Tattoos..your opinions?

They dont turn me on or off as sweetlove said it all depends on the person.

I have two..one on the back of my neck (a heart with wings and fire) and one on my wrist/inside arm (flowers and buterflies)

I admit they where 'off the board'' and I do sometimes wish I got something else, but I was 17 at the time and just wanted one so badly I could barely think.

I only ever wanted the one but they are so so addictive, Im already planning more.

A small one behind my ear, on my foot and down the centre of my back, (I think how it looks all depends on the position...I dont like them on the outer arm/bicep area or shoulder blades for example.)

After watchin countless episodes of maimi ink though, I wanted my next couple to be personal to me.

I think I will go for my foot first as I got a henna on my first ever girly holiday and it was lovely and a nice reminder.

GOD I ramble and a bit off topic  lol.

Ah see the one on my arm in my profile pic :P

hornyteen wrote:

After watchin countless episodes of maimi ink though, I wanted my next couple to be personal to me.

I love that show!! I said to my OH if i wasnt scared of flying i would love to go over there and get them to do one for me. There work is amazing and some of the detail in there tattoos i have never seen here before

i love miami ink amazingly my mum got me hooked on it but i know tons of people with tats, i also have one on my shoulder although its nice i regret the place i had it done as i recently deiced i wanted another but cant have it where i want :(
i love tats on a guy but only if there muscly as scrawny guys do not look hot in the slightest with tats. as said in other posts arm tats on muscly guys look hot. chest tats too but not random. i like tribal tats that cover the tops of arms. nut in genral i like tats on hot muscly guys.

I like Miami Ink too. Those artists are so incredibly talented.

I'm getting quite annoyed at the minute as the one I had on my wrist 2 weeks ago just looks crap now. When it was first done it looked good but you can never totally tell until it settles down a bit. I've got to wait a couple more weeks before I can have it touched-up and in the meantime it's driving me crazy, just looks really unprofessional. I'm not even going back to the same place to get a free touch-up; I'd rather pay and get it done somewhere else. I find it totally mind-boggling because the place I had it done has good reviews and is in a good area, so I think I was just really unlucky. I'm a perfectionist and I just can't deal with looking at something that's not right all the time.

sexi sami89 wrote:

i love miami ink amazingly my mum got me hooked on it but i know tons of people with tats, i also have one on my shoulder although its nice i regret the place i had it done as i recently deiced i wanted another but cant have it where i want :(

If you go to a good artist they can create a cover up piece easily. Even if your previous tattoo is made up of dark colours, they can take your design ideas and create something that will cover up your previous tattoo so no one can tell that there was one there before.

angelarwen wrote:

I like Miami Ink too. Those artists are so incredibly talented.

I'm getting quite annoyed at the minute as the one I had on my wrist 2 weeks ago just looks crap now. When it was first done it looked good but you can never totally tell until it settles down a bit. I've got to wait a couple more weeks before I can have it touched-up and in the meantime it's driving me crazy, just looks really unprofessional. I'm not even going back to the same place to get a free touch-up; I'd rather pay and get it done somewhere else. I find it totally mind-boggling because the place I had it done has good reviews and is in a good area, so I think I was just really unlucky. I'm a perfectionist and I just can't deal with looking at something that's not right all the time.

I have two wrist tattoos and you'll find that no matter who you go to, even if it's Kat Von D herself, you'll need a touch up on your ink.

The problem being that your tattoo is in an area that flexes and moves, gets rubbed by sleeves and towels, rests on desks and chairs and generally takes a bit of a battering even if you try your hardest to protect it.

It's not the tattooists fault, its just what your body goes through that has made the ink come out. The reason tattooists offer free ink touch-ups is because they know that there are so many variables that can stop it from holding, such as:

- Some people can't hold certain colour inks and your body will reject it. I personally can't take red coloured ink and any tattoos including it have faded instantly.
- Knocks, bangs, scrapes and rubbing. No matter how hard you try, your tattoo will be touched and lose a little ink through that.
- When you get your tattoo, the skin swells, making it look like the ink has penetrated all areas (ooh err!) but once the swelling has gone down the tattooist can see the little bits they've missed.
- Illness. If you are suffering from a cold or any other kind of illness, your body will automatically fight any foreign bodies in your system, including ink.

I would recommend you go back to the same artist for your touch-up as they know exactly what you're trying to acheive with your tattoo design and will be happy to do it for free as they want it to be a decent reflection of their work.

Thanks for the advice Carly. I completely take it on board, but the problems I've got are not due to fading/rubbing and are very definitely the artist's fault.

There are several areas which were apparent as soon as I took the dressings off where she has 'slipped' quite significantly with the needle, meaning the design looks very messy. The lines are wobbly (I can say this for certain as the lines have now completely settled so it's not just the effects of healing) and she even missed out a bit of colour (it's all black but I mean the shading within the outline). I was willing to wait and see if she'd done that on purpose to adapt the design as she did change a couple of things, but now that the tattoo has healed it just looks ridiculous.

I don't dare go back because I can see her botching it even more and it's me that has to look at it for the rest of my life so I'd rather get it done right.

Another miami ink fan here!! Chris Nunez and Ami James - OH. MY. GOD.  (What I wouldnt do to those two.....if I wasnt married hahaha!)

Years ago I got a little chinese symbol at the bottom of my back, I love it and wanted to jazz it up a bit so I got 2 butterflies on either side of it, (facing inwards to my chinese symbol so they are both side on if you see what I mean!). I got the wings done pink as its my fave colour and the tattooist went over my little symbol then added pink round it, so it all looks like the one design.  I really love my tattoo, the only thing is when I touch it, it feels ever so slightly raised, apparantly it means he leant the needle a bit too hard when he was doing it, but it doesnt look bothched by any means.

I really want another tattoo, im toying with either a wrist or foot tattoo.

The wrist really didn't hurt as much as I'd expected Sexy?Pink. I hear the foot is one of the most painful places though. Think I'll leave that for now and see if I need the space! Yours sounds nice

thanks for the advice carly, although i like the one on my shoulder but i really wanted angel wings on my blades but the other tat is in the way lol. so instead am gonna get one on my wirst instead and maybe my ankle not sure yet though am still deciding on wat i want. dont wanna rush it x

as a tattoo artist i'm biased and of course i love tattoos... my advice would be get custom work, choose your artist carefully, give them as much free rain as poss, you'll get the best work, go big, lots of little tatts don't look as good as one carefully thought out piece, if your in any doubt... don't do it... your not ready yet...

I have 4 tattoos 2 on my back one on my hip and one on my wrist, i like tattoos on men

As pieces of art, and the good ones really are amazing art, I think they're beautiful. But I'm afraid I do find them a bit of a turn-off sexually. OH has one on his upper arm, it's hangol writing and the daft sod can't even remember what it says so clearly it was a *really* special phrase, not. I have a secret temptation to biro in little faces on the characters whilst he's asleep.

But I do like Miami Ink, I admire their ability to envisage the whole picture and the way midway through it looks like random lines of ink and yet by the end is a staggeringly good piece of art.

i really want one.  the design idea i have is for the back of my legs.  its like a bow at the top, just about where my stocking tops come. then ribbons going down my legs crossing over and entwined with roses. then it curls round to my foot and theres a bluebird holding the ribbon in its beak.  problem is the career i want (law) means id have to be careful with visible tatoos. plus it'd be my first one so it might be a bit too much, and id need to trust the artist.

i love miami and LA ink the way they can take an idea form someone just describing it and then turn it into something amasing

I have one on my lower stomach (just below my belly button), it's a celtic symbol called a luckenbooth and is taken from a necklace my Grandma gave me when I was a kid.  Haven't seen this particular design on any walls or anything - yet!  I'm currently considering two others - a claddagh on my lower back and a barbed wire garter.  I love 'em, but also like to have them somewhere where I can choose whether to show them or not.

sweetlove666 wrote:

i really want one.  the design idea i have is for the back of my legs.  its like a bow at the top, just about where my stocking tops come. then ribbons going down my legs crossing over and entwined with roses. then it curls round to my foot and theres a bluebird holding the ribbon in its beak.  problem is the career i want (law) means id have to be careful with visible tatoos. plus it'd be my first one so it might be a bit too much, and id need to trust the artist.

i love miami and LA ink the way they can take an idea form someone just describing it and then turn it into something amasing

To be honest, I don't think it's too visible at all. Most companies when they enforce their 'no visible tattoos' policy are referring to hand, knuckle or facial tattoos. You could easily wear trousers or a long skirt to cover yours up and the occasional short skirt wouldn't be frowned upon because you're not flaunting your tattoo all the time in clients' faces! I have friends with full sleeves who work in insurance and accounts and as long as they wear a long-sleeved shirt to meet clients, no one says a thing.

As a first tattoo, I would get it worked on in pieces so you can learn to cope with the pain. Start off just doing the outline or one area, then go back once it's healed to do the shading, then go back again once that's healed to do the colour. It also allows you to make any small alterations to the design and have your artist tidy up any parts which may have flaked off or not caught properly.

Research your artist a lot before you decide and don't be afraid to travel to find the right one for you. Your local tattooist may not specialise in the style you're after, so don't settle for a mediocre attempt and search for someone who specialise in the style you like and has done it a lot.

I highly recommend Thou Art tattoo studios as well as Holey Skin.

Have to say, while I adore the work the guys at LoveHate do (the studio featured in Miami Ink), even if I was rich I don't think I'd pay their prices... Also you can't book with a particular person - you just get given 'someone'. So that could be garver... or yoji... :P lol.

I know a fantastic artist local to me, has worked on most of my mates and did the wings on my bf's back sp whenever i get round to starting my inkwork, i know where im going.

As for tatts, theyre hot... (I do wish they wouldnt block megan fox's tatts out in transformers... lol)

i had a very strange dream where i got two dragons and lots of tribal art coming across from my back and ending just above my breasts, whilst it looked amazing in my dream, it's a bit too far than i would tend to go in real life, but i have woken up with such a craving for a tattoo, i have zero at the minute, but plan to get a fair few when i'm in permanent employment. i adore tattoo's  i think they're sexy and beautiful, as long as they are done by proper artists, i would be willing to shell out a few extra quid to make sure something that was permanently on my body was amazing.

my fiance will be getting a fair few tattoo's as well when we have the money ad i can't wait i just think they are so sexy!!

i love tribal art on boys, and delicate feminine tribal for girls, not into the whole dolphin, flower, butterfly girly thing, but i'm not very girly at all myself

I've designed mine myself, which is slightly annoying as they're very distinct. It means that when I was taking pictures of myself to put on the photo blog, I realised it'd be very obvious as to who I was if someone I knew was also a member. I know the odds are small, but stranger things have happened.

Also, my pictures were rubbish. The light in my flat is dreadful.

I have a quite large butterfly on the base of my spine which i always joke is there to give the man something nice to look at when im on my hands and knees! Obviously id like to think they'd be more likey to be gazing at my ass but the thought is there!

I really like tattoos, they're like stories of the skin and have stories behind them...if i see a bit poking out i always have to ask....weird tho as no man ive actually been out with has ever had one and i think the right ones are very sexy....must try harder!

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