New Poll! Poll number 33!

[seeker007nmss]

Do you have a tattoo?

[wondergirl9847]

I don't have any tats, but my mom has one. I hate pain. :laugh: I don't even have my ears pierced. Also, that eye puff thing at the eye doctor...HAAAAAAATE it.

[Dreammms]

I don't have any but want to get one on my ankle. Maybe a cute penguin or something.

[GardenStateGirlie]

Never wanted one and never will get one. I can't stand the thought of being in my 60s or 70s with a butterfly or something equally as generic on my hip, the small of my back or ankle (no offense to the butterfly girls--many of my friends have them in said locations) and a boat load of sagging flesh. Bleech. I know a lot of people who are only in their late 20s and already, the ink has begun to fade. Talk about going through a lot of pain for nothing--fading ink would piss me off. My mom has always wanted one. I think that officially sealed the deal for me. If that isn't a big turn off for a tattoo, I don't know what is :laugh:

[estranged4life]

but I do have a design in mind for a tattoo on my shoulder which is the Nightwish "Once" album cover below (I'd have the word "Once" removed and replaced with my Mother's initials-B.S.J.)
<p><div align=center><img src="http://www.angelfire.com/music3/rhiannon/Nightwish-Once.jpg"></div>

Deb is considering getting a tattoo of K.U.'s monkey/guitar logo this June when she would be cancer-free for 1 year.

[WelshWitchPMD]

Also, that eye puff thing at the eye doctor...HAAAAAAATE it.

I hate that too! I have had so many problems with that darn machine, too. My tests come out high/normal because I always blink and I know that there is nothing wrong because I have been to a specialist. He told me that those machines aren't always accurate.

As for tattoos I never had the urge to get one. I just don't see the big appeal of them. I used to have a pack of the stick on rose ones but those you can move around in different places, too. That you can't do with a real one and I think that is why they never appealed to me.

[wondergirl9847]

Deb is considering getting a tattoo of K.U.'s monkey/guitar logo this June when she would be cancer-free for 1 year.

I lurve that lil monkey. :nod:

http://www.urbanintensity.com/keithlive/dsf071803/wes/guitarmonkey.jpg

[amber]

This one is especially for MARISSA!!!!!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/antisnark/Picture034.jpg

This one needs to be recolored, I got it when I was 18.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/antisnark/Picture035.jpg
I have one more, but it's in the middle of my back, and I don't feel like taking a pic of it.

[amber]

Oh, by the way, as a resident of California in my age group and lower, you ARE required by law to get tattoos. It's also frowned on for you not to have any piercings. Perhaps it's different in uptight east coast, but here, it's the law!

[xxxmx]

i spent five hours of my 18th birthday getting my tattoo. i had been doodling the same dragon for something like two years so there was no question that i was using it as a template. it is stevie-inspired: one of my fave lines is "pale shadow, she's a dragon" and Battle of the Dragon is one of my fave songs. somehow, i named him after Neil Young. if TISL had come out before i turned 18, i might have gone for the S dragon. i've never regretted getting my tat, and i have been waiting to add onto it for a while.

he's a little pixely because i had to compress the file:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y181/xxxmx/Neil.jpg

[Hawkeye]

No tatoos on me.

[DrummerDeanna]

I don't have any - but almost got one when I was 16 :eek:

My friends and I skipped school and went to a tattoo shop - as they were piercing my (underage) friend's tongue I was convincing the guy I was 18 and of course my friends were backing me up :rolleyes:

I was all set to go when the manager showed up and stopped it since I didn't have ID..

Thank goodness!!!

I was going to get a little musical eighth note on my ankle...something simple and small - but I'm glad I didn't - I don't have anything against tattoos - I think they're awesome - but I'm too much of a coward to get one...

In fact I'd like to join the "I hate pain club" :nod:

[dissention]

Nope. I'm with Marissa, I can't imagine being 65 and seeing a ridiculous tattoo on my person. I don't particularly need ink drawn permanently on my body to express myself as a person, I never saw the point. And I cry at the sight of needles, so that would rule out getting one automatically.

[pianogirl04]

I've considered one but I'm not down with the permanence of it. If I did for some reason I'd go for a little shooting star on the back of my shoulder, but I don't think I'll ever go through with it.

[Dreammms]

but I do have a design in mind for a tattoo on my shoulder which is the Nightwish "Once" album cover below (I'd have the word "Once" removed and replaced with my Mother's initials-B.S.J.)
<p><div align=center><img src="http://www.angelfire.com/music3/rhiannon/Nightwish-Once.jpg"></div>

Deb is considering getting a tattoo of K.U.'s monkey/guitar logo this June when she would be cancer-free for 1 year.


Wow, Brian reading your post gave me chills. I think that is a great idea.

[xxxmx]

if i had gotten inked at 16... ick.

i wanted to get all of my fave bands' logos on the inside of my arms, starting at the wrists. the Smashing Pumpkins' SP heart, Red Hot Chili Peppers' doublecross, Pink Floyd's prism, Deftones' D, FM's penguin... it would have been tragic...

[StevieNicksEO17]

This one is especially for MARISSA!!!!!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/antisnark/Picture034.jpg

This one needs to be recolored, I got it when I was 18.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/antisnark/Picture035.jpg
I have one more, but it's in the middle of my back, and I don't feel like taking a pic of it.

What is the second one? My friend thought it was a fish coming out of a cat's ass... :lol:

[dissention]

What is the second one? My friend thought it was a fish coming out of a cat's ass... :lol:

Looks like the smoking caterpillar from Alice In Wonderland to me.

[GateandGarden]

I can't deal with the pain and the idea of living with one for the rest of my life doesn't sound good to me at all. I can think of a few symbols that would be important enough for my whole lifetime (human heart or penguin, perhaps), but I still can't see putting one of those on my flesh. I hate that it wouldn't look the same when I get older, so I figure it's not worth it for me.

[amber]

Looks like the smoking caterpillar from Alice In Wonderland to me.
cookie for you! yeah, and he's blowing smoke out of his mouth to form the cheshire cat.

[dissention]

cookie for you! yeah, and he's blowing smoke out of his mouth to form the cheshire cat.

Hehe. I took my mother and her friend Barb to see The Interpreter this afternoon and after she bought her ticket, my mother's friend turned to me and said "I don't like that guy that sold me the ticket, he has a grin like the Cheshire Cat. Looks very sneaky." :laugh:

[GardenStateGirlie]

Nope. I'm with Marissa, I can't imagine being 65 and seeing a ridiculous tattoo on my person. I don't particularly need ink drawn permanently on my body to express myself as a person, I never saw the point. And I cry at the sight of needles, so that would rule out getting one automatically.

The sagging flesh factor has always gotten to me. That and what if you get something and you end up hating it? The removal is supposedly more painful than the actual tattooing process.

Do any of you have names of people that you've since broken up with. If so, what in the hell were you thinking!??! I love how Johnny Depp turned his Winona Forever into Wino Forever--we're happy you enjoy wine too, Johnny.

[dissention]

The sagging flesh factor has always gotten to me. That and what if you get something and you end up hating it? The removal is supposedly more painful than the actual tattooing process.

The idea of sagging flesh petrifies me in the first place, tattoo or no tattoo. I'll pin back my flesh before it sags, love.

[GateandGarden]

I love how Johnny Depp turned his Winona Forever into Wino Forever--we're happy you enjoy wine too, Johnny.I was just thinking that! :lol: That sounded so idiotic to me! :laugh:

[amber]

Hehe. I took my mother and her friend Barb to see The Interpreter this afternoon and after she bought her ticket, my mother's friend turned to me and said "I don't like that guy that sold me the ticket, he has a grin like the Cheshire Cat. Looks very sneaky." :laugh:
:laugh:
I think people think I'm sneaky, too. :( Not from my tattoo, but when I grin. Anyway, I'm not sneaky at all, unfortunately.
I'd also like to take this opp to explain my butterfly. I, too, thought it was lame when people just got random, butterfly (or whatever) tattoos. One day, my friend drove up (wait, down) to visit me. We had just finished having lunch on telegraph, with cocktails. So we walk out, and were all "what should we do now?" and I laughingly said "we could get tattoos!" but she was like "yeah! I can get my winking tiger! (it's this joke she always tells. anyway. :rolleyes: ) And i was like "you can, I'm broke, and I don't have one in mind, anyway" and she was all "noooo, you get one too, I'll pay for it". So then, I was trying to think, and whatever, and I had this little patch of veins on my leg which were the bane of my existence. So, basically, I got the butterfly to cover the veins. I couldn't think of anything, and didn't have much time anyway.... :D

[Sorceress]

The sagging flesh factor has always gotten to me. That and what if you get something and you end up hating it?...

I guess I always figured that I would look at my tatoo when I'm 65 and pleasantly remember the times and myself as I was when I got it. I figured too that if it got too faded and yucky, I could always have it recolored. Plus, I thought long and hard about something that I could get that would always be meaningful to me and was careful to get it somewhere that I don't have to show unless I want to. Plus, it didn't hurt as much as you might expect it would. So far no regrets. :)

[Nixxxed]

I don't have any tats, but my mom has one. I hate pain. :laugh: I don't even have my ears pierced. Also, that eye puff thing at the eye doctor...HAAAAAAATE it.
Oh. My. Gawd.

I thought I was the only one who detested the eye-puff thing. I actually have a friend who LOVES it. :shrug:

I've had glasses since the 7th grade, and I have yet to find an optometrist who can perform that test successfully on me. Not even one. The minute they ask me to sit down at the table, my eyelids involuntarily close. And of course, they "say" the test is really "important", so they keep trying over and over and over. But they finally give up and stop once my eyelashes have been blown underneath each lid. :laugh:

[wondergirl9847]

I've had glasses since I was in 4th grade. I remember when I was around 11 or something, I refused to have that done. They tried to make me feel guilty by having a lil kid have it done while I was making a "scene". They had to go get my mom and have her sign a paper saying I didn't have to do it. I've had it done since then, but sheebus, I despise that machine....I curse whoever came up with that torture device. :laugh:

It just means we have strong reflexes....and I'm skittish anyways. LOL

And...OMG...anyone who watched ER a couple of weeks ago will know what I'm talking about. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen on TV and I watched knee surgery once. LOL Some guy's eyeball popped out and I FREAKED.

[GateandGarden]

I've had glasses since I was in 4th grade. I remember when I was around 11 or something, I refused to have that done. They tried to make me feel guilty by having a lil kid have it done while I was making a "scene". They had to go get my mom and have her sign a paper saying I didn't have to do it. I've had it done since then, but sheebus, I despise that machine....I curse whoever came up with that torture device. :laugh:OMG. You should've seen me freaking out and crying when I was first fitted for my contacts. I could not stand to let something touch my eyeball! It's so weird because now it's like second nature to me to keep putting then in and taking them out.

[amber]

What is the test you guys are talking about? :confused:

[GypsySorcerer]

I have one tattoo of a fairy on my low, low back. I really like it.

[Nixxxed]

What is the test you guys are talking about? :confused:
I think it's for glaucoma. They make you sit at a table, with your chin resting in something that looks like a jock's sports cup, and they blow a puff of air in your eye. (Or in my case -- try...)

"LOOK AT THE RED DOT. YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AT IT. IF YOU STARE AT THE RED DOT YOUR EYES WILL STAY OPEN. NO, I PROMISE. LOOK AT THE RED DOT!!!"

:MAD: :laugh:

[amber]

I think it's for glaucoma. They make you sit at a table, with your chin resting in something that looks like a jock's sports cup, and they blow a puff of air in your eye. (Or in my case -- try...)

"LOOK AT THE RED DOT. YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AT IT. IF YOU STARE AT THE RED DOT YOUR EYES WILL STAY OPEN. NO, I PROMISE. LOOK AT THE RED DOT!!!"

:MAD: :laugh:
oh - thanks!

[GateandGarden]

I think it's for glaucoma. They make you sit at a table, with your chin resting in something that looks like a jock's sports cup, and they blow a puff of air in your eye. (Or in my case -- try...)

"LOOK AT THE RED DOT. YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AT IT. IF YOU STARE AT THE RED DOT YOUR EYES WILL STAY OPEN. NO, I PROMISE. LOOK AT THE RED DOT!!!"

:MAD: :laugh:I find that annoying like I basically find the whole experience annoying. But I really hate the "better or worse" thing, because they all look bad to me. None are really any better or worse. They usually seem equally bad to me. :laugh:

[wondergirl9847]

We are a bunch of babies. :lol: They told me a long time ago, they were testing pressure or something, then later, it was for glaucoma. I don't know WTH it's for.

Oh wait, yes I do....to pi$$ me off. LOL

[xxxmx]

my eyes are sooo sensitive... i cannot even watch people fussing with contacts or eyedrops or anything - my eyes tear up and i go blind. but needles? not a problem. i am in love with the pain...

[GateandGarden]

We are a bunch of babies. :lol: They told me a long time ago, they were testing pressure or something, then later, it was for glaucoma. I don't know WTH it's for.

Oh wait, yes I do....to pi$$ me off. LOL OMG. Isn't the glaucoma test when they put this DISGUSTING eye drop in your eyes that's like, lemon yellow?!? And then your eyes get all crusty 'cause the excess part that didn't actually get in your eyeball dries up? UGGGHHHH! Glad I don't have to go for awhile. :laugh:

[Nixxxed]

I find that annoying like I basically find the whole experience annoying. But I really hate the "better or worse" thing, because they all look bad to me. None are really any better or worse. They usually seem equally bad to me. :laugh:
EXACTLY. And when you say they look exactly the same, the *doctor* gets pissed off at *you*. :laugh:

[sara1998]

I have a rose on my right ankle that I got when I was 18... I did it because I could. :rolleyes: I have an angle on my right shoulder, for Sara, and it has her first and middle names above it, and I have a dragonfly on my left shoulder. I had that done after Jason died because after he died, I had dragonflies around me all the time. There's more of a story behind it, and it's kinda lenghty, but I kinda took it as a sign that he was with me.

[Sugar]

I have one; a simple black rabbit on my ankle. My husband, who tattoos on the side, did it. But the really AMAZING thing to me is that he has three tattoos that he did himself!

This is mine:

[Sugar]

Here's my favorite one he did himself:

[trackaghost]

I have no tattoos and I don't smoke.
I guess Guns N Roses won't be asking me to join anytime soon.

[Mad4stevie]

No way. I always imagine what my boob or other body part with the tatoo would look like when I was, like, 80 years old. Blech!

Also, my sister got a tatoo in her bellybutton area, and when she got pregnant and then gave birth, it never really looked the same :laugh: Not . . . . very . . . . pretty . . .

[amber]

Here's my favorite one he did himself:
That's awesome! I like yours, too. My dad has a tattoo my mom did, way back in the day :shocked: It's a peace sign on his wrist. He also has a butterfly on his right arm. He got that one professionally done though. And he got it recolored recently, it looks great. I don't know why my dad got a butterfly, though.. :confused: Hmm, that's weird, I should ask him about it. He does have great arms, though...My mom has one tiny tattoo, of a Peyote Bird...

[Janet]

Someday I will get a tattoo, but for now, I have none.

There is an episode of the X Files ( Never Again) where Scully gets a tattoo in front of that hot guy * her real life boyfriend* and since that I have really wanted it, she made it look so hot.

[Janet]

Sugar, that is amazing he did that himself, really nice!

[ontheEdgeof17]

I have one tatt....


Chinese symbol meaning 'happiness' in the middle of my spine. I got it when I was 18.....and I still like it.

[CreepingDeath]

I don't have a tattoo, and I don't plan on getting one either. :p

[Sugar]

Sugar, that is amazing he did that himself, really nice!

Right, he did it himself ON himself! It took like 5 hours (not all at once). I can't believe he could keep his own hand so steady because, ya know, IT HURTS!

I think it's some 1920's art deco design. He just saw it and said, "I like it. I'm gonna put it on my calf."

Right now he's working on this dragon that goes over this guy's whole back. Very simple design, but BIG. I'll post a pic if I can find it.

[skcin]

I was going to get one about 2 years ago, something Stevie related (not a giant portrait of her on my ass or anything, just some lyrics or something.) Hubby asked me not too, said he'd be really upset. He'd never asked me not to do something before or since. So i didn't get one.

And I can't believe you know someone who LIKES the glaucoma test! EW! Did anyone see ER last week when they were testing the guy, he had a weird reflex & started coughing uncontrollably. He coughed so hard the eyeball popped out of his head! GROSS! I know, it's just TV, but given my "thing" with eyes, I was screaming at the TV.

[Moony]

No tattoos here. Though I really REALLY want to get a sleeve on my left arm. :shocked: Yeah, that will happen.

Danny "no pain tolerance" T.