Why? Tattooey artist inject the ink in a layer in our skin (I don't know what's it called) so that the INK won't fade..just simple...
ok..Enough Psycho Blabber...I know some of us here..have tats..even The Prince has a tat (if you saw it) some other members too like
1. Khayman
2. Requiem
3. Melody
4. Nara
5. TwilightLex
6. Tinius (lots of them)
7. Taymos
8. Jamie
9. Jason (lots too!)
10. And of course me-myself-and I
(if I forgot YOU..sorry...)
Do you have one? Show it! come on! *Snaps!*
Still working on a design for mine. Or rather, working on ideas for a design, and having my best friend work on the design. I'm not much with the artistic side.
Piercings on the other hand.... Can't get enough.
i dont have one yet, but i do know if i do get one, it will be personal, and a celtic dragon design. *winks*
i have one but ive yet to photo it ill work on it i guess
I have two tatts and one of them is posted in my portfolio.
I do an anhk upon my are aye
picture possible but not today
i also have a pentagram right above my area...like where hip huggin pants rest. it's not done yet i have to get another on the other side and then connect with this kool ookin design i drew yeee fun fun! but i have no pics of that tattoo...i will once it's finished
Khayman is a male vampire... but the user behind the handle is female.
I have four tattoos. The first one Ive ever gotten most of you see when you look at my pictures.. the tribal on my back. SOME of you caught the pentagram on my chest. Yup... right smack between "The Girls".
A decent size rose... about 5 1/2" by 3 1/2" on my lower back...
And one on my leg, too...
OH YAY it downsized.
That thing was MONSTER when I origionally posted it.
I never seem to get those right on the first shot...
:)
Thanks Pink :)
yes, King that is my tatt. Thank you. It is only one of my two tatts and there is many more coming soon and I will be glad to post them as they come.
I have tats? Oh yeah, there they are!
Show us your stuff, everyone!
ok, heres a lil info concerning your comment King.
we need to look first at the structure of skin. The top layer of skin, called the epidermis, is very thin--only 1/10 of a millimeter at most. This is where cells constantly divide from the base layer and move up to the surface to be soughed (sp?) off. Just below the epidermis is a second layer, the dermis, which doesn't undergo the same process of constant replacement.
A tattoo needle penetrates just a couple millimeters into the skin. But that's deep enough to leave a trail of ink all the way into the dermis. So even after all the superficial epidermal cells have sloughed off and all that deal that im sure you guys dont want to read about, tattoo ink remains in the dermis. White blood cells swallow the offending matter and clear, watery lymph removes the encased specks. The bits of tattoo ink, however, are bigger than the white blood cells, which rules out ...surrounding them. So tattoos persist because they defeat the body's cleaning mechanism. A good tattoo ink won't dissolve in dermal fluid or cause an immune response. If the ink did cause an immune response, special white blood cells would gobble up and remove it, blurring the tattoo...and we dunt want that!
so i advice if you are going to ge tat, make sure you have good ink! lol
I got one a couple of weeks ago. Its still scabbing though. Was really scary!! But its helped with my needle phobia.
I have four markings on my back. They are the four children I hold dear to my blacken heart. The names are complete but the back is not. My entire back will be covered. Pics later !!
I have two of those green dots. One on my right hand and one on my right forarm !!
i only have self done ones from back in middle school but i do plan on getting some really soon.
im just liking cancer's muscle tone. NO im not hitting on him! lol
yah so do i hehe. but yeah mine are lines and dots i forgot to write that before
i have one on my back left shoulder... i shall take a pic and post in my portfolio later... :P
im gettin a (216) tattoo soon i love the band and the city of cleveland. im possibly moving to FL. so i defiently gotta get this!
All of my Tattoos are in my Portfolio.....
And yes they hurt.....
And hell yes, I'm going for more!
Be one of the colorful people!!!!!!!
I have 5 tattoos (pictures in my portfolio) I want at least 4 more, I have designs for 2 of them.
well if those lil dots count, i have a little one on my wrist...when i was in 2nd grade...one of the mentally challenged kids grabbed me and stabbed me with a pencil, the lead broke inside my wrist and i had to go to the doctor...it left me with a lil grey mark =P
thats my lil tat i guess lol
my tat is being designed at the moment it will be fairy in the middle of my back. i can't wait until it is done
i got stabed with a pencil too and i have that stuff in my left hand. that happend in 3rd grade i think
hahah! thank you DarknessBound! =)
ok, there you have it guys, the Princes' tat! hahaha!
Ok, more pics? =P
I think it's great that so many of us have the "pencile dot, tattoo." Mine in on the top of my right foot. Got it in 9th grade. I was sitting on the back of a bench at lunch, and was flicking my friend, who was sitting on the bench properly, on the back of the ear. He turned and stabbed me through my shoe. I stopped flicking him and got my first tattoo that day!
my little pencile dot is on my hip, so much for running in the 5 th grade
Mine is the arabic word which means "haunted my spirits" :o)
From an email:
Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos and belly button rings?
I'm looking forward to being an old tattooed lady LOL
I should have my entire torso finished by that time, so, heh. Hell. I'm already an old tattooed lady. *sigh*
Well, at least old and tattooed, for those of us who know better...
*ducks and runs*
that's right! age is just a number and you're only as old as you feel. *throws slinky's around for everyone*
EEK!!!!! SHE'S GONNA KILL ME!! HELP!! HELP!!!
**scuffeling in the backround shadows **
Meh.....
Would I smear your face across a window for intimating that I am not a lady? Hmm? That would only prove your point, my dear Khay.
*flips Khay off with her pinky finger lifted to show her ladylike qualities*
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ok im done jacking this thread....carry on folkes
arggghhhhhh!! this thread isn't about growing old with tats and belly button rings!!!!
hahah! ok ok..show em..the tats!
=)
LMAO @ Khay and Req's comments.
you both are too much.
and Wingless you're right!
age is just a number!.. this benefits us ladies @ some point LOL
ps: for my future tattoo, not a big but small tat, im looking for Old-Persian Cuneiform or Suyrit scripts, these are ancient languages from the times of Babylon. When i find it...i shall show ;)
oh whoops... got a belly button ring too :P
getting a tattoo done probably next monday... will post pics as soon as they're available :)
-coughs- Ive got to.. I just need to add the ink to it.. XD There both stars one on meh ankel and teh other on meh for arm. ^^
i don't have any tats right now. planning to get some as soon as i have money. i do have the pencil dot tattoo on my left hand but it looks a little faded.
I, too have the little pencil dot on my right palm. Tried to pull a freshly sharpened pencil from my back pocket while walking down the hall in HS and stabbed my own hand. "I don't give fries with those shakes either....lol"
ive got 3 tats myself. a lion on my left shoulder, a pegasus on my right shoulder and whats left of a homemade smiley face with a bullet hole in its forehead on my ankle. on that one everything wore off except the eyes. i told my kids its where a snake bit me :)
I've three as well. I have a fairy on my back shoulder, I have a vampire bite with a drop of blood on my breast, and a heart on my ass. Heh
Sadly to say I only have Henna tatoos... My mom would drop dead or go into a total annoying nagger if I had any permanent one. My mom and her friends nag endlessly when they saw my henna I couldn't handle their much louder shrieks. I would snap and point a shotgun on my mouth.
I missed that tatoo some kind of a snake figure though it was reallly a writing that means "Happy in Hell" it cost only a 100 buck and I got it from school a tatoo section on our highschool week. School sometimes rock... especially on their misleading influences on kids and teens...
SOme people on this site have lovely tatts. I want oen done, but I want to make sure Im certain on an idea before I do it. My lovely piercist keeps encouraging me, but so far he isnt doing so well :-)
for those who think tats are bad, they have been around for a very long time,there are done so much better and the ink is a whole lot better ,the danger that use to be there has just about gone away,unless you get them from a uncleaned place
i would love to get a tattoo... sadly there are a few things that are making me not get one
1. i'm a symmetry freak. if i have something on my body that's not symmetrical, i'll go insane
2. I want it to be VERY impressive and therefore it could be costly and possible painful
3. I've no idea what design i want...
maybe one day i'll get one... who knows.
i have a "home-made" tat on my left inside ankle. it is a pic of a peace sign inside a bomb. but i am gonna get it covered but forst i am getting a celtic arm band put on.
Ok. I may make myself incredibly unpopular in just a few moments, but that's ok. It's one of my best things.
I don't understand why people get a tattoo simply because "It looks sooooo cool!"
Tattoos are permanent (well, at the very least extremely expensive and painful to remove, and the scars will always be there).
If you are going to make a permanent modification to your body, you should godsbedamned well *know* all the reasons behind why you are getting EXACTLY what you are getting. Not this, "Ima get a daisy 'cause their cute" crap.
Yes, daisies are lovely flowers, they happen to be my favourite flower.
However (comma - thank you Khay lol), I see so many many people with tribal designs on their lower back, or celtic knotwork bands in various places. "Why did you choose that?" I asked time and again. "Because I think it's pretty" or "Because I thought it looked cool" were the most frequent answers. They are valid answers, but, Gah!
WHAT DO THE FREAKING DESIGNS MEAN TO YOU?! WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO SAY TO YOU? ABOUT YOU?! other than the flash art on the wall was well done?
Tattoos can be a rich way of embroidering your inner self on your outer self. I do view skin as a canvas.
I simply wish more people would think more deeply and with more clarity before slapping Mickey Mouse on their asses and a peace sign with a blunt on their biceps. Are mickey Mouce, peace signs and pot *THE DEEPER YOU?* (big announcer voice)
If so, the right on. Get 'em while they're hot.
If the images are just something you think are neat ... make sure you can explain why you want this image on you, why this bit of art added to the artwork of your natural skin is meaningful for you.
I get tired of trite pieces. I see enough flash on tattoo parlour walls. I want to see real peoples' thoughts on their bodies in ink.
My tat is there for the meaning of the symbol
Life Eternal
ok..thank you Requiem for that *Wake up people*
and yes, there you have it guys, if you wanna have a tat, make sure you are SURE of it!
and of course what it means..significance thingy!
Love--water---god
1. Love: You know I'm lover boy! hahaha!!
2. Water: Yes, I love the water..really!
3. God: God as in God and also POWER! yay!!
That's my tat! =)
Requiem... i agree wholeheartedly. lately everyone seems to be getting tattoos without having the least idea what the hell they mean. just cos they look good. hell theres a lot of things that look good but that doesnt necessarily mean they're gonna look good to you forever. tattooing yourself just cos it looks cool is the surest way to regret it in a couple of years time. best wait for a bit, be sure about what you're going to do and what the tattoo is gonna remind you of in a few years time, then do it, if you're really sure about it.
Right now I have 4 tattoos. Will add in my portfolio soon. One is there now.
Ok, one is on my ankle, is an ivy vine, although needs more flowers, with an Ankh dangling from it. I have my name written in Egyptian heiroglyphs. I have an Ankh, on the right arm, with all the astrology symbols around it/the arm. And, last, I have an Egyptian cartouche, on my lower back, with health, happiness, everlasting life on there (Ankh), a pyramid and the eye of Horus, or Ra, I have a hard time keeping them straight. One has a feather up and one down I believe. Something like that. Lotus flowers are coming from the sides of it. That was a painful one! Would like more color to it, but not by the same guy. Goes too deep...and doesn't like small ones. I had to wrestle him to do it small.
I have several ideas of more, but I can't get too many more, or I will have to join the circus and be in a cage, next to the dog faced boy.
OK...for those who want to know why we get inked.......each tattoo is a part of the person's personel history....a page in our book of life. Each Tattoo I have, was designed by me over a long period of time, and a welcome addition to my body. Yes, they are permanent and I regret none of them. The only time I am surprised is when the Tattoo is brand new, and I'm not used to seeing color where there was blank white skin. It's a shame you can't see why Tattooed people love them.......it's who we are.
All Tattoo people agree with one thing......Once you get one.....you will get more!
you are right. Tattoos are an addiction. Once you get past that first one, you know you are going back for more. The tattoo artists are counting on it.
I dont have any tatts yet! but I will!! ll I have piercings right now and debating on what to get done next :: grinz::
I have three tats and they are posted in my profile, there are two i had changed and one i created.
Gonna give you a tat of a boot to the head if someone doesnt leave my kitty alone
i got my pencil one in the 3rd grade i think. we had a fire drill and we were coming back in and someone with a pencil ran in to me and stabed me. the mark is on my right hand right next to my ring finger knuckle.
but yeah i do love everyones tatts here they are all really nice.
i hope to be getting my 1st profeshional one done soon.
and my boyfriend is gonna be become a tattoo artist too so that means all the free tattoos i want hehe!
Your Body is your Temple
Just remember each work should be as a compliment to your Temple not merely painted walls
The portraits are there for the rest of your lives and beyond.
yup i knoes. all the tatts i want to get mean something in some way
I have three, a yellow rose, a dragon and a celtic triqueta.
Here is a pic of the dragon:
Um hope that works.
Nothing lasts forever (so says my girlfriend when she broke up with me)
wish i had a scanner to show you my tat of the hindu god Hari Krishna :C