Seattle tattoo - easy access by bike

**salsabike** · 07-10-2011, 03:07 PM

Now you are making me want a tattoo.

**KnottedYet** · 07-10-2011, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by salsabike

Now you are making me want a tattoo.

I've already got an idea for my next one...

LETS GO!

**bmccasland** · 07-10-2011, 05:29 PM

Tattoos involve lots of needle like pricks, I'll pass. Merci, mais non.

**salsabike** · 07-10-2011, 05:33 PM

I know. All these years I've been able to resist. And I may continue resisting. But the Two Birds work is so beautiful. I started having little fantasies yesterday...if I did, what would I do? A tiny ballet shoe on one ankle, and the swim/bike/run--also tiny--on the other...

I don't THINK I'll actually do it. But you never know.

**KnottedYet** · 07-10-2011, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by salsabike

I know. All these years I've been able to resist. And I may continue resisting. But the Two Birds work is so beautiful. I started having little fantasies yesterday...if I did, what would I do? A tiny ballet shoe on one ankle, and the swim/bike/run--also tiny--on the other...

I don't THINK I'll actually do it. But you never know.

The artist who did my tattoo (Tarah Pennington) is very good with tiny. She figured out how to do the small (size of a half dollar coin) tat I wanted and still keep it clear by leaving off some of the details and changing some of the shading AND by adding a little bit of color to bring the whole thing to life.

She was very careful and took her time with a tiny needle to put fine details into what is a very simple-looking tattoo. And did a lot of neat things like leaving wee un-inked bits between the separate parts so it looks tidy and clear, yet when you look at it you don't notice them. (they were not in my original picture I brought in, she did that herself when she drew it for me)

Tiny is cheap, too. $60 for mine.

**salsabike** · 07-26-2011, 12:45 AM

Picture??

**beccaB** · 07-26-2011, 10:09 AM

I HATE plucking my eyebrows! but I am going to get a tattoo to celebrate my 50th birthday coming soon. A sunshine on my shoulder. I get so depressed in the winter when it's gray all the time that I want my sunshine always

with me

**KnottedYet** · 07-10-2011, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by bmccasland

Tattoos involve lots of needle like pricks, I'll pass. Merci, mais non.

It actually didn't hurt nearly as much as I expected it to. The edge that got close to my shinbone felt like getting snapped by a rubber band, but on the whole it felt like someone running a toothpick over my skin. Or drawing on me with a slightly too-sharp pencil.

Much less painful than waxing my legs or plucking my eyebrows.

**margo49** · 07-26-2011, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by salsabike

Now you are making me want a tattoo.

+1
Been thinking about it for 30 years but then got complicated up with surgical scars on the good places.
Then I just thought a few weeks ago maybe to get one on my 30 stitch long (outer) upper arm scar (the incision they did to get access to the crushed bone from the "clean side"). Like incorporating the scar.
Which I have seen pics of women who have done that with their mastectomy scars and I had an idea for a while to do a blossoming cherry branched twig using both the scars. My oncologist in 1996 said she had seen them too and it was really nice and my surgeon in 2009 thought it was a good idea but turned down the nitrous oxide before I got any more ideas.
Might work out quite expensive what with the airline ticket and all...
Watch this space - TE wimminz are a Bad Influence!

**KnottedYet** · 07-26-2011, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by margo49

+1
Been thinking about it for 30 years but then got complicated up with surgical scars on the good places.
Then I just thought a few weeks ago maybe to get one on my 30 stitch long (outer) upper arm scar (the incision they did to get access to the crushed bone from the "clean side"). Like incorporating the scar.
Which I have seen pics of women who have done that with their mastectomy scars and I had an idea for a while to do a blossoming cherry branched twig using both the scars. My oncologist in 1996 said she had seen them too and it was really nice and my surgeon in 2009 thought it was a good idea but turned down the nitrous oxide before I got any more ideas.
Might work out quite expensive what with the airline ticket and all...
Watch this space - TE wimminz are a Bad Influence!

Vyvyn Lazonga here in Seattle specializes in surgical and post-mastectomy tattoos. There have been a couple of articles about her in the Seattle papers. If you do a search by her name you may find more pictures than in her gallery online. (I can't get to her site from work, it's blocked. I can't give you a link, sorry!) IIRC when you mouse over the pictures in her gallery you can see the "before" pics.

**Blueberry** · 07-26-2011, 11:40 AM

DEFINITELY NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!

Here is the gallery link.

She does beautiful work.

**Catrin** · 07-30-2011, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by Blueberry

DEFINITELY NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!

Here is the gallery link.

She does beautiful work.

Beautiful work! I've a large phoenix on my back what was done by a tattooist from Hawaii - it was done 16-17 years ago and the color is about as vibrant as it was then. If I can figure out how to take a picture of it will post it...sadly it wasn't $60, but she wanted to do it so badly that she made me a fantastic deal. At the time the tattoo "fad" in Tennessee was either a skull/crossbones or a comic strip character...

**sgtiger** · 07-30-2011, 05:21 PM

The artwork on Two Birds Tattoo is gorgeous. Makes me want more ink.

I got my first tattoo a couple of months ago. It's a Korean style phoenix with some Rose of Sharons (Roses of Sharon?

) around it. I'll have to get Dh or DSS to take a more recent picture of it. The original pic has some oozing spots showing.

**KnottedYet** · 08-09-2011, 06:14 PM

My tat is finally in the nearly healed stage.
(For the red inked areas. The black inked areas healed weeks ago.)

It appears that I am one of those unfortunate souls who heal v...e...r...y slowly with colored inks.

All future tattoos will be strictly black inks.

So what do I get next?
A giant scrimshaw sailing ship across my back? A pin-up girl on my bicep? (she'd have to be a thin and anorexic one to fit on my wimpy bicep!) A tramp-stamp globe showing the Pacific ocean? An electron microscope picture of a diatom? Big 'ol anchor on my shoulder? Old Norse runes spelling my name?

Hmmm....

**bikerHen** · 08-10-2011, 02:19 PM

Hmmmm . . . I'm going to hold this thread responsible for my getting a new tat. I've been thinking about it for months, and on a sudden whim had it done on Monday! Knot, I'm sure you've been warned about what happens once you get that ink in your blood? You just can't stop!

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