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Sillycalimomma
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11-13-2003

Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 10:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sillycalimomma a private message Print Post    
I thought it would be fun to share tattoo picture/stories. I have been thinking about getting another tattoo for years now and just can not put my finger on what I want. For me it has to have great meaning behind it and not just look good.
I got this tattoo on New Years 2000. Y2K. A group of girls that I have been great friends with since 7th grade and I were celebrating Y2K in Seattle and since one of the girls brother was a tattoo artist we decided to spend our New Years getting the same tattoo (all of us have different color flowers though-our favorite colors)
So, this one is mine


I am thinking that the next tattoo I get I want it to be the saying "Hearts and thoughts fade away" but I have no idea where to put it or what font!

Would love to hear others stories and see pics as well!

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 3:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
Silly, that's a fun story. I really like your tattoo. Love the shade of blue.

I got a tattoo around 1976. This was around the time when Cher was popular. I had seen a tattoo she had gotten from the tattoo artist, Cliff Raven. He had a place on the Sunset Strip, West Hollywood.

I decided to make an appointment with Raven. My girlfriend and I show up. There was this very, conservative older man in the waiting area. He was bald and wearing a black suit, white starched shirt, and skinny black tie. Not the normal attire for someone in a tattoo studio (especially in the 70's and on the strip).

I was given an album of photos to view. I couldn't believe how beautiful Raven's artwork was. I came to a page and the sweet looking old man suddenly start talking to me. He asked me if I liked that tattoo. It actually looked more like a beautiful tapestry than a tattoo.

I told him it was beautiful (even though "bodywork" is not for me). Then, he undoes his tie and unbuttons his shirt. This old, sweet, grandpa looking man had his whole chest done. I couldn't see one bit of skin without ink.

The photo in the album was of his chest. He told me it took several sessions to get it done.

So, a man comes out and we discuss what I want. I've decided on a small tattoo. I pick a cherry blossom. He then has me stand up before a mirror and puts "X"'s on different parts of my body with
an ink pen. This is to help pick a spot that looks aligned/balanced. So he/we decide on a spot. I then get taken in to see Raven. He discusses the color of ink that should/shouldn't be used on my skin tone. He discusses fading, etc. He then hand paints (not using the needle yet) a beautiful cherry blossom on my chest. It looks bigger than I thought it would be, as there is a delicate/thin twig/branch. Faint shades of green, red/blush, white.

I didn't expect all this "pre-work" with getting a tattoo, but I appreciated it.

Anyway, it looked beautiful. So I agree, and he does the tattoo. It hurt a little bit. I expected much worse.

That tattoo was really beautiful. It was so delicate....just like a cherry blossom.

I say "was" because, unfortunately, in 1980 I decided to have it removed. Even though it didn't show in office attire, I felt odd having a tattoo at a time when I started wearing suits, etc. for work. So, I regretted getting the tattoo back then...but now that I no longer wear office attire, I regret removing it. It was 1980 and I was listening to the news. They reported about a doctor in Redondo Beach. There were only a handful of doctors experienced/skilled in tattoo laser removal. He was one of the best. There was no pain (dermabrasion used to be the procedure and very painful).

The tattoo is now gone. Only a scar from the laser remains. I think I'm going to google "Cliff Raven"...see if I can find some of his work online.

So, that's my tattoo story. Off to google to find some photos now that I'm feelin' all nostalgic.

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sorry for being so chatty. i'm wide awake because i went to bed at 8pm last night. i'm wasting time, waiting for the sun to come up...going to go for a walk.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 7:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
What a cool idea for a thread Silly!

I am turning 40 is about 6 months and for my 40th birthday I have planned to get my first tattoo. I have picked the Union Jack for my mum who passed away 2 years ago and I plan to have it put on my right butt/hip area. It will be small but, I believe, significant.

That's my tattoo story. I'll post the real pictures after January 6th.

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Sillycalimomma
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11-13-2003

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 7:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sillycalimomma a private message Print Post    
great story Abby! You are quite a writer! Love it. Of course...now your gonna have to run out and get yourself a new cherry tattoo! lol....

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 8:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
I have 3 and thinking bout getting another. I've posted pics of the one below my wrist and the one on my chest but I'll post them again here when I get home. I also have a butterfly on my right ankle. I love tattoos and they can be addictive.

Oh Hip and I both got one when we were in Vegas last month.

Cher
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08-18-2004

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 8:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cher a private message Print Post    
I have a outline of a cat's face on my ankle on the outside of the left leg. I wanted to choose one that you don't see alot. I would like my sister and I to get tatoos together but she isn't ready yet.

Sillycalimomma
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11-13-2003

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sillycalimomma a private message Print Post    
mocha mocha mocha...I had no idea you were such a wild child! Can't wait to see the pictures!

I don't know how I didn't see your post until just now Vacanick, but I think that is a sweet idea. At first I thought you said you were putting it on your right butt (like a cabbage patch kid!) but I get it now! lol....don't forget to come pack and post a picture!

cher-that is exactly where my flower tattoo is! I couldn't decide where to put it...all of my friends were putting it on the top of their foot, but I thought that was stupid idea (plus it would fade much faster) so I put mine on my left ankle!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
:-)

Landi
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07-29-2002

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 8:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
this is funny, because i wrote this in someone's folder yesterday, so i'll quote myself.

quote:

inside hip on pelvic bone, AND YES IT DID! but there was no way in hell my momma was gonna see it, even if i was wearing a bikini! heck she didn't see it until i had holly and to go look at a my c-section scar! you should have seen me before the surgery yelling at my ob doctor. "DON"T YOU DARE CUT INTO THAT! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH IT HURT???" and he just laughed, and said, this is gonna be 18 years of hurt honey!


by the way it is a pink rose the leaves are quite lovely. it was done by this big biker dude, who was very worried about what he was touching and where he was doing it. and he was never inappropriate.

my next tattoo will be on holly's 18th birthday. i promised her that if she still wants one then, we'd get matching holly ivy around our right ankles.




Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 9:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Get this: My 53 year old mother is just recently getting into tattoos. Over the past 3 years or so, the woman has gotten dozens (I don't know the real number, and I think she's lost count).

She's gone tattoo crazy. She's gone to two tattoo conventions, and spends all of her extra money on ink.

She's a member here. I should get her to post. Here is a picture of her with my bf last summer. Note the half sleeve.

mom's sleeve

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 9:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Oh I like your mom's tatts Eeyore. Can you get a close up pic?

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 9:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
I'm enjoying reading everyone's stories. I have two tattoos. For one of my birthdays, my sister gave me two rocks etched with Native American symbols. One was ladies dancing and it represented "sisters." The other was a cougar, and it represented "strength." Both are rather primitive looking etchings, almost like cave drawings. I love them both and got the cougar tattoed on my left back. You can see the curve of my waist for a better idea of where it is. When I wear a bikini, it is right above the pants line. I like it there.



The other tattoo is a sun on my right shoulder blade. This is a bad picture. It was hard to take it of myself, LOL. I saw the design when I was getting the cougar tattoo and loved it. I got both tattoos relatively close together in time. Like Mocha said, it can be addictive.



I would like to get 2 more. I would like to get the "sisters" etching on my right butt and then a 4-leaf clover on my left abdomen.

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
Oh, and my tattoo artist was a hottie! He was flirting with me shamelessly and asked me out after my second tattoo. We went out one time and had a blast, but were just in too different places in our life to do anything more. If I ever write my novel, my main character is going to have a fling with a tattoo artist!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL Hermi!

My first tattoo I got when Caleb was about four months old. Darren and I went in with a friend and had them done. My step dad and mom are friends with the guy who owns the shop and as soon as he saw me walk in came over and talked to us, asked about the family, and why I was there. I told him I was looking for something small and girlie, I'd wanted a tattoo for a while but kept putting it off and I was ready to try it. He helped me pick out a little heart, then he took me in the back and introduced me to a kid who was about 12 (Ok, the kid was actually 19 but he looked so young!) The kid was apprenticing with this friend of my parents and I looked at him and said, nope, he's too young. LOL, mom and step dads friend told me not to worry, the kid wouldn't be working on people in his shop if he wasn't any good. He was right, the kid had a light touch and did a great job and I was done about 20 minutes later!

Second tattoo was about a year later. Butterfly on a vine, again very girlie and pretty. It was done at the same shop by a guy absolutely covered in tats. After we'd gone over and over what I wanted, and he took me to the back I actually looked at this guys face and realized we'd gone to jr high and high school together. We actually spent the whole time he was working on my tattoo talking about what we'd been doing since high school. Since Darren was with me he got to meet my husband and we talked about his wife and our kids. Cracked me up, through school he was always so quiet and never seemed the type to actually get one tattoo let alone become an artist, lol.

He did my third one too, a black and shaded heart on my chest a couple years later. We chatted about our kids, he'd had a second baby by then.

Because at the time I had mine done I worked with the elderly I wanted each of mine in places that were easily covered when I went to work. Most of my old folks never knew I had tats til I quit and showed up a few weeks later to visit wearing a tank top, lol.

My mom was horrified when I got my first tat, and with the next two she'd just shake her head and say, "Oh Sandy." My step dad had two eagles tattood on his forearms years ago by the friend who owned the shop, and when step dad died, mom did a complete reversal. She went over to the shop and talked to her friend, they worked on a tat and planned it out for weeks before she went in to have it done. He put the same eagle my step dad had on her left shoulder blade.

My sis who is actually the wild child in our family and yet has no tats went into the shop last week. She talked to moms friend and he started planning one that she, my younger "adopted" sister, the two younger "adopted" bros wives, and I all want to have done. It's the eagle my step dad and now mom has to honor his memory carrying a red rose to honor the memory of bil's mother who passed away earlier this month. And even though I love my first three, I have no doubt which one will mean the most to me after this one is done.

Saxywildcat
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05-30-2005

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saxywildcat a private message Print Post    
Okay... I have a nice little tattoo.. I need to find the photo of it really fast..

I had been thinking about a tattoo for a while. I looked and looked and looked for ideas. Finally, this past Christmas, when I went to NY with my fiance, I decided I was going to get one with my Christmas money. I finally found one that I liked, and I printed it off, and me, my fiance, and his sister all went to the place that his sister got all of her tattoos. Anyways.. I am a very musical person, I graduated in music ed. So.. this is my tattoo. It's on my back, to the left of my right bra strap.



Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
My mom shakes her head at mine too lol. The one on my chest hurt the least though. Both the wrist and ankle one hurt like hell though.

Oh and I don't hide the wrist one with long sleeves and stuff in fact each time I've had a briefing or meeting with the powers that be, I didn't cover it up. It's kinda like I'm telling them subconsciously to not judge me because I have tatts, judge me on the fact that I know my job.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 10:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
i like that mocha. how much are tatts going for these days? i may have to get mine now, and just have holly wait for hers. my husband doesn't have any btw.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Paid $60 in Vegas and here but the ankle one cost $100 I think and that was back in '98.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
You know Mocha, the only one that really hurt for me was the one on my chest. The other two were a breeze, but that one hurt like hell! That might have had something to do with the position I was in, having my head held back and left arm down at my side for quite a while too. He had to stop a couple times for me to stretch some, lol.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Lol. I was surprised my chest one didn't hurt actually cause I was expecting the same pain as the others. If I had known it wouldn't hurt I would've gotten a bigger tatt lol.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL! How far does the one on your wrist go? I once saw a daisy braclet that cirled the whole wrist that I just loved, but thought having it done on the inside of the wrist would really hurt. I love my tats but if I can avoid pain I'm going too, LOL.

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
Love your story, War. My dad shakes his head at me. Mom pretty much rolls with it. She had a much harder time with my pierced tongue than she did my tats, but even that is just another one of my quirks to her now, LOL.

Saxy, I like your tat. That's pretty. And Silly, yours, too. Both are very delicate. Looking forward to seeing more pictures from people.

The one on my lower back hurt. The one on my shoulder blade didn't.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
War, it's not exactly on the wrist as the tatt guy said that's not a good place to get it cause of the veins. So it's about an inch below where my watch is. I'll get one of the boys to take a pic so you can see how far down it is. But it hurt like hell.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Cool. Thats what I figured. The skin there is kinda thin and you don't have much fat there to pad it any.

When we were teenagers, it was always my sister mom was shaking her head at, never me til I was an adult with a child, LOL. Still cracks me up.

I remember the day I became my mother, lol. Darren and I were walking through the mall, pushing Caleb in a stroller and we saw a group of young teen age girls showing off their home done belly button peircings. Not a one of them could have been over 14, and all of em with saftey pins sticking out of their belly buttons. I made a comment to Darren about belly button peircings not bothering me unless it was done stupidly (like with a saftey pin!) and he told me to take a closer look at one of the girls. It was my bils young sister, and I walked up, shook my head, and said, "Oh Alisha." I about fell over when I recognized the tone I'd said it in.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Friday, July 29, 2005 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
My mom and dad both have tattoo's!! roflol.. and since I'm on their puter, maybe I can post a pic...

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