Tattoos!

Who out there has some ink permanently embedded in their skin? I have a lot, and there is still more to come. Post pictures, tell stories about why you have them, etc etc. None of mine REALLY have stories, I guess, but I'll add my snippets, I guess. LHSflute can say just how random my tattoo experience is. We went to lunch with my artist (his lunch break) and... I ended up with a tattoo. Go figure. Most painful spot? Inner bicep. Ow.

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Number 1: This is on my lower back, and my artist took my vague ideas of what I wanted ("I don't know, something like a knot, but with a shamrock?") and drew this up. I had just turned 18, and this was my birthday present.
Tattoo 1

Number 2/3: When I first started really getting into music on my own (so, without parental influence), I was 14, and had just discovered the band Mountain Con (local Seattle band). They got my into promoting, they helped me see a different side of being a fan, everything. They were the biggest influence on my musical life. The barcode has their name in it "MTCON" and is part of their logo. The music notes around it show their discography, and their ultimate break-up. (barcode and music notes were separate tattoo sessions; I count them as 2)
Tattoo 2 and 3

Number 4: A... skeleton fish named George? The only story is I wanted a new tattoo, my family rents a house in Oregon, and this was an iron sculpture on the wall. Most of my family got the same fish, but in different areas. Mine is on my left forearm. I thought it was kind of Tim Burton-esque.
Tattoo 4

Number 5/6: As I said, music is my life. So, added on to George with the mist, music notes up my arm, and "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil" in Latin.
Tattoo 5
Tattoo 6

Number 7: This will be a few pictures; it's a bigger piece that wraps around my arm a bit. This has the least story. Death has always fascinated me. I love the image of the birds flying away. The lyrics are from Alkaline Trio's "Continental" and I felt that it went with it well.
Tattoo 7 Part 1
Tattoo 7 Part 2
Tattoo 7 Part 3

Number 8: Shmee, from the comics Squee! by Jhonen Vasquez. His art was such a major part of my life as a teenager, but I wanted to get something that wasn't Gir (as much as I love him) or something else obvious. I love it.
Tattoo 8

Number 9: Lyrics from the Morrissey song "I Have Forgiven Jesus" that fit with the morbid image on the front of the arm (see: Tattoo 7 Part 1). "Why did you stick me in self deprecating bones and skin?"
Tattoo 9

Number 10: "Veritas" at the top of my spine. My friend and I both got a tattoo from Boondock Saints; I got Connor's hand tattoo, she got Murphy's (Aequitas). It's our favorite movie, we watch it all the time and we quote it constantly.
Tattoo 10

I have my last name tattooed on my foot. I come from a family of 5 daughters, and we were talking one day about if we all get married and change our last names, that will be the death of "Bridges". So we all decided to it on our feet.

In the end, 2 out of 5 got it.

My oldest sister was pregnant when we decided, then she was breastfeeding, then she got pregnant again, so now she'll be breastfeeding again, and then she wants a third right away. She's basically a lost cause. She'll have talked herself out of it long before she's done breeding.

My youngest sisters are still under 18, and my mum said absolutely not until they turn 18.

It was nice in theory, and it's still nice to have, but my sisters are so lame! Haha.

I've got:

An " &" symbol on my right wrist

Doctor Who's sonic screwdriver on my left arm

"One must suffer to be beautiful" in french on my right leg

This is my tattoo.
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The picture was from right after it was taken, but I've had it for a few months now. I just love music so much. Band Geek is my other persona.


I really want to get something in German tattooed on me one day, but I can't decide what. MCR lyrics on my wrist are next though.

I have "invictus" on my left inner wrist. Coming from a less than stable family with an emotionally abusive mother left me wondering quite a bit about whether I was really in control of the things that happened in my life. The word comes from the title of a poem by William Ernest Henley and it means "unconquered" in Latin. It needs to be touched up but I love it to death and it reminds me every day that, yes, "I am the captain of my soul." xp /cheese

I have a yin-yang symbol between my shoulderblades I got March of 2010. I'd just gotten through a rough school semester, a bad breakup and a lot of life mess and I needed a little balance and stability in my life. So far it's worked wonders.

My second tattoo is a dragon that curves from the top of my right shoulder down almost to my elbow. I got her done about three weeks ago, and I've been meaning to get this tattoo since I was 19, and I'm now 23, so it's about time! I love fantasy, and dragons are the quintessential archetype. She's a silvery-blue colour, and reminds me to be strong and never give up on my dreams.

Once I save up moneys I plan on getting more. I absolutely love tattoos. So glad someone started this thread, you guys have some awesome pieces!

I currently have three:

First one is an intertwined Celtic heart design that I fell in love with. It doesn't have much meaning except that I thought it looked pretty. I got this in 2006 and it's on my right shoulder blade.

The second one is a treble clef-flower hybrid I got in April 2010. I got that because music has always been a huge part of my life and I wanted to have a constant reminder of that. This one is on my left ankle.

My third tattoo is a little orange flower with blue leaves. I got this in April 2011 and it's on my right wrist. Just a pretty design that I liked.

There are a few more that I want to get. My sister wants us to get matching tattoos on our left wrists, so that spot is reserved for whatever design she decides on. I want to get something writer related - a quote or a quill or something. There's also a rose design that I've fallen in love with, but since it's pretty large I'm a little chicken about getting it.

I have a black and white swirly thing on my lower back. I've had it for 7 years now and I still love it. I know there are some negative connotations in having a tattoo where I have mine, but I still don't regret it and I'm really pleased with how the design came out (I drew it myself).

I really want another, a rose in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but I'm struggling to decide where to put it as I can't have any visible tattoos for my job.

Wow, your tattoos are awesome. And such a load of them! Damn, I'm jealous!
I only got a half-assed dragon on my right upper arm. The tattoist stole it from ... the internet. It doesn't look nice enough to photograph. /:
To be exact about what it looks like: it's a tribal of a dragon's head and one of it's arms, with the claws streched out.

I wonder if it's possible to cover this horrible thing up?
At least I don't really hate it. I've seen worse so far. It's just that it's so unoriginal. I'd rather have a bird or something...
Well, let's see about that after the bird craze in my home region this year calms down (then again, I always loved birds and I'm still fascinated with them :D)

This is my first and only tattoo. I'd like to get more, but I only got it a few months ago and it took me about ten years to decide this one, so I'm still pondering what to get next.

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I designed it myself, though I got the wings/general shape from a stock tattoo design on DA and played with them til I was happy.
The stuff in the middle of the wings consists of:
Chinese symbol meaning 'the way' (which is what the Tao is known as)
Star of David
Celtic Cross
Aum symbol
Serpent
Alchemical Symbol for the Quintessence
Unicursal Hexagram

I combined all these different symbols to reflect the idea embodied in the saying 'One song, many voices.'

I have a tattoo of the Final Fantasy X version of the summon Shiva on my right arm. Because I am a dork. :D

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That was my first tat, I got it Feb this year. Basically, my tattoos are a form of self expression. They show different sides of me. So my zebra is my totem. it kicks me up the ass when I get a bit low on self esteem etc.

Then the one below I got in July. My phoenix shows my fire side, how I'm all about chaos, balance, rebirth, the full cycle really.



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I plan on getting 2 or 3 more but I'm not 100% sure what of yet. 1 down my back below the phoenix, I'm thinking 4 phoenix feathers maybe. Perhaps 1 on my stomach and another on my upper thigh. Then that's it, done, no more.

I would love to get a tattoo, but I just don't know what I'd want to get. I was thinking about getting something literary, maybe a quote from one of my favorite books or something, but I dunno. I have three more years ahead of me of being in college and therefore having a dozen tattoo parlors within walking distance, so I have time :)

I have three tattoos (for now... am always half-thinking about more)

When I was eighteen and at uni I wandered off to the local tattoo parlour with a design found after hours and hours browsing the free flash on the web. I returned with a small lynx on my left shoulder blade. I've always had an affinity for the feline, and just connected with the image.

A week or so later I went back to get a small rose on my right lower back. I've long held the rose as my favourite flower - it's just a classic beauty.

Finally, in March of this year (and when I was a worldly 25 years old) I did what I had been longing to do for a long time; I had picked another rose design, but a larger, more complex design, which now covers my left inner forearm. It's large and visible, unlike the first two, but it's probably my favourite (because I can actually see it!!!)

I have two tattoos. My first one is on my back. I think courage is my strenght and that's why I have wolf tattooed on my back. The wolf is still looking behind her back, which means to me not to forget about memories I have. If I forget about the things and people who did me badly, I'm not going to learn any of it.

The second one is on my wrist. It's small 5 with a ring around it. This tattoo has particularly meaning about a great friendship. My best friend has the same tattoo on her wrist too. I really love the story behind this tattoo 'cause it describes us to be so similar and near to each other. I really love it. Ü

I only have one and it's kind of small. It's the word "six" a heart with a little swirly thing and then the word "seven."
It took forever for me to get because I'm one of those people that will like something one day and dislike it the other so I knew it had to be something I really wanted. My birthday is June 7th so there's the 6/7 and also my son was born in 2006 and then my daughter in 2007 so that really is what tempted me to get it.

There's a ton of tattoos that I want/will probably never get because of money reasons but they are:
-Lyrics to a song called "Forever my Father" but written in a circle with my dad's initials inside of it. I lost him in 2004 and it took me forever to think of something that would signify him.
-The silhouette of a hammer head shark for my cousin that passed away. Like as if you were looking at it from the bottom of the ocean.
-On my foot, the quote "People walk in and out of your life but few leave footprints in your heart."
-A favorite sentence in one of my novels if I ever get published.

I have one tattoo, and I just got it last May after toying with the idea for several years. Getting something permanent on my body terrified me! But I love it. If I could hug my ankle I would. *nod* Yup.

I have on the outside of my left ankle. This is from the ending of The Andalite Chronicles, one of the Animorphs books that shaped my love of reading and desire to write. It's in thought-speak brackets and in the font that was used on the covers of the books.

It's kind of hard to verbalize how much that book series has changed my life. Needless to say, it has become the rock around which my literary self revolves. :P Pretty weighty influence for a kid series!

I have three... a fairy one that I got when I was 18... an Edgar Allan Poe inspired one that says 'Nevermore' and has the silhouette of a raven... and a one inspired by Orion's belt. :) I want tons more but they're not exactly cheap (at least the good ones).

Since I am too much of an idiot to work the picture thing out, I will just describe my tattoo's.

1. Angel wings on my right shoulder, black and grey shades. It was my first one and its a memory to those around me who have past away. It took about an hour and a half to make and I fell asleep whilst the artist was doing it. It is probably still my favourite.

2. A pink coloured lotus flower on my other shoulder to symbolise my own struggles. Lotus flower seeds develop in the mud of rivers and ponds and then grow towards the light before turning into something beautiful. It symbolises my life and how far I have come.

4. I have two black and white lily type flowers on my right upper arm. This was a bit of a spur of the moment thing but I love them still.

5. Next to that I have a small coloured butterfly that I had done during my holiday in Vegas 2 years back. My granddad died the day we went and I missed the funeral and everything because there was no way I could come back. I had the tattoo done while I was there but they gave me some lotion to protect it from the deser sun to which I was allergic and I got sunburn on it. From a distance the tattoo looks fine but it is actually scarred and I want it redone.

6/7. I have AMOR VINCIT OMNIA written on my lower back with a red rose above it. It means Love Conquers All and symbolises the relationship between me and my wife. We came from far, had to overcome the distance of two different countries, had a difficult start but still made it when many people around us thought we wouldn't. It also is something I believe in very strongly. As long as there is love, any form of love, anything can be overcome.


I want a few more, still in planning stages.

I have just the one, and it's a new one at that!
Can't work out the picture thingy (xp) but i can discraibe it:
It's all in black and the words say 'Space Time' in Latin (ish, i had to get a Latin grad to get my exact meaning across as the roman's didn't have a word for space as in the pretty stars) Time was easy thought :D and then there is a big symbol in the middle that is Gallifrayan for Dream or Dreamer.
So yeah, I'm a geek... :D