By Anonymous · Dec. 21, 2008 · 0 comments
I don't know if you've ever had an idea for a tattoo wake you up out of your sleep, but that's exactly what happened to me. It was about five months after I'd gotten my third tattoo when the bug started to bite again: that gnawing feeling in the back of my mind that I was going to come up with a design that I was absolutely going to have to have needled into my skin. That feeling stayed with me for a good long time until, finally, at 3:30 in the morning, it woke me up out of my ...
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By Anonymous · Dec. 21, 2008 · 0 comments
To start off with, I have been immersed in tattoos since I was a little kid. My mom had one on her back, her younger brother on his hand, and her older brother, well he had them everywhere. Even my moms step dad was covered in old style army tattoos. Now that is just my moms side of the family. My dads almost all the men, except him have at least one. Even my grandmother has one on her arm and chest. So just speaking tattoos have never seemed unnatural to me, and I always knew I would get one ...
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By Anonymous · Dec. 21, 2008 · 0 comments
For quite a while I had been interested in getting a tattoo. In South Carolina, tattooing was illegal until 2005. Before that, I had many opportunities to get tattoos via friends who had machines, but wanted to wait to go to an actual shop. Midway through 2008 my roommates older brother said he had a shop that would do work for cheap because the guy was strapped for cash. I checked out the shops website (www.medievaltats.com) and wasn't all that impressed with the work, but decided to go in anyways because what I wanted done was so simple that I ...
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By Anonymous · Dec. 21, 2008 · 0 comments
When I first turned 18 years old, the main thing that I wanted to do in life was to get a tattoo. I had seen my sister get multiple tattoos, and because she had to wait until she was 18, so did I. My first tattoo was a cross made out of nails, with a crown of thorns going around it. The other one is a tribal symbol on my leg. About a week ago I decided to get what would be my third tattoo, and probably my last after this experience. The two tattoos that I've gotten so far ...
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By Anonymous · Dec. 21, 2008 · 0 comments
Back in February, I became a Christian. It was pretty crazy, a really random spiritual experience that I never thought would happen to me, but it made me feel amazing. I knew I wanted to remember the feeling forever. In search of something to put on my body, I read through the New Testament, specifically the book of Mark, and came across something perfect-- in Mark 5, Jesus raises a girl from the dead, saying to her "Talitha Koum," or "little girl, get up." I thought it was pretty descriptive of what I felt my life had gone through, from ...
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By Anonymous · Dec. 21, 2008 · 0 comments
This story takes place in 2000 and is a tale of a decision I would take again every day for the rest of my life. Well, I had just turned 21, decided on the image and the placement, all I needed was the opportunity for my first tattoo an elaborate five pointed star (who knew all those years ago just how popular they would become!). Even though at that time I lived about 5 minutes from Camden Town, the tattoo capital of the UK, I waited until I went to stay with my best mate in Bournemouth. The night ...
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By Anonymous · Oct. 30, 2008 · 0 comments
So I have been working with Jeana at Anchor Ink to create a memorial piece for my cousin Michelle, whom we lost in may, Let me share how the idea for the piece came about, then I'll share the experience of getting tattooed. So Michelle was learning how to tattoo from her husband David, and she was awesome in everything but had a particular niche for floral work, I had decided that a bouquet of rose's would look nice on my foot, I asked her about them and decided that it would be better done in the summer after my ...
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By Napkin man · Oct. 30, 2008 · 0 comments
I remember about three years ago, I was sitting right where I am now, looking at tattoo designs. I had waited a year after becoming 18 before I started to think about my first tattoo, mostly because I decided to save getting a tattoo until I became more focused, and there's a lot of steam to blow off when you graduate. So, about a year passed, and I was thinking more seriously about getting a tattoo, and I started to really take it seriously. This was the first time that I really had put much thought into anything that I ...
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By Anonymous · Oct. 30, 2008 · 0 comments
I'm going to admit it, it was spur of the moment. Well it would've been on the Saturday previous when the idea to get a swallow on my wrist popped into my head. But the tattooist I went to was busy so I couldn't get it done. Don't get me wrong, the idea of a swallow somewhere upon my person wasn't a new one, so it's not like I hadn't thought of the design before. But I'd been so preoccupied with another tattoo design that I'd never given it much thought. I wanted an old school swallow design so on ...
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By Anonymous · Oct. 30, 2008 · 0 comments
I have written multiple experiences for BME over the years, and many of you know me from the IAM community. You probably know that I'm not actually 35, and please understand my womanly need not to tell my age to everyone I meet. I am legally an adult and feel older and more "crazy cat lady"-like every birthday that passes me by. I have proved my obsession with cats in many ways, the most obvious ones being my house-hold of 4 cats and two of my cats being tattooed on my upper left arm. This latest tattoo just pushes me ...
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