Delicious

Oh! Can't wait to see yours! Great minds think alike indeed! :o It's pretty big and it was hard staying away from the numbing spray, but Xam reminded me I'm supposed to be of Viking-blood, and all of a sudden I got super-powers to finish it! It was pretty bad when the super-powers stopped to work after we finished it though.. haha :cool:

Haha mine is on page 360. I couldn't stay away from his offers of bactine to make it feel better. it's my biggest tattoo and took the longest to finish, and it hurts like a bitch right now. I was crawling out of my skin in pain though I didn't move around much until the charlie horses started to happen. Mine is about maybe half the size of yours... and so by conjecture, imagining how much yours hurt makes me cringe

Latest addition to my collection of lady-heads! :o Photo's are stolen from Xam's IG account, will post some healed photos on my gallery later :) The shop is amazing, and the people who work there are amazing! A very good tattoo- experience! Happy :)

By Xam at The Family Business, London :)

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@Eilin, this is so beautiful. Lol we both got ladies on our calves yesterday, great minds think alike? Btw, you're a trooper. Though my calf tattoo is big, I didnt appreciate how much it truly hurt until I saw how much of your calf you tattooed. You are a goddess, or have the best pain tolerance ever

Haha good!

Nice tattoo you must be stoked.

I really am. Though, I just realized, I have flowers in every single one of my tattoos... starting to look like a garden over here

hmmm i'm not sure, i think i'd leave that up to my tattooer to come up with something complimentary... or if in doubt.. throw some roses and a girl at it? :D

haha but you already have girls on the front.... hmm, idk why, but when i thought about pharaohs horses on one leg, i was thinking rock of ages or light house scene on the other

When MTV happened i guess haha.. you should hear the way some people talk. Perhaps not so much in Scotland.

That's an interesting thought. I've been feeling like i'm a bit out of balance as it were and been thinking about what to get on the back of my thighs.... i feel a phone call coming on !!

Pharaohs horses on the back of one leg, and as for the other... hmm, what compliments horses?

yeah it makes a really beautiful chest piece. I'm still not convinced i could carry off a chest piece. It does look totally awesome on stomachs, womens aswell.. unfortunately it would be hella distorted on my stomach haha! this is doing NOTHING for my 'calming down with getting tattooed so i don't fill up too quickly' !!!

I feel you, I would never get a complete chest peice, not really my thing. And since when do they say hella in Scotland? It's odd, it's slang that originated in the area Im from. But I digress, I also agree on the stomach thing too. Simply because having kids would wreck it. I know you have the front of your thighs, why not the back of one of them? Just fill it up with the horses?

Hey dude dont worry, I'm white as milk and my chest and ankle tattoos feel like a bas relief... lol basically all the lines are raised, or if not really raised, then definitely able to feel the difference when I touch it between the shading and the lines. It's just a normal part of being tattooed, after all, tattoos are basically scars.

ooh this provided much more pharoh horse creep fodder... i basically need one. Thank yooou x

did you see the girl with the horses on her chest almost all the way down to her nipples? That one was my favorite.

eeeeeeeeeeeek! @Delicious! Shes gorgeous :) Congrats!

Thank you. I can't stop staring at her... she is the most beautiful of all my tattoos, though I love them all equally, as soon as I saw the stencil she felt "mine" I guess. Hard to explain. I just love it so much

Artist deserves some credit.

Haha yes of course how silly of me. Rye Gregg @ Quarter Horse Tattoo, Stockton CA. Please forgive my gaffe

At Quarter Horse tattoo in Stockton, CA.

My first truly spur of the moment tattoo, a late birthday gift from my brother and sister

My calf was worse than my chest. I never thought it would be, but it was. its on fire right now.

Ok I just got home... it is beautiful. Nothing like I imagined it would be. I told him lady head, 3/4 view, and with a moon and stars... and it became my most beautiful tattoo yet

I am a ball of nerves right now. I am not sure what I want tattooed and I dont want to have a regret, but I am going in at 2:30 today to get my birthday tattoo. I have like 5 or 6 different ideas and I thought I had chosen one, but then I realized I chose it because of what other people thought. So now I am stuck.

Welcome!!! I like your tattoo!

If only. Lol I only live an hour and a half away but it might as well be a whole state for my level of inability to get there. Have fun everyone

Well good news is, I was able to get alot of things for 80 bucks, so I still have a nice chunk of change left for a tattoo. Now just gotta make the appointment

Summer clothes = cut off pant legs and shirt sleeves, right? I don't see the problem...

Im a girl, my clothes would look jacked up if I cut them up. As long as I get some summer shirts and like two pairs of flip flops, I've upheld my part of my promise

Man so I got strong armed into postponing my tattoo. I was given the money for it by my brother and sister with the caveat that I must buy some summer clothes with the money before I go and get tattooed. :( But I plan on going shopping tomorrow, and then, asap, will be getting tattooed

@David Flores, I see what you mean. I told my brother I wanted to get Kali Ma tattooed on me, only being half serious. I shouldnt have told him that, because within a day he called my mom and basically ratted me out, told her I was going to get some weird bs (according to him) and that she should talk to me. He hates my Ganesh tattoo so much that even the thought of the Kali tattoo freaked him out enough to ask my mom to intervene. I wasn't even really gonna do it, but then he earned me a long lecture about how many tattoos will be enough for me, and that getting Hindu gods on myself was stupid. I don't know why, but it really hurt my feelings. Like he felt it was his duty to prevent me from getting something Hindu inspired. yet all his tattoo ideas are super shitty and trendy and religious, though he has never really been to church, doesn't read the bible, but somehow my Hindu tattoos are more stupid.

Interesting topic.

I'd like to examine the issue from a different point of view, namely, not the traditional asian one that has been discussed already.

I'm a young white woman that comes from parents with roots in Nebraska. But I live in California, and this has created me to behave and believe differently than the older generations of my family.

They have their own superstitions, not clearly defined but still there. For example, their views of what is womanly, and what religion allows, have passed down tattoo taboos to me that I am afraid to shake.

The idea that even the act of getting tattooed is somehow wrong is something I cannot shake from my dad's side of the family, who are extremely religious. Then, once I got over that, I had to deal with what they had taught me was appropriate for women to get put on their bodies, if they dared to get tattooed at all.

No woman should get anything too 'manly'. no options left open to me to except pretty flowers, maybe a butterfly, nothing big and would detract away from what a woman was supposed to be and look like. Even then, to them my tattoos would be best if they were covered all the time, unnoticeable and unobtrusive. So that it would seem that I didn't even have them and therefore I would be acceptable to the world. Also, I've been strongly warned by my father that no man wants a woman with alot of tattoos, so I should be prepared. And finally, a woman with too many tattoos looks like a lesbian, so I should be careful.

These 'superstitions' if they could even be called that, (I prefer taboos), have lead me away from alot of things I would consider getting tattooed. Nothing that would offend the tastes of my family, while still remaining myself. It's hard. Even now when they look at my tattoos, they only like the one with my grandmother's name. it's safe, its plain, I can hide it and it "has meaning". Everytime they see my Ganesh tattoo, or my Gatsby tattoo, they tell me how pretty they are, but that I shouldn't have gotten them, that it isnt "meaningful"and that I have too many tattoos. I only have 3.

My brother is in town for our 20th birthday and we finally just had our first family dinner after a long time of not being together

Yay! finally finished by upper back today :D I'm sooo happy :D :o

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Congrats @Eilin, its very pretty