OK, I am starting this thread because we as a forum have discussed Charlie/Dom and Jack/Matt's tattoos quite a bit and I was wondering what kinds of tattoos we may have.

So if you have a tattoo or want one, or whatever please share.


I currently have a tattoo of a rose on my right shoulder blade.
I want to get a tree frog on my right ankle, and when I do I'll share if this thread is still alive when I get it. ;)

Lemme see..

I have a tribal work turtle on my right shoulder blade/back. Got it when I was 19...
Since this summer - On my left outside ankle I have a small purple heart with an empty Celtic "t" (like a keyhole in a lock) that I got for 20 bucks to help my tattooing friend demo her work at a biker fundraiser for an animal shelter!

LMAO!

I like this topic...

kaidy

Well I don't have one yet, but I plan on it as soon as Blayne gets done drawing it. She's an artist friend from LJ. It's going to be Merry and Pippin in Treebeard. :D

I don't have one, so I guess I don't belong to the board. But still had to leave a post. :)
I just don't have any desire to have something on my body that will never be erased. What if I get sick and tired of the image? -> too bad, will have to wait for new techniques of getting it off my body. And then, it is always such a trouble if you have to go somewhere nice and cover it up...
No, thank you, just no desire for a tattoo.

aside: Is there anyone else who doesn't have one and doesn't want one? ... ... ... Or am I alone here? :dizzy:

*raises hand* Don't have one, don't want one, no thanky. *g*

I have several tattoos...I have a crappy little heart on my right hip, the Gryffindor crest on my tummy on the right side...and I'm contemplating getting the LOST logo on the other side of my tummy.

I have none, don't want any....*shudders at thought of needles*

But I lovessss lookin at them..specially lower back tatoos *melts*

cause Speaker is a pansy.....lol

JUST KIDDIN!

kaidy

I'm among those who don't have one, don't want one.....can't even think of anyone in my family that ever had one. *

My secret is out...I am indeed a pansy *cries flower petals*

I would have thought you were more like, a peony...or a daffodil...or maybe a rhododendron...

No tattoo, don't want one, either. Body graffiti.

I, too like looking at other people's. There are really beautiful ones.

Comedy Tragedy masks on my left arm... I was a theatre major :-)

jeff

my exhusband has those on his right arm...but they're all...demony and distorted and scary looking. in hindsight, it shoulda been a sign, eh?

Kinda... but then again, Jack's tattoos aren't a sign of anything... or ARE they?????

Mine are pretty classical in terms of the design, simple lines, nothing extreme.

jeff

Jack's tattoos are actually Matthew Fox's tattoos...so I doubt we'll see anything significant about them...same with Dominic Monaghans.
BTW...I adore your website. I spent like 2 hours over there the other night just reading your stories and looking at the pictures and everything and wow. Wish I had the guts to put myself out there like that. Awesome.

I'm among those who don't have one, don't want one.....can't even think of anyone in my family that ever had one.


Same here.....Though the only one I would get would be a butterfly with a celtic design inside on my lower back.

Well thank you... it's in desperate need of an update. *I haven't posted anything new in over a year and a half. *And I haven't even cracked the treasure chest of bizarre stories, I've got some airplane time this week, maybe I'll jot something down.

Coming soon... "Karma's a [Female Dog]" on Jeffofhearts.com.* (Sorry Karri, I wasn't thinking)

me

my exhusband has those on his right arm...but they're all...demony and distorted and scary looking. in hindsight, it shoulda been a sign, eh?


LOL....yep!

Oh, what an interesting topic! I have one tattoo, a dolphin on my left foot. I've had it nearly 10 years. I want to get another on the back of my right ankle (on the Achilles tendon part) but I can't decide what I want. It would have to be a vertical design...

*

I don't have any tattoos yet. But I am thinking about getting one.

A small star maybe?

I don't have one YET, but I've got a few in the planning stages...

the first one I think I'm going to get is an "origin of love" tattoo from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the one from the very end of the movie, on my hip

I also want to get a Jewish symbol... either a Star of David on my chest (I have a Star of David necklace I wear 24/7 and I was thinking of having it inked onto my sternum, where the necklace falls, or just over my heart) or a Kabbalah tree of life on the inside of my arm, with my name in Hebrew at the bottom by my wrist

and, this is just a goofy idea but I REALLY want to do it someday... "Remember Sammy Jankis" on the back of my left hand. MEGA BONUS POINTS to anyone who knows what that's from!!

[...] and, this is just a goofy idea but I REALLY want to do it someday... "Remember Sammy Jankis" on the back of my left hand. MEGA BONUS POINTS to anyone who knows what that's from!!

Leonard is Sammy? Sammy is Leonard? Could it simply be conditioning?

As to the topic, I don't have any tattoos, but not for lack of want. I'd like a celtic knot in the small of my back, but I'm scared to get one. The fear makes no sense to me because I'm not afraid of needles (I have my tongue and navel pierced) and I'm not really afraid of pain.

As soon as I turn 18 I'm running to the tattoo parlor (seriously, I'll be hanging outside before it's even open) and getting lisse', the Elvish word for sweet. I can't decide the location, but I'm thinking maybe the nape of my neck.

I have a rose with a tribal symbol behind it on the uh... um.. cleavage area of my left boobie.* ;D
Look, I was 17, okay? Still, I don't regret it... yet. On the other hand, I'm not sure what it's going to look like when I'm 80 and my boobs are long enough to wear as a scarf.

-- Marcee

ETA: ...and, this is just a goofy idea but I REALLY want to do it someday... "Remember Sammy Jankis" on the back of my left hand. MEGA BONUS POINTS to anyone who knows what that's from!!

There's Memento stuff going on all over the place on this board, huh? ;)

Okay- Here's the list:

1. Butterfly (Black & Blue) on my right hip, long since distorted w/ stretch marks. age 18
2. Star Wars Rebel Alliance Symbol in my upper/middle back (my fav.) age 19
3. The Cheshire Cat on my right bicep (the one I hate...my ex boyfriend has the same one) age 19
4. Large multicolored butterfly middle of lower back age 22

Stephanie

I want a fairy on my ankle next....

I have a rose with a tribal symbol behind it on the uh... um.. cleavage area of my left boobie.* ;D
Look, I was 17, okay? Still, I don't regret it... yet. On the other hand, I'm not sure what it's going to look like when I'm 80 and my boobs are long enough to wear as a scarf.

-- Marcee

ETA:

There's Memento stuff going on all over the place on this board, huh? ;)


Yeah, and it's all from me. ;) I'm slightly obsessed...

here is mine
I dig red heads
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/BROADSTREETBULLY/tattoo002.jpg

Wow very nice!!!!!!!

I've got a tribal dolphin surrounded by waves on my lower back. And I'm thinking about getting a tat with the maple leaf in it on my ankle, or foot. Does anyone have one on their foot??

Not to be completely off topic in my own thread but...

arentwealllost?

I Love your Avie and it's caption!!!


Guinness

Your Avie=LOL
Your Tattoo=Awesome


Now that I am back on topic, if anyone wants to follow Guinness's example and post a picture link that would be cool. I will once I find the cable for my digital camera, and someone who will take the picture for me. (On back, can't focus on it myself... I've tried.-lol)

I have 7 Tat's

Right Upper Arm
Gothic Cross
Heart & Rose with Wife's Name
Fire Breathing Dragon
Death Dealer

Chest
Celtic Knot
Maltese Cross with Celtic Knots

Left Low Leg
Winnie the Pooh hanging from a Steal Your Face Balloon

More to come in the future.........

L8r,
WharffRat :chris:

I have a shamrock on the small of my back. Will be adding the words WILD IRISH ROSE around it in a beautiful calligraphy style (not too big) and in the colours of the Irish Flag

No tat's here. I've thought about getting one for about 20 years now, but I've just never done it. :-\

I'm a froggie girl myself have a little frog on my left upper back

Hey car88win ~ how ya doin? I collect frogs, just not on my body! ha ha

stop that your startin to scare me!! i collect them like crazy...Maybe we were sperated at birth mind you a month apart but i'm starting to wonder

It's kinda crazy huh? There are LOTS of connections here. Too freaky!! :o

I have a frog in my car, on my nightstand ~ all over. It started as a joke with a friend giving me one after yet another broken heart. She told me I may have to kiss alot of frogs before I find my prince, hence a collection has begun! ha ha ha :lol2:

Can't remember why i started but every year for christmas at work they get me something froggie just because....this is kinda back on topic - when i was going through my 2nd adolescence i got a bellyring and guess what it had hanging from it A FROG!

If you get bored scroll down a little and look for the "hi mom" thread. That's my daughter who started that. It's cute!! :angel:

I think i saw that one briefly will do bad timing though just finished making dinner maybe will get on later....it's been nice hooking back up with ya!! ;)

Ok ~ so back to tattoos. *I almost got one when I was in Hawaii, I wanted something to remember the trip, but my friend wouldn't let me. *Plus, I'd had a few Bahama Mama's or something like that and so they wouldn't tat me anyway. *I love to see peoples tat's tho. *So cool!

I took a picture of my tattoo after surr's post but then I forgot to upload it and the thread dissapeared. I'll have to find it now!

Btw, all this frog talk is freaking me out. I have a serious phobia with frogs & toads. I know, I'm weird! *lol*

I have only one tattoo at the moment. My plan is to get a few more: eight stars on my feet (one for each neice and nephew); the Cheshire cat on my back; and possibly an angel or shark design on my back.

I'm rather picky about where on my body the tattoos get placed, so that's kind of limited the number I can have. Heh.

Haven't really felt inspired to get anything permanent done, but I do like henna tattoos. You can get interesting designs, if it's in the right place I can do a simple one myself, and they're gone by the time I'm tired of them. :)

sorry about that Kate-I really love those pretty dart frogs, it's more about the colors than anything, the fact that most of them are too cute in pictures doesn't help either. I have a beautiful pic of a tropical tree frog and i'd like to get another tattoo of it on the other side.
i think i would stop there two is enough for me.

Got a forget-me-not below my right hip. :) Kind of spur of the moment, hence the flower, but so far I don't regret it, and it's been a few years. :)

I have 3, one under my belly button, it's a long garland of leaves with a Pisces symbol right underneath my belly button. I have two in the small of my back that I got when I was 17, ones a cross with the sign of the fish, and one's a Kanji symbol. (I like to think I got it in that area, and that design before it got popular :lol2:)

I don't regret my back tattoos, but the quality of them isn't what it should be so I'll get them covered sometime or another. Ideally, with unlimited resources (time and money) I would have my entire back covered...still might. I want a BIG red dragon over a majority of it.

M

I like to think I got it in that area, and that design before it got popular*



That's the way I feel about my tattoo. I got it when I graduated high school (10 years ago!) and at the time I'd never seen or heard of anyone w/ a tattoo on their foot. Now I've heard lots of people have them on their feet, even Dom! I'm such a trendsetter! *lol*

Katejones- I got my back tattoos about 7 years ago!
I've also had my belly button pierced for 10 years and my tongue pierced for 8! (Yep, that would be 14 and 16 years old ;D)

And just a sidenote for anyone thinking it, I've already had a baby and my tattoo is fine! I get it a lot of comments about belly tattoos...

I want one, but never have settled on just the right frog to get as a tattoo and where to put it.
So may still take the plunge, I was thinking on the ankle but was told that hurts extra.

Any advice from you more experienced people.
Thanks,

Kermeeet...

Any place on bone is painful (ankle area, shoulder blades, chest), as is the inside of the arm or inside of the thigh. However, everyone has a different pain tolerance so some hurt worse than others (I got mind on my left shoulder blade and fell asleep during it...but I'm really weird, too).

It's also advised that women not get tattoos on their stomachs or breasts because those areas tend to change the most over time and can distort the tattoo.

Be sure you go to a place with a good reputation. Ask about cleanliness, check out the place where the tattoos are done for yourself, and also ask about their suggested method of taking care of a tattoo before you get inked. You want a place that not only does good work, but does careful, safe work and that knows their stuff on hygiene and taking care of tats.

Better safe than sorry. :)

I plan on getting "Aquarius" which is my star sign written in Elvish on my lower back

Kermeet- Fatty areas are supposed to be more painful too. You know Bradley Nowell of Sublime? He wanted that tattoo across his gut but the artist wouldn't do it because he said it would hurt too much. (or so the story says)

The one I got on my stomach hurt more than any others, I almost had to ask for a break.

3 Tats currently.

1st - Unicorn on left shoulder blade. Not one of those pansy, fluffy, floral types either, but a unicorn that looks like it knows how to use it's horn to protect itself. This was my first, and I love unicorns, but I was very picky on the artwork and brought my own image in. It's the basic black (that turns green over time) on my skin, strong bold lines. I had him add a little bit of red and orange to the mane, forelock and tail in reference to Piers Anthony's unicorns in the Blue Adept series of books.

2nd - Irish Triskele. I was going to get a Claddagh design on my arm (traditional Irish ring with two hands, holding a heart, with a crown on top of the heart) and have the ring around the arm be a celtic border design. But to make it fit the arm, it had to be larger than ring sized, and I'm not overly fond of hearts, so I changed the heard to a triangular Triskele. But to get the celtic swirls of the design to look good, it was enlarged to a point that would put the two hands holding it off to the side, making it silly to turn into a Claddagh. I also got it so high on my arm that it's up at the top of the shoulder practically, and can only be seen with tank tops, or really short sleeved t-shirts. It's just the basic black (that turns green) but with some excellect subtle shadings. The artist who did my 2nd and 3rd tattoos was really good on the Art Work scale. The first guy was all into bold lines, but it worked for that first tattoo.

3rd - This one is a dragon, but it's not just any dragon. It's a direct copy of a book cover by Melanie Rawn, one of her Sunrunner's novels, can't remember the exact title at the moment. But the artwork is by Michael Whelan, only I had the tattoo artist excise the wizard out, as I only wanted the dragon. That means he had to fill in the blanks because the wizard he removed stands directly in front of the dragon, so he had to add back in the full belly and the rock the dragon is crawling around on. It's an ultra cool image, and he did a lot of very subtle shading. It's then colored in reds, yellows and oranges. A lot of people think it's not finished, that I didn't get it fully colored because there is so much subtely to the work. But it's just how it is on the book cover, and when I point that out, people realize it. I guess they are just used to seeing tattoos with bold colors and lines, not subtlety and artwork.


As for what to look for when getting a tattoo, that's easy. The suggestion to check out the place for it's hygiene guidlines is a very good suggestion. Also, look at the various artist's work, to get a feel for who works more with bold lines or subtle lines, who specializes in certain types of tats, etc. Also, when thinking of a design, I always like to bring my own design in, which I did all three times. Buying based on designs on the wall or in a book work for the person who decides to get a tattoo to commemorate a visit someplace, but a tattoo should be something personal to you. After all, it's going to be with you forever, so make sure you like the design before getting it.

After the above three, I was going to get a King Arthur storyline on my back. It was going to be in two parts. First, a Young Arthur first pulling the sword from the stone, with Merlin behind him and the other knights bending a knee to the new king. Second, an older Arthur in a small boat, with Merlin behind him pulling the boat using a staff, and Arthur is reaching out for Excalibur, which is in the rising hand of the Lady in the Lake, and there are two swans flying low over the water behind the boat. I had the designs and artwork all set up for these. I wanted to get them in a sort of Stained Glass Window style, where they'd each be on one half of my lower back, and surrounded by a Celtic boarder, to look like two halves of an illustrated book or something. The problem being that it was going to be a really expensive endeavor, and I wanted to get them all done at once, or at least, over the course of a few months, since that would have required some major needle work. But I ran out of money at the time, misplaced some of the artwork, and have not really had time or money to revisit the idea.

But, I am now thinking of getting some sort of LOTR imagery. Possibly either the door to the Mines of Moria, which has that wonderful archway, the two twining trees, the stars, anvil and hammer of Durin, the Elvish writing, etc. or a Standard of Gondor, with the White Tree, seven stars overhead, and the Winged crown. So, if I can come up with the right images, I just may go for one, or both, of these.

I have Piercings the normal ear ones and Industreal in my right ear and a lip ring on the left side of my lower lip, I want to get a tattoo but I need to know which one I am going to get first, the stag skull and cross bones on the back of neck or the redwood tree out line on my wrist.

a Standard of Gondor, with the White Tree, seven stars overhead, and the Winged crown.




I'm not even a big LOTR fan (I like the movies and all but I'm not part of the fandom or anything) and I thought that this would make a beautiful tattoo. I noticed it mainly during Viggo's interviews on the ROTK EE and thought it was just a really beautiful image. :)



I plan on getting "Aquarius" which is my star sign written in Elvish on my lower back


I'm an aquarius too and I've thought many times about getting the wave symbol on my ankle.

Mine is on my...er, bikini line. It's the Chinese character for "Friend." (Course, if I EVER get off the bench and have kids, it'll be "Frieeeeeeeeeeeend!")




Left Low Leg
* *Winnie the Pooh hanging from a Steal Your Face Balloon


L8r,
* *WharffRat :chris:


Yeah, Wharf! My brother (idol) and my favorite English teacher from back in high school ended up with the same Steal Your Face tat totally randomly...bro got his (with State of Maine instead of the lightning...perfect for the little Mainer boy) in like 88 and my old teacher got it when Jerry pased away, when I was in h.s.

Anyway...yeah!

8i8

I'm an aquarius too and I've thought many times about getting the wave symbol on my ankle.


That's a good idea also... I'm thinking maybe something LOTRY on my ankle tho.. maybe a chain going around my ankle and the ring hanging from it