By Anonymous · Feb. 07, 2008 · 0 comments
After many years of searching I finally decided on a new tattoo. After the thousands of pictures and websites and magazines and pretty much anything that had tattoo inspired art I narrowed it down. I wanted the traditional design because of the personal meaning it had behind it for me. I know that it has been done about a million time before but oh well, this tattoo is for me and I really don't care what other people think. That leads me to another complaint. I know that art is great and wonderful. But how do you get some art ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
I knew for a while that I wanted a rib piece and I knew exactly what I wanted. The problem was finding the extra cash for it, since I couldn't stop getting pierced for the life of me, and the time. I also had to decide if I wanted my first tattoo to be my rib piece. So, one day, after I had gotten a sternum micro dermal added to my body, I decided to make a consultation appointment. At the consultation, we decided that my design would fit perfectly right underneath my bra line. It is a version of ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
I need to write about my most recent tattoo experience for several reasons, but mainly because I entered another submission for BME a couple of years ago regarding a large tribal piece that I got on my lower back, and I wanted to write a brief reflection about that experience and write about recent tattoos that I just got (about a week ago); I feel this recent experience has redeemed the situation I described a couple years ago. To sum up that earlier experience very briefly, I had expressed mixed feelings over that particular tattoo, which was extremely large and ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
I got my first tattoo in September 2006, and have been after another ever since! I've been through heaps of designs, and today I finally got my second! My first was a simple lotus, black outline, no faffing. The first was about religion for me, and I had always imagined my next would be in a similar vein, how wrong was I! I'd been trawling the web for ideas, thinking of maybe getting another lotus, when I came across a dandelion tattoo. I had seen very few of dandelions, especially as delicate and beautiful as this one, I knew it ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
Hrmm how to start this, its hard to think of an interesting way! This is the story of my newest tattoo(s?), its not the most original tattoo but it's a true work of art! I got that tattoo itch when I turned 21 a few months ago, I had various ideas, but nothing that really stuck after a week of thinking so I waited. I kept coming back to two ideas, either leopard print going over my shoulder, or wings of some sort, then I saw an episode of Miami ink where they did a beautiful peacock and I knew ...
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By Rancidity · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
"I want a facial tattoo." That phrase can cause some people to cringe, pass judgment, or even sever your friendship. It can cause doctors to recommend a psychiatric evaluation, make parents cry, and create social tensions. But none of that scared me. I made my decision to have my face tattooed a long time ago, I was just waiting for the right time to do it, waiting for an event to happen that would be worth marking with something so publicly personal. And that event came a few months ago, when I simultaneously made the decision both to leave my ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
Unlike a lot of people on bme, I haven't had a life long fascination with tattoos and other body modifications. I guess I started getting curious in my rebelling teenage years, not through knowing anyone with tats and piercings, but via music and my favourite bands. When I was about 16 or 17 I started thinking of different designs I might want to get and came up with getting a "Korn" logo. I also came very close to getting a small Donald Duck on my ankle that I chose off the infamous wall of designs. Thank God I didn't get ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
I've always wanted tattoos, ever since I was a little girl. They are beautiful. When I turned 16, my mother took me to get a navel piercing as a present and she got a tattoo. She let me watch, and it was so pretty. But I used to cut myself. A lot. For a long time, an ex of mine said getting a tattoo, or even any other piercings, could trigger a desire to cut myself, and I stupidly listened to him. Then one night right after this past Thanksgiving my cell phone rings. My little brother is calling me, ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
I can't really remember when I first decided I wanted a tattoo. All I knew was as soon as I could afford one, and I was old enough, I was getting myself some! So last year, I finally decided to go ahead and get a tattoo done. It took me a while to decide what one I wanted, I wasn't sure to go with either bats or stars, so eventually I went with two bats and 3 stars. Next big decision, where to have it!? I decided that I wanted it somewhere that I could easily show it off, but ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
I will say that I have one tattoo already, a lion on my upper left arm. This was a spur of a moment tattoo that was a quick decision. I have always wanted a cross on my back, which I have been working on for several years. It has changed over and over again, one never seeming better than the other. Well I got it right eventually! I decided on a large outline of a cross that was given to me when I was 16. I left the outline, because in the middle I wanted to place something meaningful. This ...
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