What kind of tattoos do you have?

What’s with the tattoo questions today? I do have a KatetheGreat tattoo on my chest. Lol. No it’s actually on my left shoulder and it’s a burning red and yellow sun.

I don’t have any.

I accidentally jabbed myself with a very sharp pencil when I was in 4th grade and the pencil lead tattooed a spot on the palm of my hand.

I hate a tattoo of a butt, on my butt with a tattoo of a butt on it. I also have a tatto of poop on my buttcrack so when I moon people it looks like I never wipe.

Just two, small pretty designs. All black.
I have plans to get more eventually… still working on it, though. I rarely spend money on myself, so it will have to be a very special event.

The imaginary kind.

I have too many typos in my last post so I flagged it LOL

Here are the two on my back. I also have a small family of sea turtles on my left calf, just above the heel.

I have a tattoo of a little black spider on my wrist. It represents creativity.

None. It means that I believe nature endowed us with a marvelous work of art and to intentionally deface it is disrespectful.

@YoBob it isn’t defacing, it’s embellishing. ;)

Different strokes.

As for me, I would tend to view a fig leaf added to Michelangelo’s David as vandalism rather than embellishment.

I have the word “Fides” tattooed on the outside of my right ankle and a blue bird by my oldest step-son on the outside of my right ankle.

I have a triquetra on my ankle, and my sister’s name on my wrist. Both are in black.

@YoBob Would you feel that way if Michaelangelo had been the one to suggest the fig leaf, the one to put the fig leaf there?

I have a couple of tattoos but they are kinda hard to explain in words. I like things that are interesting.

None. Just the vasectomy scar and the 4 small slots where they slurped out my prostate.
I couldn’t imagine liking any design so much that I had to carry it around with me 24/7.

I have two amateur tattoos. The first is a heart on my left hand. It was done to symbolize the friendship of a large group of friends back when I was a senior in high school. I’m no longer friends with any of these people. I wouldn’t mind having it re-done into the shape of a butterfly or something else some day.

The second was done by the boyfriend of a friend of mine when I was in college in San Luis Obispo. It’s a dolphin on my right ankle. I do like this one.

I have quite a few. I have a moon on my forehead, got that when I converted to a pagan faith. I have the eye of ra on my arm, the moon and star symbol from the Islamic faith, a baby pegaus, Oda Nobunaga’s crest, a batgirl symbol in honor of my daughter, a luna moth, a thundercats tattoo, one that says Destroy in honor of my cat. I have a predator symbol on the back of my neck. I believe that is it so far.

I don’t have any, but both my daughters do, and my younger daughter works as a body piercer, and she has LOTS of tats.

I have a large, icy blue Celtic cat knot on the center of my lower back. It’s based on a Jen Delyth image that I fell in love with when I was younger. I’ve always felt a certain kinship with cats since my cat was the only stable element in my life growing up. I had wanted it done much smaller on my shoulder, but when I found out I’d lose too much detail, I decided to go big and placed it on my lower back instead.

About a year later, I had the image re-worked to give it some more dimension and to adjust some elements that didn’t quite match up with my personality. I decided to soften the image somewhat by adding some orange day lilies and vines on each side. I wanted them because day lilies are my favorite flower.

This past year, I had a blue raven added to the existing design. It’s standing on the cat knot and intertwined with more vines, orange flowers and another orange day lily. It took a long time but the artist was genius and I was quite impressed with her artistic skill.

Anyway, ravens (and cats, for that matter) are terribly clever and have amazing survival instincts. Despite difficult times, they can adapt and overcome. I think of my back piece as a reminder of my own ability to survive in desperate times, that I have done the same and will continue to do so no matter what. Oh and they’re also very nice to look at as well :)

@MyNewtBoobs – “Would you feel that way if Michaelangelo had been the one to suggest the fig leaf, the one to put the fig leaf there?”

Of course not, just as I would not consider a vibrantly colored image of a dragon across one’s back to be a defacement of the work of art we have been endowed with if nature saw fit to put it there. As it is, I’m quite happy with the skin I am in and am not inclined to put graffiti on it.

My son’s name on my shoulder.