Tattoo - what's your story?

[Stalker62]

Again post prompted by another thread this morning.

Tattoos. Do you have any? If so what is the story (images may be included if legal and decent!)? Even if they are terrible, send them in and give everyone else a smile.

My daughter refers to them (in relation to women) as "Tramp Stamps".

I had one done, and that was in Australia in 2003 (Rugby World Cup - need I say more), so a mid-life crisis and too much beer.

The only reason (I promise) that I have a photograph of it, is because my old Firm made it a condition of service, that those with tattoos submit photographs of them in order that they could check it was not racist/sexist/offensive etc. Obviously photographs and skin were were them compared at the medical. Happily, mine is on my shoulder!

I do remember a Gunsmith from Hertfordshire who had to "sleeves" done by a chap from Watford; and they were beautiful - scenes of Woodcock, Deer, Pheasant etc - absolute works of art.

Mine is simply the family crest. What's yours?

 

[topscots1]

I have seven I think two sleeves one the standard koi carp. One a memorial sleeve to the fallen. I did have a tribute to Recent operations on my back. However it was decided at a job application stage that tattoos of British soldiers may be offensive. Unfortunately it had to go. A few others dragon across my chest. And some cover up work on my back in the shape of an eagle.

I have always been a fan of tattoos some of the most decent people I know are covered in them.

And some of the worst characters I have came across despise them.

Everyone’s an individual each to their own.

 

[starr shot]

Mate of mine has fox hunting scene on his back with the tail of the fox coming out of his ar*e.No I won’t take a picture to show

 

[Stalker62]

Mate of mine has fox hunting scene on his back with the tail of the fox coming out of his ar*e.No I won’t take a picture to show

I saw a chap who had that same scene - not only was it funny it was beautifully done.

 

[Stalker62]

However it was decided at a job application stage that tattoos of British soldiers may be offensive.

Not to any right minded individual it isn't

 

[Kjf]

I've got odins raven on my left shoulder and chest, a wolf on my left upper arm and a celtic cross with axes and a raven in clouds with lightening etc on my right upper arm and shoulder, ill post a pic later , I'm lucky my brother is a tattooist , gonna get the below done as soon as hes got time to do it , on my rhs chest n top shoulder,

 

[Stalker62]

When I was a young lad, I remember seeing a young man walking towards me in the street.
His face was covered in a spider's web tattoo and had a spider off to one side of his face. Often wondered who did that to him and what became of him...

 

[biffo]

when you’re a kid and loved Postman Pat, he would have been all over your room, but things move on, people mature, tastes change.
why have the equivalent of Postman Pat on your body for the rest of your days ???
Just my opinion.

 

[T.eddie]

I have a few, a sleeve on my right arm that is about 3/4 finished on the forearm is the "4 horseman of the apocalypse" on my bicep is a "stairway to heaven with some doves" have been meaning to get the tricep and outside of my arm done but just haven't got round to it as of yet

on my back I have a "cross"
on my hip I have an "X" with the phrase "loyalty & brotherhood" in Latin (this was a group tattoo)

no crazy or funny stories on here, I liked the idea of religious tattoo's for the stories they are about more than for any religious benefit to myself and found that can be done to look really quite amazing

 

[T.eddie]

when you’re a kid and loved Postman Pat, he would have been all over your room, but things move on, people mature, tastes change.
why have the equivalent of Postman Pat on your body for the rest of your days ???
Just my opinion.

you can always have it removed, my brother had to get one removed off the back of his neck as it came just above the collar prior to joining the army

 

[Stalker62]

you can always have it removed, my brother had to get one removed off the back of his neck as it came just above the collar prior to joining the army

A colleague of mine (ex-Army) got to the stage in his life where he decided to have one of his removed.
It was done by laser in two sessions - chequer board effect - in squares, so one session white squares and the next the black squares.

He described it at the most painful thing he had ever undergone.

 

[sh1kar]

I saw a chap who had that same scene - not only was it funny it was beautifully done.

I also knew a guy with that scene. The huntsman in their pink coats up his neck and the horses leaping a hedge over his shoulders was a work of art. Hounds streaming down his back. I never saw the brush disappearing thankfully. He had it done in HMP Walton over several terms
S

 

[T.eddie]

A colleague of mine (ex-Army) got to the stage in his life where he decided to have one of his removed.
It was done by laser in two sessions - chequer board effect - in squares, so one session white squares and the next the black squares.

He described it at the most painful thing he had ever undergone.

yeah I don't think my brother overly enjoyed it! but you wouldn't think there was ever a tattoo there in the first place now

 

[sh1kar]

My sister was a professional clarinetist. Played for several orchestras. She has the opening bars of Mozart’s clarinet concerto tattooed on her hip
S

 

[Kalahari]

I personally think they are horrible. As someone who moons ago did a certain amount of medical photography and stuff they look awful as people put on weight/lose weight or their skin loses its elasticity. Also I think that if you pay to put them on you should pay to take them off. Lots of people with tattoo remorse seem to think the NHS should do it at no personal cost!

David.

 

[Stalker62]

My sister was a professional clarinetist. Played for several orchestras. She has the opening bars of Mozart’s clarinet concerto tattooed on her hip

That just may be the classiest thing that I have read this year...

 

[jimmy milnes]

I have only one it is a representation of my ancestry starting as a spiral design on my buttock a spreads over my hip an down my right thigh. I had it done by a maori in NZ and I sat telling him about my life thus far for neck end of an hour before he started to draw an explain all the representation meaning, 8hrs later he finished an then told me I was now family an should I ever return to the land of the long cloud I must stay with them.
He only agreed to do me a "Pakeha" on the say so of a man who was a very good friend over there.
I truly am blessed to ware it with pride..

 

[Stalker62]

... they look awful as people put on weight/lose weight or their skin loses its elasticity...

I remember being on a beach in Australia when it seemed all the beautiful girls has double mermaids or double porpoises on the small of their backs.

Whilst they did love wonderful then, I often wondered what fish they would look like twenty years later...

 

[Stalker62]

He only agreed to do me a "Pakeha" on the say so of a man who was a very good friend over there.

Had to Google that:-

Pakeha
[ˈpɑːkɪhɑː]

NOUN
NEW ZEALAND

1. a white New Zealander as opposed to a Maori person.

 

[Fosbery Holster]

I have on each buttock a capital W and when l bend over naked it spells out.....?