ElizabethBee

Not this forum's cup o' tea, but here is my foot tattoo done by Matt Jordan from New Zealand. This tattoo was done while filming for an upcoming episode of SullenTV's "Tattoo Collector"

I also got some more work on my back by Jess Yen at Ink n Iron but we didn't get pictures so I'll take some in a few days

Finished up my arm with Grez last month. Here are some healed shots (that I also just put in the contest thread).

I've just returned home from a trip to Berlin. Brought this one home with me:

Done by Uncle Allan at Conspiracy Inc, Berlin.
I'm pretty excited about this one. A rose by Allan has been on my wishlist for a loooong time, so it's amazing to finally check it off the list.
(Picture respectfully borrowed from Allan's IG account: http://instagram.com/unclea)

Almost done!!! 1 more session needed for grey wash background. By Mark Duhan, Skin Deep Ink in New Milford, CT (hummingbird was already there) Back of the arm is swelled up pretty good.
This is all about my boys. The flowers are for their birth month.
Artist did an awesome job of rolling with my idea for a watercolor/ feminine polka trash colorful mish mash!

Finished my minogame, Gemma Pariente - Full Circle Tattoo.

Almost done!!! 1 more session needed for grey wash background. By Mark Duhan, Skin Deep Ink in New Milford, CT (hummingbird was already there) Back of the arm is swelled up pretty good.
This is all about my boys. The flowers are for their birth month.
Artist did an awesome job of rolling with my idea for a watercolor/ feminine polka trash colorful mish mash!

Almost done!!! 1 more session needed for grey wash background. By Mark Duhan, Skin Deep Ink in New Milford, CT (hummingbird was already there) Back of the arm is swelled up pretty good.
This is all about my boys. The flowers are for their birth month.
Artist did an awesome job of rolling with my idea for a watercolor/ feminine polka trash colorful mish mash!

Almost done!!! 1 more session needed for grey wash background. By Mark Duhan, Skin Deep Ink in New Milford, CT (hummingbird was already there) Back of the arm is swelled up pretty good.
This is all about my boys. The flowers are for their birth month.
Artist did an awesome job of rolling with my idea for a watercolor/ feminine polka trash colorful mish mash!

Almost done!!! 1 more session needed for grey wash background. By Mark Duhan, Skin Deep Ink in New Milford, CT (hummingbird was already there) Back of the arm is swelled up pretty good.
This is all about my boys. The flowers are for their birth month.
Artist did an awesome job of rolling with my idea for a watercolor/ feminine polka trash colorful mish mash!

Almost done!!! 1 more session needed for grey wash background. By Mark Duhan, Skin Deep Ink in New Milford, CT (hummingbird was already there) Back of the arm is swelled up pretty good.
This is all about my boys. The flowers are for their birth month.
Artist did an awesome job of rolling with my idea for a watercolor/ feminine polka trash colorful mish mash!

Almost done!!! 1 more session needed for grey wash background. By Mark Duhan, Skin Deep Ink in New Milford, CT (hummingbird was already there) Back of the arm is swelled up pretty good.
This is all about my boys. The flowers are for their birth month.
Artist did an awesome job of rolling with my idea for a watercolor/ feminine polka trash colorful mish mash!

Almost done!!! 1 more session needed for grey wash background. By Mark Duhan, Skin Deep Ink in New Milford, CT (hummingbird was already there) Back of the arm is swelled up pretty good.
This is all about my boys. The flowers are for their birth month.
Artist did an awesome job of rolling with my idea for a watercolor/ feminine polka trash colorful mish mash!

Almost done!!! 1 more session needed for grey wash background. By Mark Duhan, Skin Deep Ink in New Milford, CT (hummingbird was already there) Back of the arm is swelled up pretty good.
This is all about my boys. The flowers are for their birth month.
Artist did an awesome job of rolling with my idea for a watercolor/ feminine polka trash colorful mish mash!

In all fairness, dude probably isn't in to tattoos just wanted that one for his wife. It's not like he was going to cover it with a dragon or a panther. Even considering that the tattoo couldn't get any worse, I think the outcome was pretty good for the guy. To paraphrase Joe Dirt, It's not about you, it's about the consumer.

A silhouette of my son - angled really well so that when I hold my arm out at a 45 degree angle from my body, it looks level. The negative space is a motherhood symbol. Part of an unfinished half sleeve for my 2 boys.

I don't want to upload photos yet because my half-sleeve is still very much in progress.... BUT...... I am (read... my artist is) really going out on a limb and mixing styles. I'm getting a half sleeve on my right upper arm for my boys (1 biological and 1 step son). It's a feminine, soft trash polka style mixed with some soft watercolor-y realism. So far so good - I've really composed this whole piece myself and I'm pretty proud of what I brought to the table. OF COURSE my artist is taking my ideas and making them beautiful. Will post pics and give credit when it's done.
Thanks for reading. :o

I am a 35 year old moderately tattooed woman and I could not care less if my partner is or is not tattooed. I have been in relationships with men who were heavily tattooed, moderately tattooed like me, and I am now engaged to a man that has no tattoos at all. I equate it with sharing a hobby with someone, while it may be ideal to have the same hobby as someone, it's not a deal breaker for me by any means. My fiancee is really in to volleyball - I don't play, nor do I really have any interest in playing - but I'll cheer him on at tournaments.
Being tattooed and getting tattooed is not the biggest priority in my life. It doesn't define who I am.

I am a 35 year old moderately tattooed woman and I could not care less if my partner is or is not tattooed. I have been in relationships with men who were heavily tattooed, moderately tattooed like me, and I am now engaged to a man that has no tattoos at all. I equate it with sharing a hobby with someone, while it may be ideal to have the same hobby as someone, it's not a deal breaker for me by any means. My fiancee is really in to volleyball - I don't play, nor do I really have any interest in playing - but I'll cheer him on at tournaments.
Being tattooed and getting tattooed is not the biggest priority in my life. It doesn't define who I am.

My girlfriend is pretty great about my tattoos. She's not tattooed, nor will she ever be, and I feel as though I can say that with the utmost certainty, though things can always change. She gets genuinely excited for me and encourages me, which is really nice. I think it's been a bit of a transformation for her, because she's never had any kind of interest in tattoos before me.
It's great to be able to show her awesome tattoos on LST and instagram, and hear her appreciation for them (even if she sometimes doesn't particularly like them). Her family loves me, but I know that they aren't fans of tattoos. Her parents have intimated before that they'd be pissed if she got one, so it does cross my mind that the more I get covered, they might have negative opinions. Unfortunate, but not the end of the world.

I've used Tegaderm for four of my more recent tattoos .... and I have a pretty dramatic love/hate relationship with it.
I love that I can feel like I don't have a giant open wound on my body, and that I am not leaking ink all over my sheets at night... but I hate that it never seems to stick properly on areas of increased movement (neck, wrists, elbow ditch). The only truly successful Tegaderm experience I have had was on my thigh, where the tattoo had a lot of space around it and the Tegaderm could get a solid seal around the edges. All other locations, it started to peal up at the edges after it was on for a couple days -OR- my skin would start to get irritated from having it pull my skin around as my body moved (ditch). Both times, I ended up just taking it off and doing a traditional lotion/washing healing method after a couple days.
Honestly, even though I rarely stuck through a whole week of healing with Tegaderm, it was kind of nice to use for even just a few days. I liked having it on when the tattoo was the most sensitive and awkward in my clothes.