Did you notice the eyes of the guy who wrote the article? That guy has a serious spice problem going.
I saw a similar one on a girl the other day, tho it appeared to be just the blood vessels. Looked kinda icky to me.
The cut guy you describe has considerable motivation to maintain his current physique! His tat may look silly on sagging elder-flesh.
The neatest one I saw recently was on a youngish woman - a near full-sized violin bow starting on her R shoulderblade and disappearing into her shirt - apparently running down the side of her back. I liked that it was unusual, subtle, tasteful, and (I imagine) says something about something important to her.
A guy I went to college with had this on his butt cheek.
I also saw a guy in Wal-Mart a few months ago who had a barcode on his neck.
An old friend of my husband’s had a barcode- I think it was Lucky Charms.
I recently got tatted for the first time, a small one on each shoulder. They are two mathmatical equations,
On the right shoulder - the limit as x goes to infinity of (e^x)/x
lim e^x / x
x-> inf
On the left shoulder - the limit as x goes to inifinity of x/(e^x)
lim x / e^x
x-> inf
Only well formatted of course. They resolve to 0 and infinity, which matches the actual zero and infinity on Mr. Jeeves shoulders.
I keep meaning to take pics and upload them but I haven’t had a chance.
I have a bunch. The one that draws the most attention is around my left wrist. It is an analog Rolex watch that is very realistic. People have actually asked me the time, thinking it was real. BTW, the watch is set to twenty after four. Some people see that and start laughing, others have not a clue.
Friend of mine had a barcode done at random. Checked him out at the supermarket and he came up “Misc. Meat - $1.69”
I mean, really - could you plan something that wonderful? 
ewww and ick. Why would someone purposely mutilate themselves like that?
Sorry, my conservative side is peeking out. I don’t mind a tasteful tattoo or two or even naval piercings and extra ear piercings, but that, well, ick and ewww!
Why? Many reasons. Take your pick. Are you really curious or do you just want to register your disgust? If you’re genuinely curious, BME has a lot of great resources on the topics of piercing, tattoos, and body modification. The link I posted is safe for work, but much of the content on the main BME site is not so I won’t link to it. But, if you’re curious you can find it with a quick search. They have a large experience section made up of reader contributions on just about any sort of modification you can imagine. Everyone has their own reasons.
Thanks, I’ll check out the link.
Hi, AuntiePam
It’s probably meant to resemble the back of a corset. I should think it’s not unique, given the popularity of corsets (Yes, corsets are hot. Just ask my neighbor, Psydde Delicious at www.deliciouscorsets.com). What would perhaps surprise you even more is that it’s a popular motif in play piercing. The skin is temporarily pierced with needles meant for insulin syringes and then laced with pretty ribbon.
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And of course I again have arrived too late.
I am, of course, prejudiced, but… my own tattoo (still in progress) is now my tattoo artist’s answer to “what’s the wierdest tattoo you’ve ever done?” after twenty five years of professional tattooing. I’m some kind of proud
A FOAF has a full-color tattoo of Jimi Hendrix’s face across the entirety of her back.
You’re awesome beyond words. Sounds risky, though; you’d have to know the guy was really, really good.
Naval piercings are awful! The ship sinks and then a war starts.
We need more details.
Never.
I know more than a few Marines with a non-random barcode tattoo. They get themselves an identifying tattoo on the left side of the torso, under the arm. In case they should ever be blown away… it’s a piece that’s fairly often left intact.
It’s actually not that weird* I can’t believe I misspelled that so it’s probably not as good a story as it sounds, but… it’s a full backpiece that covers my right shoulder all the way down and wraps around my left hip. From the shoulder and nape down, it involves a bunch of rowan berries and leaves, a waxing/full/waning moon, a harris hawk, a jumping blue armadillo (this guy in blues), willow branches, a purple platypus, a hairless rat, and a few other random bits as filler, but that’s most of it. The armadillo and platypus are totem animals, the hawk and rat were friends of mine, the rest both tells a story and are protection symbols.
*I mean, it’s weird, but it’s not weird like the local guy who has a huge frog “sitting on the crapper, taking a dump!!!” which is how he gleefully describes it, any time anyone asks.
My advice to anyone thinking about any body mod is to know your artist. Every tattoo/piercing I have ever gotten has been from a friend. If we were not friends prior to the work being done, we became friends during the planning stages. Every city/town has artists who are great, mediocre, and lousy. Why not go with the best when cost is typically the same (until you get into the few extremely popular artists who often have high minimums).
And to follow that, I’d never even consider letting someone put permanent art of any kind on my skin unless I knew they were very, very good.
I was in a tattoo shop just hanging out when a girl came in with a sketch of a frog. She wanted the frog done on her big toe. My friend (the artist) worked on the sketch for a while, then put it on the copy machine and made a few in different sizes.
He went in the back with her for a bit, then she came back out front to sign her release/etc. I looked at the final sketch and commented on how nice it looked, but wondered aloud how it would look after it was shrunken down in size. The girl said that it was at its final size.
I said, “Oh, that’s impossible. You would need a HUGE toe to fit that frog.”. All eyes in the room went to the poor girl’s feet. Or should I say canoes. Biggest feet I’ve seen on a woman to this day, clad in sandles.
Knew a guy who had dotted lines tattooed around his wrists. He went to my church youth group :eek: . No idea how he turned out, though.
Is there a ratings site for tattoo shops, so I know which ones suck and which are well-regarded?