If you were to get one, where would it go and what would it be?
I don’t have a tattoo and doubt seriously that I will ever get one.
Justa a little too permanent for my tastes.
Yet… I have thought about getting one.
If I were to get one it would either be on the left arm, shoulder-height or on the upper right side of the back.
As for what it would be? I dunno. Maybe a scorpion, since my Zodiac sign is the ever-mysterious Scorpio. (Duh-Duh-DUN)
Or maybe just some cool type of design. Maybe a Yin/Yang thing going.
So, the question is…For the dopers without tattoos, where and what would it be? and for those with 'toos feel free to offer you expertise on the matter.
For a while I went through a phase where I wanted a tattoo. I had just gotten a divorce, was out partying & drinking, and just generally being rebellious.
I thought about getting one with a Japanese character of some sort. You know, something that represented “happiness”, “wealth”, or some other type of nice sentiment. I probably would have put it on my right shoulderblade.
Thankfully I didn’t do it, as I’m kind of over it now. But if the thought ever came back, that’s probably what I’d stick with.
Well, I already am tattoed…I used to work in a tattoo shop and I may be the most tattooedy person on the board…but if I were to get another one, I would get a tattoo of Brad Pitt’s face. I’d get it on my face.
I’ll never get one, but I do remember semi-asleep watching a late-night made-for-cable movie in a hotel once that was about these young guy prostitutes who worked Hollywood Blvd. The protagonist had a tattoo of a small tear drop to the left of his left eye and I thought that was pretty cool, although I’ve read that most tattoo artists are reluctant to tattoo a face. (True?) And what the heck is the name of that movie? I fell asleep as everything started turning up roses, but I’m sure the ending was a big bummer.
Most tattoo artists are hesitant to tattoo a face, especially for someone who doesn’t have many tattoos. Many (although certainly not all) people who get facial tattoos find they are very unhappy with them or with the social stigma around them. Also, the suicide rate for people with facial tattoos is supposed to be high, although I can’t remmber where I heard this (if you do get one, don’t kill yourself; just move to Austin, Texas).
The “teardrop” is a classic jail-house style tattoo. Supposedly represents a fallen brother-in-arms.
I’ve been thinking about getting one lately. No rebellion, just b/c I like them. It would probably be some kind of fish, but I haven’t worked that out yet. Maybe a stingray. But it would definitely go on the back of my right calf.
Anybody wanna recommend some cool-looking fish tattoos?
Right shoulder, the SubGenius “wings of Slack” bit of clip art. Those being pilots’ wings of a sort, with a clock resting in their center, with a dagger through it. It’s always just really appealed to me.
Inner right forearm. Great big lizard, with its head down by my wrist, and a long long tail that wraps around to the outside of my upper arm.
There’s no particular reason that I like this location or design, but I’ve been desiring this tattoo for over 10 years. If I could get a semi-permanent kind of tattoo that lasts a year or something, I might even go ahead and get it. But since it’s the kind of thing that can’t be easily covered up (I usually wear short sleeves), I probably wouldn’t.
I toyed with the idea of getting the alphabet tattooed on my right forearm, on the side that faces me as I type, in big black letters. Sure, it might be stupid, but what are the odds that anyone else would have the same tattoo?
I want a tattoo. I’m thinking of getting a camellia (tsubaki in Japanese) on my ankle somewhere. But I won’t get it done until I’m living back in Australia, because its not really accepted over here in Japan yet (especially flower tattoos).
One of my oldest friends and I were toying with the idea of getting tattoos once and spent weeks driving around to various studios and looking at artwork but could never decide on something we wanted to be stuck with the rest of our lives. One of my favorite ideas was to get matching “I’m with Stupid” fingers pointing at each other. Another idea I had was to get a few bars of music around my wrist, so it’d look like a bracelet. For some reason the Armour hotdog jingle appealed to me a lot.
(Lorenzo, I’m about as far away as you can get from an expert on this, but I’ve also heard that a teardrop tattoo by the eye indicates that the owner of the tattoo has killed someone. Just my $0.02.)
I like using temporary tattoos - I have no intention of ever getting a permanent tattoo, but I enjoy putting on a temporary one for occasions, like a Canadian flag tattoo I wore on my bicep for Canada Day, or the butterfly I wore on my ankle for a couple of weeks this summer. I find that temporary ones last just as long as I like the tattoo - by the time they come off, I’m glad to see the tattoo gone. And I love shopping for new tattoos - I can go much more extreme with the temporary ones than I would ever go with a permanent one, if I ever had an interest in getting one.
When I was in the Peace Corps in Micronesia, By accidentally swimming through a group of sharks at night, I earned the right to have a tattoo of a series of stylized porpoises jumping through the waves on the outside of my legs. It’s kind of an honor. However, the islanders where I was, basically do the tattooing with dirty sewing needles dipped in ash and India ink. If I could find a tattoo artist on the mainland that knew the design, I would go to him or her and have it done today. But so far no one knows and I have looked.
I would probably have it done just on one thigh or calf though, not all the way up.
