Tattoos

I'm thinking inside of my elbow, above the fold so that it's covered by a short sleeve t-shirt for the most part.

I'm pretty sure I'll never have a job where arm tattoos would be an issue (couldn't be covered with a shirt), but I think it would give my 86yo grandfather a heart attack

thats a really painful place to get tattooed.

love this guys stuff
http://www.nikkohurtado.com/index.php
he shows up on the kat von d show sometimes. i have no idea what i would get or if i even would get anything but i like this dudes style.

yes, nikko's stuff is unreal. Not my style but pretty damn awesome.

http://copperbeehive.wordpress.com/about/

Love love love this guy's stuff

very nice traditional sailor jerry inspired stuff. ive become fascinated with traditional work for the past few years and have gotten quite a few pieces of sailor jerrys done. my favorite is the pinup i had done of my wife.

got it done on saturday

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5213/5384221465_7944cd3688.jpg

haha. dont get why someone would do that though...thats going to look awesome at 60.

oh psh I am just teasing. it is a p nice tattoo!

haha stevie, most of my tattoos are in that style...they are all going to look awesome at 60.

how many others do you have/what/where are they?

wait you have ten, nvm

I really want to get this drawing that Abbott just did for me done but I can't figure out where. It wouldn't go with the ones on my back and that's kind of crowded anyway. Arm is the obvious answer but I'm not sure.

yeah 10, lets see...i've got a pin-up of my wife on my leg, swallows on my chest, my sons footprint and nautical stars on my forearm, another pin up on my arm and a whole bunch of craptacular tribals on arms/back that i did when i was young and picked flash off a wall.

I hate the things, they're disgusting. Why do that to yourself? Imagine what you'll look like when you're old and wrinkl

i'll look like an old sailor.

when i was getting this done a couple came in to have my dude check to see if he could fix the tattoos they just had done two days prior. AT A FUCKING TATTOO PARTY. They were horrendous, completely messed up.

I think my mom-in-law was 60 when she got her tattoos!

I know in some people's eyes this is like saying "I wish I could be a line cook" or "I wish I could GRAFFITI THE TEMPLE" (to use the example from my childhood) but I think I could be a good tattoo artist. I am just too risk-averse to do it as a first career. Maybe I will do it when I retire.

You totally should.

Also idk a big fear is sometimes guys are creepers! No offense, guys. But I don't think you can say "here is my tattoo parlor radical lesbians only plz."

though that would be....awesome.

http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp9/newtattoodesigns/Animals%20Tattoo%20Designs/Spider/1209002917ufG2ViV.jpg

No. Bad.

The shading and perspective on that are amazing!

thoughts on tattoos seen thru chest hair?

if you get a chest piece but chest hair grows over some of it, is this:

a) maybe a lil awkward looking but no big deal either way
b) VERY ugly, DO NOT WANT
c) sorta masculine and, er, "classic"
d) hawt

I've seen this work really well with certain kind of sailor-ish/USMC-ish designs, and I've seen it look really awful too. What say ye? I'm neither pro nor con about tattoos- I have six of them myself and like them when they're well done, but lots of the tattoos that I see out in the world are really tacky and awful. But I can't make up my mind about this tattoo + body hair issue.

The shading and perspective on that are amazing!

C, usually, depending on amount of hair. If it's a rug, then maybe a.

like this dude's combo of chest hair and tattoo works for me:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh6id07xzA1qzw3gpo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1300203699&Signature=R8Mss5FKixwQ6iKWyzEJacjpIfg%3D

(but that has more to do with him and the angle and lighting of the photo, than the chest hair/tatt combo itself)

but I've also seen "hairy tattoos" look really horrible, like what-were-you-thinking bad

I think it looks good b/c of the light density of the hair over the tattoo.

to return to this thread, I took the plunge and got a chest tattoo:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5263/5644499458_f48fb9691a.jpg

Nice, tune!

let the "shore leave" jokes begin

i like that one, dd. i've been thinking about anchors, too, but i also am thinking about other designs. given the fact that this boy i'm seeing is a tattoo artist, think it's going to happen soon.

hello, sailor

How much chest hair do you normally have? I'd be interested in seeing a picture of what it looks like grown in. (That sounds a little creepy, so I would like to explain that my question and request are apropos your question about chest hair + tattoos above.)

No, I getcha, and I will try to remember to post a followup- I don't have a lot of chest hair, and what grows is mostly above the area where the tattoo is, so it will only be over the top of the image- hope it doesn't look weird, as I don't want to shave it

oh, and DAMN the sternum is a painful area to get tatted, I have had tatts in other places but whoah, this was kind of excruciating I gotta say

if you commit a homicide, maybe don't tattoo the entire crime scene on your chest:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/22/national/a125246D86.DTL&tsp=1

oh crap guys I murdered someone with an anchor and now the feds are gonna get wise

Are the heels a painful place to get tattooed?

http://i55.tinypic.com/2gww87m.jpg

oh, and DAMN the sternum is a painful area to get tatted, I have had tatts in other places but whoah, this was kind of excruciating I gotta say

When I saw the pic that's what I was going to say; getting your sternum tattooed sucks. I have a chest tattoo that covers most of my left pec, and when he hit the sternum it felt like he was tattooing my throat. Thought I was going to be sick, etc. I guess that puts me in the "I have tattoos but I wouldn't recommend them", at least I'd never recommend anywhere near the sternum.

Is sternum tattooing more of a dull sort of pain?

I always thought I was tough or other people were whiners b/c I had gotten four tattoos, none of which hurt - I described the feeling as just kind of annoying, like a minor rug burn. Those tattoos are on my shoulder, outer upper arms, and hip. Then I got one on my inner upper arm/armpit and that fucker hurt so bad I almost cried. It was a sharp, searing, stinging pain.

Looks like someone works out . . . er, that is to say, nice tattoo placement!

thanks! I am hoping that the placement makes me work out more, but my job doesn't give me a lot of time to do that

xpost re pain

I guess everybody's pain scale is different, I have never broken a bone or given birth so i can't compare it with those pain milestones, but I found that the sternum was much more painful than the tattoos I have on my biceps, stomach, ankle, and hips. It wasn't a different *kind* of pain- it was that same sorta cat-scratch-meets-cigarette-burn kind of feeling, but just a much more intense version of it. At times I was just scrunching up my face, not able to breathe, with my mouth wide open and no sound coming out, just kind of looking like a demented Butoh dancer dude or something. You know you're being a total wuss when the tattoo artist keeps saying "you're doing great" in that fake reassurance voice . . .

the sternum hurts, yes, but does it hurt as much as the ribcage? my Wojnarowicz tat was excruciating, and it only took like 15 minutes. i was drenched in sweat and nearly hyperventilating by the end of it.

my Wojnarowicz tat

photo please.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/33897_438404961916_592086916_5781122_8346424_n.jpg

i also have Rimbaud on my right bicep:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/33718_1619761891085_1147535933_1788575_5936363_n.jpg

i will say that Jesse has it right re: the armpit area. the one i have right below my clavicle didn't hurt EXCEPT when he was getting close to my pits. then i was like 'holy shit i'm never getting work done there'

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/62568_122655777788733_100001329337105_124687_7038575_n.jpg

This tattoo is very painful.

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