear. any guy that really likes you for what you are (and not himself with you) will tell you that.
- toulouz0
in answer to Leah, my daughter got her degree in graphic art and then became a tattoo artist... freelance.
I'll tell ya she makes more money than I ever did ! No stress. a delightful rewarding job.
I'm just making here a web site, but one shop she works at 2 days a week: http://www.adrenalintattoos.co.u…
Some of her work there but it is not identified as hers.
- piers0
yea its aight man, works amazing, the weathers warm and so far everyone I have met has been great. Very open minded and pretty knowledgeable about the things people should be knowlegeable about. Obviously missing my friends but thats part of a nomadic life I guess. Hows Denver?
- -leah-0
oh thanks toulouz!!! :)
i don't have an art degree but i have credits towards one, plus i have a multimedia production diploma so i do have some schooling. my boyfriends stepmoms cousin is a tattoo artist here in calgary so i am going to see if she will take me on as an apprentice.
winter- i am more of a forward thinker i guess, yes tattoos mean something for some cultures and in their history but they mean something to me too, even if it is purely asthetic. it still counts.
- toulouz0
well the degree thing was just like she didn't need one to become a tattoo artist. But you do require graphic talents to be a tattoo artist.
A lot is also done with an enlarging/reducing photocopier and a thermal transfer copy machine. This will size and put a basic image on the skin. After that its just like painting by numbers.
It's exteremely popular now in UK.
- -leah-0
well if it is popular in the uk then in two years north america will finally wake up and get on the bandwagon!
i need to get out there and do it now i guess!
- winter0
ok...
- ganon0
lets see the before/after
- winter0
the next step in human reasoning should mind this retro information:
- ricstultz0
I know lots of people who have tattoos. I don't know one that hasn't been embarrassed at one time or another by what they got...
untainted skin rules. keep the art on the walls.
- aliendn0
www.clipart.com has some really nice designs. im getting a tattoo of a corporate meeting.
- blaw0
I've been getting tattooed on a regular basis for 15 years.
I like everything about the process. It's a very positive thing for me.
Just wanted to offer an alternative view.
- aliendn0
jokes aside, i have one too. something i designed with my name in abstract text. unless you're prince or something, doing your name is a safe bet, unless you change your beliefs and dont think you exist anymore.
- Gilt0010
Tattoos are a tough decision for me. There's only two I can think of that I would have NO regrets over.
First would be my dogs name: Rico. That's easy, because he's left his mark on my life. I know his 'time' is coming (he's a 13 year old 100lb yellow lab) but actually it would take a tattoo to remember him.
Second, would be the pitch gauge dots around a technics turntable. A friend of mine told me he saw this on a guy and I thought "there's a tattoo I would never have a problem with. Turntables and wax will always have a place in my life. Even when I'm 60.
I'd think long and hard on what you'd like to have inked onto your body for the rest of your life.
- lvl_130
a friend of mine has this on the inside of his wrist/lower forearm at about 120pt. type that i thought was pretty cool:
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DERI got a the numbers 72 on my back like the size of a football jersey. when i'm not wearing a shirt people still know what's up.
haha, just kidding. i don't have any jailhouse tats' and that's the way it's gonna stay....unless there is something really cool that i think of...probably not.
- winter0
i just don't get the reason for doing a tattoo... taking care of yourself self-esteem that way is some weird. next thing you know you are stealing children socks in Ohio.
- rabattski0
*getting* a tattoo unless you're an tattoo artist.
stealing children socks in ohio? that's a good one. have to remember that one.
i've never seen a tattooed person steal children socks actually. does it have to do with the ink? some secret childrensockstealing magic powder?
- rabattski0
" After that its just like painting by numbers."
rofl! either you're being sarcastic or you have no clue whatsoever.
anyways, a paint by numbers tattoo without the paint isn't that a bad idea.