Show us Your Ink: The Cult's Official Tattooing Thread - NSFW

It reminds me of Tash, the god of the Calormenes.

It's one of the official seals of the King of Thailand, a Garuda. Being half Thai, I thought it would be appropriate for me.

Damn well executed, too. Very nice!

Thank you. I'd like to get a full sleeve but debating on this for now.

Why debate, just do it. I can't wait to see how covered I am this time net year. It's going to be funny, never being able to see that skin again, just having photos of people all over me.

I think I want another Dylan tattoo. Maybe one of him older.

Dood. Branch out. Get a big ship on ya back.

Maybe I'll get Dylan on a ship.

I do want to get a bigger tall ship than the one on my leg. I really want a piece with a ship in rough seas with a lighthouse in the distance and script in a banner that reads: There is a Light That Never Goes Out. Just not sure where to get it. Heck, I even thought about it being a back piece the other day, but only because my tattooist got her back started and it's a massive tall ship. Looks badass.

I read that post just now as you wanting the tattoo to say

There is a Light That Never Goes Out. Just not sure where to get it. Heck, I even thought about it being a back piece the other day, but only because my tattooist got her...

Then I realised, I was reading too far.

Haha!

I've been wanting to get those lyrics (it's The Smiths, for anyone that doesn't know (and anyone that doesn't know is a fool)) for a while now. It was a song that kind of hovered around me around the time when I got all mixed up in that horrible girl, that's name shall not be mentioned any longer now that it's covered in big black roses, and, you know, shit went down, I let a lot of people down that I shouldn't have. My mummy was there. Even though I pushed her away. As soon as shit got to sour to drink I picked up the phone and she was over stuffing things into garbage bags within 10 minutes. She is my light. And yeah, it'll go out one day, when she dies, but her spirit and love for me will be continuous. I want to immortalise that.

Originally I wanted to just get it in script around my elbow. A complete circle. But I'm liking the sea scene much more. It's more my style too.

Also, had a dream the other night that I got my toes and feet done. Can't wait. Already have them planned. I just need a week or so where I don't have to wear shoes, i.e my next work holidays. It's gonna hurt so good.

That is so sweet matthew. I'm not surprised it only took her ten minutes.

How sucky that you were stuck with some awful womans name on you till recently too!

Great, great song.

Also, we drove past a tattoo parlour called 'TATTOOZ FOREVER' yesterday, and all I could really think of was your Tattoos Suck piece, matt. I wanted so bad to stick an apostrophe on that sign.

Hahaha. Very cool. You totally should have.

I think it's probably my favourite Smiths song, too, Chris. Great track.

I don't have any tattoos yet. I'm waiting until my boyfriend can legally get a tattoo (I don't want to go alone). I knew years ago that I want a tattoo of an orange peel (from J.D. Salinger's short story Teddy), but I have to find a friend who can draw a decent looking orange peel.

As for tattoo fails, my boyfriend's brother got a tattoo on his side; the word "angel" is very clearly spelled incorrectly. I wish I had a picture, but getting one would be awkward.

Angle?

Mhm. It's one of those very common tattoos about the pathway to heaven being filled with angles. Or something like that.

Awesome.

Are you sure it's wrong? I've never been to heaven, but I'm certain it's a crooked path...

Quoted for truth.

That was nice. But his brother is neither that smart nor deep to come up with an excuse like that.

I saw a girl with a similar tattoo, and then on this ugly tattoos site saw several. ALL FROM 1991! What the hell is wrong with 20 year old girls?

When did I become an old man?

You know, I really love tattoos and I really want more of them but I will confess that I have the unfortunate placement of the lower back tattoo. Thankfully, it's not tribal flash with a fuckin heart in the middle or something - but I still get shit for it. There's even a Wikipedia entry about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_back_tattoo

So, I think I need to just add stuff to it to make a big back piece but I can't decide what to do to it and god forbid I manage to brand myself with another horrible cliché.

I just felt the need to announce that. Thank you, that is all.

MiggityMcWilly wrote:

I saw a girl with a similar tattoo, and then on this ugly tattoos site saw several. ALL FROM 1991! What the hell is wrong with 20 year old girls?

When did I become an old man?

I can't stop looking at her eyebrows. (And are her boobs freakishly low?)

I keep staring at her eyebrows too! And I think the boobs are just really small and being pushed down by the tube top.

I hate everything about that girl. I just wanna smash her head into a jelly.

Shitty tattoo, but I do really like the roses. Her boobs do look rather low. I'm not sure if I like female chest pieces or not. I think some look good, but, in general, most look awful and trashy, but not good-trashy, just trashy-trashy.

I kind of want to get a tramp stamp, just for a laugh. Probably will one day. A butterfly or something equally cliche.

It's unfortunate that the lower-back tattoo has developed such a negative connotation. A good tattoo, no matter its location, is still a good tattoo. Problem is that they became very popular and there are a lot of unoriginal ones.

this.

you should do this.

My friends kristen and michelle got matching unicorn tramp stamps, which I find hilarious.

This chick from American Pickers has one of the nicest chest tattoos I've seen but I can't find a good pic of it.

Is it too much to ask that I want a tattoo'd girl to lounge about my house in a kimino and a black thong all day?

I don't need her to do anything else... like living art, that I may, or may not want to sleep with.

I'm digging the whole words tattoo trend. Also, this chick that used to cut my hair (heavily tattood) had a little blue lightening bolt behind her ear and it was so cute. Hmmmmm...that can't possibly cost more than like $40-$60. Maybe I could get a little cherry blossom back there or - oh, wait. Know what? I had plastic surgery on my ears when I was kid because I had one Dumbo ear and it drove my mother crazy and now my ears don't bend. That makes things difficult.

So, words...poetry, song lyrics, an excerpt from something maybe sort of floating haphazardly above the tramp stamp which is mostly black and grey anyway.

Also, I love Freja Beha's tattoos. You can view them here:

http://www.tattoologist.com/2009/01/freja-beha.html

The only tattoos I have are words... I love the look, I love what they do for me.

I did however see a guy go overboard with it, had an entire book written down his side from neck to foot. Didn't look good at all.

Crazy.

These aren't mine but I went all stereotypical Mexican and got stuff similar to them when I was younger.

This is above my Day of the Dead tattoo

This is on my right arm with the words "Our father who art" above the hands and "in heaven" under them.

I have a cross on my back and this angel looking thing as well, but I don't have pictures of them.

audreythirteen wrote:

essga11 wrote:

I had plastic surgery on my ears when I was kid because I had one Dumbo ear and it drove my mother crazy and now my ears don't bend. That makes things difficult.

This makes me sad

Well, it is kind of sad. But you might change your mind if you saw pictures of me at a ballet recital with my hair all slicked back and my retarded Dumbo ear sticking out. It was rather misshapen, not just sticky outty. And hey...kids love it when I tell them I have fake, plastic ears and ask them to try to bend them. Their eyes get all saucer big and they look both horrified and fascinated at the same time. It makes for great entertainment at birthday parties and school functions. Sometimes I tell them that I have to take them off before I go to sleep. It's such fun.

I have two that will probablly happen this year. I want to be kind of vauge with them due to copycatters. One is going to be a massive very detailed bad ass phoenix and the other, a phrase along the lines of "if only I were refreshing".

Another board that I post to has a thread devoted entirely to awful tattoos... Which is highly entertaining to me.

HoL

KV

DFW

And, yes, I am hirsute...

I really like that "So it goes" tattoo.

Hate to be the one to break it to you, man, but a million and six people already have phoenix tattoos, so I don't think you have to be concerned with copycats, really.

>MEG, est. 1991

That's going to be really useful if she ever turns up dead somewhere.

Laz, hirsute seems to be an understatement. I love the "So it goes" one. Slaughterhouse-five, right? Where are they located on the body? legs?

*sigh* you know I never thought about that.

Sad but true
http://www.rankmytattoos.com/picture-gallery/mythical-tattoo/phoenix-tat...

Also, from earlier in the thread even

You guys are some fuckin tattoo snobs. If the tattoo is cool but unoriginal, then who gives a fuck? There are tons of people with Dylan and aztec sun tattoos but no one says anything about that. The difference is that she has her own idea for the phoenix tattoo. The idea may not be original, but the work will be. Fuck.

"So it goes" is on my left arm between my bicep and elbow and the David Foster Wallace quote is on the right arm in the same location. The House of Leaves compass is on my right forearm on the palm side. The next tattoo I'm going to get is either a screwdriver (ref. Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), the Ludovician (from Raw Shark Text... if i can figure out how to make it work...), or Carol from Where the Wild Things Are (if I feel like shaving a significant part of my chest).