Do you have any tattoos and if so of what and where?
I’m thinking about getting one. No clue of what but I kind of want one
26-30, F
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Freeranger · M
This one keeps coming full circle and to echo an answer to the question my first response is:
Why? Why do you want one?
Because I'll tell you. Once you've inked, it's permanent. I have watched people who I know, and those I know less, and I cannot tell you how many times I've either seen a very poor ink artist or.....you can tell that, that walking canvas was not so much invested in the ink as they were in looking cool or trendy.
Ink IS a personal choice, an art form. Ink should be a personal statement, a history of who you are. Mine are of my military service and who I once was...and when I step out of the shower and towel off, they are there to remind me of the company of young lions in the service to my nation that I was once part of.....that is so wholly important to me, as someone from a Gold Star family. It speaks to sacrifice of that personal self, but also by extension to the ultimate personal sacrifice of family.
So, sit down and decide that "why." And, if you have made that decision to roll ahead, then for heaven's sake, research your ink doctor and go look at their work. Make it about you....who you are, when someone reads your ink.
Funny short story.... I'd spent many, many years on the coast working along the beach and, one day, a 20-something kid came tenuously in to the parking lot where I was parking beach goers and....he had a question. He said to me....."my wife saw your tats from the bathroom window where we're staying (which overlooked the lot) and she loved your ink".
She called him over, he saw my ink and, he decided to come over and ask.
The bizarre part was that, my artist and he had been mates back in their day,
Phunny how the worm turns.......
Concluding, understand the "why" first. The design second, and thirdly, what you want to convey. Your body really is a walking canvas. Once is layed, it's played.
Cheers
Why? Why do you want one?
Because I'll tell you. Once you've inked, it's permanent. I have watched people who I know, and those I know less, and I cannot tell you how many times I've either seen a very poor ink artist or.....you can tell that, that walking canvas was not so much invested in the ink as they were in looking cool or trendy.
Ink IS a personal choice, an art form. Ink should be a personal statement, a history of who you are. Mine are of my military service and who I once was...and when I step out of the shower and towel off, they are there to remind me of the company of young lions in the service to my nation that I was once part of.....that is so wholly important to me, as someone from a Gold Star family. It speaks to sacrifice of that personal self, but also by extension to the ultimate personal sacrifice of family.
So, sit down and decide that "why." And, if you have made that decision to roll ahead, then for heaven's sake, research your ink doctor and go look at their work. Make it about you....who you are, when someone reads your ink.
Funny short story.... I'd spent many, many years on the coast working along the beach and, one day, a 20-something kid came tenuously in to the parking lot where I was parking beach goers and....he had a question. He said to me....."my wife saw your tats from the bathroom window where we're staying (which overlooked the lot) and she loved your ink".
She called him over, he saw my ink and, he decided to come over and ask.
The bizarre part was that, my artist and he had been mates back in their day,
Phunny how the worm turns.......
Concluding, understand the "why" first. The design second, and thirdly, what you want to convey. Your body really is a walking canvas. Once is layed, it's played.
Cheers