Thinking about getting a Tattoo on my arm

[Babalonian]

Hey, I'm in, maybe he can do me and Scotch at a 2-for-1 rate if I hoof it up the coast to meet up (I've driven up it for less)? 

[Westy]

"I want something a bit different."

For the forehead!   I'll pitch in $50

[ink]

lol you guys are great, I think the compass tat would be an awesome piece, it would be a very diffacult tat to get right, circles are very hard to tattoo and straight lines....but it could be done, thats actually something I have never tattooed thought I did everything 

hell you got cat von dee...or whatever her name is, she is good and she has like 8 people working for her all very good to great quality....but the price would be 3 times the correct rate.


I'ts funny I have seriously been thinking about going on the road and tattooing all across the country,....the problem is how do I fly while on the road hmmmm...hmmm

[Shuffler]

Well as the subject says, I am considering getting a tattoo on my arm.  I was planning on getting something Italian (I am 100% full blooded Italian) but wasn't sure where to even start.  Does anyone know any good websites that have pictures of tattoo options?  Also I have never gotten a tattoo and was curious how bad it hurts lol?


-BigBOBCH

You getting it done at home or coming to the US.


I never saw why anyone marks up their body.... but to each his own.


We were at a party on a boat once and our group was laughing and talking about tatoos. One of the guys had one he got back when he was young and had a long drunken night with friends. Some of the girls brought up the notorious tramp stamp that some girls like getting on their backs. Seems one of the girls on the bow that evening just happened to have one. She didn't seem to mind the terminology and tried showing it to everyone there.

I prefer my art on canvas or on wheels.

[Dichotomy]

lol you guys are great, I think the compass tat would be an awesome piece, it would be a very diffacult tat to get right, circles are very hard to tattoo and straight lines....but it could be done, thats actually something I have never tattooed thought I did everything 

hell you got cat von dee...or whatever her name is, she is good and she has like 8 people working for her all very good to great quality....but the price would be 3 times the correct rate.


I'ts funny I have seriously been thinking about going on the road and tattooing all across the country,....the problem is how do I fly while on the road hmmmm...hmmm

Probably wouldn't be hard to find a fellow AH'r willing to let you use their rig for a night. 

[ink]

You getting it done at home or coming to the US.


I never saw why anyone marks up their body.... but to each his own.


We were at a party on a boat once and our group was laughing and talking about tatoos. One of the guys had one he got back when he was young and had a long drunken night with friends. Some of the girls brought up the notorious tramp stamp that some girls like getting on their backs. Seems one of the girls on the bow that evening just happened to have one. She didn't seem to mind the terminology and tried showing it to everyone there.

I prefer my art on canvas or on wheels.

I get Tattooed for the fact that I have been an artist my intire life, and Tattooing is the only living artform there is, it is the most powerfull artform...at least for me
  there is nothing quite like seeing a real Tattoo, I am not talking about the typical wall flash but a true piece of artwork.

when I started to do Tattoo's they were a very much  looked down upon, I was judged by so many people they saw my ink, and immediately assumed all kinds of bad stuff, over the years I have showed many of those people that Tattoo's are ART not trash.

now a days people have turned them into a fad, that is far from what they are  believe it or not I absolutely hate what they have become.

[CAP1]

I get Tattooed for the fact that I have been an artist my intire life, and Tattooing is the only living artform there is, it is the most powerfull artform...at least for me
  there is nothing quite like seeing a real Tattoo, I am not talking about the typical wall flash but a true piece of artwork.

when I started to do Tattoo's they were a very much  looked down upon, I was judged by so many people they saw my ink, and immediately assumed all kinds of bad stuff, over the years I have showed many of those people that Tattoo's are ART not trash.

now a days people have turned them into a fad, that is far from what they are  believe it or not I absolutely hate what they have become.

i think that even these days, tattoos are pretty much looked down upon.

 they shouldn't be. i think that the so called "average" joe sees them as "different", and thus fears them.

 as for tattoo parlors with the designs on the walls? i can fully understand why they have them, but could not myself imagine looking on the wall, and saying "i'll take that!! put that on my arm, 'cause i don't have an imagination"

[68ZooM]

now a days people have turned them into a fad, that is far from what they are  believe it or not I absolutely hate what they have become.

No truer words have been spoken here, Ink hit it on the head, a great percentage are because it looks cool, or because he got one now i want one, mine are for personal reasons, now about those tramp stamps... very few i find appealing most are just that, a stamp.... lol i do have to admit the funniest one i've ever seen said "place beer here" in the usual tramp stamp location, i asked her why she did it she told me it was on a dare,   good place to rest a beer thou

[Westy]

"i think that the so called "average" joe sees them as "different", and thus fears them."

Fear? I think the average Joe sees them and says that's gonna look like toejam in just a
few years and wtf was she thinking? Never mind that the "spiked collar" tattoo around
her neck isn't going to do wonders for her  career  - unless it's to be spent behind the
counter at the local "7-11" for the rest of her life.

That's girls. Most guys I see with tattoos I see them as not having been able to hold their
liquor at some point in their past.  Saw it happen so many times while I was in the USN.
and with a few exceptions there were many regrets and why the diddly did you guys let me
do that?  On the other hand RARE is the person I've seen who is like what Ink describes.