The All-New Official Tattoo thread!

baps · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 10:51 am

My mum always says my tattoos will look stupid when I'm 80. If i'm still kicking at 80 I'm sure I won't give a shiitake!

booberthefraggle · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 11:15 am

yeah, I think when parents or other people who are of a different generation ask me that question they don't take in to account the prevalence of tattoos in our culture right now. They're coming from a time period where sailors and drug addicts were the people who had tattoos, and "nice respectable people" were free of ink. I usually respond that I will be pretty happy as an old tattooed lady, and so will a couple thousand of my peers.

clairey.lou · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 3:29 pm

vijita wrote:

Four hours in on my new forearm tattoo. The (velveteen) rabbit will be coloured in dark browns and tan, and some of the leaves need to be coloured. I love it so far!

Top of the arm

Back

Side

Bonus cookbook shelf background?

That rabbit is lovely!

megs · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:32 am **Posts:** 520

vijita, that looks great. I really like the shading going on. Rowan, the platypus is very cool and you look so happy with it in your pics! yay!

melisser · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 4:21 pm

Rowan wrote:

Out of curiousity, how do you guys respond when people ask the question "what if twenty years down the road you hate your tattoo and regret getting it?"?

I'm pretty flippant about it. There's going to be lots of tattooed old people when I'm old. Besides, I have a tattoo from 12 years ago that's stupid.. what's 20 more years? ha!
Besides, look at this bad asparagus..

I'm down to look like that.

janejellyroll · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 4:26 pm

melisser wrote:

Rowan wrote:

Out of curiousity, how do you guys respond when people ask the question "what if twenty years down the road you hate your tattoo and regret getting it?"?

I'm pretty flippant about it. There's going to be lots of tattooed old people when I'm old. Besides, I have a tattoo from 12 years ago that's stupid.. what's 20 more years? ha!
Besides, look at this bad asparagus..
I'm down to look like that.

I love that picture!

Rowan · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 7:50 pm

Phoenix wrote:

Me too. But my tattoos are so "me" that I can't imagine ever regretting any of them.
Also, I think I have an even bigger crush on you now, Rowan. ;)

Aww Shucks!

lastnightilie · **Joined:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:33 pm **Posts:** 18

It's a Bouncing Souls tattoo, because I love them. Got it on my 18th birthday :)

jewbacca · **Posted:** Wed May 04, 2011 9:25 am

melisser wrote:

Rowan wrote:

Out of curiousity, how do you guys respond when people ask the question "what if twenty years down the road you hate your tattoo and regret getting it?"?

I'm pretty flippant about it. There's going to be lots of tattooed old people when I'm old. Besides, I have a tattoo from 12 years ago that's stupid.. what's 20 more years? ha!
Besides, look at this bad asparagus..

I'm down to look like that.

YES!!!!!

ExpiredSanity · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 2:42 pm

Vijita and Rowan those are beautiful! I want my next tattoo to be done at the Tattoo Zoo.

Rowan wrote:

Out of curiousity, how do you guys respond when people ask the question "what if twenty years down the road you hate your tattoo and regret getting it?"?

I just tell them that I got my tattoo during one of the best times of my life, when met some of my best friends, and no matter how it may change over the years, it will always remind me of that.

jordanpattern · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 3:35 pm

Rowan wrote:

Out of curiousity, how do you guys respond when people ask the question "what if twenty years down the road you hate your tattoo and regret getting it?"?

I think this is such a dumb question, so I often will just give a withering look, but I usually pull some version of "I'll worry about it when it happens then/none of your stupid business/don't you have better things to worry about/so you've never done anything you weren't 100% certain you would be happy with for the rest of your life?"

When I'm 80 years old, I'm pretty sure I'll have better things to think about then my tattoos looking bad.

vijita · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 3:36 pm

ExpiredSanity wrote:

Vijita and Rowan those are beautiful! I want my next tattoo to be done at the Tattoo Zoo.

I can't recommend them enough! Awesome guys, awesome environment, vegan inks, vegan calzones next door... I was blown away by Gerry's understanding of my very intangible vision.

Adah · **Joined:** Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:25 pm **Posts:** 1186

jordanpattern wrote:

Rowan wrote:

Out of curiousity, how do you guys respond when people ask the question "what if twenty years down the road you hate your tattoo and regret getting it?"?

I think this is such a dumb question, so I often will just give a withering look, but I usually pull some version of "I'll worry about it when it happens then/none of your stupid business/don't you have better things to worry about/so you've never done anything you weren't 100% certain you would be happy with for the rest of your life?"

When I'm 80 years old, I'm pretty sure I'll have better things to think about then my tattoos looking bad.

Yeah. I figure that in 50 years, I'm going to be pretty rough looking anyway. Who notices tattoos when you're wrinkled like a Sharpei puppy?

Vuohi · **Posted:** Fri May 20, 2011 1:35 am

I have those creatures in my back. Al hails to RB thats the most importana and honoured doom-metal group to me.

Everything · **Posted:** Fri May 20, 2011 9:30 am

I got a stick-n-poke tattoo yesterday. I actually really like it! It kind of reminds me of a toe-ring.
My friend got a little whale on his inner am, I should've gotten a pic of that, it was super cute!

I love drunk art students who have an affinity for body modification haha

bothering · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 11:50 am

here's my newest tattoo, done by tamara waite-santibanez:

moz and kittens by max kuhn:

max did these matching bummer tattoos on my friend and me as well as my lone wolf tattoo:

legolas · **Joined:** Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:13 am **Posts:** 69

cstadt wrote:

I've also been thinking about where I'd get large tattooes. I am not comfortable enough with my body to get anything on my arms or back, but maybe my legs.

I love the title art for Ponyo:

ponyo by CDStadt, on Flickr
this is the only picture I could find, but it's not the scene I'd get. I'd get the one with only whales or onlly squid/octopi.

and this:

smash by CDStadt, on Flickr
and/or the first page of the inlet of MCatIS with the ivy and spiderweb

smashing pumpkins cover art is AMAZING. That's why I first started listening to the band.

missmuffcake · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 4:04 pm

bothering - love you work...

bakedfish · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:43 am

I have an appointment with Silje at Scapegoat for July during my Portland extravaganza. Yay!

fupapack · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:56 am

lucky! i love her blog.

melisser · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:11 pm

bothering wrote:

moz and kittens by max kuhn:

I DIE.

bothering · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:35 pm

hey, don't! we match! <3

sarahnorine · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:08 am

Ok I finally took pics of all of mine. I apologize because my iPhone camera doesn't do these types of photos well at all.

Got one of these on both my wrists.

Family tat.

9 hours, it a cherry blossom branch and a John Ashberry quote that's on a bridge in Minneapolis.

I honor of my Grandy.

In honor of my first puppy love and my present puppy love.

Yep. Hope these show up when I press submit.

AutumnVegan · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:46 pm

I'm in contact with an artist about the artichoke tattoo! Yay! Waiting to hear about availability and veganness (though searching through google it looks like he uses vegan ink)-he was scheduling for August/September last week.

vijita · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:15 pm

I think I might get my Velveteen Rabbit half-sleeve finished next week, even though it is putting me seriously in debt. I just love it so much!

Just curious, how much do you guys think is reasonable for a forearm half sleeve with an experienced/well-known artist who uses vegan inks? My partner and I have some discord on whether or not my artist is charging an arm and a leg for this piece. It is really expensive, but I hugely respect him, love his work, and he did a ton of work sketching and re-sketching my less-than-tangible ideas. My other tattoos are all pretty small, and I got them before I was vegan/grew the fork up and stopped getting dumb tattoos. I'm just curious what you guys would pay, since we don't really know what is industry standard. My boyfriend has a couple of cool tattoos, but they were all free because he let learning friends tattoo him (which I think is kind of crazy, though they are pretty nice).

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