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“magic” tattoos
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I’ve been toying with the idea of doing Disneyland’s hitchhiking ghosts as a UV tattoo.
[QUOTE=Apocalypso]
Mirrors, my friends, mirrors…
To elaborate:
Why would I not know what it looks like? I can stand with my back to a mirror and look over my shoulder and see it just fine.
Anyhow, as Farmerchick said, all of my tattoos are deeply personal and very meaningful to me. I don’t really care if people see it or not. In fact I really don’t like showing it to people unless they are into tattoos themselves. It gets a bit old “come over here Mike, you gotta see this guys back…Hey apocalypso, show him your back!”. “Um, no”. “Why? Aw, common!”.
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I still don’t get it. Say you woke up tomorrow without it. Would you feel diminished? Would you feel less like “you”?
I guess I just don’t get the concept that you change your body, and it becomes more “you”. I have the same problem with these weightloss commercials that say, “find the real you inside”. How your body looks doesn’t reflect the real you! I mean, I’m pretty tied to my arms, but were I to lose them in an accident tomorrow, I wouldn’t be any less me.
[QUOTE=NightRabbit]
I still don’t get it. Say you woke up tomorrow without it. Would you feel diminished? Would you feel less like “you”?
I guess I just don’t get the concept that you change your body, and it becomes more “you”. I have the same problem with these weightloss commercials that say, “find the real you inside”. How your body looks doesn’t reflect the real you! I mean, I’m pretty tied to my arms, but were I to lose them in an accident tomorrow, I wouldn’t be any less me.
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You don’t have to “get it”. My tattoos are not for you. They are for me.
[QUOTE=LifeOnWry]
I’ve seen any number of tats that are definitely not to my own taste, but I think the only one that really threw me was a young (early 20s) co-worker who had a tattoo of the Nestle Quik bunny. I asked her what the significance was, imagining a really interesting story. She said she just really liked the Nestle Quik bunny.
shrug Alrighty then.
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Yeah, there’s that too. 
But as another useless data point in my collection, my ex-best friend has a memorial tattoo for her deceased father. However, you’d never know it unless you were part of her inner circle because, for whatever her reasoning, just a casual observer would be told that she simply thought the design was pretty and that it “didn’t mean anything.”
I never understood why she did that. I suppose it just has to take all kinds. And centrifugal force. 
How you doin’? 
Same here. I’m pretty sure I’ll get one one of these days, but I just haven’t stumbled upon an image that represents me well enough.