Tattoos!

[Lindsey]

Okay, who has 'em?
I have one and I want to get another after I finish college. I had a design picked out for a long time, a tribal gemini sign, but I just decided tonight that it's not really "me" anymore. I'm now thinking maybe a quote from my favourite poem... "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" But I don't know where I would put it!
So let's hear about your tattoos.. I know I can't be the only one here who has one!

[Janet]

I use to think about getting a tattoo when I was younger. I think they look nice on some young women if they are small and classy. Whether they are small or classy or not they look horrible on old women....so I decided not to.

Met a lady that had a beautiful small butterfly on her back near her shoulder. She was in her 80's and it just did not look good at all. Maybe it did when she was younger, but not now.

[Marilyn]

I don't have one, but if I did, it would have to be somewhere inconspicuous, where clothes would cover. Saw a tribal, multiple spear point looking approximately 2" x 2" tatoo on the inside wrist of a young ladie at Hastings last night. I could understand why she would want it, but where it was, she would see it all the time. I would get tired of it real quick there and want it gone.

A tatoo would have to be something with really special meaning to have it become permanently part of your body. I'd go with either some figure that you really, really like, with some significance that you know will mean just as much in a few years, or as you suggest a part of a poem. Where to put it??? Honestly, I vote on a piece of jewelery you can remove when you want. Nothing really wrong with the tatoo, but things go out of style and I would get tired of them. Permanent is scarry.

[Lindsey]

I agree that it should be something with meaning. My first tattoo I got a year after high school... I had moved out on my own, completed my first year of college, and learned so much about myself. I felt I had learned to spread my wings for the first time, so I got a butterfly to symbolize that time in my life.
I also don't want to put a tattoo anywhere noticeable. The one I have now is on my lower back, sometimes I forget I even have it! I love being girly, and I would like to look classy when I'm wearing a dress and heels. And I still need to get married, and I don't want a tattoo sticking out of my wedding dress!
Here's a picture of the one I have now:

[Marilyn]

That's a nice tatoo for a lower back one. I like the butterfly instead of a strickly tribal design, and it has significance for you. It's very mature of you to think ahead to your wedding. I know a very young lady who got a tatoo between her shoulder blades when she was about 18. For her I believe it was because she was a really nice girl, and she wanted to be just a little bit rebellious without going crazy. I let my daughters have cartlidge piercings and purple stripes in their hair for the same reason. Any way, a couple of years later this young lady had a big church wedding, and had heavy makeup applied to cover the tatoo. She was really wishing she didn't have it that day. The makeup covered pretty well, but those of us who knew it was there could definitely tell.

I did see a lady who had a small lady bug that was on top of her foot, kinda to the side. It looked almost real, and was actually kinda cute.

[Lindsey]

A couple of my friends got tattoos when we were about 15... they both got a maple leaf on their shoulder blades (which, i have to say were badly done. The place was shut down not long after). They thought it was cool at the time, but at high school grad they were both wearing beautiful gowns, with faded black and red maple leafs on their skin. One of them was just married this summer, and all I could notice from behind with her gorgeous strapless wedding dress, was that eyesore tattoo!

Originally Posted by Lindsey

I agree that it should be something with meaning. My first tattoo I got a year after high school... I had moved out on my own, completed my first year of college, and learned so much about myself. I felt I had learned to spread my wings for the first time, so I got a butterfly to symbolize that time in my life.
I also don't want to put a tattoo anywhere noticeable. The one I have now is on my lower back, sometimes I forget I even have it! I love being girly, and I would like to look classy when I'm wearing a dress and heels. And I still need to get married, and I don't want a tattoo sticking out of my wedding dress!
Here's a picture of the one I have now:

I love it. I have a butterfly on my lower back too. I want to make mine a bit more whispy like yours, but I've heard tatoo artists don't like to mess with another one's work. Then I want to add vines or something and somewhere incorporate 2 little butterflies or something to represent my girsl.

I've also recently considered getting little paw prints on my ankle.

Lastly, I've always loved the thought of a butterfly on my foot, but have always decided against it for work purposes.

I got my first tatoo at 32 after my divorce. I always wanted one but he said I wasn't the type and was totally against it.