tattoo

smaj611 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-28-2007, 07:29 PM

I am turning 18 in a month and want to get a tattoo to celebrate. i want something diabetes relayed along with maybe strength or endurance or something like that but i have no clue what i should get. any ideas?

LancetChick · #2 (**permalink**) 02-28-2007, 09:51 PM

Well, most of the products we use border on hokey when talking about art (I really shouldn't say that, since a good artistic mind could probably make a classy tattoo out of any image). In case a creative mind fails to emerge, though, numbers blend pretty well with other images. A blood sugar level you base all your efforts on achieving, for example, to represent the diabetic aspect. I dunno..... ladders and mountains, to throw a few thoughts out there. ****, maybe you should search out an art or tattoo art message board, if they exist.

labob · #3 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 12:54 AM

As someone who has a tattoo, let me say this: if you don't know exactly what you want, don't get one. Definitely not now and maybe not ever. You have your whole life to decide whether to get a tattoo and what it should be. There is no good reason to get one on some arbitrary date, especially before you know with certainty what you want your skin to say for the rest of your life.

Having said that, I pretty much like my tattoo. But I knew what I wanted. And I was much older than you are when I got it.

Cyborg · #4 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 01:20 AM

IMO, I think tattoos are disgusting on a women.

The only exception for me, would be with a "wild" woman that has a tattoo on her tail bone (or in that proximity)...

After all, I do live within 30 minutes of Daytona (Bike Week).

pinkytricia · #5 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 03:18 AM

Hi ya Sara Welcome to the forum...

I personally would really search this out, you will be having this for the rest of your life... Also keep in mind your future profession....At my job we have to have everything covered up, bandaged ,or band-aids, etc....

Also different areas are more sensitive than others... Spine area, Sternum area, ankles.... The futher you are way from the arms the more painful it is ...is what I heard ( lol... )..

Some tattoo places let you watch them while they work.....Do your research...Make sure they wash their hands, wear gloves. In Texas they are suppose to open the package with the new needle in front of you. If they don't walk out ....

Hubby suggests you buy and wash with antibacterial foam hand soap, pat dry and put Lubriderm lotion Normal to dry~ on and stay out of the sun and water (swimming pool) until you are healed ...( after you are healed use sun-block they look so much better when you do this..)

I hope you have bought some tattoo magazines or even bought a book of the certain thing that you want
Good luck Becareful.... Oh yeah forgot look at Tricia452008 tattoo the other Tricia

LancetChick · #6 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Cyborg

IMO, I think tattoos are disgusting on a women.

Yes, but if she were swathed in a burqa and stayed obediently in her tent, you'd hardly notice. Good grief, I haven't heard tattoos on women frowned on since the 70's, and that was by old geezers.

princesslinda · #7 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 07:38 AM

I work part-time at a dermatology practice as well as my regular job. We do laser tattoo removals and it's amazing how many women are coming in to have them removed 5-10 years after having them. This is expensive and painful and often leaves scars. Make sure you will want to keep it before you have it done would be my advice. Perhaps try one of the temporary tattoos first and see if you enjoy it like you think you will.

poper77 · #8 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 07:40 AM

As someone with 3 tatoos, I would strongly suggest you really love it. I was 18 when I got my first tatoo on the inside of my ankle. I loved it at the time, but not so much now that I am 29. A couple years later I got a small tatoo on the small of my back which I still love. The third is on my lower stomach and no one sees that one except my husband

I still like that one too. But if I had to do them over again, I would have only gotten the one on my back....

Jill-O · #9 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 07:40 AM

I can't say I'm a fan of tattoos, especially on women, but that advice about making sure you know what you want, exactly what you want, before you get it done makes a lot of sense to me!

Sometimes I think some women spend more time picking out a wedding dress than the tattoo that they will be wearing for the rest of their lives!

DeusXM · #10 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 08:37 AM

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Yes, but if she were swathed in a burqa and stayed obediently in her tent, you'd hardly notice. Good grief, I haven't heard tattoos on women frowned on since the 70's, and that was by old geezers.

Oh come on, that's a **** of a leap of logic. 'You don't like tattoos on women, ergo you think women should be treated as second-class citizens'. Come on, next thing you'll be telling me that all vegetarians are Nazis just because Hitler was a veggie.

andypoo · #11 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Cyborg

IMO, I think tattoos are disgusting on a women.

The only exception for me, would be with a "wild" woman that has a tattoo on her tail bone (or in that proximity)...

After all, I do live within 30 minutes of Daytona (Bike Week).

Do you think tattoos are disgusting on men? Be careful how you answer this,unless it's totally honest. This could be a loaded question. And why would a woman need a tattoo on her er...taibone?

andypoo · #12 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by smaj611

I am turning 18 in a month and want to get a tattoo to celebrate. i want something diabetes relayed along with maybe strength or endurance or something like that but i have no clue what i should get. any ideas?

There's a whole bunch of discussion on here about tattoos,just search for tattoos ,I've seen some really neat ones.

LancetChick · #13 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by DeusXM

Oh come on, that's a **** of a leap of logic. 'You don't like tattoos on women, ergo you think women should be treated as second-class citizens'. Come on, next thing you'll be telling me that all vegetarians are Nazis just because Hitler was a veggie.

That was said tongue-in-cheek, but it wouldn't have been said at all if he had just said that he didn't like tattoos period, without any reference to women in particular.

Stuboy · #14 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 11:26 AM

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Yes, but if she were swathed in a burqa and stayed obediently in her tent, you'd hardly notice. Good grief, I haven't heard tattoos on women frowned on since the 70's, and that was by old geezers.

I think he was refering to the fact that he doesn't find them attractive? Sinse being male, and probably not a homosexual, he's probably not fussed either way about guys having tatoo's, but maybe doesn't find a tatoo on a woman an attractive feature. There's no need to jump down his throat about it, everyone has an opinion and everyone has a right to express that... Personally i agree with him. (not that it would change how i feel about my partner if she got one now).

Just my two pence worth!

Back to the topic though, I think what others have said here is good advise, do lots of research and dont rush into any decisions on a design unless you're 100% happy with it.

trailrunner · #15 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by smaj611

I am turning 18 in a month and want to get a tattoo to celebrate. i want something diabetes relayed along with maybe strength or endurance or something like that but i have no clue what i should get. any ideas?

I have the japanese symbol for strength on my mid back. I love it! Two inches or so.