Show us Your Ink: The Cult's Official Tattooing Thread - NSFW
I have a few. And I'll have a few more in the coming weeks.
The first tattoo I ever got was a love heart on my pinky finger. I got it from a biker tattoo shop when I turned 18. Later, I got my heart broke and had a year or so of mutilating myself. I cut the tattoo right off my pinky finger one day. Just another of the stupid things I have done in my short time here. You can still see traces of ink through the thick scar on my finger.
My second tattoo, idiotically, was the name of a girlfriend. It now sits under three big-ass roses on my chest.
my next tattoo was a rose with my mother's name in a banner. It's on the inside of my left arm. I got the outline done because I had limited funds. When i went back to get it shaded the artist had moved to Melbourne, so I never ended up getting it done. But a mate of mine just started an apprenticeship a few months ago, so i'm gonna let him shade it for me this week.
next up is my most recent tattoo, my tribute to tattoos. it's on the inside of my right leg and it's still healing.
I'm booked in for this thursday, but other than getting my mum's rose shaded, i'm not sure what else i'm gonna get. I've got a few ideas, so we'll just see what happens. It's only skin, right?
And then in two weeks i'm getting a Bob Dylan portrait on my upper left arm. Here's the photo.
I plan on having traditional work mixed with realistic portraits all black and grey. And I plan on being covered by Christmas. I think I'm gonna get a portrait of Bukowski on my forearm, but I'm trying to look for a good photo.
Well, that's me done. Now show me your tattoos.
I don't have pictures of mine.
I may or may not rectify that.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I may or may not rectify that.
you will though, right?
I don't have any.
well go and get one and then post the picture in here. easy.
No, he meant he didn't have any pictures of mine either.
This is why we can't have nice things.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAhA!!!!
Life is cruel. The other day after I got my tattoos suck tattoo the next appointment was a guy coming in with his girlfriend of six months to get her name drawn into his skin. I was waiting outside for my ride and Mel, my tattooist came out and asked me to come in for a second. She told me about this guy and how her and the other tattooist there were trying to convince him not to. "This is how big of a tattoo you'll need to get to cover it" she said, showing him my roses. The poor fuck, i thought. I tried to convince him otherwise. I told him he would regret it and no matter how in love you think you are now, sometimes that shit goes away. sure, you may stay with her til the end, i said, but consider what you're doing. don't act in the heat of the honeymoon period. She was holding his hand as the other tattooist set up his gear. the other tattooist mentioned how he's been with his girl for eight years and he still wouldn't get her name on him. I tried to convince him not to, and yeah, i felt pretty rude with her standing right next to him, but fuck it, he was being dumb and she was just letting it happen because chicks dig that sort of attention.
He still got it done. I just said at least he'll have some badass roses in a couple of years time. fucking idiot. i wish i could've helped him, but he wouldn't let me, and i know that if someone was there to say that to me five years ago i would've still done it.
fucking idiots, we are.
It could be worse.
This is why we can't have nice things.
how?
you couldve chopped your arm off in the name of love.
You could get a girl's name put on, already knowing that the relationship is doomed....
This is why we can't have nice things.
well, yeah, i guess so. It's just, i think i know exactly how that guy would have been feeling, and it made me feel awful, but i also got a bit of a kick out of knowing that i'm past that. i felt free. i felt liberated. just thought i'd share it with y'all.
every now and then I still have nightmares about where that finger went next. but still, it was cool to meet a celebrity.
you are neither of those people. stop your lying.
Worst. Trek tattoo. Ever.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Posted these other places
And this is a shit copy that i have on my work box
Dont do what you want. Do what you dont want. Do the things your trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
There's another tattoo but i dont have a picture of it.
My friends boyfriend at the time gave himself a big old tattoo that read KELLI, right across his chest. She broke up with him the day he showed her.
ohh well it was a bad tattoo anyways.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
Why the skeleton penis?
First Chuck book i owned. Was young, wanted a tattoo. Wanted to get a dead fish on my ass.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
So it is on your ass!
These are my only tattoos. Old picture, I've showed it before I think. Both were spur of the moment, about a year apart from eachother. I got the lotus first and Yuk second. Mr.Yuk is sort of a personal joke, amuses the hell out of me and my close friends.
My grandma saw both of these for the first time this month and it took me about fifteen minutes to convince her they arn't fake and won't wash off.
Everyone yells at me for my socks not matching. Good to know im not alone.
And yup, that's my bumm. The artist who did it seemed a little scared.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
That's hilarious.
Mismatched socks is an ongoing, for years now, joke between me and one of my best friends. We call them Sock Puppets, or it's a Sock Puppet Day. Always prepared for anything in life, including and impromptu sock puppet show if need be.
I figure as long as they are similar length and material they match good enough.
Also, my same friend got really drunk and last year and talked another friend of hers, who is a tattoo artist, into tattooing "YOUR NAME" on her bum.
My moon fairy. I wasn't expecting it to be that big, but you get what you get once it's on your body. All in all I like it.
EDIT: Thanks to Matt for helping me figure out how to post these. I feel like maybe they should be in the dress down thread, though, now that I'm looking at them again.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
MENA! YOUR PHOTOS AREN'T SHOWING UP!
It could be that the paleness + freckle/ skin ratio of my back is too high for the cult servers to handle. 
I checked the links and they work fine. The other FB photos I posted also work fine. I don't know what to do!
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Here we go then....
I also have a Polynesian band on my leg that was done freehand in Bora Bora but I don't have any good pics of it.
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
it's just like Matrix!
Yep, I did it in one 6 hour sitting. Although it looks Matrix inspired (which did have something to do with it) I give the credit more to Salvia.
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Got some ink this past weekend. My friend hit me up...
...with a sharpie marker, and well i just really don't want to display my tramp stamp again 
I really want a tattoo on my forearm that says "Little sister" in Dutch, which would be "Kleine zusje". I want it for an obvious reason, I'm the little sister. Me being the biggest wuss alive though, I don't know if I'll ever have the guts to get it. Lame.
Here are some.
My first. Crow quill pen & india ink.
Inside left wrist.
Back of my left calf. Very hard to get a picture of. I usually forget I have this one.
Knees. I have two.
More later.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Zack, you have by far the most impressive ink in this thread. Nice work.
As for the name thing, I would never let a guy tattoo my name on his body. I'd like to think I'd never date anyone dumb enough to even want to do that. I did once date a guy who had a traditional heart and banner that read "ME"
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Yeah, well, it was a low point in my life. Thanks for the salt. You could have at least mentioned how rad my roses look. Rude and snide.
sorry, i didn't mean to insult you with that, it wasn't directed at you at all. And your roses are totally rad.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I was just playing. I'm not insulted. The whole situation is a laugh for me at this stage. It used to be a bit of a pain, but now it's just a funny story about how totally wrong decision making can go. ah, well, it's a life experience. that's the way i see it.
Got this inside of my arm Feb. 2009. It was free, free, free! Also I get asked questions by people.
That's the Black Flag thing, yeah? What does it actually mean?
how could anyone not know what that is?
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I know what it is (I think. It is the Black Flag thing, right?). I just don't get what it is referencing, or anything. I never got into Black Flag. I'm from Australia, give me a break.
Some people are 19.
I'm 24. But like I said, I never got into Black Flag. I don't get it, is that really such a bad thing? I honestly don't think they're that good.
we posted at the same time, doofus
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Henry Rollins is a genius.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Yeah, i can appreciate him. But i just haven't read, listened to much of his stuff, so i can't fully understand his genius. so what does the black lines mean? is it simply a basic black flag?
Wait, you're 24? I thought you were in your 30s or something.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
People who get band logos tattooed are just as dumb as people who get wives' names tattooed.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Wait for it...
This is why we can't have nice things.
Flipper rules. Right upper arm. Also a Mayan pictoglyph beneath that.
Left upper arm. I don't make mistakes; I walk into tragedy knowing full-well what I am doing. I have no regrets. Ever.
Left upper arm. This will remain forever incomplete. A gift from a girl now dead. In the upper left corner, you can see two Xacto/india ink tattoos as well.
Inside right forearm. Fiat Lux. In honor of another dead friend.
Left ankle. Story of my life.
First professional tattoo. Right bicep. Gotten on my birthday some 25 years ago on my way to see the Ramones.
One for the ladies.
There is at least one more I can recall that I can't get a picture of due to placement. It is in color.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I've posted these before, but I'll post them again:
Sunflowers on my hip, I got it a few years ago (2005?) taken from the children's book Outside Over There.
And a heart on my tummy. I got it done in 2000, me and some freinds were in Auckland for Big Day Out and we thought it would be a good idea to get tattoos:
I've been thinking about getting another one for a while.
I wanted a little black cat sitting on a crescent moon. But I'm not so sure now, and I don't know where I want it on my body too.