The Show Off Your Tattoo Thread

He tattoos just south of Edinburgh, about 8 miles south roughly. Had the 1st one for 3 years, the red and black one for 2.5 years and the one on my back for a year now. Apparently used plastic polymer inks, that should not fade. THey are all a little less bright than when first done, but not by a lot.

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Grahame said:
He tattoos just south of Edinburgh, about 8 miles south roughly. Had the 1st one for 3 years, the red and black one for 2.5 years and the one on my back for a year now. Apparently used plastic polymer inks, that should not fade. THey are all a little less bright than when first done, but not by a lot.

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Sounds about right.
Always good to see a tattoo that looks just as good as it was done years later :)
 
Presuming your anglo saxon heritage intact - why do you guys tattoo stuff in Chinese? Odds of mistranslation aside, it just such an odd idea to have Gloria Gaynor/musical quote or Depeche Mode song title inked under your skin in language you don't speak and most of your surroundings don't read. And it seems to be very western thing as well - it's not like Chinese tattoo themseleves with Wei Wei quotes translated to Russian or Hacken Lee song titles in Welsh.
 
v0n said:
Presuming your anglo saxon heritage intact - why do you guys tattoo stuff in Chinese? Odds of mistranslation aside, it just such an odd idea to have Gloria Gaynor/musical quote or Depeche Mode song title inked under your skin in language you don't speak and most of your surroundings don't read. And it seems to be very western thing as well - it's not like Chinese tattoo themseleves with Wei Wei quotes translated to Russian or Hacken Lee song titles in Welsh.
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Looks better than having a whole paragraph on your arm :)
 
Sash said:
Thinking of getting another tattoo. I have my mind set on a guitar on my arm.

Something a bit like this:
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I have told my friend who designed the previous one to have a shot of doing guitar tattoos now :D
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yes do this! those are awsome drawings
dont have a tattoo just because i know i'll change my mind soooo quickly about it.
im a piercing person, so u can take em out and pretend it never happened if it looks bad :P
 
bemateer said:
yes do this! those are awsome drawings
dont have a tattoo just because i know i'll change my mind soooo quickly about it.
im a piercing person, so u can take em out and pretend it never happened if it looks bad :P
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Well, I dont want them exactly (since its quite a popular design now) and I am gonna get my mate to do his version.
 
Sash said:
Pretty much. Peace in chinese would look better than just peace in english.
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Very strange way of thinking, especially considering canvas, I would have thought if you wanted the tattoo to say "peace" you would get it to say "peace" - it's not like you would write Rest in 和平 on someone's grave or greet someone with "Heping, my brother" down at your local Church Choir meet. What's more, there is a very high possibility that once put 'heping', instead of your "uncool looking" common 'peace; in a sentence it will be about as relevant to your expression of peace as wearing a t-shirt with "Armoury Pesglobe Lodge" instead of "Arsenal F.C."

I suppose it's like far eastern people thinking anything written in English looks better than anything written in their symbols. The effects, for personal amusement can be observed on www.engrish.com . It's just that they do that on toilet doors and t-shirts, while westerners do that on their skin.
 
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I was mulling over some latin tbh.. I think if its not in your mother tongue it does make it a bit more interesting and at the same time more private.
 
Grahame said:
Here are my three. First one is pretty generic, other 2 I designed myself, with a bit of help from my brother in law, who is also a tattoo artist (in one of the best places in central Scotland).

2nd:
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Liking the colours and design on that one in particular :)

Drexel your sleeve is awesome!
 
"Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder".

Adolf Loos Ornament und Verbrechen
 
I know this thread is titled SHOW your tats, but I'd really, really like to get this done!

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Across my back/shoulder blades? Any thoughts? Would it be a pain (obv. me included) for the artist to do all the branches/flowers etc? :D
 
As far as finding out whether it looks good or not, last year at Reading festival they had a temporary tattoo parlour which did people's requests. Not one of those crappy put in water thingies, but a staining ink which stays for a couple of weeks before coming off naturally. You could try out simple designs in that to see if it works or not =)
 
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