Do you have any tattoos?

[HouseofWool]

Do you have any tattoos?

No, but I'm planning on one.

Me too. I am planning on getting it this summer. I'll meet up with you to get it!

I want one on my instep that says "strength" in Portuguese.

[BonBon]

I'd probably get one if I could get rid of it when I got tired of it. For instance, I think it would be cool to have sleeves if I ever get my arms ripped. But not forever. I think I mostly think it would be cool because I like to defy the stereotype of the Dawkter Wife, especially now that DH is a superfancypants. (I would also like to shear my hair off into a very short cut, bleach it and dye it light blue. Ah, fantasies.)

But right now, no tats.

[bobk]

I've got barbed wire going around both of my biceps and a couple of big Chinese characters on my back which can be roughly translated as "Don't f*** with me!" Just kidding. I really don't like tattoos and I'm not sure why. I guess it's similar to seeing graffiti in urban spaces. Most of it is ugly and poorly done, but even when it's good artwork, it's on the wrong surface. I don't know why people would want to deface their own body, especially in a permanent way. I realize I'm in the minority though and most people are fine with it these days.

[BonBon]

That's what gets me, is the permanency. I know myself well enough to know that I will regret it. (I think I mentioned my near-miss of getting Winnie the Pooh on my ass at 17. Phew!) I also used to take care of very old veterans. Naked ones. Tattoos don't age well.

Can we talk ear gauges? What is up with that?!

[MAPPLEBUM]

Currently have four, working with artists on four more!

Have: Tlingit raven back, I Ching hexagram 25 r shoulder, ampersand left chest, image from the Tower tarot card r leg

Each is somewhat important to me, represents a different part of my life. First one I got when I moved out to Seattle for six months, and found a beautiful original painting of raven that I loved. second I got with a friend I'd known for 20 years or so, he got a different hexagram. The background of the hexagram is important to me as well. Ampersand I got for my second anniversary (ampersand-themed wedding). Tower was to commemorate the porch collapse.

At least one of the four I want will probably have to wait until I'm done lawyering (knuckle tats) and/or I probably will never actually get...

Edit: don't really regret any of them, but if I had it to do over again, I'd probably think twice about the raven and I Ching since I now feel like they seem a little appropriative. I try to have the appropriate amount of respect for them, but I can't help but feel like another bro with a sweet tribal/asian tattoo...

I almost got a meaningful hexagram in college! Ended up not doing it because I was afraid that "momentous point" in my life would not seem as big of a deal later on. Plus if it blurred I didn't want it to look like a bar code.

I have 3 tattoos, sort of. One of them is in 3 places on my body. I have "shantih" in Sanskrit on the inside of my right wrist, inside left forearm, back of neck. The best translation I've heard for the word is "the peace in me greets the peace in you." but I did it to quote the Wasteland. I share this tattoo with a friend. I have a sound map in the middle of my back which is just a stark diagram of the properties of sound on a stringed instrument. This was my first tattoo and I share it with my best friend from college. On either side of this sound map I have Da Vinci wings as well. All of my tattoos are just stark black lines so if I have my way we'll use our honeymoon money this summer to go to France and have my back piece completed by the tattoo artist Xoil. (and pop DH's tattoo cherry)

I went a little nutso when I discovered watercolor tattoos a few months ago. It opened up an entirely new world of body art for me. That's right, I made a pinterest (you'll recognize the watercolor when you see it):

http://www.pinterest.com/mapplebum/tattooed/

[GreyhoundsRUs]

I throw up a little in my mouth when I see gauges.

[MAPPLEBUM]

couldn't resist.

[diggitydot]

DH has been mulling over a 3 or 4 designs in his mind for several years. I'm sure he'll get a few in the next couple of years.

[MAPPLEBUM]

I throw up a little in my mouth when I see gauges.

me too, even though I did have surface piercings in college. Unlike CP, I effing loved to get pierced.

[diggitydot]

Oddly enough, body piercings don't aggravate my vasovagal response. Had no issues with any of my body piercings.

[v-girl]

I'd like to dye one of my highlighted strands blue or green or pink. Not one of the top ones though, one of the bottom layer strands. Hehe!

[reciprocity]

I went a little nutso when I discovered watercolor tattoos a few months ago. It opened up an entirely new world of body art for me. That's right, I made a pinterest (you'll recognize the watercolor when you see it):

http://www.pinterest.com/mapplebum/tattooed/

I love love love this style of tattoo. I follow Xoil on FB, and a few HK artists that do the brushstroke style. One of the ones I'm waiting to hear back from the artist on is similar to this, somewhere between the watercolor and photoshop style.

For me, the whole thing about tattoos is even if I get to the point where I think "man maybe that wasn't such a good idea" then they would still stand for the distance I've come since I got them. Plus if I'm still worrying about how awesome my body (doesn't) look(s) when I'm 75 I'll have bigger problems to deal with than the fact that the raven on my back has started to look like a sad pelican.

Edit: also I used to have a bod piercing but I took it out for an MRI and never bothered to put it back in...

[Thirteen]

I had a cuff, my ears are pierced twice, and I had a body piercing done in college that I LOVED, but had to take out for ankle reconstructive surgery in 2010, and just never put back in.
I highly recommend Prix on the Sunset Strip - they are APP certified, and were nothing but professional.


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[niener]

Mapplebum, I flove watercolor tattoos. They look like a total pain with all that delicate shading but damn some of those suckers are gorgeous!

I have two tattoos, one cat and one dog. I started a thread on this forever ago and there are pics in it, type "show us your tats" in the search field and it should come up (you'll need call room access to see it). I only got them a year ago but I don't regret them one bit, and I spent many many many years thinking about getting them so I doubt I ever will. I'd like to get a couple more before it's all said and done with. I'd probably always get them done somewhere on the body that's easy to hide so I can show them off when I want and keep them under wraps when I want.

[MsSassyBaskets]

I have one, and it is a literary reference to a book that helped me survive high school. It is hidden under most clothes and half the time I forget I even have it. I don't plan on getting any more, but I do generally like tattoos. If I were to get more they would undoubtedly be literary references too. DH doesn't have any and I wouldn't change that, but my inner 20 year old does find the broody bad-boy-ness of a well done tattoo incredibly sexy.