Well, I've only seen healthy ones -- and they do look like orchids about the labia minora parts, so Bob Heinlein and I agree there -- taco-shaped orchids.

I have a tat, I love it and plan on getting another. My wife has one, fairly large on her lower back that goes from hip to hip. She just had all the colors touched up. We keep ours in places that we can show them if we want to and hide them if we want to. To each his own.

Wow Cloud, really nice tatoo. The colors look very good. Did you have them touched up or are they recent? I thought tatoos faded over time.

BTW, how was it a 4 hour drive up and only 2 hours back. Is NM traffic that bad?

I have a video tape, around here somewhere, made by some women twenty odd years ago. It shows a couple women in bathing suits, both tattooed, one heavily, walking down a New Jersey beach. The camera trailed a discrete distance behind and captured the reactions of people, sitting on the beach, after the girls passed.

Much negativity. The tattooed women, who also produced this video, claim the difference between tattooed people and plain people, is that tattooed people don't care if plain people don't have tattoos.

I think that's a reflection of society in general. I don't want to have fun, I just want to make sure you don't.:rolleyes:

Thank you! No touch ups. Tattoos will fade in the sun--always use sunscreen!

Sorry--4 hours up; 2 hours under the needle; 4 hours back down. Sometimes I'd go overnight, though.

Yes I can see you as the Mona Lisa! Well a mod hip version. The person posing for the Mona Lisa was probably made to endure a portrait and the grin was for all the fun she would have when done.


Not true! Now get back here! You are missed!

Got em... love em.

it's against my religion so the whole bodyart thing is out the window for me.

This is my newest, and my biggest. It's on my ankle.

now that is very nice. I like the blue, the design's unusual, as well as the shading work. Congrats!

I have a tatoo. It's visable. I would remove it and replace it with something that couldn't be seen while wearing clothes.



I would never post my own on the web but I like this one.

oh and the anime is nice too.

I don't have any tattoo and I probably won't ever get any. But I love watching Miami Ink and I don't care if people have tattoos. When they're done with good vision and craftmanship, they add a certain je ne sait qua to the body.

Just got my first. Right shoulder blade, very small type.

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._7218562_n.jpg

It means "Peace" in Chinese. I figure peace is a value I can support permanently.

Well thought out. Someone close to me is trying to figure out how to cover up her old boyfriend...

OK. I did not know that this thread existed, but I have 2 tattoos. I described the first on my website: http://www.actwin.com/kalostrader/Tattoo.html

The second is of a phoenix on my right shoulder. Ancient mythical beast which was taken over by Christianity as a symbol of the resurrection.

I have designs for a dragon on one shoulder and a flying horse on the other, but have not implemented those yet.

Anyway, I think that well designed tattoos are great!