SStu

so i have been lurking here for a while, not willing to join and put my one tattoo up against all the other great ones i see... but you can call me Delicious, old high school nickname. idk what else to say... :)

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oh and i suppose i will have to share my tattoo eventually, just a little shy

pictures or it doesn't exist!

Welcome.

Yessir

You should check out Eye Candy, although walk-ins are pretty rare.

Do you mean the one in New Orleans?

i have one, she helped with my legal issues and she is colored to represent that.

hmmm . . . you mean green?

Hello, there - from another ex lurker.

You just get used to it. Most times it's people just checking it out and you get over it, but at first it can be weird. I've yet to get a bad reaction, but if I do. Fuck 'em.

this^

ultimately, staring in a bad way is their problem and their negativaty. It's only your problem if you let their reaction affect you.

I can't live without the pros I listed. Traveling for work makes me go insane because the food always sucks, everything closes early and I LOVE getting shit delivered because I am lazy on the weekends.

I would only move to either SF or a state with "will issue" CCW/Open carry.

Not nearly as big as NYC or SF, but have you tried New Orleans?

"The Recoverer " by your tittle I thought you had some kind of career in debt collection .

or, he's a tattooist that specializes in covering up cover-ups!

Just finished my 3rd trip for the same tattoo yesterday. About 20 hours all together - and last night's included over an hour of some of the worst rain I've ever driven in.

If being hidden is a main concern. Put on a long sleeve shirt and then put both hands behind your head, same as you might do when relaxing in a chair and throwing ideas around with your boss. That position tends to show the most skin as the shirt sleeve will ride up just a bit.

Fortunately, neither of my bosses at the time were concerned enough to mention seeing ink - nor eventually promoting me, either.

Angels with guitars!!

Love it.

I had to google him to see who he is.

Any reason I should be respecting just another writer/jornalist's opinions?

haha. creative, none-the-less.

I'd certainly have to avoid artists who have a drug/alcohol problem (hopefully I'd find out about it prior to ink touching skin), but I'd be more tolerant of an asshole if I knew his work ethic was impecable. Hell, 2 of my favorite musicians (Zappa and Miles) were both apparently supreme jerks in more ways than 1 - but I still love their art.

I would have to imagine that getting caught up in the bullsh*t that is TV would have to wear on any tattooist's ability to be consistantly creative. The piece shown above is inspired and I'd be delighted to wear it. On the other hand, there are a couple of other guys in his shop(s) who were more consistantly brilliant.

Thanks. I won't re-touch the old stuff, it is what it is, and it's a reminder of a different time and place. I do have some pretty colorful stuff planned to go onto that arm to sleeve it, so I hope it will more than offset the large chunks of black and faded-out colors!

There is another thread on here about red-reaction...note that ALL the red in the parrot, and the dragon on the top of my left arm is gone. Didn't last a year.

I've heard and seen that with one particular orange ink, but hadn't heard about it with red. You're thinking it's an ink thing, or skin reaction thing?

Especially love the right arm, Dan.

Looks like you're about ready for some color re-touching on the left?

sadly, this new show doesn't appear to be too promising, either.

Not a bad 1st tattoo, there, Rockerchick. :)

I'm on my way to a Toronto airport in a couple of hours and someone forwarded me this as a joke:-

http://info.publicintelligence.net/CBSA-TattooHandbook.pdf

The link to it came from this Guardian article:-

Tattoos: the hidden meanings | Fashion | The Guardian

Wow.

4/20 was Hitler's Birthday!!?? Now every pothead is a Nazi sympathizer?!

Welcome.

$17K in 10 years...YIKES. Better decision making would have seen me invest in the stock market instead.

Um . . . NO! You'd have no tattoos and you'd only have about $6,800 left of your $17k.

No doubt.

That'd be a real score.

That's incredible.

Unforunately, I'll bet it works like a charm, too.

Here's a sideline question;

Does the site database show what percentage of overall members live in each continent?