Tattoos

GraySaturday

Urban Hiker wrote:

My tramp stamp will be somewhat inspired by this - http://slavetotheneedle.com/tattoos/erika/erika-5-lg.jpg - and will flow up into my ribcage. Can't wait, just need to iron out the details and save the funds.

I really like this! I wish I had the balls to get a big ol' tattoo on my back.. For now, its just the top of my left foot..

Urban Hiker

GraySaturday wrote:

I really like this! I wish I had the balls to get a big ol' tattoo on my back.. For now, its just the top of my left foot..

I remeber seeing your tattoo in another thread, it's BEAUtiful!

The foot is a brave place to get a first tattoo. Great big ouchorammas.

I want to get my feet tattooed as part of much larger pieces (think knee high socks tattoo style). I already have an ankle band with an oceanic theme, so I want to stick with that and go much bigger. I want something like this on my foot, but much more colorful.

I LOVE tattoos!

GraySaturday

Urban Hiker wrote:

I remeber seeing your tattoo in another thread, it's BEAUtiful!

The foot is a brave place to get a first tattoo. Great big ouchorammas.

I want to get my feet tattooed as part of much larger pieces (think knee high socks tattoo style). I already have an ankle band with an oceanic theme, so I want to stick with that and go much bigger. I want something like this on my foot, but much more colorful.

I LOVE tattoos!

Thank you! yeah it hurt like nothing I could ever explain. I have thin feet, and it was like hours of drilling into bone. I swear if you could see the bones in my feet, they'd have color in them

But that being said, I have a low pain threshold, but I didn't cry or need a break or anything. I just squeezed the chair until my knuckles were going to explode. The artist wanted to chat with me, but I couldn't focus on what he was saying.

My friends always joke and tell me to get a "sock".. haha.. someday I might add, just not yet. Plus you can only really go with the foot tattoos in the good weather since you can put shoes on. Too much snow out here these days!

xscorcho

even though they are a fad... i still like them.... and i dont think youre gonna care what it looks like when youre 80.

harmless_little_f***

xscorcho wrote:

even though they are a fad... i still like them.... and i dont think youre gonna care what it looks like when youre 80.

Agree about the 80 comment...

That said, I don't buy the fad argument either. Human beings have been tattooing themselves for thousands of years, for religious, spiritual or recreational reasons. What difference does it make if my tattoo has a lot of spiritual significance to me? I didn't get it because of any fad.

elmer

journeyman wrote:

Any time I discover a tramp stamp on a chicks lower back it's almost a sign of a girl who can't think for herself.

where did the tramp stamping begin? Was it first seen on Yo!MTVraps back n the early 90's? See it so much, have to say it does look sexy though.
.......................does it mean they take it from behind?

xscorcho

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

Agree about the 80 comment...

That said, I don't buy the fad argument either. Human beings have been tattooing themselves for thousands of years, for religious, spiritual or recreational reasons. What difference does it make if my tattoo has a lot of spiritual significance to me? I didn't get it because of any fad.

i think it has gradually become more acceptable to have them and that is how its turned into a fad... now everyone has them..... i dont think people get them simply BECAUSE it is a fad..... and im sure most people have meaning some sort of meaning behind it.....

heck, my mom even has one now... and hers definately has meaning to it.

harmless_little_f***

xscorcho wrote:

i think it has gradually become more acceptable to have them and that is how its turned into a fad... now everyone has them..... i dont think people get them simply BECAUSE it is a fad..... and im sure most people have meaning some sort of meaning behind it.....

heck, my mom even has one now... and hers definately has meaning to it.

I have an ipod but only because I want significant music playing in my ears all day. Same with tattoos. I have a tattoo because there's something about wearing something significant on one's body, to me. Popular doesn't mean a thing. I'm sure people were saying this once about cars, mobile phones, curtains, mattresses... even art collecting itself. 'Just a fad.'

xscorcho

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

I have an ipod but only because I want significant music playing in my ears all day. Same with tattoos. I have a tattoo because there's something about wearing something significant on one's body, to me. Popular doesn't mean a thing. I'm sure people were saying this once about cars, mobile phones, curtains, mattresses... even art collecting itself. 'Just a fad.'

well, i think ipods are a fad as well but we'll see if they are here to stay... something newer and better will probably come along though. tattoos will defaintely always be around but im sure not always so popular. and i think curtains and mattresses have prooved their not a fad

harmless_little_f***

xscorcho wrote:

well, i think ipods are a fad as well but we'll see if they are here to stay... something newer and better will probably come along though. tattoos will defaintely always be around but im sure not always so popular. and i think curtains and mattresses have prooved their not a fad

But this is what I'm saying... have not tattoos as well? Do you know how many cultures have tattooed themselves for thousands, perhaps millions of years? Not a fad at all. And I think you've missed my point about the ipod... the idea of having music in your ears all day, all night - the idea of loving music to an obsessive extent - is not a fad. The ipod is incidental to that. When there's something else out there, I might get it, but only because I love music. I'm going to get another tattoo. But only because I love art.

jeffbr

I think there is a difference between fad and social acceptance. If Tattooing is a fad, it is a fucking long lasting one with no end in sight. Perhaps you're seeing more tattoos because they're more socially acceptable. People who wouldn't have been tattooed 10 years ago are getting them now.

It doesn't really matter if it is a fad or not. It doesn't really matter if anyone else likes them or not. The only thing that matters is that the person getting the tattoo gets something they like and are happy with the results.

xscorcho

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

But this is what I'm saying... have not tattoos as well? Do you know how many cultures have tattooed themselves for thousands, perhaps millions of years? Not a fad at all. And I think you've missed my point about the ipod... the idea of having music in your ears all day, all night - the idea of loving music to an obsessive extent - is not a fad. The ipod is incidental to that. When there's something else out there, I might get it, but only because I love music. I'm going to get another tattoo. But only because I love art.

tattoos have been around for many many years.... but not popular like now.... which is why i believe it is a fad..... maybe in ten years people will be saying they are horrible and nobody will be getting them (except obviously the cultures\people that have done it for all those years).. who knows... maybe they will always be popular like now... i dont know! but to me, theyre a fad lol. and music will always be around ..... but the ipod... doubtful.. because its a fad! i dont think fads are bad... the popularity of things change year to year, decade to decade.... what is in now... will not be in one year or ten years.... its just how it is!

harmless_little_f***

xscorcho wrote:

tattoos have been around for many many years.... but not popular like now.... which is why i believe it is a fad..... maybe in ten years people will be saying they are horrible and nobody will be getting them (except obviously the cultures\people that have done it for all those years).. who knows... maybe they will always be popular like now... i dont know! but to me, theyre a fad lol. and music will always be around ..... but the ipod... doubtful.. because its a fad! i dont think fads are bad... the popularity of things change year to year, decade to decade.... what is in now... will not be in one year or ten years.... its just how it is!

OK, I don't know why I'm getting bothered by this, but how can you NOT see that tattooing is only a passing fad in the western world? And the fact that that's what worries you is highly ironic.. you won't get a tattoo because it's a westernised fad - therefore, what your western culture says, governs what you choose to appreciate as an art form. You follow western (American/British) fads. Only you don't think this one will last so you're not interested.

Do you own a television? One day that will be a touch screen, and perhaps a teleportation device too.

GreenTeaDisease

journeyman wrote:

Anyone else think that tatts are becoming increasingly lame and cheesy. More and more people are getting them just to get them. Any time I discover a tramp stamp on a chicks lower back it's almost a sign of a girl who can't think for herself.

I do think that tattoos and tattooing is an art form. Like all art though, the ratio of crap to quality is astronomical.

Why are there tv shows about tattooing? I don't get it.

I think you are about 12 years behind in your observation. those lower back tats came into force in 96.

elmer

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

those lower back tats came into force in 96.

I first noticed them (and I am very observant in these areas) in the UK, oh, around 2002. Wouldn't like my girlfriend to have one just cos of the whore connotations, yet I would like to experience a female............. you catch my drift.

decides2dream

the only difference in regards to tattooing that i see today is it's increasing acceptance for ANYone to have a tattoo. overall, i think that's a good thing.

i think people have always chosen to get them just to get them...some are always lame and cheesy....etc. others put a great deal of thought into it and pick meaningful/beautiful imagery. it is what it is.

redrock

elmer wrote:

I first noticed them (and I am very observant in these areas) in the UK, oh, around 2002.

Obviously not that observant.

elmer wrote:

Wouldn't like my girlfriend to have one just cos of the whore connotations, yet I would like to experience a female............. you catch my drift.

:rolleyes:

Are you very young?

elmer

redrock wrote:

Obviously not that observant.


:rolleyes:

Are you very young?

For sure it wasn't commonplace in the late 90's for women to have them.

Very young? No.
Why? because of the whore comment or for not having had coital relations with such a female?
I don't think they are whores for having a symbol on the nape of their back, but somehow the link is there, often a visible g-string accompanies the tattoo and I find that cheap.

duggro

i want a tattoo on me other aaaaaaaarm though. im too impatient, but i need to design something significant first.

i need to find myself a girl who looks like pixie from LA ink. thats a good example of tattoos lookin hot- a proper sleeve!

http://img111.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=43634_0000041835_20070801164508_122_1114lo.jpg

harmless_little_f***

redrock wrote:

Obviously not that observant.

LOL touche