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25 February 2006
What me? Addict? So, a couple of weeks ago I got my second tattoo on my arm and now I want more! But I shouldn't. I really shouldn't. So, let me live vicariously through you all. Show me your ink, Mecha!
I'm one of the few people in my demographic who is both tattoo and piercing free. I used to be inordinately proud of this fact, but these days with all the changes in my life, who knows?
I'm way too wimpy (and probably too old) to get one, although I would love to have a toe ring tattoo. But I *love* looking at the tats on this site - they're right up my alley (although not on such a grand scale), and would be the style I would get if I had ever gotten one. I like the Tim Burton-ish quality of some of them.
Only one so far, but I am going to get a new one this year. A turtle of course. I was trying to persuade mrspants to design it for me, but she's unblackmailable apparently.
A year ago I blacked out while taking a piss at six in the morning, and woke up on the bathroom floor with my arm snapped in half. After watching it flop around for a minute or two, and trying to put my weight on it, it dawned on me that something was horribly wrong, and maybe if I crawl into my bedroom I could get a few hours of sleep and deal with it later. So I crawled into my room, stood up, blacked out again, woke up with a bruised rib and thought "OK, something is really not right". Aaanyway, one of my roommates drove me to the ER, where 9 hours later I woke up from surgery with a titanium plate holding my forearm together and a $20,000 hospital bill. The scar is huge because one of the cuts they made didn't heal properly, and kept getting infected. The scar on the other side of my arm is much neater.
I can give you an example of a shitty tattoo. This one was done by an amateur at some guys house. The owner of the tattoo is the same guy that phelgmed in my drinking glass.
This one, on the same guy, was done by a professional but it was some holiday and the artist was waiting to go out on a date with some hot girl so he did a rush job and got a lot of the detail wrong. So don't let this happen to you, mkay?
jonmc, I also used to be inordinately proud of my tattoo & piercing free status because I was the only person in my family without them. Then I realized it hasn't been my stellar judgement that's kept me from them, it's that I'm just too cheap.
Now I'm reconsidering, but it'll have to wait until my credit cards are paid off, which will be a while.
The reason the right one is unfinished is because the tattooist, not the most reliable of people to begin with, went completely off the rails. He disappeared for months without explanation and was completely uncontactable. His studio has gone bankrupt and he won't be coming back. I'm hoping he might finish it "unofficially", so to speak, otherwise I have some other people in mind to complete it. In any case I won't be doing anything until my company finishes it's redundancy process and I can safely start spending money again.
I'm like jonmc w/r/t tattoos (not piercings, though). I've held out so long now that it's hard to imagine changing my mind at this point. There's something fun about being all natural. But if I did get a tattoo -- a thought that crosses my mind with increasing frequency -- I would go for something very 1940s vintage, a Western-cowgirl-rose-horshoe sort of thing, I think.
But in truth, if I had those hundreds of dollars to kick around with, they would be going to guitars and travel rather than tattoos. So I guess I probably just don't have the bug bad enough.
leg (the asian bamboo one) right arm
I've also got a small one on my left upper arm and a small one on my lower back that I don't like very much (it's nice, but not really "me") and want to get embellished.
I've thought about getting a tattoo but I always come back to the decision that no matter what I get I'll regret it later.
Another here without any ink, for the same reason. The only piercing I have is a hole in my ear that I now only use to gross people out by sticking things like paper clips through.
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