Show us your tattoo

[ASammy1]

I was just admiring KSH's M dot tattoo and was wondering what everyone else had. I currently don't have any tattoos, but I want to get one.

Show us what you have!!!

[Blueberry]

You might want to do some searching - I recall some similar threads where folks posted pictures. They're very cool!

CA (who is way to chicken to get one)

[wolfak]

Since I'm proud to be a native Iowan and the fill is the livery off of the buses I used to drive.

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v123/63/37/14819538/n14819538_36101547_8911.jpg

When I worked there, I met a lot of great friends, including my dear husband and built a lot of personal character. I got it last summer before moving off to grad school. I still totally dig it.

[Andrea]

My dragon (about 15 hours in with untold hours ahead). It goes up to my hip bone for now and the tail/tail scenery will extend up onto my side and will include stars on a dark background. The dragon itself still looks a little unfinished and will get more detailed shading/scales added once the color is finished:
http://blog.brickhouseracing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/front.jpg

My phoenix:
http://blog.brickhouseracing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/phoenix1.jpg

I have a couple of other little ones, but given the extent of these two, they aren't worth the bandwidth :D

[kie_fujo]

i have to many to post pics. you can find them here:

http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_photo_gallery.asp?id=KEI_FUJO

[GraysonKelly]

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7183Here's mine. I'm getting another one soon.

[wackyjacky1]

This is my soul kitty, Bubbles the Wonder Cat (RIP :( ):

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc71/wackyjacky1/IMG_0553_2-1.jpg

The tattoo is on my calf. It is my favorite picture of her -- she started to head-butt the camera as I was taking the picture. I didn't know at the time that she already had the lymphoma that would claim her a few months later...

[kygrrlinco]

This was my 30th birthday gift to myself. It represents home (Kentucky) to me and I love that dogwoods are some of the first trees to bloom in the spring. I also feel like I've embraced my femininity more in the last few years than ever before, and also my strength and the tat reflects that. The artist did the outline in brown ink rather than black, and I love the softness of it.
I also have a tree on my left shoulder, but no pics of it, and a women's symbol with celtic knotwork on my right hip.
I've been jonesing for my next...was going to hold off another two years until my 35th bday, but we'll see.
I love seeing everyone's ink!

[DigUpHerBones07]

Kie Fujo, you are too cute!!! I love all of your work.

I don't have any photos but my 2 biggest ones are the back of my right calf, I have a geisha dancing in a lotus flower with cherry blossoms falling around her and a cabbage rose with a dagger through it on the inside of my left forearm. I got them both in Japan when I was stationed there for 3.5 years.

[greycoral]

I've got a bunch, but here are my bigger pieces:

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7458/img2425so8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
This was my 30th bday present this past february, a reminder to eat healthy and be good to my body! I've also started doing a lot of home gardening as well. It's my favorite so far.

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5738/mermaided5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
This one is actually being retouched right now. Much more shading and definition throughout.

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/5108/l56b951d78936cf5d5d4b87qj8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
My other sleeve.

It's interesting, because I've lost over 50 lbs since those sleeves were done, and they don't look weird, even though my arms are much more slim now! I also have a small one on my ankle of my dogs paw prints, a few on my back that will be worked into a complete backpiece, and other small design on the other ankle. I love my tattoos :)

[wackyjacky1]

Wow, greycoral, that is some beautiful work. (But I couldn't have brussel sprouts on me, they make me gag. :D )

[Andrea]

These are all great! Show Your Tattoo threads are my 2nd favorite behind Show Your Pets!

[greycoral]

brussel sprouts are my favorite vegetable!!

[Aggie_Ama]

I have two and one I hate so much. I love the design but the guy who did it (from a shop I trusted and used for my first tat) did a crappy job. He complained it was a hard area to do but I think the bigger problem was it is on my somewhat plush hip and it just didn't heal well. It should be a gorgeous purple butterfly but not the normal butterfly you see. The wings are more free form than outlined and colored. One day I will get someone reputable to touch it up and fix it, it is fixable I think. May have to add more color, no cover job I would sooner have it removed.

I have a yellow rose on my ankle, an 18th birthday present from my grandparents. Well not really but I told them if they gave me the standard cash for my birthday I was getting one. What can I say, native Texan and I LOVED the song "Yellow Rose of Texas" by Waylon Jennings and Jesse Coulter growing up. Still love the song and the tattoo. The tattoo is so cliche so I am thinking of adding a bike chain ring behind it to make it mine. Just haven't felt like spending the $$$ or dealing with the healing. The tattooing doesn't bug me, it is the after.

If I got one more it would probably be a gardenia on my back. My Pawpaw took to growing them in his later years and would cut them to send with me because I had a new Beetle with a flower vase. The smell of fresh Gardenias makes me think of him. Or maybe a Pansy since my mom, Mammaw and Great Grandma all have the name and those are some strong women I can only hope to take after.

My mom has a really cool one, I love the art. It is a humingbird flying over a pansy. It is a beautiful tattoo and so her. She got it a few years back, she said after 40+ years (I think she was 48 when she got it) of being a Pansy she had come to piece with the name and embraced herself as a "blooming idiot". LOL. She still goes by her initials. :)

[Brandi]

I have a friend who has some pretty oriental type flower's on her foot. They kinda cascade down her foot from her ankle. Very tastful i think. I would get one too but my dh does not like them at least not on me.

[Meaux]

This is my newest one, I just got it yesterday. My dad used to call me "Moose" and yesterday was the fifth anniversary of his death. I thought it was very fitting. I am very happy with it and cannot wait for it to finish healing out! I also have a Livingstone fruit bat, a phoenix, and a bass clef tattoo.

[GraysonKelly]

Okay, I was gonna post a new thread for this but figured people would get annoyed with me if I did. So, here's hoping that someone or some people out there will read this and give me an opinion.
I want a new tat. Really want one. I can't draw so I can't really draw it and take a picture that will give you any kind of clue so I'll describe it and see if you can get the gist.
What I want is, basically, a compass rose. I want it to be a circle, with a nautical star in the center, with longer, thinner triangles coming out behind the star for the 4 main directions. After that, I want to fill in the other, essentially, 28 points with just simple straight lines resembling (have you guessed yet?)... bicycle spokes. with little triangles pointing in from the rim of the circle at the NE SE NW SW points. mostly flesh colored but I was thinking blue for part of the nautical star, light shading for the 4 main directional triangles, and alternating red and green for the 4 other little triangles. What do you all think?
Let me know. I'm sorry I don't have a pic.
Gray

[alpinerabbit]

I believe a good tat artist will help you with your design.

sounds good to me.

I think I want a pentabike.

[Aggie_Ama]

I think you can get a good artist to work with you. Find one and make an appointment to discuss. Have them draw and redraw until you see your vision. Might cost you more but you will be happy. You might ask KSH how she came to her M-Dot I think she said it required a few re-draws.

[applegum]

My bike! I don't think I have any not-fuzzy pictures of it, which is a shame because the line work is really nice.

[maillotpois]

This is an old thread, but I may as well bump it. :cool:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/296596_2488851377593_1141968526_2945283_2117993493_n.jpg

[salsabike]

Sarah, I love that tattoo.

[Blueberry]

Sarah-

That is an amazing tat! Love it! Wish I weren't too chicken to consider one - but I am...:rolleyes:

[jessmarimba]

That one is cool! Did you design it yourself?

I've wanted a small stick-person mountain biker above my surgical scar (as a simple explanation for it) but can't decide on a design. There are some funny ones on the trail system in Richmond (a guy flying over the bars with a comical expression on his face) but I don't know if I want funny or serious or just plain. Someday I'll put more thought into it! (My other two were sort of spur-of-the-moment decisions that I like but mean nothing...so will never mean the wrong thing, if that makes sense)

[maillotpois]

Thanks! :)

Its from here: http://www.blackbirdsf.org/chainwheels/

I have been thinking about it for years, truly. The times of thinking about it in a positive way started to drastically outnumber the non-thinking about it times. :rolleyes: It is in a place where no one from my "professional" life will ever see it.

It hurt like hell.

[Tiffany_S]

I got this tattoo after 9-11.

[Giulianna23]

These are my tattoos: The butterfly on my lowerback was the very first one I got done about 9 years ago and it needs some touch up. the Black Dragon was my second one on my right arm got it done about 8 years ago. The Dream Catcher on my left arm is my third and it's not done yet i got it done 4 years ago... it needs to be fixed though. The Chinese letters on my ribs is my most recent one and I got it done a week ago. I am schedule for a new one in about 3 weeks and also for re-touching and finishing the Dream Catcher. They all have a meaning to me. Very special meaning.

[maillotpois]

Those are great!

I had a dream this week that I had gotten a tattoo of tree branches on my face, and really regretted it. :rolleyes: I still like my real tattoo, though.

[salsabike]

I still like yours too, MP. I keep thinking I would like to get a smallish series on one calf that shows the major physical stuff I've done and loved--it would be a ballet shoe and the swim/bike/run symbols. Don't know if I'll do it, but it's the first time I've ever had it firmly fixed in my head that I would LIKE to do it.

[maillotpois]

I still like yours too, MP. I keep thinking I would like to get a smallish series on one calf that shows the major physical stuff I've done and loved--it would be a ballet shoe and the swim/bike/run symbols. Don't know if I'll do it, but it's the first time I've ever had it firmly fixed in my head that I would LIKE to do it.

I had my idea firmly fixed for a long time before I actually did it. I also had to consider a location that wouldn't be visible in professional life. :rolleyes: Your idea sounds great - it has to be something that really resonates for you.

[Giulianna23]

Those are great!


Thanks!.