Celebration: Tattoo thread!

[HitmonSal]

After talking to people in my introduction post I figured I'd make a tattoo thread so we can all share our ink!

Here is mine! My Pokémon half sleeve is a work in progress but my T-Rex is finished! (Names welcome for the Rex)






Let's see yours :D

 

[RadEmpoleon]

I'd post my tat pics if I had tats... I've been considering getting some in the future. I'm looking for something small, maybe on my hands/wrist. For now I'll just draw something on my hand with ballpoint pens and pretend it's a tattoo

 

[Fairy]

YES I love it!! And the dinosaur tattoo too! I'd love to know the percentage of Pokémon fans are also huge dinosaur fans, haha.

Anyway, here's my Sylveon/Fairy tattoo! This picture was taken only hours after it was done so it's very swollen and red, but has since calmed into place very nicely. :)

Edit: I forgot I have a non-Pokémon tattoo as well, lol. I have a message that my dad wrote to me that is very personal. What I love is that he signed it with his full legal name for some reason and then wrote, "you know, dad" under it haha. It's very special to me.

 

[HitmonSal]

YES I love it!! And the dinosaur tattoo too! I'd love to know the percentage of Pokémon fans are also huge dinosaur fans, haha.

Anyway, here's my Sylveon/Fairy tattoo! This picture was taken only hours after it was done so it's very swollen and red, but has since calmed into place very nicely. :)

Edit: I forgot I have a non-Pokémon tattoo as well, lol. I have a message that my dad wrote to me that is very personal. What I love is that he signed it with his full legal name for some reason and then wrote, "you know, dad" under it haha. It's very special to me.

Hahah I don't know, hopefully they are more :o dinosaur lovers where u at? :o

But Omg that looks amazing! So unique! Would you get more Pokémon tattoos?

And haha awww that's so cool!! <3

 

[Fairy]

But Omg that looks amazing! So unique! Would you get more Pokémon tattoos?

Tyvm! n_n; I absolutely would and I plan on it! It's going to be quite a while before I do anything, but I've basically already planned out my entire Fairy Type sleeve lmao.

 

[Corrin]

I keloid.
But if I had normal, not torturous skin I'd get the blaiddyd crest.

 

[The Fairy Pokémon]

Oh my gosh your guys' tattoos are so cool!!

 

[Starlight]

Removed

 

[Orcaline]

Oooh very nice!!!

I've always been kinda back and forth on tattoos but I've been thinking about them a lot more recently and have drawn out a lot of smaller designs I quite like. Maybe if I get the impulse I'll get one done this year :femme2:

 

[Roni]

My WIP Punzie arm...

Not the most flattering pics and a bit blurry but they're what I have right now 😅

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oh my god i just saw this Ash. those are incredible!!

 

[Fleurdelis]

I really want to get a tattoo, but my arms are so thin that I feel like I should not do it :(

If I were to get one though id get a sleeve full of Cyber Dragons ^^"

 

[Hisuitake]

Apologies I don't have any of my tattoos right now to share with you all. I'm currently saving money to get some done plus finding a good shop and artist to do it as wel were I reside still. I plan to get not super big ones more minimalistic types, as for how many on my body not sure yet. First one will in be in honor of my dog Leo my best friend, companion and therapy dog I had for 13 years. I feel he lives on in Tac my cat somehow, so he's still always here with me.

 

[mikey]

I don't have any yet, but I definitely want some. Thinking of getting this as my first soon!

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[Venonat in Space]

Wow, all your Pokemon Tattoos are awesome. I always was against tattoos, but maybe, just maybe, if Legends Arceus wows me enough, I might get a Pokemon related tattoo (key word there is *might* and even if the game does wow me, I still might be against the tattoo).

 

[Sweet Serenity]

OMG Your tattoos look amazing, I wish to get one someday. How much do you usually spend on a tattoo?

Welcome to the forums! I agree. They are nice tats. However, this thread is pretty old and the OP hasn't been online in over a year, so you might not get a response from her.

 

[Neb]

I plan on getting a Cosmog tattoo on my upper right arm for my birthday in a few months! I just don't know where to start when it comes to finding a good tattoo artist. Ideally it would be from someone who is skilled with bright, pastel colors.

 

[forg]

Oh my, tattoos. My first tattoos will be involving my children, each one with a flower of their own, their first name making up the stem of that aforementioned flower.

And of course plenty more, but I don't want to be here all day. Things like human anatomy, simple chemistry, the one sea creature, etc. I intend to have a tattoo sleeve that leaks a bit on to my back, most in black with a tiny sprinkle of color here and there to let the smaller, more important tattoos pop out amidst the sea of black.

I swear I will post the first few tattoos here. And while I have nearly every single tattoo planned, it's the hesitation in actually getting them out of fear of the tattoo artist's skill that holds me back.

And money. It's always the money.

 

[stringzzz]

My phone camera didn't do these tattoos much justice, though they aren't too great to begin with. Aside from the curse mark, I did them myself over the years. Word of advice, kids, don't do your own tattoos! Even still, these are my favorite ones, though I have many more I won't be sharing.

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I could not get a better picture than this one for some reason. But, you guessed it, it's the curse mark from Naruto, in the same place Sasuke had his. You can't tell by the bad picture, but it says going around "Ignis Aeris Aqua Terra", which are the Latin words for "Fire Air Water Earth". Taking note of how it looked on the real one in the anime/manga, the tattoo artist designed the font to resemble Japanese kanjis.

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Ouroboros on left hand. The colors in the octagram once again represents the four classical elements. There is a keyhole in the center, because the whole thing represents to me 'Pandora's Box'. The deeper meaning is that I used alchemical symbols because Chemistry was where I found my first love of science, and that essentially opened Pandora's Box for me to explore many branches of science. It is arguably the cleanest one I've done, though it isn't without flaws.

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All-Seeing Eye of The Goddess, my higher power, on my right hand. This is my favorite one. If you notice, the colors look a bit faded in spots. After doing it, I had waited months for it to heal 100% and attempted to go over the color again. For whatever reason, the color would just not take in those spots. I would like to someday shell out the money to have a professional touch up on it.

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It is not really blurry like it looks in the picture, and yes, it is the Pi sign. I did this one on my right hand after finding my love for mathematics. Unlike the others, I used a very crude method to do it, using ink made from pencil lead and a sharpened staple for the needle, the ol' stick and poke method. Don't ask, I had my reasons for doing it that way... :P

So, just to clarify... When I had gotten into my first job, one of the first things I bought with my extra money was a whole kit that had two tattoo machines. What I really should have done was buy tons of that fake synthetic skin to practice on, but instead I had almost immediately started tattooing my own legs. Coupled with my Bi-Polar disorder, there were a lot of terrible ones done on me, that I won't be sharing. Some day, I'm either going to get many of those lasered off, or have cover-ups done on the ones that can be tattooed over. So, as I originally stated, don't do tattoos on yourself (or others!), even if you seem to know what you are doing. It's much better to hold onto a tattoo idea for a long time while you save up for it. Then, if you still like the idea, get it professionally done.

As such, I still have some untouched real estate. I have a few ideas for what I want done, including a full-on black and grey back piece, but I won't be able to afford any of that for a long time. That's good, as it gives me lots of time to really consider what I want done, as I've already changed my mind several times over the years.