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Archive through January 14, 2003
Jbean | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 04:12 am     ok, i read herm's post about starting this thread, and i looked and didn't see it, so i decided to start it. mine are: tattoos, i have 3; my first one was a tweety bird on my right lower abdomen, got it when i was 21, the second is a celestial sun on my right ankle, think i was 23. and the third is a very small butterfly on my lower back, right above my butt. i was 24 and on spring break when i got it..the 3 other girls i was with also got tattoos. piercings: navel, 3 in each ear lobe, 1 on left cartilage, and my left rook (i can't really explain where it is, if you want to know, check out some piercing sites). and i did have my eyebrow pierced a couple of years ago, but i took it out because i got sick of having to hide it at work, under my hair. also, i am going on saturday to get part of my right cartilage pierced (choosing that side, as not to be off balance). lol. the part i am getting done is called the snug. the unusual ones look painful, but the rook really wasn't. so what does everyone else have? ps. great idea for a thread, herm! |
Kaili | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 04:22 am     I just have one about the size of an Oreao on my left inner ankle- a celtic design that I don't remember what it means but I like it. I got it on the last day I was living in Arizona- my friend Jane and I went and got them done right before I left town. I would get more, but I don't want to deal with hiding them. No piercings either- had my ears pierced when I was younger but I never liked it- I didn't like hanging stuff out of my ears, never felt like changing them, and just didn't see the point for me to have them. I thought about the eyebrow, but it's the whole school thing that keeps me from being able to do stuff like that. |
Djgirl5235 | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 04:29 am     I just got my one and only tattoo a year ago. I had been wanting to get one for years, but could never figure out what I wanted, and I didn't want to just walk into a tattoo parlour and pick something off the wall, I wanted it to mean something - it's permanent, so I thought I should still want to have it 50 years from now. I sat down one night, and thought of the influences that have been in my life, and decided that since I had been singing and performing for 22 years, that I should have something to do with music. I turned a treble cleff on it's side and intertwined with the bass cleff to the left side, and an eighth rest on the right. I have it in my lower back, and it's about 2" high and 4" wide... it looks really good, although I have to get it refilled - I bled too much... Piercings - I just have my ears done, once, and never wear earrings... that's it though... Great idea for a thread!!! |
Christina | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 04:51 am     I have a small tattoo on my left outer ankle, a rose with hearts. Both are my favourite things. My son thought I was the coolest mom in the world, when he took me to get my nose pierced in September. I loved it. It didnt hurt , cuz I got it frozen. Took the piercing out 3 weeks later. My husband would only stare at my nose when talking to me. He hated it. I miss it. |
Essence | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 05:10 am     I have two holes in each ear. I've been wanting a tattoo for a while now, but can you say CHICKEN??? I'm just too afraid of the pain. People tell me that where I want it (behind my left shoulder) would really hurt so I haven't gone out and done it. |
Sukii1 | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 05:15 am     Jbean, when I saw the title to this thread, I just KNEW it was you who started it LOL! Here goes mine: I've got 7 tattoos #1 is a heart with wings, the size of a quarter, on upper left chest #2 is a beautiful rose with a small heart intertwined with a vine, upper right chest #3 is a unicorn's head, upper right arm #4 is another rose, long-stemmed, on upper left arm #5 is a long vine with butterflies on it, lower inside right arm #6 is a small rose with two butterflies, lower outside left arm #7 is 3 small butterflies in a circle, on my back, upper right shoulder All are done in color, all were done about 18 years ago or thereabouts when I was young and in the Army over in Germany (Hey, no one was gonna tell ME anything, I knew it ALL of course LOL). Piercings: I had 5 in one ear, and 4 in another when I was a teenager, and now only have two in each ear, as I let the rest close up. I also have one in left cartilage that I just love, it's gotta be my favorite. I've been thinking too, Jbean, of getting my right ear cartilage done, just so I balance out ;) No other piercings. The belly rings are soooo cute, my 25 year old sister just got one, and I love it. However, I just don't really have the figure anymore to get one and feel comfortable exposing my stomach. |
Jeep | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 05:38 am     Oh no! Just reading this thread makes me hurt! Am I the only one with just the standard pierced ears with one hole and no tattoos??? I guess I'm VERY conservative . |
Squaredsc | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 06:12 am     jbean, i knew you were going to do this. i have your standard 4 holes in each ear, i usually only wear 1 set of earings though. but the holes are still there. i have 1 tatoo on my right outer ankle of a butterfly, side view, and its in color, and i love it. it hurt like a mf. i got it in '98 and i want another one on the other ankle. something circling it but i know it will hurt again like a mf so im thinking of something smaller. but i don't know when i will get it done. |
Halfunit | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 06:12 am     Jeep - I have you beat by one piercing. I have two in my left ear, and one in my right. I did them myself when I was 14. No ice, no nothing. I used my sisters' starter earings with the sharp points. I actually did two in each ear, but one in my right ear became infected so I let it close up. I rarely wear earings. I do have somewhat of a homemade tattoo. When I was 12, my sister (10 at the time) stabbed my upper left arm with a pencil, and the graphite stayed. Someday I'd like to get a giraffe on my lower leg / ankle area. Someday.... |
Jeep | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 06:22 am     Half, that's exactly how I pierced my ears! My mother would have nothing to do with it, so I used the starter earings with the sharp points, too. I was 13. If she ever knew about them, she never said anything. Now she's 82 and wishes she had her ears pierced. Funny how things turn around. Can't count anything as a tattoo unless scars from "teenage" auto accidents qualify. |
Rissa | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 06:37 am     Jeep... over here!!! LOL My parents were very conservative, I wasn't even allowed to wear Jeans until grade 6!! That same year I had been begging and begging for earrings. For my birthday, my dad gave me a card and inside he had written this long, beautifull poem (my dad writes poetry the way you and I breathe. LOL). It was mushy, sentimental and full of father-loves-daughter prose that would make Scrooge cry. LOL Then the bottom 2 lines were (paraphrasing obviously).... he couldn't find anyone would ram a bone through my nose so here is a certificate to have holes drilled in my ears. I don't wear any jewellry now unless we are going out somewhere, not even a wedding ring. My peircings never grew over, even though I only wear earrings maybe once or twice a year. I know people who have tattoos though, does that count? LOL |
Fanny | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 06:40 am     I did my own ears when I was a teenager, too. I used the old ice cube/clothespin/sewing needle method but the sewing needle was too small and didn't punch big enough holes. So after unsuccessfully reaming out my ears trying to make the holes bigger, I had to go search out a larger darning needle and do it over again. This is a technique I wouldn't recommend. |
Weenerlobo | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 06:47 am     Jeep - that's me, standard. No tatoos and just one hole in each ear. Yep, boooooooooring! |
Essence | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 06:49 am     Fanny, that's how my ears were pierced (the first time) when I was 5 yrs old. I remember the ice cubes and then seeing the needle, wondering what in the world are they about to do to me. It was my mother holding me and my aunt poking me. The second set was much simpler. I went to the mall on my 18th birthday to have it done. |
Fluff | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 06:54 am     Do tatoos reallllly hurt? Not that I want one, but I heard this girl say that it felt like some diggin'! |
Twinkie | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 07:00 am     I just have the boring hole in each ear. And I rarely wear earrings. I rarely wear any jewelry at all. Most of the time when I am at home I don't even wear my engagement and wedding rings. Just not big on jewelry although I have some gorgeous jewelry. |
Sukii1 | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 07:09 am     Fluff, it depends on where you get them. The one on my inner right arm hurt AWFUL, but that's really thin skin there. The ones on my chest and back shoulder were the least painful to me, although I've heard other people say that ones on the chest hurt them. Either way, they don't hurt enough to make you cry, just maybe grit your teeth a little. If you get them around bone, like the ankle, I think it tends to hurt quite a bit more. |
Fluff | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 07:15 am     Thanks! *shivering* |
Hummingbird | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 07:18 am     I'm with jeep, no tatoos and one pierce in each ear. Sorry, don't like tatoos. |
Justme | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 07:19 am     I have one tattoo, which was my 35th birthday present to myself. It's a flower,size of a half dollar on the top of my left foot. I love it! Piercings, three in each ear but usually only wear earrings in two of them. I have a pair of diamonds that are in all the time and then occasionally will pair them up with something that is a little bit more fun |
Squaredsc | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 07:23 am     well i guess i was high tech, 'cause I had all of my ear piercings done in the Mall with the gun. fluff, it depends on your tolerance for pain. for instance, take your finger nail and dig it into your skin and move it around your arm or leg while digging. thats what it felt like to me. and i have a low tolerance for pain. |
Staceyinpa | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 07:55 am     I have the standard ear-piercing (done when I was 6 yrs old).. then I got a second set when I was 14. I got a tattoo when I was 29, on my lower back. I, like you Djgirl, wanted it to mean something, not just do it to do it... I am a really spiritual person, (some would say religious)and did a lot of searching and praying about it. My life has been 'dificult' but one thing I always really enjoyed was watching sunsets. After very hard days, I would take 15 minutes to myself, and just sit on the front porch and watch the sunset, and it was like God was speaking to me. He was painting this beautiful picture just for me to enjoy and reassure me that He is always 'watching my back', and is always there for me. I had sort of an epiphany when I was deciding to get my tattoo. I ended up getting a sunburst outline with 4 of the rays enlongated a bit to form kind of a cross, and inside the outline is a sunset over the ocean. I actually designed it myself in my mind, and ended up getting it done during my church's women's conference one year. (We always have them at Ocean City) I found a tattoo shop, 'interviewed' the guy, and told him what I envisioned... He was able to put my vision on paper exactly! So I got it done the next day. It's not where anyone can see it (unless I show it to them) because it is a personal thing for me. I am forever "branded" as one of God's children, and I know He will never leave me or forsake me... He's always waiting to paint me a new picture. |
Justme | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 08:09 am     Stacey, that sounds beautiful! |
Hermione69 | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 08:15 am     Stacey, that sounds like a really cool tattoo and I love the story behind it. Here's mine: I have two tattoos. One year for my birthday my sister gave me two stones that have Native American drawing/symbols carved in them. One is a cougar. It looks like a cave drawing of cat, very primitive, and it means courage and strength. My sister said she picked it because I am one of the strongest people that she knows. The other is of two women dancing, again, very primitive like cave art, and it means sisters. It was a very meaningful gift to me. I got the cougar tattooed on the left side of my lower back. It is small and black. It means a lot to me. That one hurt. I had to straddle a chair and scooch my butt out and I was not only biting the back of the chair, but I was squeezing my friend's hands so hard that her wedding ring was cutting into her fingers. While I was in the shop for the cougar tattoo I saw a piece of flash (that is the term for tattoo art) that I fell in love with. It was a sun design, again, all black. I went back and had that one done a couple of months later on my right shoulder blade. That one didn't hurt at all. It was actually kind of erotic because the tattoo artist was a hottie and I was straddling the chair again and I had to look over my shoulder to communicate with him and it was extremely intimate. No friend this time, just me and the tattoo artist. The tattoo artist and I actually went out later; we were very attracted to each other. We just went out one time because we were in very different places in our lives and it was too weird. That is probably a good thing because who know how many more tattoos I would have ended up with if we had kept dating! I would love to get the sisters symbol tattooed on my rear end, but only if my sister agrees to do it with me and I haven't been able to talk her into it!!! I also want to get a 4-leaf clover on my lower left abdomen. I would design that one myself. Piercings story to come later..... |
Pcakes2 | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 08:25 am     Hey JBean...great thread. I have 4 piercings in each ear, but only occasionally wear 2 sets. I had my nose pierced years ago. It is a simple silver ball, and I love it. I also have a tiny blue dot on my thigh from when I thought I wanted a tatoo. I was way to drunk, and realized I was making a mistake. I was 19 years old...a lifetime ago! Some day I will try it again! Hey Suk!!! |
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