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just wondered who has them..i dont but at 37 am thinking about having something on my back!.
I don't have one yet but i'm actually quite tempted to do one, maybe on my arm or some other place where it's visible most of the time.
I've definitely toyed with the idea of having some ink done, but its a bit strange in my case. I've always had a number of birthmarks and "dots" all over my body, and I'm not entirely sure how I'd feel about having something else on my body that's (for all intents and purposes) supposed to be permanent. I definitely never rule out the idea of a tattoo, though.
hey im getting a tattoo of the welsh dragon on my birthday tuesday!
good luck.im thinking some sort of pattern for me,no idea what just yet..
Tosh... great look! Love the hair... any back pics to show off the length??? Admiringly, Jules.
Had my first tattoo (coincidentally) at 37 and now covered chest, upper back and upper arms. Work in progress and very addictive! It's like they were always meant to be there - I was fascinated by them from a very early age.
I've posted photos of them before with monotonous regularity so won't again :-)
Why disfigure your body?
Disfigure?!..bit strong.Just starting to think some do look good thats all.
They MAY look good to some TODAY but they are quite permanent.
Sorrry disifgure remains my view - today's fashion statements as as short lived as today..
I don't have tats at the moment. I like sleeve tattoos. I have been considering getting some 1/4 or 1/2 sleeves (for work reasons). But it's one hell of a commitment since the image stays with you for life.
Neil
I'm 19 and got my first my first one the other week. Pentagram on my left tit!!! and thinking of getting another 1 sometime soon
Got a few - small gryphon on my left hip, large dragon on my right hip. Tribal gay rainbow on my right foot which I'm going to have added to this Thursday.
Problem with tats is that they can be addictive.
Make sure you really like the design and have it done by a good artist - then they are fun, very personal and when done well a work of art that is never disfiguring.
Enjoy,
Charley
with tattoos you have to live with them for the rest of your life. (yeah sure you CAN have them lasered off but its a VERY expensive and painful process that takes about 5 sessions to remove)
Then again it is on the back, not the lower arm, neck or god-forbid the face, so nobody will really see your tattoo unless you're the type who goes shirtless in public *shudder*
If its something you've wanted for a long time (several years) i say go for it, but if its a recent impulse wait a while before acting on it.
There's a new tattoo ink called Freedom 2 that is erasable. It can be removed easily with one lazer treatment. Check the site...
Freedom 2
I had a Calico cat named Taffy, who passed away 3 years ago. She was a super-friendly, not in the least shy, kitty, who would go up to total strangers to be petted. I live in an apartment complex, and have had maintenance and repair men in over the years, and I would often have to see what Taffy was up to, in case I needed to remove her due to her pestering the men while doing their work. For the most part, they were amused by her, and would say "Hi, Kitty!" and pet her.
Well, there was an exception to this. I had to have my heat pump/AC unit indoors repaired. Two young men show up at my door to do the repairs. The one young man was in my utility closet, on a ladder, working on the unit itself. The other young man, with long hair in a ponytail, and wearing shorts, was taking apart my thermostat. In between the utility closet and the thermostat, was my bedroom door, which my cat constantly would approach, look up at the man at the thermostat, then dart through. She kept doing this, over, and over, and over.
The guy up an the ladder wondered how many cats I had, as he thought there were two cats, and was puzzled by the strange behavior. I told him that there was just Taffy, anf I was also baffled as to why she acted that way. She had rubbed up against this repairman, before he set up his ladder in the utility closet, but ignored his ponytailed co-worker. I mentioned that she was normally friendly to nearly anybody, except small children. Well, the two men kept working, and Taffy kept up her unusual behavior. Then the guy in the ladder burst out laughing, after observing her for a few minutes. He then turned to his co-worker and said he knew why the cat was acting strange, it was him (the co-worker).
So why was Taffy stopping and eying the co-worker with the long blonde ponytail in such a strange way, before darting rapidly through the doorway? The guy on the ladder surmised it was the tatoo's. Yes, the ponytailed man had tatoo's, loads of them. He looked like the Illustrated Man of Ray Bradbury's book. His legs, his arms, wherever skin showed, he was tatooed. Cats don't see colors like we do, they see in greyscale and pastels. So, I can only imagine what a strange critter this guy must have looked like to her. Even when they were done, she let the man with the laddder pat and scritch her, but ducked and ran from Tatoo Man. It was the funniest thing, the two men and I did have a good laugh at poor Taffy's expense.
The moral is, if you get tatoo's and have a cat, kitty may not recognize you with the new ink. :-D I still chuckle to this day, it is one of my fondest memories of my lovable kitty. Taffy has been followed by another Calico named Calleigh. She's a rescue kitty, and she is a total opposite, personality wise. Very, very shy, until she gets to know you. Cats are funny critters. And tatoo's are just another form of personal expression. Unlike hair, or even piercings, tat's are a permanent body art. Something to think carefully about, before having done.
Carol