By Anonymous · Dec. 08, 2009 · 0 comments
I'm come to tattooing perhaps way too early in life. In the years between my 14th and 18th birthdays I acquired between 10-12 (depending on how you look at it) tattoos with my parent's approval. At that time I took tattoos to be a fashion statement rather then the form of personal express I now view them as many years later. Impulsive as a teen I made a few bad tattooing mistakes (Actually I just made a lot of mistakes in general). But one tattoo in particular was an experience that has affected me throughout my adult life. After high ...
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By Anonymous · Dec. 08, 2009 · 0 comments
Ever since I was 10 I had been in love with tattoos. My older brother and I used to sit together and read tattoo magazines together and I was fascinated. I had planned out 8 different tattoos that I had wanted. I kept asking my mom if I could get one and every time she would say "no not until you move out!" My 16th birthday was coming up (October 13th) and I had carefully thought about what I wold like. So 4 months before my birthday I drew up a tattoo that had a lot of meaning to me ...
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By Dadilydoo · Dec. 08, 2009 · 0 comments
"The worm" Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young boy dreaming of becoming a pirate. Pirates have wooden legs, scurvy, eye-patches and monstrous tattoos filling their big, hairy, Caribbean-sun burnt arms. I guess you know where this story is heading already. Honestly I have no exact memory of when I encountered tattoos for the first time but I'm pretty sure it was through comic books rather than actual events from real life. I grew up in a pretty secluded village where the only ones with tattoos were the ones considered to be feared. Or maybe they ...
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By Anonymous · Dec. 01, 2009 · 0 comments
I've always wanted tattoos. From a very young age, I had looked at the ones that my grandpa and uncle had, and I was absolutely fascinated by them. I was always very inquisitive about the procedure, but slightly disheartened at age six when I found out I would have to wait twelve more years before I could get one for my very own. Fast-forward twelve years and three months, I found myself in Admiral Tattoo, a place where I had visited multiple times, twice for ear stretching that proved itself to be a little too difficult to do at home, ...
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By Anonymous · Dec. 01, 2009 · 0 comments
This story begins in 2001, I was about 16 and I really wanted a tattoo. Of course I was too young back then and compensated my urge with other piercings such as tongue and navel. For years after that I craved to get inked. This craving became more intense after watching Miami Ink, LA Ink and London Ink. Fast forward to 2008 and again had the urge to get a tattoo. By this time I only had my navel pierced (which I'd had to get repierced again twice due to rejection). The idea I had for my tattoo was 3 ...
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By Anonymous · Nov. 23, 2009 · 0 comments
Several years ago I got a quarter sleeve started at Bodycraft, Nottingham by Aaron. I basically wanted a fun tattoo I have several tattoos that are important to me that were finished so I thought it was finally time to get something silly, so I designed a pseudo-Japanese picture loosely based on the PS2 game 'Okami'. I used Aaron many times before, and always found him to be a great tattooist, fairly priced and always giving good results. However he was moving to the US, and the last time I went to visit him to talk about colour he ...
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By Anonymous · Nov. 10, 2009 · 0 comments
Firstly I wish to say that you should by no means try this at home very, VERY, bad idea. The amount of things that can go wrong is surprising I still don't know how my skin will react over time to the liquid eyeliner we used as "ink". Please note when I refer to Hannah her IAM is Metamora. Myself and Hannah had been planning a Halloween spooking for a couple of months and aside from the play piercing we were going to do we wanted to get something matching. A friendship-type-thing. This, however, was a little hard ...
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By Anonymous · Nov. 10, 2009 · 0 comments
I always wanted a tattoo. I didn't know where to get my first tattoo. A lot of my friends have always told me the first tattoo can always end in disaster and I would want to have it removed in a couple of years. Well one of my friends gave me the idea of getting the inside of my bottom lip tattooed. I researched it and thought about it for awhile. I never thought a tattoo on my lip would be the first one I would procure. But it was. My friend and I talked about it a couple times ...
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By Anonymous · Nov. 02, 2009 · 0 comments
I began my body modification journey 9 years ago; a young, impressionable girl having to save up biweekly pay cheques from a part-time job at the mall just to have enough for a piercing here and there. Over the years, I've never hesitated when it came to getting a new piercing; part of me always knew that I could remove it if I didn't like it and live with the scar/memory that it left. I always knew that getting a tattoo would require much more thought, and so I patiently waited for "the inspiration". That strategy proved to be wise ...
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By Anonymous · Nov. 02, 2009 · 0 comments
I knew that I wanted a creature of some sort. Unfortunately, I had no idea of what exactly. I knew that months from then I still wouldn't have a specific idea in mind. I did know a couple of things though. I knew the exact style and the tattoo artist had to have some kick ass work to show. I was tired of paying good money for poor quality tattoos. I was on the hunt for that awesome tattoo artist. Generally, I pick my tattoo artist based on their work. Also, I ask other tattoo artists their opinion as well. ...
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