To think that women with tattoos (note correct spelling)

[Kaloki]

..are wonderful.

As are women without tattoos. (Unless they are judgemental loons of course )

itsgraceagain you still rock

mnhubbie Woop!

haven't got one yet but i'm designing one as we speak

i have a japanese symbol for woman on my lower back as i am proud to be WOMAN

I have a very colourful three-quarter sleeve on my right arm of a Phoenix, with cherry blossoms and shading. It's a traditional Japanese tattoo, and it is a work in progress because we don't have anyone to look after dd while I go into our tattoo studio for dp to work on it. I love it because I love Japanese art, it's so intricate and beautiful. I love what the Japanese phoenix symbolises (the sun, fire, women, peace) and that it is associated with the Japanese dragon, which I want tattooed on my back.

I also have two little tattoos, a little flower on my middle toe and a silhouette of a galloping horse on my shoulder. Dp did them when we met first time around many years ago. The flower because I thought I was SUCH a cool hippy chick when I was 21, and the horse because I am MAD about horses and spent my teenage years mucking out stables for free and scraping together pocket money for riding lessons.

I also like traditional tattoos like swallows and gypsies and have many tattoo plans for the future!

What kind of tattoo are you designing MrsRB?

I am absolutely not a fan, though I have seen some very beautiful ones on some very funky (yet elegant) women. The trouble is though, very few people can carry them off well, or understand that less is more, and tattoos, like everything else in life, will eventually date and look naff, however careful you think you are being when you choose the design. Imagine having to have your clothes or your hairstyle PERMANENTLY stuck in a fashion timewarp from 20 years ago. And let's not even think about what they'll look like when you are 75 and wrinkly.

I don't like tattoos at all. However I think I might just get one as a show of solidarity to this thread.

one of mine is on my profile, other than that I have a braclet and a few celtic type things, all beautiful.

yabu

everyone knows that painted ladies belong in the circus

Ooh, I like 'painted ladies', sounds much prettier that 'tattoo'.

I can't have any as I am mega squeamish and won't even get my ears pierced (in fact, I squirm a bit inside when I see people playing with piercings because I'm such a wuss).

But I bet you all look lovely in them.

Mind you, I was waiting for someone on the other thread to say, 'Well, I've got a fucking elephant, so when I go wrinkly it'll look better.'

I don't like them at all but am stuck with it now...oh dear.

it has at least been half removed. So is now a kind of wishy washy old bloke tattoo instead of an obvious girly one.

ALL tattoos date, do they? What utter rot. There are timeless designs out there and frankly I look forward to being 90 with a death of Superman bleeding Superman sheild on my arm. There are naff tats and naff people out there but... Oh new Internet rule time:

The Hate Mail Law: "When a person on an Internet forum makes sweeping generalizations about whole social groups based on a small select group of examples they exclude themselves from having and further part of the discussion and shall be the subject of mockery from that point on. "

And yes I know the law is hypocritical but... Meh.

and I keep it covered at all times.

I'm not sure. Once in Sainsburys I saw a woman in a cropped top that was a couple of sizes too small for her with a tattoo across her stomach, it read SLAG. Didn't really think that was wonderful, but each to their own I guess!

So therefore all women with tattoos are the same as her?

'Well, I've got a fucking elephant, so when I go wrinkly it'll look better.'
best. tattoo. ever.

littlereddragon I love that!

Also, I want to be a painted lady, sounds excellent

petisa that sounds amazing!

ditavinteesed I can't see your profile

I have 5 tattoo's. One covers my entire left calf.

I have 3 more large works that i want done.

All women are beautifull. Anyone thinks that their personal choice of body art/fashion/body shape makes them less so is a twunt

Gigantaur - agree totally. My body, my choice, and anyone who doesn't like it can suck it up.

Wasn't going to tell my mum and dad though (what a chicken) and when I did they were dead supportive and it did lead to the infamous "bumgate" incident hee hee

I find that women with tattoos quite similar to women without tattoos apart from the fact that there is ink in their skin which was put there by a needle. Possibly in Camden.

How dare you suggest such a thing tethersend! Mine was in Maidenhead.. the random bits of metal through my skin however..

I have some cherries the upper part of my left buttock. BitofFun suggested that this meant that I was a bumsex virgin...

Thank you Kaloki

I've got a few, most are on facebook rather than on here though.

Got half a sleeve (butterflies, vines and names), calf (daffodils, reminder of nationality ), foot (stars), and two small pieces which I know will be extended on both my upper arms.

Planning another two: phoenix on my other calf, and a large back piece which is still at the design stage.