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Tattoo yourself? Scar yourself? Pierce? Other? What would you do/have had done?

I've never wanted a traditional tattoo.
It's always been a case of, I don't dislike them - and many look nice, but there's nothing I want... and if there were, then yeah, sure, I'd get one.
This is generally the answer I give when any number of friends, the majority inked in multiple ways goof on my complete and total lack of tattoos.

And we've had a few threads on the sort of body modification subject, and all.  But we never had any sort of actual standing themed topic on what WOULD you have done to modify your appearance?

Me, piercings.  If I ever had the money to blow and was walking by on a Sunday afternoon with nothing to do for a bit, I'd hop back to a parlor and get the insides of my forearms pinned.  Little rods going through my arm would be cool.  Kind've liked this image here.  Though somewhat different, obviously.
Also want snake bites for some reason and to finish my plan for ear, unfortunately I never got passed a few in the lobe, and all but one has closed by now, and the scarring is funky.  Not really noticeable but...
Other than that, really nothing.

What else?  Scarification.
There's actually one design that, if I - again, had the time and the money on, I'd have scarred into a spot on my body.  Actually, it was gonna be done a long, long time ago - when we were pretty wasted, a home brew.  Unfortunately the guy who had the balls to do it, was too gone to hold his arm straight - fortunately, I was going 2nd... at least until I saw that, then I changed my mind.

But one thing I would actually save up for, like actually go out and do everything to save up for... if only there was a place near by I actually trusted would be to tattoo my eye.  The eyeball, I'm sure you've seen that.  Black, or two different colors - one for each orb.  That I've wanted since I was a kid, and I became totally stocked when I saw it on some news reel in what feels so long ago, about some dude who got his eye balls tattooed.  I would actually take the risk of blindness on that, if the guy/place had done it before, successfully.  I mean... this was like, when I was a kid I actually thought about sticking magic markers on my eye to see if they'd change the colors :x

Left eye first though, even though I wear glasses and it's my stronger eye, everything I do creatively I peer over the right so... risk that eye first.  Hell even if that eye went partially blind(er :x), or even blind... man it would just be worth it.
Wow I really do sound like a nut :x

There's other things out there.
Teflon implants and stuff.  There's a whole world of shit you can do, but none of it's really big on me.  Again, not a situation of dislike, just a case of not for me.

So anyway, your turn.
Out of all the actually possible ways to fuck with mother nature's hold on yourself, yours would be what?
 
I have been wating several tattoos for a long time.
I want my dragon on my right forearm in an emerald green.
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My finalised Wars remorse logo on my left shoulder. The nobody logo of KH2 on my right shoulder.
The logo from my game MAZE will be placed on the back of my neck
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I would also lie gir on my left forearm.

Most of all I want a tattoo across thewhole of my back. The lower back will be the Joker in the partially destroyed scene of buildings My mates Reece and Ryan depicted on the two sides of my back fading out from the building similar to the art design to Hilltop Hoods City of Light cover, myfriends Nicola, Tara, Mary and my girlfriend Chantal tatood in my mid/upper back on each side but in between Reece and ryan and a fair bit smaller. Up the upper back will be a yin-yang with black cut out figures of a guy and girl back to back with the words Negative's and positives running above the yin-yang only a tad underneath the MAZE logo. However that will cost several hundred dollars and I can't afford it. One day however when it comes to the day I thank my inspirations it wil be in the form of that One massive tattoo
 

moog

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My homeboy from the military is all tatt'd up, and it doesnt look to bad. Imo for some people it gives more of a mature look, not like Johnny Badass-look but a very sophisticated one.

I really dont like tattoos really, they look interesting but not for me.

also video game tattoos lol. I really dont get why someone would brand mario or sonic or the triforce on them but to each his own.
 
I really want some tats and have done for years but they are bloody expensive and I never know what I want one of.  I don't want to look at it in 2 years and think "Wow, I was pretty dumb choosing this"... like ultamaodin probably will.
 
I dont really like most tattoos. IMHO, On dudes they usually look either faggy or low-class, and on chicks they look dumb or whorish. I've seen some cool ones though ... But I'm still not really attracted to tatt'd people, for the most part. Dunno
 
To what Moog said...
I can see characters.
Like for a while, as a kid I wanted this li'l thing of Calvin and Hobbes.  It wasn't, oh I think the character's cool, there actually was a reason for it.  But then the pissing Calvin thing got so popular... argh...  Even now if I like won a free tattoo in some shitty contest, I'd probably get a copy of an original "Henry Pootel" sketch for fun.

I don't get why people would do friends or girlfriends.
That confuses me.

My friend Phil has his a tattoo for a friend, but he died.  And that tat doesn't actually give off anything to let you know, it's just one of those tombstone pieces, it doesn't have a name or anything.  He has his mother, who also died, that one does say mom.  When I goofed with him one time, because he just got another design done at the time, about how the tattooist had a wedding band, if he'd get that since at the time he was getting married.

His answer was "I dunno, if I really end up thinking it's forever."
This is about the woman who he is currently married to, and when he was getting married this was his answer.  The idea of a girlfriend always made me laugh because so many people I know who did that... broke up.  And like, viciously too.  Hell even friends, I'm shocked I've had a solid friendship for years, usually I got like 3 months then, well fuck you I'm bored- bye.

Still, who am I to judge.  I want my damn eyeball blacked out.
 
Ultimaodin I find it kind of ridiculous that you plan on getting tattoos depicting your game's logo.  You better not lose your motivation like nearly all of us and never finish your game!
 
i want one that says 'hail hitler' written in hebrew

people always get their womans name tattooed on them, so im gonna get 'rachel leigh cook' tattooed on me to make people think i dated her at some point!
 
Sonata":3z5217z4 said:
Ultimaodin I find it kind of ridiculous that you plan on getting tattoos depicting your game's logo.

this. then again he's probably like 12 years old so it doesn't really matter.

tat's are PERMANENT and pretty much anything you come up with for a tattoo is a shitty idea. unless you've had it in mind for like at LEAST three years and don't see it changing any time soon (like i plan to get the five mana symbols of magic at some point, i've wanted that since high school and think it would be pretty bitchin', since they look cool even if you don't know what they mean).

anyone who gets a girlfriend's name on their skin is  aFUCKING IDIOT and i should think the reasons are obvious. my ex-girlfriend wanted me to get her name tattooed on me and WELL GUESS WHAT i'm glad i wasn't stupid enough to do it

most importantly tattoos have to MEAN SOMETHING to you. they're permanently a part of you and become part of WHO YOU ARE. you can't just get a COOL DRAGON or RANDOM ORIENTAL CHARACTER because they look cool (well you CAN but you'll be a HUMONGOUS DOUCHE for doing so)
 
Calibre":39mz32h2 said:
I really want some tats and have done for years but they are bloody expensive and I never know what I want one of.  I don't want to look at it in 2 years and think "Wow, I was pretty dumb choosing this"... like ultamaodin probably will.

Lol thanks. Every thing I have stated in there are personal. The back one most of all is of all the people who Inspired me. Unlike many me and my friend Tara had een keeping an eye out for the Dark Knight for ages, long before heath ledgers death.
My gf will be tattood on there because most of all she is my friend. My friends are my help and support in a rough world. Chantal will not be one of the larger images as Reece and Ryan have had my back for a vary long time ad they are in a category of mateship that no others hold. (corney I know)

The game logos would have to actings. One is that each doesn't just represent a game it represents a state of mind broadcast upon my life. The second i will act as a constant reminder that I have to finish them, and If I don't they will remind me what I have left unfiished.
The nobody logo is simply for the fact I feel like a nobody a lot of the time.

@ The Engineer- every tattoo I have decided on means smething very important and emotional to me. I am 18 and I am not acting out of some random act. Over three years has been thought out for each. Yes Wars Remorse has been in development for over three years, as stated many times in posts, time is not well at hand for me. The only tattoo that hasn't had sch a long period of consideration is gir. I want gir well kind of a very long story but I have my reasons.

Now that you all just saw a glimse into my wacked out world. Nice to meet you all and loving the support lol. ^_^


PS I have also been thinking of something on the front but for some reason the chest and stomach just doesn't appeal to me so trust me I do have thought processess.... sometimes.... on the odd occasion.
 
Now that to me I would call stupid. Almost as bad as my friend who wanted to tattoo an exit only sign above his arse! >_>

Yet people think I don't think things through...
 

Tindy

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I've only got two tattoos that I'd ever want to get.

Umm....Let me just get a picture up for this one.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/VevilaD/tattoo.jpg[/img]

The dragon eating itself is a variation of a snake eating itself, stands for eternity, and the name in the middle is my Japanese home town (possibly my favorite place on earth, where my wonderful host mother and family lives).  That'd go in the small of my back.

And no, I'd ask the tattoo artist to redraw that XD

The other'd be Betty Boop as a nurse, 'cause my gram is Betty (and often called Betty Boop thanks to her naturally curly black hair) and she was a nurse.  Don't quit know where I'd put it, though.  Shoulder, maybe.  Wherever it goes it has to be somewhere easily covered.

As for piercings, my lobes are pierces, just once each, but when I was 13 I had my upper cartilage pierced (and then it got infected and I had to let it close less than 6 months later).

Tried scarring a really dumb design into the top of my wrist with a safety pin when I was 15.  That was *dumb*.
 

alexis

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Calibre":31tfuder said:
I might get a tattoo on my pubic area saying: "If you can read this then you made a very wrong choice somewhere in life."

lolll.


i was supposed to get a tattoo with my ex best friend this upcoming summer. obviously, it isn't happening anymore. but it was gonna be the outline of a heart on our inner wrists. my left, her right. i mean, even if we were still going to do it, it wouldn't be one of those things that would have to be covered up if we had a falling out somewhere down the line.

i'm not against tattoos, i like them. but i haven't found anything meaningful enough to have permanently imprinted on my body for the rest of my life.

plus i can't legally get a tattoo by myself until i'm 21. not that i hope to be living here until then, but it kinda kills temptation.
 

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