I'm having some tattoo angst these days. Mainly, I want a new one, and my preferred artist is unavailable. I'm quite reluctant to go to someone else for it, which I realize directly results in the creation of my own angst, but there you go. I want THIS PERSON and no one else will do.
So instead of getting my own ink, I spent hours looking at other people's. Do you like a man with tattoos? Some of my characters have them, but they usually tend to be small and not in a readily visible area. I do like a well-done sleeve on a guy, though. Check these pictures out and see what I've been drooling over.
That almost cured my tattoo angst. (Almost.) Happy Sunday, everybody.
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I am of two minds about the tattoo issue. On the one hand, it can be distracting sometimes...On the other hand, somehow I managed to fall in love with a big ol' tattooed type. He's added half a dozen over the nearly dozen years we've been together, and I've still got mixed feelings about them (although that may be more for the subject matter than anything else -- he's into tanks, so they feature prominently, and I'm just... not so much.)
He's trying to talk me into one of my own, but I'm a complete weenie about needles and pain and permanent marks on my body ('cause I have a changeable mind sometimes...)
Hey Tracy, sorry so late with this! I completely understand your unwillingness to commit to ink on your body. Even though I love all of mine, I still have that moment of "oh shit" when I hear the machine start to buzz.
As far as the pain goes, it really depends where on your body you decide to get it. A tattoo needle is so sharp that you don't feel the actual pricking. It's more of a dull pain, like someone rubbing on a sunburn. I promise it's not that bad! ;)
ummmm...yeah, I have enough sunburns to not want to go looking for that feeling!!! And, lucky me, I'm extra-sensitive to pain, plus having a random selection of contact-allergies; with my luck I'd end up being allergic to the ink.
But I'm thinking about it anyway. The DH is being *surprisingly* reticent about the whole subject; he's let me know he thinks it would be awesome but he's not pushing at ALL. Which is totally out of character for him. :D
But I have this lovely copper cuff that I can no longer wear with stylized lizards imprinted all over it, and I've thought a bit about getting a ring of the same lizards around...some body part.
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