I'll Show You Mine, If you Show Me Yours: Post Your Tattoo(s)

[JCMach1]

I have gotten a little crazy (turning 40 in a few days)... so I decided to do something I wanted to do for a long time... get some tattoo work done.


Anyone else have tattoos to share?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. lambda

[JCMach1]

3. Is it Hindi script? Other?

[JCMach1]

4. Doh! Sorry late night here

:)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. dont worry, even most gay people dont get the lambda symbol

[JCMach1]

6. xactly...

nice though...

[Phillycat]

2. I have one of these on each inner upper arm

[BreweryYardRat]

7. I'll show you some of the designs I'm planning on getting.

A professionally-drawn version of this in between my pecs.

A reverse Celtic spiral on my right lower back.

Drawn versions of these on my back, because I'm a huge geek for extinct animals:






The last one's just going to be the eagle.

[huskerlaw]

8. Here's one of mine

when it was very, very new:

[JCMach1]

10. Yikes... My hammer was just done tonight... that looks

painful... but red really does make a mess!

[huskerlaw]

12. It looks worse that it was

all of that color was just smeared ink...no blood, no bruising.

Plus, it's a tiny tat, so what little pain there was didn't last very long!

[JCMach1]

19. I will feel the hammer for some time... I found I heal more quickly after the first one though

I think my immune system caught on...

[AllegroRondo]

9. I need to take a pic of mine

i got a dragon done on my back when I was in the Army.

[Reverend_Smitty]

11. a mock-up of the one I plan to get by or right around summer

Obviously I want it in color but am still undecided on what colors I want. I plan on getting it between my shoulder blades

[Shakespeare]

13. I have two, but only a pic of one....

...and I'm on the verge of having it embellished as soon as I decide what I want (it's about 2" square and on the small of my back). It's the Chinese character (pictograph, actually) for "dragon," which I got because I was born in the year of the same.

[otherlander]

14. Is that a vegvisir in the top pic?

[JCMach1]

16. yes... Bjork also has one of those

:)

[matcom]

15. with pleasure

[JCMach1]

17. Nice... Happy upcoming bday Matcom... we have the same day

and several other DUers...

[matcom]

18. i remember

happy bday to you too! :hi:

[Celeborn Skywalker]

30. Holy shit!

That's a pretty bad-ass tattoo you got there, Matcom.

[dropkickpa]

20. Some old pics

I really need to steal my digicam back from my brother.
there's a lot more to this one now

one of these on each ankle

da kid's name

left leg

right leg


There's a lot more tattoo's, I don't have pics of them, tho'.

[av8rdave]

21. Not a tat, but the best I can do

It's a weave from a sailing ship in the carribean years ago. Ankle is torn up a bit from skiing with that thing on.

[LaraMN]

22. Question for tattooees: How much would it hurt to get a tatt running up

my ribcage, off to the side.
I know what I want to get, I'm just having a hard time deciding where I want it to go, and a side/ribcage placement is my current inclination. I'm thinking it would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 6" long, and quite narrow.

My husband thinks I should get garters tattooed around my thighs.
:P

[matcom]

23. it hurts

don't let anyone tell you different. depends on how fast you go numb

[LaraMN]

24. I don't know how fast I go numb.

I guess there's only one way to find out.
:scared:

[matcom]

25. yup

it won't kill you though

[LaraMN]

26. I figure it can't be *that* bad, right?

I mean, compared to unmedicated childbirths, and all.
Different kind of pain, I suppose.

[matcom]

27. Mrs Matcom says it was NOTHING like childbirth

course HER 2 are on her thighs and NOT on bone :D

[JCMach1]

29. Yes, different for sure...

[JCMach1]

28. Ribcage I think would be painful...

[dropkickpa]

31. Ribcage is

The most painful area (including the sternum in this), as per my brothers the tattoo artists (one of them has facial, head, neck, back, hell, just about everything tattooed, but he has yet to get the piece on his ribcage filled in 6 years later).

One thing to keep in mind, though, is that women do tolerate painful tattoos MUCH MUCH better than men do (also as per the bro's, and my experience from working in the shop for 2 years). The more relaxed you are going in, the better the whole experience will be. I have not had one tattoo go "numb" while it was being done, so don't hold your breath for that to happen. My limit is about 4 hours straight of tattooing, so I always take that into consideration when planning on my work.

I say go for it. A few minutes of pain is a fair trade-off for a lifetime of owning an awesome piece of art.