Lucy83

I had this very strongly with my 2nd tattoo. The nights were the worst where I'd hollow in deep regret. Then I got used to it and I kept getting more. I found out that the problem for me was that I went from feeling like a spectator of the tattoo world to feeling like a member. It felt like an identity shift which was causing all the internal conflict.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

My first was 14 years ago when I was 19. It was one of those where I walked into the shop and picked an existing design. It's a snake around a half moon! How ridiculous. It's not very well done (at this stage some people think it's a monkey..) but I swear I can't get rid of it. As the first I do feel really attached to it! I've covered up another tattoo but I think I'll never cover up this one. It's on my belly so it's not visible all the time which helps.


Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

My first was 14 years ago when I was 19. It was one of those where I walked into the shop and picked an existing design. It's a snake around a half moon! How ridiculous. It's not very well done (at this stage some people think it's a monkey..) but I swear I can't get rid of it. As the first I do feel really attached to it! I've covered up another tattoo but I think I'll never cover up this one. It's on my belly so it's not visible all the time which helps.


Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

I'm using the Tapatalk app

Let's try this one.




Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I live in the Netherlands too! I was in the US just a month ago after not going for a couple of years and I was absolutely shocked at the number of people with tattoos compared to a few years ago. It's becoming so commonplace in all sorts of people from all walks of life. Way more Americans seem to have tattoos than Dutch despite how liberal the country is.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

I live in the Netherlands too! I was in the US just a month ago after not going for a couple of years and I was absolutely shocked at the number of people with tattoos compared to a few years ago. It's becoming so commonplace in all sorts of people from all walks of life. Way more Americans seem to have tattoos than Dutch despite how liberal the country is.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

I think you are over-generalizing the perceptions of people in academia. I am a college president - got my first two tattoos within this past year. I have a great number of staff and faculty who sport tattoos, some visible and some covered. I've not seen any negative reaction to either males of females who have tattoos around my college. Granted, there can be an elitist snobbery at work in some institutions, especially among older members of the community who were raised when tattoos were not as prevalent or accepted, but that seems to be dwindling rapidly as the more junior members of the faculty, staff and administration are promoted into the ranks. For me, I use my decision to get tattooed as a way to encourage acceptance and tolerance of diversity in all forms. Surprising that the more liberal community that demands inclusiveness tends to be at the heart of discrimination and intolerance of people with ink, no?

I had this very strongly with my 2nd tattoo. The nights were the worst where I'd hollow in deep regret. Then I got used to it and I kept getting more. I found out that the problem for me was that I went from feeling like a spectator of the tattoo world to feeling like a member. It felt like an identity shift which was causing all the internal conflict.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

My first tattoo was a little broken heart with a small rose I got straight from a flashbook when I was 14. I was shopping for clothes in the city with my mom and mentioned I wanted a tattoo. We walked straight from the mall to a tattooshop and picked something out. The original was a normal heart, but I asked for a broken one because I was "emo". Later I had some more rose added around it when I was 16. And then a (really, really badly done) girl shooting herself through the head with crows flying out, behind it when I was 17.
At 20 I finally got some sense and had the whole thing covered and started getting good tattoos. :')

I got my first about six months ago...a month shy of my 61st birthday. Got my second last Saturday. After many years of finding excuses not to do it, I finally decided it was time to make it happen. Where do I go from here? I have no clue...but you never know.

Wanted to post my healed tattoos, but i couldn't find a place to do so without seeming off-topic.
So, this thread is for us to show our tattoos, no matter how old they are. I just like staring at diverse tattoos :)
 
Here are some of mine. Joker is almost three months, Aldo and my cat about 1 month :3: