Preserved Topic: My Tat

My friend does tattoo design .. and I finally decided to get my first tat this past weekend .. it is healing now .. but here is what the tat looks like on my upper arm/shoulder .. yeah I'm just showing it off .. anyone else have any tats? hey Jestah .. I want to tat some of your work on me! .. hehe
http://www.unitedrealms.com/mytat.jpg

URL updated .. with spaces ..



[This message has been edited by RammStein (edited 04-08-2002).]

ahhhh .. damn .. that's the right tat .. but doesn't show the space in between the spikes on the stems .. all get a new link up in a hour or two

peace

URL updated .. any of you have tats .. it's show off your tat month at the Asylum .. hehe

ooo, spikey tribal thingy. I always wanted a tat but I never could find anything that I wanted branded on me. That and I understand that they could be very addictive.

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cool tattoo, you!

oh, and there's a button called: edit message

hehe. nice one!
we already had a tatoo thread, but:



with a lot of fantasy you can see a "G" in there.
and my sig:




[This message has been edited by GRUMBLE (edited 04-08-2002).]

Nice tat, Rammstein

I ought to get me a digicam and post mine as well... mebbe..
(I don't really think I'll manage put my shoulder to the scanner without a lot of rewiring )



[This message has been edited by Nimraw (edited 04-08-2002).]

massacre .. I did edit the top post .. hehe .. but I posted again because I wanted it to go back to the top .. hehe .. evil me .. lol

Grumble .. I wasn't around for that tat show off .. oh well .. and I see the G .. that's sweet! nice tat

That is pretty nice RammStein...tribal was always my first choice.

I had 6, removed 2, and am in the process of getting 3 more removed. What fun ehh?!

why are you getting them removed? I've heard that is a more painful process then getting them

Well, I got my first when I was 16. I am sure you can imagine the kind of thought that I put into it at that age. I got a pretty nice size dragon on my left shoulder. I got my second when I was 17, another dragon on my right shoulder. My rationalization was that my back looked too unsymmetrical with one shoulder covered. By 18 I would say that I was on the verge of a pretty strong "addiction" to skin art, and within a three month period, I got big tribal band, my mother?s maiden name, a Scorpio symbol, and a silhouette of a playboy bunny. The bottom line was that none of them had the slightest bit of meaning except the name which I am keeping for the time being (I could see it coming off at some time in my life). They just aren't me anymore. I guess it is sort of symbolic to me, sort of ?fixing? some of the mistakes that I made.

It was a terrible lesson to learn really, one that my bank account and I re-learn every 3 months for about an hour. Yes, the pain is excruciating, and I would say incomparable to getting it put on.

Why not just tattoo over your current one's? .. guys that are seriously into the ink art do it all the time .. but mind you they don't do it every year or so .. it's more like you don't ink over exsisting ink no more then once or twice at most .. because it can ruin the skin

I'd rather tattoo over it then get them removed .. major pain bro .. you've got granda havos! .. LOL

does it mean anything?

self mutilation is cool
ive got 4 piercings and hope to tat myself raw soon

What does it mean .. hmmmmm .. I'm going to answer this many times

Fantasy
Tis the symbol of my Deity .. the great Adius .. for now I bare it upon my skin as a reflection of my sacrifice and devine devotion to my choosen G-d .. [soft chuckle]

What I think it looks like - warning!!!
I think it looks like a three spike sperm trying to eat each other up and become the more dominant one .. goes with the saying .. survival of the fittest .. the way the world works

Realistically
One of my best friends designed it and I loved it .. he calls it Spiked Worms .. It's one of his newest designs and it's my first Tattoo .. no TRUE meaning to this .. accept that with my friends permission it is going to be my sites new logo .. I think it goes well with my sites title .. UnitedRealms .. each stem is connected and the bigger circle reminds me of moons or planets so to speak .. in this since they are united .. hence my site .. I'm eventually going to add the number 13 in the middle of it since that's my favorite/lucky number

Yeah, I thought about covering them up with another. They were all a pretty good size already and the only way to cover it up *well* would be obviously to get them slightly bigger, and possibly with color, which I don't like too much on skin. They all had a great amount of detail and shading in them originally, which would make the job even more difficult.

The endurance of pain is just a constant reminder to think of possible consequences of my own actions in more depth. When I got them put on, it was cake. The only part that hurt a bit was the under side of the arm for the band. I never even thought about getting them taken off, let alone the pain it would cause.

My advice is to just be sure you *really* *really* *really* *really* want what you get put on your skin. I have been going through this on and off for about three year now, and while when I am done I will be extremely happy, it is a *serious* drag right now.


[This message has been edited by Prospero (edited 04-10-2002).]

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