Show off your ink!

[Mr. Bloom]

My son got SPQR on his arm when he got back from Iraq (it's something about the Roman Legion, but I can't remember the words anymore).

All those years of Latin occassionaly come in handy:

SPQR
Senatus Populusque Romanus ("The Senate and the Roman People")

The Roman Legion used it as their standard to display their source of authority.

[bikerHen]

Yeah, I've got a few bike related tatoos. The picture files are on my computer at home so I'll post them later today or tomorrow. In the mean time, look to the left at "bikerHen". She was my first tatoo! bikerHen

[ehirsch83]

OK, here is the link to the old thread with the picture of my little cyclist
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ghlight=tattoo

Sometime this week I will post pictures of the others(I broke the digitial camera so need to get a disposable- so tattoo and new bike pics will all probably come at once)

[Andrea]

Those are great! I love the link to the scar cover-ups. I can't wait to see more!

To answer someone's previous question- I show mine off in the summer time when I wear tank tops. Otherwise, it stays pretty covered.

[Kimmyt]

I have one.



I took another one that showed more of the positioning (between my shoulder blades) and also showed off my guns, but it also showed off my lovely choice in bras too. So you all get the censored version.

I got mine because dragons hold a very special place in my heart. I have always thought them to be a very beautiful symbol of strength, and particularly feminine strength. It's two dragons entwined around each other in a heart. My brother is a graph artist and designed it for me in high school. I held onto the design for 5 years, and the entire time I still loved the design as much as when I first saw it, so I decided that I would make it a part of me.

I lurve it.

K.

[froglegs]

My sister and I have matching tattoos. She designed them. We are twins, and Gemini happens to be our sign. My foot is on the left, and I can tell mostly because my feet get so beat up that I hardly ever bother painting my toenails. My sister has a couple other tattoos, but I just have the one.

[silver]

I love the tats!!!

I would love to get one myself and the only reason that I don't is because Mr. doesn't like them. I would get something bike or tri related.

I do have piercings, 6. I used to have 8 but Mr. decided that the last two that I got were too "noticible." so he asked me to take them out.

[MillieNZ]

OK, here is the link to the old thread with the picture of my little cyclist
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ghlight=tattoo

Sometime this week I will post pictures of the others(I broke the digitial camera so need to get a disposable- so tattoo and new bike pics will all probably come at once)

that's such a cool tat ! i love it

here's mine on my lower back... not cycling related at all......

it's the chinese symbol for horses (my other big love )

[RoadRaven]

mine is not intended to be sexy. it's a feathered,beaded bracelet on my wrist. A display of solidarity with our Native American brothers and sisters and because I don't wear jewelry.

My daughter and I love it, Zen
I a big collecter of feathers - often plaited into my hair.
And both of us are interested in the various cultures and symbolisms around the world

[CyclaSutra]

Hello again, TEers! I've been hibernating a bit this year and haven't posted for a while. Moved three times, but finally settled and now commuting two hours a day and more when it snows like this. Back on the trainer, la la la.

So this first calf tattoo I got in March when I went to San Francisco with my sister, who is a lesbian. She's got a heart with wings on her back, rainbow-colored. So I got a Hawthorne chainring with six hearts (my fave number) and wings. Now I just have to get in good enough shape again (mayhaps even a teeny tan) so it looks good.

Unfortunately, I had an ink allergy just to the red heart, less than a half-inch-square, so I've been dealing with that at the dermatologists and may have to get it removed. Sigh. FYI red is the MOST allergic color. WIsh I had known that.

THis second picture is of my first tat, gotten at age 19 out of defiance to a bad boyfriend and because I try to be as resilient as a rubber ducky. I'm on the right; some chick with a more in-your-face duck I met at a writers' conference so we quacked about it in the bathroom and had a photo opp.

[IFjane]

Love all the ink - wish I had the nerve to do it myself....but this keeps me from trying:

[KSH]

Let's see if this works!

[Kimmyt]

The thing I love about my tattoo is that I got it for me. If other people can't tell what it looks like when I'm 80, it doesn't really matter. Half the time I don't even see my tattoo, and other people don't either. The fact is, I know it's there, with me all the time, a kind of physical representation of everything that is inside me. It comforts me.

[bikerHen]

These are all of my bike related tattoos. I have 2 more non-bike tats, but I don't have any pictures of those.

First up is Biker Hen, my namesake. She's on the back of my left calf.


Next, my homage to Queen on my right shoulder


Third are my bike bugs on my right wrist.


Last but not least, Share the Road!! I got the text first, and decided it was not enough so I added the bike.



And since my daughter is doing all the work putting my pictures in this thread, she decided to add hers as well. It's her "tramp stamp" and is a work in progress.

[Pax]

The thing I love about my tattoo is that I got it for me. If other people can't tell what it looks like when I'm 80, it doesn't really matter. Half the time I don't even see my tattoo, and other people don't either. The fact is, I know it's there, with me all the time, a kind of physical representation of everything that is inside me. It comforts me.

Absolutely. When I'm old and wrinkly why on earth would I care what someone thinks about my skin...I'll be happy to still be alive so tats will be no big deal.