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SweetSarijane -> For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 4:44:37 PM)

We've had several threads asking who has tatts and how people feel about tatts. This one is a little different. I'm curious to hear from those with tatts about the stories behind getting the individual tatts. I have 2 tatts and each one has a reason/story behind why I got it and I'm in the thinking/deciding stage on getting a third that I've already designed.



sleazybutterfly -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 5:10:14 PM)

I have three total (want more though)
 
My first is on my leg.. it's a rose w/butterfly...it was sort of a mark of independence for me.  I was out on my own..and starting to live my life the way I wanted..so with that.. I took control of my body...it was something I always wanted.  I went back day after day..and looked over tattoos...book after book....this one hit me...and I love it.  It looks sexy...and really makes my legs look kick ass.
 
My next one is a chinese symbol meaning "married couple".  I had been in a relationship for about four years with a woman.  We of course..couldn't get married legally...and we resented that a lot.  We went thru a pretty hard time trying to have a baby, it was very emotional and draining ... after our first try and it didn't work..we came back from the Dr. appt. went to the tattoo place..and told him what we wanted.  We designed the colors..which are the pride colors..done in sort of a fading way.  It was a way to deal with the pain and also cement us together..even if legally we couldn't.  No matter who I am ever with in my life, this one will always stay right as it is.  She and I have both agreed to that.
 
The last one I have.. is the butterfly on my chest..close to my heart.  My grandmother passed away the day before my 29th b-day..it nearly destroyed me.  So the next year on the anniv. of it.. I got this tattoo in the colors red and pink (both of our favorites) that way she is always with me..near my heart.  I have heard many times that butterfly's are sent by our passed loved ones.. to let us know they are around..I think that is why they are sort of my signature now.  Sometimes when I need a lot of courage.. am lonely.. or just missing her.. I can just rub my hand over it..close my eyes...think of her..and it's all ok again.
 
I do know that any I get.. will always mean something to me... to me it's not a trend.. or something to follow.. it's my past..and all of it adds up to make me who I am.
 
~Andrea
 
 



SweetSarijane -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 5:25:32 PM)

My first tatt is a bleeding heart with wings and a star on my left shoulderblade. I got it 14 years ago and it represents a time in my life full of turmoil and pain and the journey to fly above it and begin to heal. Whenever I glimpse it in a mirror, I remember that time in my life and that I did indeed fly above it and become free.

My second tatt is a wolf's head with a red rosebud diagonally behind it on my left hip. It is to always remind me of a very important lesson I learned and the one who taught it to me. When I look at it, I remember that I am beautiful and worthy no matter what and I think of the friend who patiently, continually reinforced that belief until I finally realized, accepted, and embraced it for myself.



Vancouver_cinful -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 5:28:42 PM)

The first one I got was a mama and baby orca (killer whale), on my ankle. I wanted something that symbolized being a West Coast girl, born and bred. I also love the zen-ness of the markings on orcas, and the fact that I am a water baby, who has to live near my beloved ocean all just enhanced my choice.

The next one I got was a hummingbird on my shoulder, and it symbolizes the influence my mother and grandmother have on my life. They both have hummingbird feeders, and we spend many evenings on the porches, sipping tea and watching the amazingly brave little things as they come to feed. They remind me that small can be mighty! (As does the orca who will take on larger whales.)

On my back, I have a dragonfly. This is for my father. I always think of him when I see one, because we often swam together in lakes, as I was growing up, and there always seemed to be dragonflies. The year before I got that tattoo, he and I were swimming in a lake, just after a mosquito hatch had happened. The lake was a blanket of dragonflies gorging themselves, and we swam through them, enchanted. I will always treasure that moment with him...Now I have a permanent reminder.

I have butterflies on my right breast. They symbolize my friends and how they brought me out of a cocoon and helped me become a beautiful person.

Also, I had decided when I began, that all my tatts would be of the natural world. This is the influence of my grandfather, who taught me that all life is miraculous and sacred. In his house National Geographic spilt off of many surfaces, and we spent many hours hypnotized by the images, as he told us incredible stories of the world around us.

Eventually I hope to have one to represent D/s...but perhaps that might wait until it can be combined with an ownership tattoo...we'll see. It too, will be incorporated into an image of the natural world, thus symbolizing that submission is in my very nature.



gardenbluebird -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 5:36:24 PM)

i have a tat of a rose of my back that i got almost two years ago.  Custom designed from a watercolor painting.  i had wanted one for years because it represented doing something a little bit daring and different.  i wanted a rose because (as you can guess from my handle) i love the beauty that is found is gardens.  Also, it was a special treat for myself because i lost a lot of weight and i felt strong and healthy and i wanted to celebrate my body.



Vancouver_cinful -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 5:43:01 PM)

Celebrating your body is one of the best reasons for getting a tatt, I think. [:)]



missturbation -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 6:12:42 PM)

Tat 1 is an angel on my shoulder - i like the idea of having an angel watching over me.
Tat 2 is a swallow on my thigh bcos lol i swallow.
Tat 3 is a seal on my right calf bcos hmm im not sure on that one.
Tat 4 is a row of flowers and hearts on my lower back for all my friends.
Tat 5 is property of M for my exmaster.



Evanesce -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 6:41:54 PM)

Tat #1 I got at the age of 36.  At the time, I was breeding cockatiels, taking back my independence and redefining my life.  The tattoo is of a blue and yellow parrot in an eagle-like attack position, with beak open and claws outstretched, and is on my right shoulderblade.
 
Tat #2 I got last summer, at the age of 46.  It marked five years with the Kaptin, and is my permanent symbol of His ownership.  It's a purple rose with barb-wire stem, about five inches high, and is on my right ankle.



hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 7:48:26 PM)

The first I got was on my right shoulder blade.  It's the outline of a butterfly, and the wings are filled in with blue roses.  I got that particular design for several reasons.  I see butterflies as a symbol of positive change - coming out of the coccoon of childhood/ignorance.  Butterfies are also a symbol of a particular disease process when paired with a wolf - the disease that put my mother in her grave - Systemic Lupus. It comes from a facial rash that is often a symptom, which appears to cover an area that looks a bit like a butterfly outline (cheeks and forehead being the "wings" with the bridge of the nose being the "body.")  Since mom was very much my best friend from my early teens right up until the day she died 4 years ago, it was also a memorial for her.  A means of symbolizing the changes she had helped me to make in my own life, a symbol of my continuing love and respect for her even though she's now gone - and a reaffirmation to myself that I was doing with my life what mom had urged me on her death bed to do - not to let anything or anyone stand in my way of being myself.
 
Second one is a hummingbird drinking from an open blue rose, with a small blue rosebud farther down the stem.  That one's on my upper right arm.  A friend of mine gave me the nickname of Hummin bird a couple of years ago, because he said I flitted around from project to project, my wings never quite slowing down even when I appeared to have paused.  That one is in his honor, because I miss him.  The artwork is ready for this one, just in the process of saving the money up so I can pay for it.
 
I'm planning a piece to go around my left bicep - vine work studded with blue roses, which meets on my outter arm at a Dreamcatcher with a pair of feathers hanging from the bottom of it.  That one is in honor of the native american blood in my family history. 
 
I'm having the vinework and roses repeated around my right ankle, without the dreamcatcher - but the roses are going to be a specific number, one for each of several people who have been very important in my life (my mom, both my daughters, my father, and my grandfather.) 
 
I've got a trio of long stemmed blue roses, bound together at the bottom by a whip, planned for my left calf.  Each of the three roses (one bud, one half open, one fully open) will have a kanji glyph in the center - serenity, prosperity, and strength - for the qualities that I'm attempting to develop more fully in my life.  The whip is going in place as an overt symbol of my BDSM activities and preferences.
 
I've also got a full back piece planned - the side of a mountain running down the left side of my back, with a waterfall springing from about half way down to flow into a river that will run across the small of my back.  It will also have a hawk in flight over the mountain, at the top of my shoulder - and a wolf sleeping next to the river.  That one is specifically to honor my totems, and will likely be the last one I get.  It'll require several trips to the artist, and probably cost me more than I really want to contemplate, but that's not going to stop me.



SweetSarijane -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 8:01:23 PM)

The one I'm planning to get next is a red fox and will have a white and a yellow rosebud diagonal behind it on my right hip. That one is for who I am and for my father and my brother to honor them and my roots.



janiceleeinsc -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 8:03:05 PM)

I have two tattoos.  I have one on my back shoulder that is two butterflies.  The reason I chose butterflies is they symbolize freedom to me.  
Last year at this time, I went for my second.  For some reason, I put all my tattoos on my back so that no one can see them unless I want them to.  This one is in the small of my back.   It is a purple rose with a red heart and has the new black line designs on it.  My fiance picked it out for me.
I guess I have a garden going on. LOL
When I turn 50, I am going to get my other shoulder done.  The same person did both of my tattoos, but this last one hurt like heck.  I was under the needle about one hour and twenty minutes.  He had to stop twice, but I love both of them very very much.
Respectfully,  Mistress_Jan



MistressTexas -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 8:45:10 PM)

I have... I guess 4 tattoos, although two of them look like one. That "one" is on my lower hip, and its the japanese character for "sin." I was 15 and stupid, and went to get inked with 3 of my best friends. we all got the same tattoo in different places. Within a year, they all passed away, and it just about broke me. They all had various tattoos, so I went and got a piece of their favorite tattoos inked just underneath the symbol we all got together. So its now a symbol, with an open red rose and 2 tribal blades running behind the rose. The second tattoo is down my right shoulderblade, done in Chinese. That one reads "the courage to save lives" to remind me why I'm an emergency medic. It gives me the guts to wade in and do what I have to do, because I'm damn well not going to lay false something that hurt as much as that did. haha. the third is a chinese symbol as well ( I adore the way they look), and it simply reads "Bear" and I got it so that one of the most important people in my life will always be near me. Oddly enough I put it on my striking foot, and I haven't lost a match since. My final one hurt more than anything... lol. It's a rather large (6x6) tattoo of a painting my ridiculously talented mother did. She is so literally my rock, and I have never seen her happy with a piece of art she did... always tweaking it and fussing about it.. Until this one. She was so proud of it, that I decided to get it as a tattoo within seconds of the unveiling. She signed the tattoo, and another artist went over that with ink as well. That one took me four bloody hours, and caused me to pass out several times... but I love it maybe even more than my other ones. It happens to be on my upper ribcage.



SirCumsSlut -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 8:53:20 PM)

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ORIGINAL: SweetSarijane

We've had several threads asking who has tatts and how people feel about tatts. This one is a little different. I'm curious to hear from those with tatts about the stories behind getting the individual tatts. I have 2 tatts and each one has a reason/story behind why I got it and I'm in the thinking/deciding stage on getting a third that I've already designed.


I have 4 tatts......My first was at the age of 32.  I was recently widowed and had gone to Tennessee to visit a friend.  While there, we walked into a tatt parlor and i chose a bumble bee....I don't know why really, guess maybe it was small and in an area that no one would really see.  I was always told I couldn't get a tatt, and here I was on my own with two kids to raise....WTF, I was getting inked.
 
My second tatt is around my belly button.  Sir designed it for me and he calls it my navel nova....OMG!!!!  what an experience that was....The tattoo artist was amazing....the whole time he was doing my tatt, my stomach was pulsing with each beat of my heart.  He held steady and the tatt looks great...The sun represents my coming to the light.
 
My third tatt is of a wolf and it is located on the upper part of my left arm....It is done in blues, greens and touches of white.  A friend of Sir's and mine is a tatt artist and Sir designed him some flash in exchange for the tatt........It's my second favorite.
 
My fourth tatt, again Sir designed....it is a heart with the initials of Sir and my/our children.....It's my ACCES (ACES, I have two daughters whose names begin with the letter C) and my favorite tatt so far.
 
Sir is working on designing me a back piece of my zodiac sign (Gemini).....That will take a while, but will be worth it. 



SpankMuhButt -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 11:10:33 PM)

I have 4
my first was a moon, it is on my left ankle http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e247/playzwithfire/bmegl112683.jpg, i got this when i moved out cause my dad said as long as i was living under his roof i would not get one , so i got married, had a kid then another kid then said ok time for a tattoo, the next one i got a year later its a tribal piece on my upper back under my neck http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e247/playzwithfire/bmegl112682.jpg
3rd one was one me and two of my best friends had designed for us, its a butterfly with the chinese symbol for friendship in it, and its on my hip http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e247/playzwithfire/bmegl112679.jpg
the last one i got a few months ago, its on the inside of the leg with the moon, i wanted a sun and i picked a few different ones, my tattoo artist drew it to resemble a cartoon version of myself, my eyes, lips, cheeks and all, my friends laugh cause it resembles me alot if i was a cartoon lol http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e247/playzwithfire/bmegl112684.jpg



LadiesBladewing -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/14/2006 11:23:01 PM)

My first tat (on my left collarbone) was the year I became an Elder in our spiritual fellowship. It is a dragon, perched on an athame, and represents my primary alignment of Fire -- South, passion, healing, drive, rapid transformations, and action.

My second tat (Left shoulderblade) was year 2 of my Elderhood (each of the first 5 years of elderhood in our tradition is marked with a permanent marking on the body). It is a merman, surrounded by the ocean and ocean flora, tail wrapped about a chalice. It is the next step (for me, since my cycle starts with my primary alignment of Fire). It represents the West, dreams, intuition, emotional well-being, and slow transformations.

I am in the process of having my next 3 tats designed. I have the drawings already for my 3rd in the series (Right shoulderblade) -- an Elven queen, sitting on her oak-tree throne, holding her blooming elder-wood staff. The 4th in the series will be a griffin (Right collarbone), though I haven't planned all the elements yet, and the 5th will be our house sygil, interwoven with the Fellowship's emblem, though I haven't figured out so much as where that one will go on my body, yet.

Eventually, I hope to have a set of chains tattooed that will link all of the tats to the final one.

ZWD



NakedOnMyChain -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/15/2006 9:36:39 AM)

The one on my back isn't a very good story.  Or it's a very good story, depending on your standpoint.  I'm an old rock fan, and on my eighteenth birthday I got smashed and decided I wanted the Aerosmith logo (the pretty one with wings) tattooed on my back.  So I had it done.  I regret it now.  (That was the short version.)

As for the tattoo on my right arm, three black stars in ascending order shaped in a half-arch, it has spiritual symbolism.  I thought about getting it for years before I did.  It represents my idea of the maiden, mother, and crone in my spiritual path (eclectic Wicca).  Whenever I lose my focus or become ungrounded, I can look at my tattoo and it reminds me why I'm here, and to be the best I can be while I have time.  Eventually I'll have a matching tattoo on my other arm, but with crescent moons. 

I got my arm done at "Tats for Tots" day at New Breed-Ground Zero in West Lafayette (I got my back done there, too.  They have some great artists).  They do free (for donations) tattoos all day, with the proceeds going to Riley Children's Hospital.  You'd be surprised how much money they raked in.  I managed the coffee house two blocks away at the time, and I donated a ton of free coffee cards for them to give out, and I kept the guys well-caffeinated all day, as they were working from seven in the morning to midnight.  It was truly a great cause, and hundreds of people showed up. 



WyrdRich -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/15/2006 10:19:18 AM)

      My most recent is a bit of art from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."  I'd been hanging onto it for years with having it put on in mind and when Hunter Thompson decided to leave I had it done.  Like my other ink, it is symbolic on several levels, not only as a tribute to an author who permanently altered my view of the world but also marks a turning point in my life when I realized things had gone much too far and slipped away before someone made me explain.



fullofgrace -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/15/2006 11:27:41 AM)

i have a tattoo right by my hipbone that's a tibetan om with a pagan goddess symbol drawn around the anusvara. this represents the two primary components of my spiritual path: tibetan buddhism and goddess spirituality. i also have a phoenix in the middle of my lower back; the symbology of the phoenix rising from the ashes has always meant a lot to me. :)



sweetbbwsub31 -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/16/2006 1:56:11 AM)

I have one tat that I got in 2001. I was thinking about getting a tattoo and I knew that I wanted it to be on my left breast. It being smaller than the other ( tmi....sorry) I felt it needed some decoration. My then husband had a fit when I told him I was going to get a tat which in turn motivated me to get one even sooner LOL. I was teaching in a therepeutic elementary school at the time and after an inservice one day a group of us decided to go. 3 of us ended up getting our first tat that day and let me tell you it was a thrill for the artists to tattoo 3 teachers who were a blank canvas. They were loving it.  I chose a blue rose...but i am thinking about changing the color because i am bored with it. I also want one on my ankle but am not sure what yet.
 
sub tara



ScooterTrash -> RE: For Those With Tattoos (7/16/2006 4:33:33 AM)

I had thought about getting a tat for many years, but never did because I couldn't figure out what I would be willing to live with "forever". It wasn't until I was with my "life mate", that I had this yearning desire to turn my wanting a tat, into a reality. She needed a cover up for one of those "oops" tats on her back and we (note the "we" part) decided on a dragon. I was inked with the same dragon on my arm, nothing noble about it; it just felt right at the time.
 
Then a short time later, we decided we would make an ultimate ink commitment and we both received half of a phoenix tat on our arms, that when we put our arms together made a whole 2 headed phoenix, which pretty well symbolized our feelings, that past relationships and life events were burned but we rose from the ashes to be "one", thus making a more powerful us. The phoenix is emblazoned with a BDSM symbol and shackles that state "forever bound to" and the other's name.
 
Lastly, I wanted something original and only mine, so I cut my tat artist and friend for many years, loose, to be creative. I have an entire back spread, which is BDSM oriented and depicts the yin and yang of the world in a rather descriptive and perhaps bazaar sense. I have good and evil on opposite sides of my back, with Cerberus guarding the gates of hell in a rocky, stone and skull covered scene on one side and a bound angel who possesses the book of the dead along with spirits of the lost, on the other. All this is separated by a great crevice with a snake curling in and out throughout. Actually there is more detail than I could ever put into words and every once in a while I have more work done to it, as I doubt it will ever be really done. I've lost track of how many hours are invested in this one as it's been ongoing now for about 3 years, but it's many. I guess it symbolizes the way I see life in general I guess, very complex and never really complete....but it's mine and it's definitely original.



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