Why Get a Tatoo?

[Stagger_Lee]

Did you lose your ketamine?

[katyseagull]

I think some tattoos look alright but others look just awful. Like Kilgore said, body art has been popular for centuries. I don't really have a problem with it even though it's not for me. I could never come up with any symbol or design that I'd want to see on my body day after day after day for the rest of my life.

Some of those lower back tattoos can be pretty sexy (depending on the design) but only on young girls with perfect bodies. They look pretty bad after the girl gains weight.

I went to a festival this weekend and saw a lot of middle aged women with tattoos. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] Not so attractive.

why is it the color always fades to an awful bluish-grey?

[Glo]

I've got one (technically 2) on my upper right back. Volleyball with a sunrays surrounding it.

I guess it would be deemed as a tramp stamp. I don't consider it as such seeing that it's in a non-suggestive area. I specifically got it there for quite a few reasons:
1. During interview it will be hidden
2. It is my hitting arm
3. hard to gain fat in that area
4. I can expose it with out looking like a dirty [censored].

After 8 years, I have no regrets, it was the love of my life (at the time) and because of that I still consider it art.

BTW, you can stop the fading by getting it touched up.

[katyseagull]

How big is your tattoo and how regularly would you need to get it touched up so it doesn't fade?

I don't really get into these little teeny tiny tattoos that some women get. For god's sake if you're going to get one then you should make it bigger than, say, an orange. That's what I say anyway [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img].

[Glo]

I was supposed to get mine touched up a year after I had gotten the coloring done. I never got it done. But I heard that after the first touch-up the coloring should be fine. But don't quote me on that. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

The whole tat is about the size of a med tangerine (keeping with the citrus tone), the ball itself is a little larger than a quarter.

I know what and where my next one is going to be. I just don't know when I'm gonna go get it. I've been sitting on this decision for about 5 years now. I really should just go and get it.

[Stagger_Lee]

Sailing ships or anchors on your forearms look really cool.

Both bigger than an orange, of course.

[SmokeyRidesAgain]

I was looking for some bad ass anchor tats but stumbled upon this high class piece.

[tuq]

Smokey,

All the ladies shave these days. That tattoo is so 1978.

[SmokeyRidesAgain]

Not on the continent yo!

[youtalkfunny]

Tats are stupid, only stupid people get them.

<---Grumpy old man chiming in.