By Anonymous · March 13, 2008 · 0 comments
This all started with a ring that I always wear. Not only is it a treble clef (being a musician who reads music, it has become one of my favorite symbols), but I bought it in Boston, the best city I have ever been too. I could write a book on how amazing that city is, but back to the ring... So, of course, me being the most forgetful person ever, it was bound to happen that one day after getting out of the shower, I couldn't find it. I didn't freak out, but I felt depressed. That's when I ...
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By Aiwass · March 13, 2008 · 0 comments
About a week ago, I got my first tattoo. I have wanted a tattoo for as long as i knew about them. A good biker friend of my dads had a bunch of old school style tattoos, snakes and naked ladies and what not. They were old, and faded, but I always thought they were interesting. I thought his tattoos though, me being young, were scary and ugly. I didnt want something like that on myself. I have, at the moment, 14 piercings. My mother does not really approve of these, and I always told her that when I turn ...
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By Anonymous · March 13, 2008 · 0 comments
No matter how terrible my past relationships have been, I would not give any up for the world because each one has permanently contributed something to my future that I rather like. With most, I've gown in ways I would never want to change. My second long-term boyfriend, we'll call him Edgar, didn't just forever change me on the inside. He introduced me to Ritch, a tattoo artist. Edgar wasn't the first guy I dated with tattoos and his collection was far smaller than my previous boyfriend's, but he was the first guy who had the gall to go against ...
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By Anonymous · March 04, 2008 · 0 comments
I've been wanting to sit in "the chair" and get a tattoo for a while, and through the last few years I've been changing my mind about what I wanted. It took a while, but a few weeks ago I finally found a design I really loved and wanted as my first ink. I didn't wanna go to a studio and pick something from the wall, and I didn't really wanna have a freehand tattoo done that was solely the idea of the artist, so I spent a long time figuring out what I wanted. I settled on a Dia ...
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By Anonymous · March 04, 2008 · 0 comments
DISCLAIMER: I don't recommend that anyone goes lightly into DIY tattooing. It is very difficult and at the very least you need a strong understanding of art making and how to prevent cross contamination before you even consider it. It's NOT easy at all and it's certainly not right for everyone. I've been interested in tattoos for a very, very long time. When I was a little kid I can remember drawing all over myself with markers and avoiding washing it off for as long as possible, usually until my mom stepped in and made me scrub down. I never ...
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By Anonymous · March 04, 2008 · 0 comments
In my opinion, the concept of God, or any kind of higher power, is the most powerful concept in the world. It gives hope, it starts wars, saves lives, brings peace, punishes, rewards, misleads and guides. It's bothered me for sometime the extent of the influence of God on modern western society. To me, it seems out of place, like people are clinging to that last hope that they have something to live for. I can sympathise. When I was younger, it dawned on me that life might not last forever. This fact scared me more than anything else before. ...
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By Anonymous · March 04, 2008 · 0 comments
So, me and one of my best friends wanted to get matching tattoos. Well, it just so happened that her boyfriend was a tattoo apprentice, and his work was pretty good. So me and Amber (my friend) decide to get Mome Raths (from Alice in Wonderland) on our right feet. Alice in wonderland is like our favorite movie, and she already had a sleeve started, so we thought they would be cute on our feet. We had the stencil put on so you could still see it when you wore flip flops, and we switched around the colors so they ...
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By Anonymous · March 04, 2008 · 0 comments
Let's start with a little background, shall we? When I was younger, I was lucky enough to live in a house with not only my parents and my brother, but my mother's sister, and her mother. As a result of my mother and father (and auntie) working full-time, I would always go home after school to my mother's mother. In Gujarati, the language I speak at home, "Nanima" means "mother's mother," and so that is what I call her. I was lucky enough to be brought up by Nanima, who actually immigrated to Canada from Tanzania to help in my ...
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By Anonymous · March 04, 2008 · 0 comments
This is the story of my attempt to tattoo myself, which has resulted in a small constellation of black freckles on my left forearm that I am really quite attached to now, despite the circumstances in which they were acquired. State of Mind When I was 16 I was not very happy. The perspective of age tells me that this is a fairly common occurrence for 16 year olds! Still, at the time perspective seemed impossible to find and I seemed to be sinking without trace in negative emotions. I quit college after two weeks of trying to study my ...
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By Anonymous · March 04, 2008 · 0 comments
I have been planning a tattoo in honour of my Grandma for 4 years now, and I am pleased to say I finally got it! I decided on a foot tattoo, as I'm keen on having the ability to conceal my tattoo when necessary... also, I find foot tattoos to be adorable and feminine. Anyways, this tattoo is my third, and having experience in being tattooed I figured I had a fairly good understanding of what to expect. I'll be the first to admit it, I was wrong! A good friend of mine who has tattoos in similar places to ...
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