Body INK/Tattoos

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:52 pm

do any of you have any tattoos, if you do lets see some pictures.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:38 pm

kokopelli. This is in extreme closeup for a reason. If you see this in person..it means you and me are really good friends

armband and you can just barely see the Quetzalcoatl

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:57 pm

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... ce3c857354

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... ce3c857354

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:53 pm

Both designed by myself. These pics are about four years old.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:07 am

I can't think of anything I'd like on my body forever. Besides, it's agin my religion.
I recall one of my elderly patients who came in with what was once a tattoo of a beautiful young woman on his arm. Problem was, as he aged and got wrinkled, so did she!

I must admit that I greatly admire the artwork on some of the work I've seen. I wish there was some sort of decoration that would last, say, 6 months and then fade away.

missy · Post by **missy** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:37 am

My dad had tats on both forearms (said it was the one and only time he got drunk while in the service). By the time I was born, all the color but the indigo had faded out (he didn't take care of them), by the time he died, you'd be hard pressed to even know what they were (eagle on one arm, rose on the other).

My son has made it almost 2 years in the Navy with no tats - his wife says he better NOT get one! Actually, after 13 years of allergy shots, I think he's seen enough of needles to last a lifetime.

Straycat, I love yours - are they only black ink?

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:49 am

brewerpaul wrote:I recall one of my elderly patients who came in with what was once a tattoo of a beautiful young woman on his arm. Problem was, as he aged and got wrinkled, so did she!

That's what always occurs to me too. How will it look in 30 years?

missy · Post by **missy** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:54 am

emmline wrote:
brewerpaul wrote:I recall one of my elderly patients who came in with what was once a tattoo of a beautiful young woman on his arm. Problem was, as he aged and got wrinkled, so did she!
That's what always occurs to me too. How will it look in 30 years?

I think it was Jeff Foxworthy that said:

"you know that cute little dragonfly? It's gonna look like a buzzard when you are 60!"

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:21 am

i have 2, buy i dont know how to post them on here, or make them have a url on the internet.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:28 am

missy wrote:
emmline wrote:
brewerpaul wrote:I recall one of my elderly patients who came in with what was once a tattoo of a beautiful young woman on his arm. Problem was, as he aged and got wrinkled, so did she!
That's what always occurs to me too. How will it look in 30 years?
I think it was Jeff Foxworthy that said:

"you know that cute little dragonfly? It's gonna look like a buzzard when you are 60!"

<snort> I think that's why I have never gotten one (aside from the fact that Mr Izz would NEVER approve

). But I have thought about it. Does that count?

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:28 am

The Whistle Collector wrote:i have 2, buy i dont know how to post them on here, or make them have a url on the internet.

If they're taken with a digital camera, upload them to photobucket or one of the other photo hosting sites (generally they're free).
The photo hosting service will assign the photo a url, and you can use the url to post the photo here.

Use the "Img" button in the bb code entry window or use the "img src" html tag to post your photo here.

Code: Select all

[img]insert image url here[/img]

or

<img src="insert image url here">

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:09 am

I have a Sanskrit OM tatooed on my rt shoulder.
Got it in Katmandu many years ago.

It looks OK, very simple, but well, it means
GOD. I could have got something sensible,
like DIANE ALWAYS.
No, not me, I got GOD.

Ro3b · Post by **Ro3b** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:56 am

emmline wrote:
brewerpaul wrote:I recall one of my elderly patients who came in with what was once a tattoo of a beautiful young woman on his arm. Problem was, as he aged and got wrinkled, so did she!
That's what always occurs to me too. How will it look in 30 years?

If you take care of it (use sunscreen), it should still look pretty good. Of course it will change, but so does your body. That's kind of the point. A tattoo isn't just a picture drawn on your skin; it's part of you and it will age with you and die with you.

I've got a big half-finished back piece of Hayagriva, one of the Tibetan Buddhist dharmapalas, or wrathful protector deities. He's considered the wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. We've been working on this thing for the last year and a half or so. Unfortunately I don't have any current pictures, but here's one from back when we'd just finished up the outline (we've since added quite a bit of shading and color):

I've also got a Green Man done in black and grey on my upper right arm. Alas, I don't have any pix of him handy. I'll take one tonight. It's not a great tattoo, but it's a reminder of a really happy time in my life and I'm glad it's there. It's about 17 years old and holding up pretty well.

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:00 am

What happens when the back-fur grows in again? Horses and other deities with hair growing out their nostrils just don't have the same visual impact.

djm

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:06 am

I once saw a photo on teh intarwebs of a dude with a quite furry back who had a tatoo of the wolfman; he'd regularly have the area around the tattoo shaved...