By Anonymous · March 28, 2000 · 0 comments
been wanting a tattoo for many years now. If you are like me, society told me not to. I will be thirty in a few months, have a professional career(Shirt and Tie every day) and make multi million dollar decisions. "They" say tattoos are for bikers or criminals...You know the stereo type. Well I finally decided the hell with them, life is way to short for me to worry what other people think. I want a tattoo and I am going to get one. With that decision made we move onto the next step. I will admit I was very ...
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By Anonymous · March 11, 2000 · 0 comments
live in Hong Kong, so there's not really as much of a choice of tattoo and piercing parlours here, but despite what you may expect, they're not that bad. There are a few main ones that people tend to go to, and those are the most trustworthy in the way of hygeine. A little dodgy and suspiciously located, but what're you gonna do. I have two tattoos, one I got done about a year and a half ago, and one I got done about 4 months ago. I was really worried about the pain since I don't have much tolerance ...
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By Anonymous · March 06, 2000 · 0 comments
name is Anke. I am a 21 years old student. I have 6 piercings (tongue, lips, ear, navel, septum ) and 2 tattoos up to now. The fiirst tattoo is on my left knuckle an is a kind of leaf. I want to have a bigger one in some time, including and covering it. My second one is really private. There is a little story about it I want to tell... I love to contact people who are interested in tats and piercings. So I once met a girl from Bremen in ICQ. She was working in a piercing studio. ...
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By Anonymous · March 06, 2000 · 0 comments
like many tattooed people, it all started when I was really young... Admiring tattoos, trying to get as many looks at them as possible, then starting to want them for myself. I can remember as far back as 6th grade, when I started wanting one. By the age of 13, I wore lots of temporary tattoos. At the age of 14, I first started to really decide... my tattoo was going to be on my lower back, and I wanted a tribal design. The lower back position never changed, but my designs did, an anime character, celtic work, a fairy, ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 25, 2000 · 0 comments
of my courses in my last year of high school (Grade 13 up here) I do a co-op at a tattoo shop here in Toronto, Way Cool Tattoos. Yep, that's right, through HIGH SCHOOL. I guess that's one of the benefits of going to a liberal arts school, though it took a bit of convincing. Some of the excuses were that I would be working with needles, which is pretty lame since many students have done placements at hospitals which in my experience have very little idea how to avoid cross-contamination. So I assume I'm no stranger to the whole ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 20, 2000 · 0 comments
e gotten four tattoos over a period of 12 years. In these 12 years I have learned a lot about the process and about myself. Perhaps my experiences will help someone contemplating a first tattoo. My first tattoo I received when I was 19. This was a fairly typical experience. I was a dumb, college kid who thought I knew everything. I felt I needed a tattoo immediately to prove I was a rebel, cool, etc. I went to someone's house, got a small tattoo on my ankle in this woman's living room. All things considered, it turned out O.K., ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 19, 2000 · 0 comments
r really thought I would get a tattoo--it seemed like such a bigcommitment: something that would be with me forever. Like marriage. I didn't feel ready to make a decision about that for a long time. I suppose I've wanted a tattoo since I was a senior in high school, but it was more of an abstract kind of wish. I didn't really have anything I specifically wanted, except for a bracelet on my arm or ankle. As time passed, I decided that I really did want a tattoo, except I don't want something on my arm or ankle right ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 17, 2000 · 0 comments
been thinking about it for a long time, but finally decided to get my neck tattooed. This was a pretty big decision for me, considering I am not real heavily inked (some tribal and celtic on my right arm, 2 small tats on my left). At any rate, I decided that I wanted something very visible and striking. At first, I decided to do a design with two snakes biting each other's tails (sort of Neverending Story-ish), and I went in to talk to Scott at Enigma tattoos about it. He seemed pretty excited about the idea, and said that ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 15, 2000 · 0 comments
ngs and Salutations! Let me introduce myself, my name is Kelly, and I am known as the Kelster, or Dragon to my friends and family. I think I was 15 when I first tattooed myself. Just high school bullshit, and I sorely regretted my lack of artistic ability. For the next 18 years, I wore shirts to cover what I had done, always promising myself that one day I would get a beautiful tattoo to cover my mistakes. Never did the thought of having them removed, or not covered by another tat pass through my mind. I never imagined that ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 15, 2000 · 0 comments
rO~*~ well hello there! i've already wrote about my first tattoo...my eyebrow ring...my tongue ring....and now i'm writing about my 2nd tattoo! well i was going to be in winnipeg for a weekend and i wanted to get something done. i knew momsy would be VERY mad at me if i came home with ANOTHER piercing without asking her, so i decided on a tattoo. this was kinda dumb because i didn't really know what i want or anything, i just knew i wanted a tattoo. i don't regret it or anything..but it would've been better if i had waited ...
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