tattoos Norm a_picture_of_my_mind_on_my_body 050612 ... Norm My tattooist is this wicked cool chick that I call Styles. So cool, not to mention magnificent gorgeous. Anyway, we have this deal, I gave her 10 grand to buy all her needles and ink and her gun and stuff. So as I see it whenever I want a tattoo know it's gonna be free... and as she sees it I've commisioned her to cover my entire body in ink. She has given me 4 tattoos so far, 3 smaller ones and one huge one. I'll have to find some time to describe them later. Hey and I'm always looking for inspiration for some more original artworks to permananly brand myself with. So I'd like to see some words here... So you could, like, inspire me. 050612 ... bijou i have a little red star in the pit of my elbow. and a bigger black one outlined on the back of my neck. that's all for a while. i can't be a tattoo person, even though it would be fun. i like to be able to change. 050613 ... Norm I also have a tattoo at the top middle of my back and a little bit on to my neck. I represents divinity. I couldn't use something that already belonged to some religion, so I needed something abstract. So I had Styles design it for me. Okay, imagine you drew only the top of a candle, with no sides, while looking at it from like a 30 degree angle. You would have drawn the edge furthest from you as a solid line and the one closest as a sort of broken line, right? And then there's a flame coming out of the middle of this black hollow semi circle with no wick and it goes straight up my neck. The flame is coloured in a way that I think might be impossible to explain, but I am really stoned, and it's white and blue and red. Ha, blunts. 050614 ... Lemon_Soda Sounds neat. I always have more respect and admiration for original pieces of skin work. 050614 ... Norm I also have a tattoo of a black circle on my chest opposite of where my heart is; it represents how distant I am. And below my belly button I have a tattoo of a red and black swirl and coming off of both sides are a tangle of blue thorns; it represents my, umm, drive. 050615 ... Norm I think I'll get my left arm sleeved next to represent my body. 050616 ... Lemon_Soda What are you thinking for it? 050616 ... Norm Well, it takes a long time to come up with a good idea for a tattoo. But here does seem like a good place to brainstorm. Something that goes from the wrist to the shoulder telling a story, giving an explaination. It would have to stick with the theme I've got going. Something abstract, but maybe not entirely abstract since it represents body. Black, red, blue. Some white. Lot's of red, since red represents emotion, and to me it feels like my emotion stems from my body not my mind. My love, my lust, and of course my rage; the majority of my emotions. Blood, fire. A rose? Black outines, chaotic looking, jagged, at war. Shooting upwards. Red at my wrist, blue at my shoulder. From searching to finding. Clouds, wind, white outlines at my shoulder. Blue sky. Round and smooth. Drifting down, like flowing. Something on my elbow to represent movement. A wheel, the earth? Abstract? Something to represent strength on my bicep. Metal, stone, wood? Abstract? Something to represent pain on my forearm. Thorns? Abstract? That's good for now. I need help with with movement, with strength and with pain. 050617 ... megan movement- water, smoke, fire, any element) strength- hammer and nails, wooden look, axe pain- tears, ripping flesh perhaps i am too literal 050617 ... Norm A black sihilouette of a tree without leaves, up and around my upper arm, holding up the white and blue sky on my shoulder. the roots of this tree hang down the inside of my elbow and become vines covered in thorns on the right side of my forearm. On the bottom of these black vines of thorns, at my wrist, there are red roses with black outlines. The thorns near the rose turn inwards and break my skin, and blood trickles down to my wrist and pools there forming a band around it. On the left side of my for arm a fire which looks like it's burning very intenesely, with lots of wispy flames that have thin black outlines. the flames would go higher than the roses on the vine but not all the way to my elbow. Part way up my forarm above the fire the smoke starts. Not grey but a swirly black and white which goes up to my elbow and swirls into a circle there. Okay, so we have the red wrist and blue shoulder. The red blood which represents lust, the fire which represents rage, and the roses which represent love. the black thorns on my arm that represent pain. The black smoke on elbow which represents moverment. The massive, black tree that holds up the sky, which represents strength. And finally the blue sky which represents the control I have over my body. The_story_of_my_left_arm 050619 ... Norm That's gonna be a good one. 050619 ... Norm The swirl under my belly button doesn't really represent my drive, well in a way I guess, but it's meant to represent my sexuality. 050619 ... nomme) Ötzi's 050619 ... APRicochetMVP as soon as i graduate and start making my own money, it's game on. i'm probably gonna get a few joker's cards and some juggalo stuff at first. definately gotta get my hatchet man. then i'll probably go with some celtic or tribal knots and braids for my ancestry. who knows? 050619 ... APRicochetMVP as soon as i graduate and start making my own money, it's game on. i'm probably gonna get a few joker's cards and some juggalo stuff at first. definately gotta get my hatchet man. then i'll probably go with some celtic or tribal knots and braids for my ancestry. who knows? 050619 ... APRicochetMVP once i graduate college and start making my own money, it's game on. it's gonna be on like donkey kong. i'm gotta get my hatchet man, then probably some joker's cards and/or juggalo-esq artwork. after that, i'll probably get some celtic, tribal, or native american artwork in honor of my heritage. but who knows right now? certainly not me. not yet. 050619 ... APRicochetMVP dial up internet is horrible. 050619 ... misstree there is a tree that is a bow and arrow that is both and neither that is Right the way it has been drawn on my back... but ramen-filled budgets leave no room for ink, so the small nametag at the base of my neck is all thta i have to mark my meat as my own, precious reminder through all the days that i watch my flesh as if distant stranger. we were close, once. time wears. 060508 ... raze we were talking about what things might be meaningful enough for us to make them permanent additions to our bodies. he has one small tattoo on his arm. it's his and his wife's zodiac signs, interwoven to create something that isn't a sign anymore. it's a symbol. he wants to get something more colourful, as a tribute to his kids. said he looked up at the sun one day and thought he saw an umbilical cord, and it felt like it meant something. i can't seem to ever come up with anything i'd want inked on me. but i know a girl who joked about getting a facial tattoo. i told her she should get her face tattooed on her face. it's a good face. 140510 ... unhinged warrior marks reward for a battle won reminder of the things lost 211025 what's it to you? who go blather from