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Show off your tattoos and what they mean to you.

smigon

smigon

Old enough to know better
My first ones are for my cousin Chris who died 11 years after a skiing accident left him in a shell of a body that needed to release him. His nickname was "Redman" so I got the Japanese Kanji symbol for "man" done in red ink, therefore I got a "Redman"!

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The next one I got was for my college roommate who died from bile duct cancer, her Kanji is for "beautiful spirit", because she was.

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All right, only 5 pics per post allowed.

These arm tattoos were for, in order, blue hibiscus because Jim and I got married in the Virgin Islands and they were everywhere. The Kanji means "true love", you NEVER get a name tattooed on you! The lotus flowers is with Kanji meaning "treasured loved ones".

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My other arm is for my parents and sister, which is what the Kanji means, "little sister" and "parents".

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Now, share all of yours!
 
I have no tattoos. A handful of ideas and designs, but not enough money for any of them. So I'll just list what I wish I could get.

1. 0xc0ffee with a coffee molecule above it - Standard hexadecimal computer engineering/programmer geekiness... That just happens to spell Coffee, which I drink like water. Literally, 5-15 pots a day, it's the only liquid I drink.

2. A barcode on my neck - More specifically an old barcode from one of those .25 packs of gum. That way I can literally say I'm a "two bit whore".

3. An armband/half sleeve of binary - Sadly I never could figure out what I wanted it to say, so it never happened. I just always figured a half sleeve of 1s and 0s could only be awesome.

4. And lastly, one that came to me in a dream. Partially inspired by and based on George Clooney's tattoo in From Dusk Till Dawn. It was going to be an Asian dragon that started on my pec/shoulder and spiraled along with the smoke from it's nostrils down around my arm all the way to my wrist/hand. The smoke and dragon are symbolic of my opium smoking days, a habit commonly referred to as "chasing the dragon".

I think that's about all the major ones I really want/wish I could get.
 
Awesome Tats smigon.

Well this is bad smigon. I love tattoos on a girl and I have a foot thing, so combine the two and that makes trouble TMI? Oh well. LOL

I really cant show all of mine as I have way too many but here's is a very special one. This one I am most proud of.

I think it speaks for itself but why is this one really this special?
When I was diagnosed with Stage T4 Esophageal Cancer I was told that I had less that 15% chance to survive, well 3 years later, I have had my Esophagus and Stomach removed but I'm here and I'm clean !!!!

The positive side, with my new and improved insides came a new leaner me, I love my new slim body. LOL

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I'm too scared of needles to get a tattoo, though I want a wolf paw print on my back. The print would be from one of the first wolves I made a connection with here at work.
 
I just got my first tattoo this past summer. I'm already thinking about a second.

I can't go into too much detail but basically life has been tough and I feel I have earned my wings so to speak. I'm also a dragon ;) I did the design myself. I wanted something simple and all black.

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AliCat37 said:
I'm too scared of needles to get a tattoo, though I want a wolf paw print on my back. The print would be from one of the first wolves I made a connection with here at work.
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Do it, need someone to come hold your hand? Its not that bad.
 
HVani said:
I just got my first tattoo this past summer. I'm already thinking about a second.

I can't go into too much detail but basically life has been tough and I feel I have earned my wings so to speak. I'm also a dragon ;) I did the design myself. I wanted something simple and all black.

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very nice HVani
 
I just have a simple sun/moon black design on the back of my neck. But I'm not coordinated enough to get a good photo of it haha. It's merely part of my love for astronomy. I'm not sure if I want another tattoo or not, my main problem being I can't think of anything I'd want. I know people who have tattoos of molecule configurations, of molecules they've extensively worked with in lab, to get their phd and such. I think that would make an awesome tattoo.
 
I love tattoos. These are some of my favorite designs. Not that I would use any of them. I prefer to make my own.

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Frogman, congrats on your cancer clean bill of health! That's awesome! I may let you touch my snowflakes sometime... what have you got to trade? ;-)

Hvani, nice wings. Clean and simple, perfect.
 
My dream tattoo (although I am running out of viable real estate that they can be shown on) is a bare tree dome by Corey Miller of 6 Feet Under in Upton, CA. I want a mockingbird in the tree and the words

"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird"
-Atticus Finch

under it. Favorite book and movie of all time.
 
I don't have much room for anything else either but I would love to do something with snakes on my left shoulder/back area. My step son owns a Tattoo Shop in Ohio, might be time to go visit him.
 
TheFrogman said:
When I was diagnosed with Stage T4 Esophageal Cancer I was told that I had less that 15% chance to survive, well 3 years later, I have had my Esophagus and Stomach removed but I'm here and I'm clean !!!!
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I'm very familiar with that surgery- I'm an x-ray tech, supervisor of fluoroscopy, so expert in imaging the digestive and urogenital systems. Glad you're still here with us!
 
Nanci said:
I'm very familiar with that surgery- I'm an x-ray tech, supervisor of fluoroscopy, so expert in imaging the digestive and urogenital systems. Glad you're still here with us!
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Well thank you, I love Nurses and Techs, I have a story for you that I will PM you.
 
TheFrogman said:
I don't have much room for anything else either but I would love to do something with snakes on my left shoulder/back area. My step son owns a Tattoo Shop in Ohio, might be time to go visit him.
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Is he good?? I want a tattoo. I know almost exactly what I want. I saw it in the other tattoo thread- krene's snake/flower tatt on her ankle/foot, only with Gartersnake. She actually e-mailed me the drawing and permission to use it. My problem is money! I almost thought I could afford it last payday, after working 40 days straight, but then had some unexpected vet expenses...

I live in Gainesville, but visit in Ohio all the time, so I was looking at shops up here, too. The artist HAS TO be able to do perfectly realistic, though.

But- it has to wait, again...
 
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