Get your tats out for the lads...

[Siz]

So, this is a thread dedicated to tattoos.

What you got?
Where you got it?
Why'dyou get it?
You regret it?
You want more?
What's on your wish list?

Here's mine I got inked about 5 years ago after my Daughter was born. I designed it myself. It's the planetary symbols of the birthsigns of my wife, my son, my daughter and myself. It's across the top of my back and I love it. I'm planning to get another and am working on some designs, stylised around the theme of bikes.




And here's the design I made for my wife who had it inked on her wrist last month (at selfridges no less).
The stars represent me and the kids.

[Crow]

I haven't got one yet I am currently sitting on a design till next march and if I still like it I will get it done. It will primarily be on my chest and peeping up onto my neck. There are bits I am already unsure about, I love the concept and composition but the style isn't right yet, the problem is that my tastes change far too often.

It needs more thought.

[Tank]

Never had one, don't want one, like looking at good ones.

[Buddy]

I almost want a small one on my ankle, but I would have to get over my fear of needles first.

[Dobermonster]

I want one, but am never satisfied with the final sketches. I can draw well, just can't come up with something that I'm in love with. SL, yours is very pretty.

[Crow]

I want one, but am never satisfied with the final sketches. I can draw well, just can't come up with something that I'm in love with. SL, yours is very pretty.

Pay somebody to do it if you aren't to keen on what you do yourself.

[Sweetdeath]

SL, you cad!
That is a really interesting design, and it's so much better than a name tattoo or ugly portrait. I think it represents something and someone special to you, without it being very obvious <3

[DeterminedJuliet]

Here's an up-close picture of the one I have on my foot. It's a pitcher plant (Newfoundland's provincial flower) apple blossoms ( they're all over Nova Scotia, where I was born) and blueberries (the first time I brought my husband home to visit my folks, we went blue-berry picking. Coincidentally, my son's favourite food is now blueberries, but I didn't know that when I got this done ).

I also have a black cross-pattern tattoo on my back, but it's almost 10-years old, faded, and totally looks like shit. I plan to get it covered up someday, but I can't decide what with. Now that I'm an atheist, maybe I'll get one of those dumb "VOID" red stamps tattoo'd over it, like some people do with their ex's names. 

I don't think I'll want any more after I get the one on my back re-done. Two is a good number for me. If I get bored, I might pierce something again.

[En_Route]

Here's an up-close picture of the one I have on my foot. It's a pitcher plant (Newfoundland's provincial flower) apple blossoms ( they're all over Nova Scotia, where I was born) and blueberries (the first time I brought my husband home to visit my folks, we went blue-berry picking. Coincidentally, my son's favourite food is now blueberries, but I didn't know that when I got this done ).

I also have a black cross-pattern tattoo on my back, but it's almost 10-years old, faded, and totally looks like shit. I plan to get it covered up someday, but I can't decide what with.

I don't think I'll want any more after I get the one on my back re-done. Two is a good number for me. If I get bored, I might pierce something again.

I haven't seen such a polychromatic example  of the body- etcher's craft before. It's a mini-work of art,definitely a cut above the usual mundane effort.

[DeterminedJuliet]

Thank you, I designed it myself.

[En_Route]

Thank you, I designed it myself.

I'm genuinely impressed. You should leave your foot to a gallery in your will.

[The Black Jester]

This is my one and only.  Never do I desire another.  It took years, careful planning, and a hell of an artist to submit even to this one.  But I love it.

It's the myth of the Raven stealing the Sun, of Tlinget and Haida mythology - native cultures I grew up in proximity to.  I've never exactly been clear on why I love that myth so much.  Something about the character of the Raven, who flouts ban and convention, to steal a precious jewel for himself, and ends up lighting the world.  

[DeterminedJuliet]

^ That's gorgeous! Love it.

[The Black Jester]

^ That's gorgeous! Love it.

Thanks DJ! 

[Ali]

Those are all awesome.  I have 3, but you have to know me fairly well to get to see them.