TATTOOS!

Anyone got tattoos that define them? Their journey? Life meaning? I'm wanting to get a tattoo in the upper middle part of my back that defines what I've gone through/am going through physically and mentally with my illness. Something that will bring me back to reality when I'm up in the clouds. I'm really digging celtic symbols at the moment. I wonder if we can post pics of our tats on the discussion board...

FILL ME IN ON YOUR INK!

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Permalink Reply by the gaudy goddess on March 31, 2008 at 12:28pm: I have the kanji symbol for healing with a flourish design frame on the back of my neck....i'm so not the tattoo type....but I LOVE it. I got it on my two year anniversary; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sweetfightgirl on March 31, 2008 at 1:59pm: Currently I only have two butterflies swirling in a circle on my right hip but it feels a bit dated...it's about 12 years old now or more. So when I have enough healing on my skin...I had thoracic surgery a few years ago and because of all my illnesses I don't heal at all...so I have to wait but plan on adding a magnolia tree up the side starting the roots at the base of the butterfly hip and then having a couple of other small bflies added as well as a major cocoon with one bursting out representing my rebirth, several times through my illnesses and my final one with the big cocoon...no more illness one day!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dharma on March 31, 2008 at 3:04pm: I really want to get a tattoo with butterflies. I think they represent so many powerful things. I just don't know what or where to put it UUGGHH! any suggestions?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sweetfightgirl on April 1, 2008 at 11:20am: For a first tattoo you have to be comfy with where you put it and the yes, still angst against us tattoo lovers out there. I put mine on my hip to hide it from my mom but also so I could be corporate if need be and kind of as a personal secret to myself to try and be beautiful and graceful like butterflies are since I am so not graceful...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Brenda Keller on March 31, 2008 at 3:29pm: I have the word Hope in Hebrew on my inner left wrist. never regretted getting it. LOVE having one that I can look down and see hope when I need it!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tad on May 6, 2008 at 2:07pm

Hello, fellow ass-kickin cancer survivin' tattoo (or soon to be) sportin' hotties! I NEVER dreamed I would get a tattoo. All my friends have tattoos - some from their heads to the their feet. It wasn't until I made it through the Lymphoma and they removed my PICC line that I realized, "I finally have a PHYSICAL PLACE that was meaningful to me that I want to remember with a tattoo". So I began drawing my ideas on my kitchen chalk board, my husband helped me to refine it, photographed it, took it to the artist (the utterly BRILLIANT JILL JORDAN) and she made it into the final image - which is a cross between the yin-yang and Pisces symbol done with a New Zealand Native Maori style. The central DOT was the insertion point for my PICC line. I am in love with the image. Which is a good thing, because it's staring at me every day when I wake up and it smiles at me all day long. I embedded a gleaming smiling face in the body of one of the fishes (first photo) to remind me to keep on smiling, always, even through the harsh times, there is something good to be found in life. That's my tattoo story. -Tad

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Permalink Reply by Chris in Wyoming on May 6, 2008 at 3:52pm: Fantastic and congratulations!
Beautiful art and story.
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Permalink Reply by Nephradite on September 30, 2008 at 11:33pm: Tad,

That is truly one of the most beautiful tattoos I have ever seen. Remarkable really.
Hope you don't mind if I use it for a little inspiration.

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Permalink Reply by Tad on May 10, 2008 at 10:43pm: As for being too fair. I'm as white as a filet of fish. I think you have to look at a LOT of tattoos before doing it. And really think long and hard about what you want. When all my friends were getting them, I would say that I NEVER would unless it was a monumental event in my life that I wanted to commemorate. That came with the cancer. Also, there are so many options now. Just look around your city and see who is doing what. Don't be afraid to ask strangers where they got their tattoo (You'll find that most people with tattoos usually enjoy talking about it) and exactly which artist did it, was it a good experience or not - especially if you like the piece. Don't rush it. You'll be happy later. I'm ecstatic with the way mine turned out for all of the above reasons. Also, if anyone wants to connect with my artist Jill Jordan (in Los Angeles) I will be happy to give you her number. I will NEVER let anyone else touch me after working with her.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by marla on May 21, 2008 at 11:46pm: hey tad, your tattoo is awesome - i'm in los angeles and i would love jill jordan's number. i have a nice butterfly and i need another (they told me once i started i'd want more. . .), as a tribute to my survival, but the guy who did mine is in japan now.
thanks,
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Permalink Reply by Tina! on May 20, 2008 at 7:37pm: me too!!

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Permalink Reply by Callie on May 8, 2008 at 12:21pm: Oh I want a tatoo so bad.. but I am scared to go into the shop.. hahaha then what would I have.. oh i love you all you are so fearless.. duncan has tatoos.. he and his squad would tatoo themselves after each mission with a feather.. they did it themselves of course and they are gorgeous feathers in different places but it scared me to death that these men sat around with a need a some ink and tatooed themselves.. it was a right of passage thing.. it is so intricate and beautiful I do however tell him they look like carrots and not feathers just to pester him to know end.. dont tell him I said differnt.. they are lovely.. ha.. got to give him a hard time. I would love to have a tatoo.. I am jealous.. we are going to have to work on this.. i love gooneys... and leenda I know they are precious.. every is so cool.. I am jealous.. hgus. callie; ▶ Reply to This