Hey there guys, these new forum settings sure are neat.
 
This is a topic for sharing your tattoos and for also sharing pics of cool tattoos and also for if you want to help me design my first tattoo.
 
I'd like something to do with Aztec/Mayan stuff or a Hamsa design I think. But I can't find anything cool online really. 
 
Would you like to help me design one? I'd like one in the Hamsa shape, possibly with the hebrew letters for Chai in there somewhere. Here's what Chai looks like: http://www.google.ca/search?q=chai&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:%7Breferrer:source%3F%7D&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7ACEW_enCA363&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=w58FUdDxGoGg0QXIoICYBQ&biw=1366&bih=667&sei=yp8FUYylNOiU0QXhkYHoCQ#um=1&hl=en&tbo=d&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:%7Breferrer:source%3F%7D&rlz=1I7ACEW_enCA363&tbm=isch&q=chai+symbol&revid=1079061455&sa=X&ei=zJ8FUZuFPOXU0QXhmID4CA&ved=0CFsQgxY&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41524429,d.d2k&fp=8121301c100bb0ac&biw=1366&bih=667
 
Also here's what a Hamsa is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa
 
so what you waitin for suckas? talk about your tatts. do you have a detailed scene depicting cloud strife and barrett making passionate love with red x111 on your back?

i want to tattoo my whole skin with every level of Super Mario World, including locations of sprite generators/door destinations. i am willing to get frames of skin mounted onto my limbs and back to supply additional fleshy "real estate". anyone know where I can make this happen?? tia.
 
PS my only requirement is that " Top Secret Area " be placed directly on my dick and balls. we can talk arrangement of the remaining maps later, but i will not reconsider this.

I probably would not get a tattoo due to myriad of reasons. But I have nothing against those that get them.
 
Though I don't usually find them appealing aesthetically unless they 'suit' a persons general look. IDK how to identify this I'll admit. But some people look good with them and some look good without them.

Personal I think getting tattoos of pop culture items is a little tacky to me, because it dates you as a person, and I feel like if you define yourself through something that is pop culture or entertainment related, then you aren't really well defined as a person.   Feel free to disagree or argue against this point.

 
I understand where you are coming from, but I also think you are generalizing about the person. Some people may just define part of themselves through popular culture and decide that part is important enough or fun enough to be worthy of a tattoo. That has nothing to do with being a fully realized human being. If your entire existance is about pop culture sure, but getting a tattoo doesn't automaticially mean it is the only thing in the world that is important to you.

I knew a pretty awesome guy with a Captain America tattoo on his arm.

IDK MTG is fairly popular... at least in TCG circles.
 
One of the MTG color symbols would make a pretty cool tattoo though.

I think trying to get a tattoo that's completely timeless is probably impossible. if you think of a tattoo as a way to represent who you are at a specific point in time, it will work out a lot better. When you look at them, you'll remember the times surrounding when  you got the tattoo. If you keep tattoos within the T-Shirt region they rarely become an issue. 
 
BTW, I have 7 tattoos, all on my arms. 2 of them are fantastic and I still love them years later. Two of them, while I don't necessarily regret getting them, are a little annoying because people always ask what they mean and it's a little tiresome explaining them. Two of them are musical (bass and treble clef) that I really dig, and they're kinda small although very visible, but they are sort of "timeless" in that I'll never be like "ugh, music sucks why did i ever get these?!?!". The last one (which was my first) is cool because my brother and I have the same one, I drew it myself, and it's just a super personal thing between me and my closest friends. But that one also gets tiresome to explain because there's not much to explain about it.
 
I love tattoos and I think everyone who's even marginally interested should get one. It's a really novel experience. My first big tattoo took like 2 1/2 hours, it was crazy. The adrenaline after you're done is out of this world. It's almost a meditative experience. It's awesome. But my two big, colored tattoos are done by the same artist near my house, and he's really talented, and I'm eventually working my way up to a half-sleeve, which is basically from my shoulder to just above my elbow, meaning it's easily covered by a t-shirt but still big enough to really have a "story" if you will. I take a long time deciding what to get, most of my tattoos are at least a year apart, sometimes two. My two big, colored ones are on my upper arm, and I plan on getting 1, maybe 2 other large things, and then filling in the areas between them to fill out the sleeve. My plan is to design the other element or two myself, and then let the artist freehand something between it all. 

Hey GR, you should put some pics up so we can see them!

Ok sure. I don't have any great pics but...
 
Here my lotus. It looks pretty great in real life, it's all really crisp and clean and the colors look amazing. On this one you can my first tattoo (the on my brother has as well, in the same place but on the other arm). It just says "OMNI". It's just kind of an inside thing with my friends and I. The origin of it started with two specific friends and I, and it's written with our zodiac signs (Leo, Aquarius and Gemini). It just happens that if you put them next to each other it kinds looks like "OMNI" and we thought it was neat. 
 

 
And here my sun. I like this one a lot, I've always liked sun imagery and especially the sun/moon with faces on them. I have some cool sheets/pillowcases with the sun/moon faces on them. I might actually get a moonface on this arm too... now that i think about it.
 

 
These pictures don't do them much justice, because they are very vibrant and crisp in real life. 

Those are pretty sweet gr! That sun does look rad , thanks for sharing.

Those are pretty sweet gr! That sun does look rad , thanks for sharing.