Seattle tattoo - easy access by bike

[margo49]

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]

+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]

DEFINITELY NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!

Here is the gallery link.

She does beautiful work.

[Catrin]

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]

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]

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....

[salsabike]

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....

Did you post a picture of the tattoo somewhere?

We'd throw a big Margo party, is what!!

[Trek420]

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....

Dear? But if you must my vote so far is scrimshaw ship sailing under the GG bridge across your back while escaping the clutches of giant squid

[bikerHen]

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!

[margo49]

Yay wow!
A world of possibilities - 1/2 a world away!
And even someones had my cherry blossom idea...so I am on track!

[KnottedYet]

Margo, I would bet you a gazillion dollars that if you came here for tattoo work there would be several Seattle TE'ers who would clamor to take you in during the process.

[margo49]

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.

Yeah, I checked her site already. Amazing work (not that I am an expert but as they say I know what I like).