New Tattoo- Stage 1!

As I've stated somewhere on here before, I'm not a great fan of tats, but yours is a bit different from the norm. One reason I'm not keen on them is that, no matter what colours are in them, blue always seems to predominate. Yours looks more like true colour and the design is quite clean and bold. I quite like it, but have to say that you must be a glutton for punishment to have all those needles stuck in you. You must have a very high threshold of pain. Ouch!

Wow, that's big! Nice though, and I'm glad you found someone who is good and you trust to do it for you - wouldn't have fancied getting something that big wrong

I went into a tattoo shop a few months back and the guy there was fantastic, really instilled confidence and wasn't pushy at all. I'm thinking of designing my own tattoo and he gave me some advice and ideas. I don't want anything anywhere near that big, but I was thinking of something incorporating my kids names (although I have 4 of them, fortunately none of their names are more than 7 letters long, otherwise I'd need arms like Mr Tickle to fit them all on ) and maybe a Maori design that has a particular meaning to it.

I'll post my pics if I ever pluck up the courage to go for it

I think it is easier to find a good tattooist here in NZ than in the UK and they don't cost anywhere near as much as a good one in the UK.

If you didn't want one so big Lisa you could always just use their initials.

After his performance on my Yellow Bear in Borneo thread, I'm surprised Taffy hasn't offered his services with a hammer, darning needle and a pack of felt pens.

Ummmmmmmmm

MB, kinda sounds like how my sister gave herself a tat in middle school - needle and ball point pen ink. Later she tried to get rid of it by giving herself an eraser burn. She might have gotten smarter by now.

Beth, I don't think I could stand the tattoo needles on my sides like that - I'd be jumping out of my skin. I'm not sure if I'll get a second tattoo. It took me 15 years to decide on the first one. I wish I'd used my original drawing rather than let the tattoo artist redraw it. I still like it, but it's not quite as I wanted it.

The worst part of this one was where it comes round to the side but at my waist- where the tribal bit comes out the top of the bottom flower. No not sure how much of that was to do with the fact I have qute a deep stretch mark (thanks girls) right there.

It has all bruised quite badly now too- espeschially the bottom one.

Cor B, that's impressive! I was planning to have a tat for my 40th, but I couldn't find a design I liked enough to wear forever. I don't think I would suit dragons, skulls or naked ladies and not sure I would trust myself to get the spelling right if I chose one of those trendy arabic/chinese/korean hieroglyphs.

There's a nice design at the top left of this page you could use, sort of a globe-like one

Just don't have it done on your bum please - it wouldn't be a good image for our website