Archive through November 05, 2001
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Archive through November 05, 2001
Car54 | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 09:36 am   Ok, over in the Tom thread it is looking like EVERYBODY here has a tattoo... I am really amazed.. so here is the place to "come clean"- Tell us...do you TATTOO?????? |
Willi | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 09:46 am   No. I did buy tattoo bandaids once, however. They must look "real" because my girlfriend shook her head at me and said, "I never would of believed it." I explained to her that a majority of wounds in the ER are due to people cutting themselves while slicing bagels. Really. We eventually figured out we were talking about two different things & I got a very nifty bagel slicer for my birthday. But no tattooes.
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Aussiecoppin | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 09:47 am   Yep..count me in Car54..got my first one about 3 months ago..the good ole tax check george sent us paid for it .. its on my leg just above the ankle..its of a dolphin going over a moon..there is a sun there too..and i have my sons name over it and my daughters name under it..got it in their honor cuz they live in Australia with my ex husband and i miss them..as i was getting it i was saying i want more...it didnt hurt at all..a friend who was with me got a purple rose with a wolf paw print on her left ankle...now i just gotta decide what i want next..
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Deirpg | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 09:53 am   Yup, I have two. I have one on my hip shaped like a shamrock with the Irish flag inside it. My second is a celtic design around my ankle. No more though! |
Tksoard | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 10:00 am   The Irish thing is great!! I don't have any tatoos, but if I did, It would be either a shamrock, or an !! I have so many scars on my body, and a tatoo would just bring attention to the ugly things. |
Willi | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 10:00 am   Aussie... That is far more interesting that what I did with our tax check. |
Car54 | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 10:27 am   LOL Willi-me too I am afraid of the needles, but I am feeling left out, maybe I'll get me some of those rub on tattoos-just for when I'm on the computer. |
Missy2 | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 11:27 am   I have a swirly design on my lower back right above my toosh ;)I covers my back. I would like to get something else done, not sure what though? Maybe some kanji writing on the back of my neck or going down my spine, I really like that. I got my tattoo when I was 23, I also have my tongue pierced and my navel. I was considering getting my bottom lip pierce but it seems like it might be a bit much for me...I'm starting to feel too old! |
Ophiliasgrandma | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 11:52 am   MISSY2<><>/Too old? Never! I'm a great grandmother and I'm trying to talk a couple of my grandkids into getting one with me. They just roll their eyes and say, 'Oh, grandma!' If I ever really do screw up the courage I think I'll go the butterfly, fariy route on my upper arm. At my age I never wear sleeveless, but still I could roll up my sleeve and show it off occasionally. |
Willi | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 12:07 pm   Car, I just plied on another tattoo bandaid & I'm feeling hipper already! Ophiliasgrandma, I'd love to see the look on your grandkids/greatgrandkids faces if you were to try a temporary tattoo... |
Quietstorm4 | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 12:54 pm   I would love a tattoo, been wanting one since college. I have the perfect one picked out and already know the location...but can you say CHICKEN???? That's me. |
Moondance | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 01:08 pm   I used to have a belly ring... does that count? |
Oregonfire | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 01:31 pm   I have a fairy ring tatooed around my belly button that I designed myself. I had it done in Thailand after a horrible breakup to "exorcise" the pain. (Sadly, it did not work.) Anyway, the tatoo has not faded much at all, and most of the time I forget that I have it. Usually it is trapped between the two rolls of flab that is my tummy, so it's pretty well-preserved. I don't think it's changed my life or says anything about me as a human being or anything like that. It's just some body art is all. Well, okay the fairy ring is somewhat symbolic because if you step inside of a fairy ring, you are then on fairy time, and can come out hundreds of years later and everyone who was bugging you is dead. Nice, huh? |
Spygirl | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 01:40 pm   I have a tatto of a crescent moon with stars around it and my sorority letters over the top...I designed it and three of my sisters and I got it over spring break one year. It is just inside my right hipbone...although not ENOUGH inside. I was the first of the three of us to go, and the back edge of the crescent moon was a SHADE too close to my hip bone. Let me just say - OUCH! The other two moved theirs in a little more...safely away from the hip bone. The soft tissue doesn't hurt as much, but get a bone under there and hello! Everything is outlined in black and the moon is filled in with yellow and the greek letters are filled in with blue (they are bubbled). I have no regrets about mine -- it is safely tucked away in a place that doesn't get seen, and since I did it for me, not the rest of the world, I'm quite happy. Only doctors have seen it (and anyone I've shown b/c it is not in an awkward place). Every exam I've had in the last five years has lead to a line of questions from the doctor and nurse about my sorority and the tattoo. Very fun! |
Realtvfan | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 02:48 pm   Not me. I just have no interest at all. None what so ever. |
Fflur | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 03:12 pm   Count me in on the tattoo and the Irish thing too...mine is a small shamock on my lower left shoulder. Thinking of the celtic knot design on the ankle area, but just havent gotten around to it. |
Blonde | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 03:19 pm   Cher, who was one of the first celebs to start the tattoo craze, had hers removed a couple of years ago and declared them passe. Although, now that she is in her mid-50's, she is probably passe now, too. I have no desire to have anything permanent drawn on my skin. But both my daughter and daughter-in-law (in their 20's) have small ones and I like how they look on them. |
Ophiliasgrandma | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 04:08 pm   OREGONFIRE Thailand....were you nuts? I hope it was a long time ago and you didn't get some horrible disease that killed you dead. |
Oregonfire | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 05:19 pm   lol Ophilia...I used to a lot of things that should've killed me dead--no, that particular dumb move did not! |
Weinermr | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 06:25 pm   Nope, no tattoos here. When I was growing up, it was the men who had the tattoos, and the women who wore earrings, but now........ Times do change, don't they! |
Joan | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 09:05 pm   No tattoos, only piercings but nothing too extreme there either.  |
Mahrajah | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 09:38 pm   ive got 4 but all in sexy areas.. lol. get yo mind out the gutter.. not there by the way..lol |
Sunshinemiss | Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 09:43 pm   No tattoos. Have considered it a few times and even made a pact with a friend once, but was secretly glad when they backed out. Awfully permanent, and who knows what I will want on my body 20 years from now. I have used temporary ones several times and thought they were a lot of fun, though. Not against them on general principle; but in our superficial society they do still carry a bit of a stigma, as people (rightly or wrongly) judge you by what you look like and how you adorn your body. I find life to be hard enough without adding to any list of possible problem-causers. But for those people confident enough to thumb their noses, more power to you. |
Resortgirl | Monday, November 05, 2001 - 05:47 am   My daughter had wanted one when she was 16 and I told her NO! Not until you are an adult(turns out they don't give them to people under 18 around here anyway). So last summer she told me she was going to get one and asked if I wanted to come and I said sure! Once there I decided to get one too. A small "thorny" rose on my ankle. I guess that's why mine hurt so much spygirl. It's right on my boney ankle. I would probably get another, as long as I could put on some soft fleshy part....like my butt would be perfect but I'd be too embarassed to bare it. LOL! |
Sukii1 | Monday, November 05, 2001 - 06:20 am   If I had a choice I'd have probably at least 4 of my 7 removed, but it's expensive, and the longer you've had them, the more they seep into your skin, so even if you have them lasered out, I believe they still leave a faint outline. Anyhow, I have 3 bigger ones (about 4-5 inches long), a unicorns head and mane, a rose, and a vine with butterflies, then I have 4 smaller ones: a heart with wings, another smaller rose, another rose with two butterflies, and three small butterflies in a circle. I got all of them in Germany except for the heart with wings, which I got in South Carolina while I was basic training. Four of us girls got a pass, and all went out and got one lol. Funny thing in Germany, you didn't have to pay with deutchmarks, you could pay with a carton of cigs and a bottle of Jack Daniels..lol. The black market over there was going strong, and since military personel had cheap access to cigs and alcohol, it was easy to do a trade. I have to agree with Sunshinemiss about the stigma, it's very true (at least here in good ole midwest podunk Kansas lol). It doesn't bother ME to have the tattoos and I wear sleeveless/tanktops/etc all the time in the summer, so 4 of them are easily exposed, and I've gotten a whole range of attitude and looks from people. Mostly the disgusted looks come from senior citizens who think I must be some kind of "biker chick" (my mother said same thing to me 15 years ago when I got my first one and she saw it when I came home on leave lol. This combined with the major vulgar mouth I'd obtained too) I think with as many people nowadays that I see that have them, the stigma isn't there as much, although I still get stares. I've just learned to stare people down when they stare at me, lol, unnerves them. Anyhow, for the most part, I'd do things a little different now...certainly I wouldn't have this many lol. |
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