Tattoos

[Gen]

I met a girl once that was passionate about dogs... She ran a dog focused kenneling... And had a small paw print discreetly tattooed. I thought it was pretty cool

 

 

Edit..I agree about the quality. If had a dot done..I would pay for the best to do it.

 

I personally don't like intricate big tattoos but prefer smaller single colour thin lined ones

 

I quite like the eye

I was young and paid for it with my first real pay check...I had just moved to the city.....but it is really such a cool memory..standing in line hearing that Tyson bit Holyfield's ear.[emoji23]

[forkie]

you got to have a bad one from your youth. cant just have quality pieces. its like scars. they remind you of a time in your life. 

[Odinson]

you got to have a bad one from your youth. cant just have quality pieces. its like scars. they remind you of a time in your life. 

 

Going to get my first tattoo covered up this Friday. It still holds some sentimental value, but it's on my forearm, so it's been bothering me to have such a dumpster fire in such a prominent place. 

[Eldron]

I wanted to do 2 things while growing up... earn my own money and get a tattoo..everyone knew I would..I don't regret any of them..not even my lower back one..it was a thing then.. I do however regret not going to a better tattoo artist with the first one.. Bruma lake caravan tattoo artist was maybe not the wisest decision..my panda looks kinda weird.. I will fix it up sometime and just put a panda paw over it..but it is still a memory..

 

I still want to have the watercolour cherry blossoms done......been staring at that pick almost daily for a good year now..and still like it.

Get the panda touched up then do a paw print around it. A panda in a panda paw - you get to keep the memories and improve the quality.

[Eldron]

My first ink was a 9 hour marathon. Pretty much a book on my right shoulder/arm in gaellic font. It had instructions/sayings/life lessons etc that are important to me. Some harsh memories thrown in too.

 

It was a pretty cathartic experience. Number 2 and 3 followed but they were way smaller. I like me some ink.

 

In Denmark I reckon 80% of people have ink. Thigh tattoos are the in thing here at the moment.

Edited December 5, 2018 by Eldron

[Pieter1]

you got to have a bad one from your youth. cant just have quality pieces. its like scars. they remind you of a time in your life.

 

My wife stoped me from getting this while we were still dating. I’m kinda glad. Edited December 5, 2018 by Pieter1

[Zatopek]

Is this you or a pic from the web? The animation when the right arm wave up and down might be interesting

Edited December 6, 2018 by Zatopek

[dirtypot]

I still want to have the watercolour cherry blossoms done......been staring at that pick almost daily for a good year now..and still like it.

 

It might be a bit of a trek for you, but you should check out Chanel Ysel at Hoodoo Studio in Observatory.  She does incredible work with water colours and flowers.

https://www.facebook.com/HoodooTattoosStudio/

[Gen]

It might be a bit of a trek for you, but you should check out Chanel Ysel at Hoodoo Studio in Observatory. She does incredible work with water colours and flowers.

https://www.facebook.com/HoodooTattoosStudio/

That is some trek...lol

 

But beautiful work

[fanievb]

I already know who'll do my ink, I must just decide what

https://www.facebook.com/vermactats/

 

she did my brothers last work

[Hairy]

[the nerd]

My wife stoped me from getting this while we were still dating. I’m kinda glad.F09DF7B4-72ED-4111-A327-2EC379F7DCE2.jpeg

 

I like it.. 

[Rocket-Boy]

I had some work done yesterday afternoon, I can see this becoming a regular thing when its a boring Sunday afternoon and your wife has all the kit...

Not a great photo but it was the start of the tattoo, will probably extend the doodles to run further down my leg later, this is just below my hip.

Will add shading and colour later once its grown and I have an idea of what I want.

 

We kept this one smaller on purpose, its around the size of a R100 note at the moment. I wanted to test healing of it with Tegaderm so was better to start small and see what happens.

 

If you have never tried Tegaderm before its pretty cool.

Get tattoo done and clean/wrap as per normal. Next morning wash tattoo and disinfect with alcohol swab.

Dont add any moisturizers or creams, just cleaned with alcohol and apply Tegaderm to it.

Leave for 5-7 days then remove with warm water.

 

By that stage its should be quite far along the healing process and past the flaky stage.

Then just moisturize as per normal from there.

Nice part is that you dont have to worry about it much because its protected and you can do life as normal.

 

[Odinson]

Is this you or a pic from the web? The animation when the right arm wave up and down might be interesting

 

God no, that's not mine. Stole it from a IG page @suckytattoos

[Grease_Monkey]

I designed most of my tattoos myself and bar the matching wedding one with the Ex i waited 6-24 months after designing before getting them done. Hence i don't regret any of them. You don't want to know how many designs i scrapped because they lost their appeal after a while.

I wish I had done that. I only have one, don't regret it at all, but I do regret not giving the design some time to settle, chamge it a bit, and maybe given it a bit more thought. I would still get the same "core" tattoo, I would just change the design a bit if I had a do-over.

[Hairy]

have you lazer removed the wedding one?

 

 

As someone who grew up the love of creative expression the best thing you can do is to let him start deciding on the type of tattoos now already. Then let him look at it everyday till the day he gets it done. That way the spur of the moment tattoos which often lead to regret will be avoided. 

 

I designed most of my tattoos myself and bar the matching wedding one with the Ex i waited 6-24 months after designing before getting them done. Hence i don't regret any of them. You don't want to know how many designs i scrapped because they lost their appeal after a while.