Who here has tattoos?

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Hello,

OOOUUUCH!

crazedchef

no offence if anyone has tattoos or anything, but i cant stand them. especially those trendy tribal tats and barb wire, lower back tattoos are also geigh

I'm openminded about tatoos...many of my classmates had tatoos and I thought it was cool...many of them had angels, goddesses, kwanyin and other figures tatooed on their sacrums...I thought about getting one but decided not to...

first because I found out that once I get a tatoo and were to change my mind, erasing it does't come out very pretty...
second...I guess when it comes to aesthetics, I'm closer to the Taurus way of thinking...which is...'things are most beautiful the way they are...' or 'your natural self is the most beautiful self.'
third...(this might sound silly) I am afraid of the pain...it takes me a lot to get a vaccine shot even...

As a taurean, I have to agree.

The needle thing isn't really an issue anymore. Make sure they used the kind that come prepackaged. The thing to watch out for is do they pour the unused ink back in the container. Good chance I got hep c this way. But good chance I got it other ways, so who knows and I don't care.

Don't you miss the old days when the good trolls ran in packs and had a plan? Oh what fun when they'd crash into a alt site and try to take it over. Damn, going to get all misty. Yeah I remember the flame wars. Still have a link to a site to send trolls that are stupid enough to hit the link. Kids, what ya gonna do, ya raise em, they still come home and they usually bring a friend. Oh wait this has nothing to do with tat's, my bad.

I have an anklet - vine with flowers. I'll take a picture one of these days.

i want hope written on my right wrist so that when i feel upset and in despair its right in front of me and it reminds me of what s important
i also wanted peace wanted on the bottom of my foot so i know its there
but loads of ppl have said whats the point in that?
xx

don't let other people define your reality for you.
people don't like my tattoos. but i didn't get the tattoos to please other people, i got them for myself.

Ouuuuccchhhhh ! !! Bottom of yer foot ???

Owwiiieee ! !!

Tattoos on the bottoms of feet or on the palms wear off, which I believe is why most shops won't do them.

I have 5, plan to get probably 4 more. It's fun to look all proper and professional and then have ink peeking out from your clothing.

Me old Oirish Auntie used to say never get a tatoo where a judge can see it.

I've had a tattoo on the palm of my hand since 2002. I wouldn't say it's faded at all.

Aww, this thread died too young. I'm reviving it.

Those packages are sterilization pouches, and the needles are put in them prior to being steam pressure sterilized in a hospital-grade autoclave by the tattoo shop staff. This is a requirement by the laws of any state that regulates tattooing (and I think at this point they all do).

Resterilizing and reusing a needle is not illegal in all states but no reputable shop would do it, as the needles do wear down, even in skin, and become blunt and ragged and don't make clean lines anymore. Besides, needles are too cheap to bother reusing them.

I can't imagine anybody putting unused ink back in the bottle, that's the whole purpose of dispensing it into those tiny little ink caps in the first place, so if some is left over, you can throw it out with minimal waste. That sounds like the kind of stupid crap I'd expect from a drunk teenager tattooing people in his kitchen or dormroom without a license. If you let someone untrained and unlicensed tattoo you like that, you deserve whatever disease or infection you get. As we say in the biz: "Good tattoos are not cheap; cheap tattoos are not good".

As for whether tattoos are stupid or art: Anyone who claims their definition of art is more right than anyone else's is an ass, pure and simple. Some people love paintings of dogs playing poker and Elvis on velvet and pink flamingos on their lawn. I'm sure there's something you hold dear that could make me want to laugh and point and insult you, but I'm more mature than that. Nobody's holding you down and giving you a tattoo against your will, so take your prissy, holier-than-thou attitude and shove it.

THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PEOPLE WITH TATTOOS AND PEOPLE WITHOUT THEM: PEOPLE WHO HAVE TATTOOS DO NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THOSE WHO DON'T

ive got three ,two cover ups and a third that had to be covered up as it had been done wrong.
i dont regret the names i had done when they were done and i dont regret what theyve been turned into now..
one horses head,one tribal tatto, one swallow holding scrolls of my kids names. i have seen some really good ones over the years but im not planning on getting anymore.i dont care if other people like them or not ,i had them done for my own pleasure.i also dont like needles but you suffer the pain if you want the end result.