Can’t see a picture.

Looks sweet! I love black and grey work too but I’m half on the ‘finish it!’ bandwagon… I know what you mean about the unfinished appearance being appealing but personally I’d add just a bit of grey shading to the edges of the fins and perhaps fill in the centres of the cherry blossom or put a tiny bit of grey in each of them, just so it looked…[Read more]

Kimbo;36932 wrote:
wonder what he would do if i jumped into the same bus as him wit one of my skimpy vests on LMAO hey i want him alive for a little while longer!
😉

Haha… just claim you are your evil lower class twin! That’s my plan if ever I’m in that situation! :p

Ha your great aunt sounds cool!
Well I’m having to wear short sleeves at the moment anyway because my arm is bloody throbbing, but hopefully the self consciousness will pass on that one soon.
It’s bizarre because I am really proud of them and excited to have them and think they’re beautiful… so I cannot for the life of me see the logic behind me…[Read more]

batp;36738 wrote:
both my sons have just decided they want their ears pierced, they have requested some stretches or ones like daddies lol i am curoius as to whether that is too young and as one of the previous posters mentioned what gauge would you put in a childs ears?

How old are your boys?
I’m asking this to see if I even agree whether you…[Read more]

You’re both angels! Reading that has made me feel so much better. I know plenty of people with tattoos and I’ve never known anyone to openly waver over them (some have perhaps regretted the odd design they had as a teenager, but none actually regretting the fact that they have tattoos full stop) – so I was just thinking I must be about the only…[Read more]

Hmm that’s weird, now I’ve been on the ratemyink.com link and looked back here, I see the image you posted! How bizarre…

Hmm strange! When I upload pics, I always use http://www.imageshack.us – it’s free and you don’t need an account so it takes like 2 minutes – then it’s the big link at the top of the screen (the direct link) that you paste into the bar here.

But I can see the image at the link you provided anyway – it looks like a good start – no sign of those…[Read more]

All I see is a ratemyink.com advert?

Hope the Global Domination is coming on well Matthew! You should team up with Pinky and The Brain, I hear they have similar plans!

Just to let you know I had the tattoo. Went with the shading, looks great, I really love it!
I’ll upload a pic when it’s healed, it’s a bit bruised still and ink smudges etc.

Having a crisis of confidence now. It’s…[Read more]

Incredible, one of the best new tattoos I’ve seen in a while!

Matthew you’ve just uncovered an evil side of my personality – I read your post and I found it hilarious! I’m so sorry and ashamed of myself! If I had that day, I would be crying… but it’s just something about the way you tell it! My deepest sympathies about your cat 🙁

As for my day – I’ve had one of those days that have just gone by in a…[Read more]

Thanks for the piece of trivia Matthew! Is your brain a bottomless pit?? :p
I agree with you both, this is what I’ll request, the more I look at it the more I can see you’re correct. Shame as it would have been unusual – but hopefully the traditional shading will give it more of a 3D effect!
Will post a picture of it when it’s done as always! I’m…[Read more]

The healing is relatively quick but painful. The piercing itself doesn’t hurt too much in comparison to other ones – that was the bit I was worried most about but it wasn’t so bad. One thing I regret was not eating a big meal before I went though, I couldn’t eat for days and was very hungry! I loved having it though, it was my favourite piercing,…[Read more]

No, the meaning of it hasn’t changed at least.
Examples of other variations of the trad. symbol…[Read more]

Love it!! I want a white tiger someday, I love tigers! 😀 And I agree – it’s just crying out for some background! 😉 Good luck with your laser – ouch!!

It is a slight variation on the traditional style but I would certainly recognize that as an Om, I have seen much more obscure variations! The only difference is the fact that the bottom part on the right hand side curves further up and crosses through the line, whereas the traditional design has a gap and is more symmetrical. Why, are you unhappy…[Read more]

Will do, thanks! 🙂

No probs! Even though deviantart.com is a general art website, not specific to tattoos, I actually find it’s one of the best sites for tattoo inspiration. I don’t get on so well with google images or ratemyink or bmeink and the rest, deviantart is easier to search for what you want and almost always has some results even for the most obscure…[Read more]

Like the look of the second pic!
Have been hunting around for mountain tattoo pics and the nearest I could find…[Read more]