Topic: Tattoos and other body mods (Read 353933 times)

nekowafer · « **Reply #600 on:** 27 Jan 2014, 15:07 »

As far as I know, yes, it's just another word for urine.

Piddle puddle!

pwhodges · « **Reply #601 on:** 27 Jan 2014, 15:24 »

As a verb, the older meaning is "to busy oneself with trifling matters", possibly from the Low German word piddeln. I might, for instance, "piddle around" instead of getting on with something more important (and this is a phrase I would actually use without self-consciousness). In the senses "to urinate, urine", it's possibly formed from a combination of pee, piss and puddle.

nekowafer · « **Reply #602 on:** 28 Jan 2014, 17:47 »

Nipples are done! They hurt! The barbells are purple!

Carl-E · « **Reply #603 on:** 28 Jan 2014, 18:04 »

I'm sure other parts will be, too...

nekowafer · « **Reply #604 on:** 29 Jan 2014, 08:20 »

My cat sat on my boob. Ouch.

ChaoSera · « **Reply #605 on:** 29 Jan 2014, 08:26 »

It's the infamous Boobycat, Harbinger of Pain and Scourge of Pierced Nipples!

nekowafer · « **Reply #606 on:** 12 Feb 2014, 10:48 »

I have a new tattoo

ev4n · « **Reply #607 on:** 12 Feb 2014, 10:52 »

Seems like sage advice for someone approaching lady bits???

Method of Madness · « **Reply #608 on:** 12 Feb 2014, 10:53 »

I would've thought it would face the other way, so as to be a reminder to yourself.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #609 on:** 12 Feb 2014, 10:58 »

... I like it. Or them.

nekowafer · « **Reply #610 on:** 12 Feb 2014, 11:01 »

I was told that upside down tattoos look stupid 100% of the time, so I got it facing away from me.

ev4n · « **Reply #611 on:** 12 Feb 2014, 11:02 »

I like, don't get me wrong.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #612 on:** 12 Feb 2014, 11:22 »

Upside down is relative, is it not?

Lines · « **Reply #613 on:** 12 Feb 2014, 11:34 »

Regardless of direction, they are there, so I think they are still pretty big reminders.

I like it, Neko!

Method of Madness · « **Reply #614 on:** 12 Feb 2014, 13:14 »

So do I

nekowafer · « **Reply #615 on:** 12 Feb 2014, 13:17 »

Thanks

ChaoSera · « **Reply #616 on:** 19 Feb 2014, 10:03 »

I think I might finally have settled on the idea for my first tattoo. It's gonna be big, but I think I'll like it. Now I need somebody who could draw me a rough first version, because I wanna be able to look at it before paying a tattoo artist to draw the actual design. Anybody feel up for helping me out with that?

nekowafer · « **Reply #617 on:** 19 Feb 2014, 16:12 »

If I had any drawing skills at all, I would totally help you out.

I got new conch plugs and just stretched my tragus piercings again and this is how my ears look right now:

Lines · « **Reply #618 on:** 19 Feb 2014, 16:18 »

Opaliiiiiite!

Metope · « **Reply #619 on:** 20 Feb 2014, 12:10 »

ChaoSera: Just go directly to a tattoo artist with your idea, they know what they're doing much better than some random friend with decent or good drawing skills. The difference between drawing with a pencil on paper and a needle on skin is so different it's really hard to imagine for someone with no tattooing experience what's possible to do or not. Also, what looks awesome on paper might not translate well as a tattoo. I drew up a tattoo sketch for a friend once, when she took it to her tattoo artist he had to completely redraw it anyway.

nekowafer · « **Reply #620 on:** 23 Feb 2014, 19:30 »

New piercings

(the two bars at the top)

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #621 on:** 23 Feb 2014, 20:43 »

I think I've decided I'm going to get my long planned ankle cuff to finish this tattoo off in the immediate future.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #622 on:** 24 Feb 2014, 03:52 »

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/magazine/the-existential-anguish-of-the-tattoo.html?_r=0

I have some issues with this article, namely that the author thinks bias against tattoos is gone, but in general I think his premise is off, and that this is more a scrawl against bad tattoos (which totally exist) and the culture that encourages you going and picking something off the wall at random instead of putting your heart in to it and coming up with a design that means something to you.. I just don't think the author himself gets that.

nekowafer · « **Reply #623 on:** 24 Feb 2014, 13:29 »

I must say I agree with you there.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #624 on:** 25 Feb 2014, 01:54 »

Neko your new piercings look amazing.

nekowafer · « **Reply #625 on:** 25 Feb 2014, 06:42 »

Thank you

My piercer was so excited to do them. They're achy as new piercings always are, but it's really not bad at all unless I bump them.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #626 on:** 09 Mar 2014, 18:46 »

Just booked in for a consultation with Jin O for my massive dead tree chest piece. I'm so excited!!! The consult isn't until June but whatever. Gonna be sweeeeeeeeet.

Lines · « **Reply #627 on:** 09 Mar 2014, 19:56 »

I think that's the first artist I've seen that is actually really good at doing portrait tattoos.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #628 on:** 09 Mar 2014, 20:06 »

So excited for Saturday <3

nekowafer · « **Reply #629 on:** 09 Mar 2014, 20:24 »

Yay Jimmy! GM, what happens then?

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #630 on:** 09 Mar 2014, 20:34 »

I get the cuff to end my calf piece

"O Freyja, Goddess of Love and Wars, preserve my heart's flame. May my deeds earn me a place in your hall when the valkyrie escort me to my fallen brothers and ancestors."

nekowafer · « **Reply #631 on:** 09 Mar 2014, 20:44 »

Fancy!

My tattoo is finally almost healed (it had a spot that scabbed over and got nasty) so I'm thinking about my next one. I don't know what I want next!

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #632 on:** 10 Mar 2014, 00:05 »

Is that how it works? 'First one healed ... on to the next'? Aren't you going to run out of real estate quickly, then?

nekowafer · « **Reply #633 on:** 10 Mar 2014, 01:09 »

It can go as fast or as slow as you'd like. I do prefer to wait until one is healed before getting another, though. And yes, I'd run out of skin very quickly that way. But I know I'll run out of ideas long before I run out of skin.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #634 on:** 10 Mar 2014, 03:20 »

Yeah, it largely depends on how quickly you want to get things done, the resources you need to do it (time, money etc...) and the ideas you have.

I've been planning my tree for about a year but it's only been in the last few months (since I finished my sleeves) that it became a real option. I don't like having multiple unfinished projects and also I've been saving for it. I also find it's best to wait for one thing to heal before starting something else because I think the body is able to heal everything more efficiently one piece at a time.

nekowafer · « **Reply #635 on:** 10 Mar 2014, 07:44 »

Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 10 Mar 2014, 03:20

I also find it's best to wait for one thing to heal before starting something else because I think the body is able to heal everything more efficiently one piece at a time.

Exactly.

I am also running out of places to pierce. Which means I will probably have to move on to tattoos to satisfy my craving for body modification, at least until I can get my tongue split.

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #636 on:** 10 Mar 2014, 07:46 »

I used to get one tattoo every year. Then I had to start saving money for other things and the tattoo fund quickly ran out. I have 10-15 ideas, so that's not much of an issue (yet). My problem is that I'll run out of money before I run out of real estate.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #637 on:** 15 Mar 2014, 17:30 »

Wooooo :3

Method of Madness · « **Reply #638 on:** 15 Mar 2014, 19:47 »

Nice. Just wondering though, what's the mark between the tattoos?

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #639 on:** 15 Mar 2014, 20:58 »

Probably just an ink smudge or sharpie or something. Pretty standard but I've never seen a tattooist use a black sharpie before.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #640 on:** 15 Mar 2014, 21:00 »

Ink smudge. I wiped it off after I took the photo.

I've never seen a tattooist use a black sharpie either, Laura used a purple one to put the lines for the runes in.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #641 on:** 15 Mar 2014, 21:02 »

I think it's probably because using a bright colour makes it easier to differentiate between sharpie guides and actual tattoos. My artist uses orange.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #642 on:** 15 Mar 2014, 21:05 »

Yep! That's the exact reason. If you're using it as a guide for line art you need to differentiate between any ink you have down, and any tracings you have down which is usually a blue color.

nekowafer · « **Reply #643 on:** 15 Mar 2014, 22:01 »

Shannon Larratt died a year ago yesterday (March 15) and he is a large part of why I got into body modification. I can't believe it's been a year. He is why I got my STAY CALM tattoo as well. I has a sad.

Welu · « **Reply #644 on:** 18 Mar 2014, 13:00 »

I think I'm gonna get some holes punched in me when I'm in the states. Possibly my navel.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #645 on:** 18 Mar 2014, 13:07 »

From what I've heard those don't usually last long.

Welu · « **Reply #646 on:** 18 Mar 2014, 13:09 »

I'm reading about that now. I probably won't get it done but I've found a place I really like the look of so I'll probably be buying some fancy jewellery for my ears at least. Lost a lot of faith in my more local piercing establishments.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #647 on:** 18 Mar 2014, 13:12 »

Where in the states will you be?

Welu · « **Reply #648 on:** 18 Mar 2014, 13:16 »

New Orleans at the start of April. I'll also be briefly in New York but just the airport.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #649 on:** 18 Mar 2014, 13:20 »

How briefly? As in just connecting?

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