loopy;34344 wrote:
thats fair enough and thanks for your honesty. i can see where your coming from and what you mean about the tattoo. its a lamb of god lyric and i wanted it to remind me to stop worrying and i probably should have mentioned that at the start.
yes you are correct about it causing offence and it does come across like im a rude…[Read more]

Sherav;34335 wrote:
I felt you were holding back a little on your feelings…

Haha too right 😉

Loopy – something else I think might be helpful for you to understand: I do realise my answer, for one, was rude, no denials there. But believe it or not, I am actually a nice person, but I have the tendency to bite at people I dislike. But how…[Read more]

loopy;34330 wrote:
i am aware this is cyber space and that you can be disrespectfull to anyone who you want and get away with it, take that attitude to the real world and you would not be able to get away with it.

Sorry, do you know me? I’m honest, and sometimes blunt, about my opinions offline as well as online. My answer would have been…[Read more]

2003Slobra;34181 wrote:
Thank you for your reply. I spoke with the Artist and he also said he wouldn’t really do the ribs on someone with no previous tattoo’s. So, I will have my first in the next few days! I am getting excited! 😀

Good luck! What did you decide, to get the koi and lotus design on your arm, or are you going for a quickie…[Read more]

Sweet! How more sessions do they think it’ll be before it’s done? I hate seeing outlines of pieces like this, always makes me itch to see the final result!! :p

Do you dislike the tattoo because a poor job was done, or because you don’t like the picture? If the latter then this is irrelevant to the tattooist – he has no control over what people bring to him to ink, for all you know he may have hated it too. Look at the quality of the lines, shading, etc, do you think a good job has been done? Does the…[Read more]

So who is to say everyone who gets maori tattoos when it’s not their culture do so to be cool? I’m quite sure there will be plenty of people walking around with maori tattoos that they got for themselves, not to show off, just because they liked the design.

Whichever way you look at it, you’re ‘guilty’ of the very thing you’re ranting…[Read more]

Kiri;34237 wrote:
This has to be a joke.

You would think! But people actually are this dumb sometimes. Sad! 😮

Kiri;34236 wrote:
When you go into the studio they have transfer paper there and will be happy to assist you in your decision.

I know they do in the shop lol, I was just wondering if there was a website I could order some myself to play around with at home.

Smallville – I agree that the numerals are by far the best part but unfortunately…[Read more]

*that’s meant to be xvi, not xci, in the first line of the above image! must remember to change that!

Yeah, I’m definitely going to make it a seperate thing now, decided on that! I’m going to stick with the dates, but now I can’t decide whether to go with the roman numerals as above, or to have it written out in Latin like this:

Do you know if you can you buy transfer paper where you can print a design out and transfer it onto your skin? I’m…[Read more]

I know what you mean, since posting the question I’ve been rethinking it, it’s just a problem because as I said, the reason I want the numbers at all is because I’ve been trying to think of something to bring the bottom half (which I already have – the pic of that is in ‘my four tattoos’ thread on inked skin) higher up. But I know that together…[Read more]

eighty4;34164 wrote:
I didnt explain myself well enough. There are lots of people who come to NZ on holiday and get Maori tatts, they know nothing about maori people, nothing about the meaning of the tatts…they probably never spoke to a maori person they just get it cos they think it looks cool.

I think its a huge disrespect to maori people…[Read more]

Wow. May I ask how old you are? You must be very young, or just incredibly stupid. That has to be the dumbest idea I’ve heard in a long time. Even if you wear long sleeves, they inevitably slip up once in a while, there’s no way you would be able to hide that forever. If you hid it in a job interview, when your employer inevitably does spot it…[Read more]

Beautiful work, really stunning! I love the rib piece, I have a thing about [tasteful] flowers on guys – it looks great! I’d love to get my ribs done, but I’m the biggest wimp with pain, all my back tats I’ve found excruciating to the point of wanting to die haha while I hear most other people saying back tats aren’t so bad… whereas I’ve never…[Read more]

do you have a pic of them you can upload? it’s difficult to get any ideas without seeing it

Kevincent;34148 wrote:
maybe a tattoo tear, reminds me of a sad clown lol

Are you serious? Do you know what they mean? Brilliant idea if you want to be branded a murderer for the rest of your life!

smallville_hero;34137 wrote:
kids names I understand about that is something very personal and never going to change.
I think its daft to get partners names though, are you gonna get it crossed out and replaced when you dump your current lover?

I have my sons name on my back, but I’d never get a partners name, visible or not. Even when I’ve…[Read more]

Love it! Wouldn’t get a Christian tattoo myself as a non-Christian but it’s his body – and the work looks great to me!

As for getting it touched up, your own artist should be able to do that for free for you, I know most say that if there’s any cracking or immediate colour loss they’ll touch their own work up for free, I had a tattoo almost a year ago that is quite faded and cracked because I didn’t know how to look after it properly (learnt my lesson since then -…[Read more]