Thread: Tell me about Tattoo's

Ok so I had this debate on another forum and thought it would be interesting to discuss here.

Do you have any tattoo's? And if you do why do you have them? Do they signify anything to you or are they just for decrotive purposes? Also if you have any pictures show there here.

I don't have any myself because I cant think of anything that I would want to perminantly mark my body with, other than a childs name; and since I dont have any children, dont have any tattoo's. But even if I did, I dont think I would get one.

I think they look good on some people. I am not against them on other people if they look right. But personally for me, I dont like them on me and dont think I would ever get one.

yeah i LOVE tattooes , and i have on

i will get more in the future

mine doesn't signify anything , i just like tattooes they're like jewlery

I don't have tattooes because they would look weird when I'm old and saggy!!

I could see myself tattooing a name, maybe of a close one who died or something. It would have to be something very significant for me to tattoo it on myself.

I know that you'll most likely regret getting a tatoo. In a way you can think of a tatoo as an artistic scar...

I would never get a tattoo. Way too permanent for my taste.

Wow, that's a hairy arm.

Anyway, I can never see myself getting a tattoo, too much to go wrong and they would look crap when I'm old. An old friend of mine from a forum I used to visit had the names of videogame characters he liked tattooed onto his back in Kanji for some reason. Not only did he get one of the names wrong, he also got the wrong kanji altogether. It's impossible to tell, but I'd hate for something like that to happen to me.

I have a Mercury Wing on my leg, I've been a distance runner all my life.

I decided on the content of my tattoo a long time ago but it took me about 5 years to get the design right. I did several different designs before I finally drew this one up. The phoenix is a metaphor for my personality and its as much a part of my body now as my hands and feet. I am sure that I will never regret the decision to put this on my body and intend to get more.

I do want tattoos, for sure. I have a few plannd out already but none that don't have meanings.

Next year I am going to get the Japanese symbol for soul on my chest. I have strong ideals in the sense of ones self and knowing that your soul is something you are, not something you have.

The tattoo I want in correlation with that is the saying by C.S.Lewis: "You do not have a soul, you ARE a soul. You have a body." The placing is a bit up in the air. I want it in Arabic though, on my ankle or lower back.

Then when i have children I want their newborn handprints tattooed on my hips, at a spot where only my husband and I would ever see. I would have the children's names in cursive around the fingertips. Cyan blue for a boy, Indian Clay red for a girl.

Well I got bored of doing induction with lucid dreaming so I thought if I get a pen and wrote it in my... You knew that was a joke.