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Ink Work why do we do it???
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Why do you think is it so addictive and I keep going back for more. I mean it hurts when you have it done then it stings for days and when it as settled down I go back and have some more done. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Why do you think is it so addictive and I keep going back for more. I mean it hurts when you have it done then it stings for days and when it as settled down I go back and have some more done."
Have little ones like me they dont hurt lol xx  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Why do you think is it so addictive and I keep going back for more. I mean it hurts when you have it done then it stings for days and when it as settled down I go back and have some more done.
Have little ones like me they dont hurt lol xx "
they won't now yer daft bugger  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Da plane, da plane.
Ya dug yaself out yet? pmsl xx 
Got hame late, pissed off that we missed you guys. "
Always next time just glad ya got home safe xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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some of us do it because we love the feeling we get from start to finish its a buzz .....and no not into pain but cant really say the how i feel when i have one done 18 so far and wanting lots more |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Da plane, da plane.
Ya dug yaself out yet? pmsl xx
Got hame late, pissed off that we missed you guys.
Always next time just glad ya got home safe xx "
Cheers mate. 
Back to the topic..... No tatoo`s here, I`m a total coward, nuff said.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Mine are just getting bigger
Huh better have one on me cock then xx 
would take more than a tattoo for that!!!!  "
Feeling a little better are we dear?? xx |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Mine are just getting bigger
Huh better have one on me cock then xx
would take more than a tattoo for that!!!!
Feeling a little better are we dear?? xx "
sounds it |
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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago
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"Mine are just getting bigger
Huh better have one on me cock then xx
would take more than a tattoo for that!!!!
Feeling a little better are we dear?? xx sounds it "
nope, but certain things are too good to pass on, even when on your death bed |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Mine are just getting bigger
Huh better have one on me cock then xx
would take more than a tattoo for that!!!!
Feeling a little better are we dear?? xx sounds it
nope, but certain things are too good to pass on, even when on your death bed"
You got that mattress tattoed to yer back? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ink on the elderly looks truly awful.. sometimes i think 'why the hell have you ruined your body with crap'
the clients i had with tattoo's often regretted it, but at the time it was a good idea. |
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When I interview people for shop assistant jobs with me I place a lot of emphasis on appearance, sorry to say that anyone with a visible tattoo wouldn't be employed in my business.
I know ink lovers don't like to hear this but shop customers, in particularly those buying food stuffs, can be very fickle when making purchases.
So tattoos on young women's hands, necks and lower arms is a no go for me when employing them....also facial piercings.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Two of my daughter's have tattoos: why I don't know as I think they look hideous on women. They have such beautiful caramel skin, why, is beyond me, but they're adults so I just keep my own counsel.
Their boyfriends are no better. My soon to be son-in-law is ex Royal Navy, ex Royal Marine...you can imagine the inkwork on him! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When I interview people for shop assistant jobs with me I place a lot of emphasis on appearance, sorry to say that anyone with a visible tattoo wouldn't be employed in my business.
I know ink lovers don't like to hear this but shop customers, in particularly those buying food stuffs, can be very fickle when making purchases.
So tattoos on young women's hands, necks and lower arms is a no go for me when employing them....also facial piercings.
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If i was in your line of work id have to agree, id love to get a tattoo but would have to be somewhere that wasn't visible in an every day situation |
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By *umourCouple
over a year ago
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I won't employ anyone with visible tattoos either! I must say they look OK when newish, but they soon leech out one colour into another and after 15 years or so, start to look dull.
A friend of mine who has several was telling us how they still looked like the day he had them. (10 years for the last one) so I showed him a photo! He was shocked to say the least!
But under ANY circumstances, I can never consider them sexy!!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hate to disagree with u but I've had my small discreet one for well over fifteen yrs. I don't know if its down to the artist or the fact that I always use sun block on it. But it still looks fresh and the colours distinct!!
I'm very happy with what I've got, so not looking to add more.
And I did carefully consider where to have it, re work etc.
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I keep going back for more. I love tattoos. I don't feel pain when I have them done. Fell asleep during my last one.
But I get a massive adrenalin rush from them. So I think thats why I keep going back for more.
None of mine are visible. And to an extent I agree with them holding people back from work, especially front facing roles. I've turned down a person for a job for having a visible tattoo before, but it was a swastika on his neck!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There's more and more people getting tattoos done now. To what there used to be due to media coverage and peer presure of all the bands that's about covered in them too. I've got quite a few tattoos and my first one realy hurt. But now I just sit there and enjoy it. I'm always looking for new and exciting work to have done. It's more like a personal collection of art. To take anywhere and look at anytime. My last on I sat for 6 half hours to get it done at a convention. Also women with tattoos yes please specialy those on the suicide girls site.. |
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Personal opinion only..I think some of them are works of art..done by very talented people..but on a human?..nah..
No one has yet considered how hideous sleeves are going to look when they hit 65-70+..
Ok a lot of people have them done for personal reasons..but why people want them done to look like a 'brudda from da hood' or a Maori warrior?...I bet half the people with the tribal stuff dont even know what a Maori is!..is it just to look 'ard' and intimidating?
Stars on the neck...Mandarin etchings about love and peace spilling out of someones midrift..hanging over their waist band..red indians? (why???) or Cheryl Coles 'autograph' on the underside of the hand (women only)...people think it makes em look individual...it doesnt.
I dont mind little dinky ones on women...and appropriately proportioned ones on men...but big tatts on women with big arms just look butch IMO ...and blokes with tribal/big tatts on boney skinny white arms just look ...well...wrong.
The ink industry owe David Beckham Cheryl Cole and a lot of other celebs a massive thank you...
That said...its their bodies and they are totally entitled to do what they want...I respect that (especially as I have none, I dont do pain!!)
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By *LBishCouple
over a year ago
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of course they are individual and in a way makes you individual. personally i dont think having them done really hurts. I dont really like loads on women either, but they are god dam addicitve, im trying to stop extending mine. Although if i had the cash i would like one last one from my back around my side slightly onto my front. I have considered what they will look like when im in my 80's, but i guess by then ill still be with the man i love and i wont really care. xxx
love mine and still have no regrets x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ive just had finished a full leg japanese tattoo,from the toes ....right up to the crotch area...lol... well addictive as i swore i'd only have 1....15 years ago. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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As manager at our tattoo studio I can honestly say they have never been so popular and we get everyone from all walks....we love them and in the middle of getting my back done |
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By *hocotreacleWoman
over a year ago
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I love them, on men and women, so sexy! I am not entirely sure why I don't have any... really must must fix that!!!!
I've been meaning to get one for months now.
Going to set myself a challenge. I must get one before the end of next month.
Can anyone recommend a good place round Manchester, preferably not right in the city center because I hate going into Man center. |
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I think tats can be sexy...but sometimes to the extreme is just crazy...you know the guy in the lady gaga video, most people think the full skeletal tat he has is just make up...but it is actually what he has tattooed all over his body...can not help thinking what the hell is he going to do for work when the novelty of being known as "zombie boy" wears off...recently found out that he actually went to my high school back in Canada,never knew him though as he is only 25 now...lol his name is Rick Genest |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I think tats can be sexy...but sometimes to the extreme is just crazy...you know the guy in the lady gaga video, most people think the full skeletal tat he has is just make up...but it is actually what he has tattooed all over his body...can not help thinking what the hell is he going to do for work when the novelty of being known as "zombie boy" wears off...recently found out that he actually went to my high school back in Canada,never knew him though as he is only 25 now...lol his name is Rick Genest"
Rick Genest is quite extreme, but fashion houses, pop videos, movies will keep him in employ. |
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"I think tats can be sexy...but sometimes to the extreme is just crazy...you know the guy in the lady gaga video, most people think the full skeletal tat he has is just make up...but it is actually what he has tattooed all over his body...can not help thinking what the hell is he going to do for work when the novelty of being known as "zombie boy" wears off...recently found out that he actually went to my high school back in Canada,never knew him though as he is only 25 now...lol his name is Rick Genest
Rick Genest is quite extreme, but fashion houses, pop videos, movies will keep him in employ. "
let's hope he saves up for when he is old and wrinkley then and the fashion houses etc stop calling...lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Why do you think is it so addictive and I keep going back for more. I mean it hurts when you have it done then it stings for days and when it as settled down I go back and have some more done."
we dont find it addictive
soft ink free skin is the way forward,fads come and go but with skin ou only get one so why turn it into a billboard?  |
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I adore my tattoos, and I adore the reaction they invoke, as and when I choose to show them.
My main piece is a dragon down my spine, with background detail. A few months after I'd had it done, I was meeting my mum in town, and had a backless top on. I felt someone run their finger down my spine, and stroke my back, I swung around, ready to deck whoever was touching me up inappropriately, only to find a little old lady, staring at it saying, I'm sorry love, I only wanted to know what it felt like. She was fascinated, and wanted to know all about it. She finished the conversation by saying she wished she'd have been able to have something done when she was young.
Of course I've thought about what my tats will look like when I'm old. And to be honest, I don't care now what people think of them, I'm damned sure I won't care when I'm 80 sitting in a nursing home, smelling of wee, unable to remember my own name!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Well said yummy..i choose to show mine off if i want too..ive had well over 80 hours of ink..and no one knows till i wear shorts..or a t shirt.."
a relative we have thought the same way getting various tatoos on his torso in his 20s and 30s
he is now too embarrased to wear short sleeves or go without a shirt in the summer,its becuase of this i myself wont have any done.
i see his grey fading colourless tatts of 40 years with no detail,just blurred images of a mis spent youth.
individuality you can keep it,without ink you have it anyway.
fashions do change but you can replace a coat or boots but you cant replace an arm or a leg or a body?
tattoo removal with the scarring it leaves will soon be the new fad,ive heard more people saying they wish they hadnt done it than vice versa.
enjoy it while it lasts |
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"Fads??....tattooing has been around for thousands of years"
Indeed...but no one had anything scribbled on the underside of their hand until Cheryl did...(and made she she flashed it at every opportunity when on the X Factor)
Its the 'fashion' tatts that I think are the worst..getting em done just to look like their favourite singer or footballer.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Fads??....tattooing has been around for thousands of years
Indeed...but no one had anything scribbled on the underside of their hand until Cheryl did...(and made she she flashed it at every opportunity when on the X Factor)
Its the 'fashion' tatts that I think are the worst..getting em done just to look like their favourite singer or footballer.."
or your name in chinese writing ..wots that all about ..unless called doh pee tit...lol |
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I too disagree with "fashionable" tattoos. I hate when I do my voluntary work and see children under the age of 18 with them. Not withstanding its illegal for them to be tattoo'd, and the artist can get put on the sex offenders register, its the fact they've just copied what others are doing. There is no originality to their designs, no art.
Older designs do fade, but 40 years ago, ink wasn't as good quality as it is now, and after care isn't as good, and also our skin is in better condition now then it was. Yes, tattoos are still going to fade, but hopefully, if done right, and looked after properly, then they won't resemble the blotchy mess, some do 40 years on. |
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all my tattoos can be covered up and i wont stop having tattoos because i like having them and knowing that i have them and ppl dont know i have them sometimes makes u feel different to everyone.I have stretch marks on my stomach,a scar on my neck and tattoos on my body and if ppl dont like it its their choice i wud not expect anyone else to change their view of what they like and dont |
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i had my 6th tattoo today .i had my foot done and yes it hurt but its the finnal product makes it worth while .
i fully respect that tattoos arent for everyone and certain wouldnt have an issue if someone didnt want to meet me because of them . my choice for self exspression and their choice if that is something that would be a deal breaker or not . x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I do have a tattoo on my foot and I am glad I had it done and I love it and I never let the sun get to it, always protect it with sunblock, but I wouldnt have any more.
I researched before having it done and went to a tattoo artist who had very good recommendations. Visited him and asked questions before deciding. For me its not just the thought of what it will be like in 20 years time, its the infection risk.
I asked about sterilising etc and also the need to use individual pots of ink. So many tattooists fill their little pots up with ink from a large container, if they havent used all of the ink, then put it back into the big container, contaminating that large container with blood particles. Its why I would never go to a cheap tattooist. Always spend as much money as you possibly can and ask questions. Even then its not definite. I would only have a tattoo done if the pots of ink were single use and sealed.
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"Why do you think is it so addictive and I keep going back for more. I mean it hurts when you have it done then it stings for days and when it as settled down I go back and have some more done."
Pleasure /pain...well it was for me, i can totally see why people become addicted to it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Its not a fad to have tattoos..its the choice of the individual...peoples certain perspectives of them years ago is what nearly drove the whole industry underground!. Its just become known more now..due to T.V. programmes.etc...people from all walks of like have always had them.Responsilbe tattooists would never ink hands,face etc..and thats what people think when you say tattoo.love,hate on knuckles,cut here across the throat.....thats is..rant over.!! |
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"Its not a fad to have tattoos..its the choice of the individual...peoples certain perspectives of them years ago is what nearly drove the whole industry underground!. Its just become known more now..due to T.V. programmes.etc...people from all walks of like have always had them.Responsilbe tattooists would never ink hands,face etc..and thats what people think when you say tattoo.love,hate on knuckles,cut here across the throat.....thats is..rant over.!!"
When we have tattooist around this area tattooing 13 year olds, I'd rather they tattoo'd faces, as long as they left kids alone. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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My first tattoo seemed to be a rites of passage from a boy into manhaood, I joined the army at 16 then it seemed the right thing to do, 3 of us had the same design done as a mark of friendship sadly though 1 of the guys brothers was in the same regiment and killed in NI.(RIP my friend) Now it is a sign of respect and I would never get that 1 recovered or removed. All the others have been covered up. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I have 2 tattoos on my lower arms and also have face piecing and i work in a shop face to face and also as a bouncer and i have never been told they look bad i have also worked for tescos who dont like tattoos on lower arms but as mine are my kids name they cant say they are not tastefull |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I have 2 tattoos on my lower arms and also have face piecing and i work in a shop face to face and also as a bouncer and i have never been told they look bad i have also worked for tescos who dont like tattoos on lower arms but as mine are my kids name they cant say they are not tastefull"
something being 'tasteful' is all down to personal opinion though |
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"I have 2 tattoos on my lower arms and also have face piecing and i work in a shop face to face and also as a bouncer and i have never been told they look bad i have also worked for tescos who dont like tattoos on lower arms but as mine are my kids name they cant say they are not tastefull"
For me the most important thing for my small business is whether the customers find face piercings and face/neck/hand tattoos tasteful....not whether a shop assistant deems their tattoos to be tasteful.
You sink or swim on the strength of the sales in a small business, not on the strength of the artistic look of a sales assistant. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I too disagree with "fashionable" tattoos. I hate when I do my voluntary work and see children under the age of 18 with them. Not withstanding its illegal for them to be tattoo'd, and the artist can get put on the sex offenders register, its the fact they've just copied what others are doing. There is no originality to their designs, no art.
Older designs do fade, but 40 years ago, ink wasn't as good quality as it is now, and after care isn't as good, and also our skin is in better condition now then it was. Yes, tattoos are still going to fade, but hopefully, if done right, and looked after properly, then they won't resemble the blotchy mess, some do 40 years on. "
as a male of 45 i see the tatts lads had done 25 years ago , the old chestnut they came out with then was needles are sharper and thinner and better quality,guess what apart from designs that they had grown out of being etched on there lives till they finally kick the bucket those thin sharper needles arent any different and the blotchy inked patterns are as bad as the older generations abominations.
your talking as if your trying to sell tattoos! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mrs Easyshare says "I not allowed to express any aspirations of individuality"
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That's a really funny comment.
Serious point though - very very few tattoos are individual and unique. I thought I wanted one but then realised that every man and his dog had them and that most of them are naff or poorly executed.
These days it is far more individual NOT to have a tattoo.
Not dissing people who have them just saying ...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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80% of my tattoos are not from the general on the wall charts that you find in the tattoist. I've searched endlessly for designs on the Internet. To hopefully find ones that nobody or very very few people would have. Some of which I've got I know definatly are 100% percent unique for me. My interest in tattoos as grown over the years to now have them personally designed by reputable artists. But that comes at a cost. But would you buy a arena poster to go over your mantle piece or some signed genuine art??? It's a good thing we all have individual tastes and individual needs. Some people don't go for those with tattoos. But when the lights out can you see or feel them???? Unless you have a Braille one... |
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By *ibs TcCouple
over a year ago
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"80% of my tattoos are not from the general on the wall charts that you find in the tattoist. I've searched endlessly for designs on the Internet. To hopefully find ones that nobody or very very few people would have. Some of which I've got I know definatly are 100% percent unique for me. My interest in tattoos as grown over the years to now have them personally designed by reputable artists. But that comes at a cost. But would you buy a arena poster to go over your mantle piece or some signed genuine art??? It's a good thing we all have individual tastes and individual needs. Some people don't go for those with tattoos. But when the lights out can you see or feel them???? Unless you have a Braille one... "
Same here - mine is all 14th century Japanese artwork, took a longtime to work out what I wanted and left the artist to come up with what he did, won't see another one for sure (fingers crossed) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I love how people use the whole 'Waaaaaah you're gonna regret sleeves when you're 70!'
Not being funny, but when I'm 70 my main worry will be trying not to piss myself in public, not my arm tattoos.
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
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"I love how people use the whole 'Waaaaaah you're gonna regret sleeves when you're 70!'
Not being funny, but when I'm 70 my main worry will be trying not to piss myself in public, not my arm tattoos.
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brilliant |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I love how people use the whole 'Waaaaaah you're gonna regret sleeves when you're 70!'
Not being funny, but when I'm 70 my main worry will be trying not to piss myself in public, not my arm tattoos.
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bladder problems at such an early age ..oh dear |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I love how people use the whole 'Waaaaaah you're gonna regret sleeves when you're 70!'
Not being funny, but when I'm 70 my main worry will be trying not to piss myself in public, not my arm tattoos.
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you havent got any btw!! |
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