Tattoos

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.

Posted on Reddit with the headline My friend thinks this is "cute". I think it is WTF.

yeah the hands AND the feet is the weirdest part for me- like either, maybe, but both? though, actually, no, those feet are *scary* anyway you slice it

wav file tattoo, y/n?

Chest tattoo I have across both collarbones sucked to holy hell.

Which one of you has the rib tat? I wanna tat on that area but am not sure about the pain? Of course I suffered through he chest piece and the inner arm...

wav file tattoo, y/n?

Y!

You'll look old and wrinkly regardless of whether you have a tattoo!

Old, wrinkly with a bunch of silly tattoos. I don't know, I like'em a lot on young people. But not so much when it's on a 70 year old person. Especially when it's faded. Meh. As I said, I quite like some tattoos. But I hate the small ones, or the ones on legs or like the woman at the clothes' shop today. On her finger. I mean, seriously, wtf is up with those random little ones?

Rimbaud tattoo is AWESOME. I mean, seriously, how much better can you get?

I like'em a lot on young people. But not so much when it's on a 70 year old person. Especially when it's faded.

can't think of anything more charming than tattooed grandparents. like you fade and wrinkle and become comically obsolete, why should ink be any different?

re: earlier in the thread - I understand people being frustrated by strangers asking about their tattoos, I suppose, but I have tattooed hands and am asked about them a couple times a month ... and I'd feel like an absolute asshole if I brushed people off or got pissed about it. They're tattoos on my hands - if I wanted to make a big secret about it, I'd put them somewhere else. Of course people are going to ask. I'd feel like the kid who doesn't want anyone to notice him but wears a Superman cape and moon boots to school.

Also, I've heard a different one for tramp stamp, but I forget what it was now...

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― Will M., Friday, September 7, 2007 1:25 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

3.5 years later and I remember what I was tlaking about. It was whale tail. And it has nothing to do w/ tattoos.

wav file tattoo, y/n?

Describe? Of a particular file? Colors? Etc.

I mean, overall, yes, but I'm curious about details.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6134/6000851892_dc5e4b8307.jpg

That one's hard to Google.

For my boyfriend's birthday I got his initials, M.S. tattooed on my ankle

it's the Anglo-Saxon/Elder Futharc runes Mannaz, humanity (M) and Sowilo, sun (S)

Wow, you're targeting all the purportedly excruciating zones to get tatted.

Making some groundwork on my very first one. Already did a consultation and am now waiting for some art to come back.

it's kind of an in joke between us, as Martin and I were supposed to get matching tattoos on our ankles ten years ago (of the number .23 in a weird old font taken from a coat check ticket used in a Kurt Schwitters collage) and i got mine and he didn't because he saw how much pain I was in and chickened out. So I have that on my right ankle, and ten years later, I got another Martin-oriented tattoo on the other ankle in the same place, same size . . .

decided i'm gonna treat myself to one of these in september for my birthday

Hah, mine's a b'day present to myself too, only I misjudged how long it was going to take to set this thing into motion.

So, ankle really was the most painful spot?

No, I would say that the sternum has hurt me the most- but see tabes upthread about the ribcage, he said that hurt more.

I think you should just get a tattoo on the place on your body where you want one and not think about the pain part. The pain is temporary and the art is what counts.

Yeah, doing arm(s), regardless of the predominate lack of pain thereon.

I just got the second to last part of my half sleeve done a couple weeks ago and it shot "over your collarbone" to the top of the most painful list. Other things have hurt to some degree but this one actually felt really unpleasant and I didn't get enough of an endorphin rush to counteract how much it hurt.

Pain goes away and it's always worth it.

Sternum by far.

I think you should just get a tattoo on the place on your body where you want one and not think about the pain part. The pain is temporary and the art is what counts.

I'll second that, though I haven't had my clavicle or sternum done. It hurts, it sucks, but you've probably had worse pain.

Also the inside of my arm was terrible but no where near the sternum. I could feel my teeth rattling for four hours

TBH they all fucking hurt.

The inside of my arm, up near my armpit was bad. I'm very happy that don't want anything on my sternum!

So, ankle really was the most painful spot?

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I got one on the inside of my ankle a couple months ago and I swear that I didn't hurt at all. It sort of . . . tickled? I was sitting up and watching and everything and the guy kept asking if I was OK and it really was. It hurt way less than my others which are all on my back and had me in tears. A+ experience, would ankle tattoo again.

I'm in the process of doing a leg sleeve and let me tell you that getting your shin tattooed is not pleasant

How high up do you go with a leg sleeve?

Considering tattoos again -- something that has come and gone over the years but languished for lack of the perfect art/material. Might be more serious this time...I have to mull it over.

Ankle to below knee

in process soon
http://contrastmagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/sj_manifestweb.jpg

not to change anyone's vote but this is a p hard hitting editorial i think peeps should read. food 4 thought

"why put a bumper sticker on a ferrari?"
http://www.ubspectrum.com/opinion/why-put-a-bumper-sticker-on-a-ferrari-1.2755789?MMode=true#.TynfbyMke5L

haha yeah my opinion on bumper sticks and my opinion on tattoos has a lot of overlap. why put a bumper sticker on any car?