Author Topic: got ink done! (Read 17133 times)

Davey · « **Reply #30 on:** March 13, 2007, 07:37:42 PM »

the healing is going well. no scabbs to speak off. the shading is still dark.. not much to tell on the 2nd day :P

38thBeatle · « **Reply #31 on:** March 13, 2007, 07:59:42 PM »

Blimey, you guys make me feel really square as I would never get a tattoo.They are just not me. I cannot see the attraction however highly skilled the artist may be. Each to his own etc.

Davey · « **Reply #32 on:** March 13, 2007, 08:57:43 PM »

yea, i agree.

it's not for everyone. sone dont see the attraction, some do it just cos it's cool.. to each his own :)

horsehead · « **Reply #33 on:** March 13, 2007, 09:06:48 PM »

I like tattoo's when they are done well, botched or badly inked ones just look cr@p & make me understand why people don't like them. I've got 2 myself, my sons name in japenese & a celtic-esq sun (which I'm gonna have filled at some pooint with another design. I'm also toying with the idea of having one just below my neckline on my back.

FELINEGUITARS · « **Reply #34 on:** March 13, 2007, 11:34:12 PM »

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Me too, I'm worried that I'd choose a design then wish I got something else later on in life :lol:

For that reason I wont get a tattoo and instead will just have it printed on a t-shirt or painted on a jacket (or even a guitar)
Then I can change my mind without regrets - just change my clothes or play another axe.

yeah, "member of the fall-out boy fan club" you probably want to keep under wraps, lol.

There have been designs that I have liked a lot and related to things that i was passionate about at the time and some of the design ideas have endured, but for myself i am glad i resisted the urge- even though many of my friends have ink

A few of those designs have been (and remember I am an 80s rock child)

A rose like Paul Stanley of Kiss has
The Queensryche logo
The Feline catseye logo - now 19 years old
The stiletto heel boot logo that I have on one of my guitars

I am sure there are more.............

metal_god · « **Reply #35 on:** March 13, 2007, 11:43:14 PM »

ahhhhhhh go on feline get them all done.... why not eh?

unless of course your planning to use your skin when you die to make a skin covered guitar (without tattoos on it) ?

Philly Q · « **Reply #36 on:** March 14, 2007, 12:00:45 AM »

Quote from: 38thBeatle

Blimey, you guys make me feel really square as I would never get a tattoo.They are just not me. I cannot see the attraction however highly skilled the artist may be. Each to his own etc.

I agree, sort of. I am impressed by tattooing as an art form, and sometimes it looks amazing when people have really gone for it and got full "sleeves" etc. But I don't like it when you see people who have one smudgy little blue tattoo on their forearm or ankle or something. Or "Love/Hate" on their knuckles, FFS.

I did think about getting tattooed years ago when I first got my hair cut short, because I suddenly felt very "conventional" and I guess I wanted to react against that feeling and do something "different". But I never got round to it, and now I'm glad I didn't.

And I could never really think of any design that was so important to me that I wanted it permanently inked on my body. I'd have been doing it for the sake of it, unlike Davey who's obviously thought about this long and hard.

The thing is, your outlook on many things does change as you get older. Some people see tattoos as reminders of certain points in their life, and are happy with that; I think I'd see it more as an unwelcome "tie" with the past. I'm just not a "no regrets" kind of person, I suppose.

noodleplugerine · « **Reply #37 on:** March 14, 2007, 12:11:59 AM »

Quote from: Philly Q

Quote from: 38thBeatle
Blimey, you guys make me feel really square as I would never get a tattoo.They are just not me. I cannot see the attraction however highly skilled the artist may be. Each to his own etc.

I agree, sort of. I am impressed by tattooing as an art form, and sometimes it looks amazing when people have really gone for it and got full "sleeves" etc. But I don't like it when you see people who have one smudgy little blue tattoo on their forearm or ankle or something. Or "Love/Hate" on their knuckles, FFS.

I'm the opposite, think that tatoos are only nice in moderation, and when somebody gets full sleves or something done, It's way too much.

Wouldn't mind a smallish one on my shoulder or torso, but would never go for anywhere super viewable - Specially since after a year of one you're bound to be bored of it.

dave_mc · « **Reply #38 on:** March 14, 2007, 03:52:02 PM »

Quote from: FELINEGUITARS

There have been designs that I have liked a lot and related to things that i was passionate about at the time and some of the design ideas have endured, but for myself i am glad i resisted the urge- even though many of my friends have ink

A few of those designs have been (and remember I am an 80s rock child)

A rose like Paul Stanley of Kiss has
The Queensryche logo
The Feline catseye logo - now 19 years old
The stiletto heel boot logo that I have on one of my guitars

I am sure there are more.............

hehe, i'm an 80's rock child too, even if I got into it later (i was born in the 80's, just a bit young to get into it, and had no older siblings to force me into it :lol: )

:drink:

Ratrod · « **Reply #39 on:** March 14, 2007, 04:39:47 PM »

I still want a tattoo but I keep spending the money for it on guitar stuff.

I'd like something like this but with less dramatic shading.

WezV · « **Reply #40 on:** March 14, 2007, 04:46:58 PM »

808 that headstock tattoo looks cool.

I am after something guitar related and i have a really cool idea, but i aint gonna share that one till its done.

here is my first ever tattoo that i had done last year in september, its a work in progress and will be a full arm peice at some point - but not lillies all the way up the arm, i am still trying to decide what will blend nicely with the lillies. the original idea was large stars over the top blending into lillies on the bottom but i might go a little more complex than that now!

This is a pic the day after it was done,;

and today:

Crazy_Joe · « **Reply #41 on:** March 14, 2007, 05:30:43 PM »

Just a general question (not insulting) why did you get it done on your chest, like why not the back or arm or something?

And Feline you should get the Feline catseye logo on you, that would be cool.

Davey · « **Reply #42 on:** March 14, 2007, 05:49:46 PM »

i wont get a tat on the back out of one simple reason.

i want to see it. it's pointless for me to have one on my back, if i cant look at it. that's just me though

why on the chest and not the arm.. i think the arm is a bit of a cliche, to have a tatoo on (even more so the first one) and i think this one fits better on the chest than on the arm :)

here it is, two days after.. took a pic after i got out of the shower and toweled it off a little.

the detail is starting to show a bit better

i suck at taking pics

metal_god · « **Reply #43 on:** March 14, 2007, 06:30:40 PM »

well definatly looking better, i reckon you should get more colour i like the fireyness and abit of shading on a nd around would be good....

FELINEGUITARS · « **Reply #44 on:** March 14, 2007, 06:52:54 PM »

Quote from: Crazy_Joe

Just a general question (not insulting) why did you get it done on your chest, like why not the back or arm or something?

And Feline you should get the Feline catseye logo on you, that would be cool.

I had it made into a silver pendant which I wear now and then- and I have the logo on enough clothes too - keeps me happy