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Valerie finished my backpiece yesterday. Had some serious post-tattoo nausea after this one. Glad it's finally done, but will miss the process.

Puta Madre Brothers are excellent tattooing jams

Got my thigh session with Emily Rose tomorrow. Have kicked the cold I came down with late last week and am ready to go!

Maybe it's just me, but when I try the search box I end up with an empty white area where the search results should appear...
I'm using the latest Chrome on Mac.
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Actually, sorry, it is just me. I keep forgetting that I'm using Ghostery to block unwanted trackers and stuff and it blocked the Google Search API in this case. I whitelisted it and it works like a treat now, thanks!

In terms of the people staring, or judging us just for having tattoos, I know for me one thing I am learning is NOT to have a chip on my shoulder...like, expecting people to stare and judge.
I had two situations recently that made me realize--I'm the one judging them by thinking they are judging me!
I saw an old lady at Trader Joe's. She was looking at me real funny and I was wearing a short sleeve shirt. I assumed she didn't like my tattoos. To my surprise she came right up to me, reached out her hand to lightly touch my arm, smiled and said, "Oh my! I thought that was a real baby at first, hahaha!" I was holding my daughter's doll in my arm the way you would hold a real infant and I guess it just freaked the lady out at first and then she was laughing about it. I started laughing and said to myself, man you just judged that lady as being uptight about tattoos and she wasn't AT ALL!
Then like a week after that, yet another old lady was shopping at Albertson's supermarket. She was taking up a lot of room in the aisle, her cart was in the middle and she was on one side, not leaving me much room to get by. I tried to squeeze through, she glanced up and had a grumpy expression on her face and I immediately jumped to, "She's disgusted by my tattoos." No sooner did I think that when her face softened into a big smile and she said, "Oh look at me taking up the whole aisle, like I'm the only one in the store!" I laughed and told her not to worry about it as she pulled her cart out of my way. I walked away thinking what is the matter with me? Why do I keep judging these old ladies?
It must be because of my mom. She is the only one who has ever actually said anything to my face about her disdain for tattoos. I need to get over it. Older ladies looking conservative, wearing mom-jeans, whatever, looking your way, looking grouchy....they don't necessarily hate tattoos! Some are curious, some think they are cool.
I definitely receive many more compliments than disses, and seem to run into friendly people wherever I go. I'm trying to embrace it, and not expect people to not like them any more. If they don't like them, whatever, that's their problem, but I shouldn't expect them to not like them.

Lots of good input here already especially from @SeeSea. May I also throw in this idea:
Girl's head with cheetah
Also, have you tried googling or checking out Pinterest for cheetah tattoos? Just asking because I don't think it's really that unconventional...and it might show you more ways of incorporating the pattern into a more interesting tattoo. I'm aware that cheetah and jaguar are not quite the same. That said, they are very similar, just from different continents, aren't they?

Lots of good input here already especially from @SeeSea. May I also throw in this idea:
Girl's head with cheetah
Also, have you tried googling or checking out Pinterest for cheetah tattoos? Just asking because I don't think it's really that unconventional...and it might show you more ways of incorporating the pattern into a more interesting tattoo. I'm aware that cheetah and jaguar are not quite the same. That said, they are very similar, just from different continents, aren't they?

@keekatzz - it's clear you have your mind set on this, and I can appreciate it, and I echo previous advice to see a good tattooer as suggested above. That can only give you more information and not less to help you decide if this is the best way to help you feel like the jaguar.
I agree and disagree with this. I have one small tattoo, although I'm not sure it's even large enough to get a taste of things. But I, too, have dreamed of a single large piece that would be my only other tattoo. I jumped both feet into a full back - a sea scene of creatures I had photographed underwater. I found an artist who's done sea scenes, and he spent quite a bit of time explaining to me that what I wanted (and how I wanted it) wouldn't make a good tattoo. I couldn't visualize why not. He even took a picture of my back and used Illustrator or some drawing program to give an example of something that would work. (To his credit, he did an amazing amount of free up-front work for me because he was really into it.) Anyway, he finally helped me see how my idea could be done in a way that would be realistic, convey what I wanted, and also age well. I don't regret jumping into a full back (although I was spectacularly amazed at the pain and had many oh-shit moments of how-am-I-going-to-sit-through-a-full-back-of-this) although I could have waited longer to get the design. I was just lucky someone with a good eye got ahold of me and set me straight.
The point of this story is that I thought I knew what I wanted and I thought I understood how it would play out on my back, but I needed to be educated. My guy didn't ignore that, but made my vision work. The folks around here believe that an awesome panther (or jaguar in this case) is the solution to all life's ills ( :D ) but I think you don't have to be so obvious. I like the pattern you selected, but I'd suggest you think about if you really want that repeating pattern all over your back. I can imagine using that pattern for part of your back in conjunction with something else to break it up, but still convey that you are the jaguar ... like a jaguar looking to be camouflaged in foliage or something like that, with fan leaves and big drop shadows on the spots. Let the pattern flow underneath some other design element and use the pattern as a background to give more interest and depth to the piece, and perhaps convey an action that the jaguar is taking - slinking, hiding, etc. Idunno, I'm not an artist but you have me thinking of things that I would find more interesting to see than just seeing the pattern. Maybe you get it designed so that you can start it (e.g., upper back) and decide in the middle if you want full coverage after it settles in, and the initial part could be a complete design by itself if needed (h/t to @CultExciter).
Anyway, my $0.02.
And ... I came here thinking this would be my only tattoo. This back piece will take a while, but I already have #2 queued up in my mind :rolleyes:
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Bad assumption. You can anticipate one injection and get over it. Imagine hours upon hours of anticipating the next time those needles hit your skin, and the "hurt like the dickens" goes on for several seconds. Then you get another handful of seconds for sweet release from the pain, only to anticipate the next round of pain. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Some people apparently aren't bothered by the pain, but if you go full back, you WILL find many areas that you will come to dread. I'm not saying this to scare you, ... well, yes I am. I'm also not trying to sound mean, just been-in-your-shoes.

Actually, a bit more research brought up the website of the project (I must have been blind not to have found it before when googling...)
English » Tattoo Portraits

Found these little gems on vimeo and couldn't find anything about it here:


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"I think the videos are shot beautifully, especially the movement of panther and tiger in the back piece from no5.
Would love to see more like that, does anyone know what happened to the first two? I assume they exist, unless someone is really bad at counting...

Found these little gems on vimeo and couldn't find anything about it here:


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"I think the videos are shot beautifully, especially the movement of panther and tiger in the back piece from no5.
Would love to see more like that, does anyone know what happened to the first two? I assume they exist, unless someone is really bad at counting...

Found these little gems on vimeo and couldn't find anything about it here:


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"I think the videos are shot beautifully, especially the movement of panther and tiger in the back piece from no5.
Would love to see more like that, does anyone know what happened to the first two? I assume they exist, unless someone is really bad at counting...

My Kim Saigh arm is healed. Why is it so hard to get good pics? There are 5 shots here and still no full view of the inner bicep rose. Oh well. Good enough!

I couldn't stop laughing when I read this. It's funny how a term sticks. To answer your question in the best way I know how, I would say it's the equivalent of full sleeves, but below the waist. I never really paid attention to the official definition, but that is how I understand it.

It's taken me a while to get round to posting but... here is the result of LST peer pressure ;)
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Done by Rodrigo Souto, Black Garden Tattoo, London, UK.
I'm thinking about asking him for more flowers around it too. What do you think?
Meanwhile... I got a little carried away...
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Dominique Holmes, The Family Business, London, UK.
To be completed next month, plus I'm having a matching doodad on my foot. It's the same flower with a pattern that matches the ruff.
I blame you lot for all of this. :rolleyes:

How sweet!
I actually saw some tattoo colouring books at the Tate Modern shop the other day and initially thought that it was a bit over the top to get little kids into tattoos already...but your story brings a totally new perspective to this. I'm curious to see how my two year old son is going to react to my first tattoo :-)

And just came across this pretty cool one by Civ:

I think this is quite sweet (by Andrea Giulimondi):

Yes thats mine indeed! Veery happy with it! And it matches my Bingham panther on my other leg too :) will post a better picture when Im back home.
He took his time, it's a very small tattoo and it took him aprox 4 hours! He is very meticulous about his cats! Hehe
He does do tebori, but he used machines on me, im happy he did. Can imagine it would take even longer with the tebori technique!

So, looking at actual tattoos of the tattoed cats I noticed that most (all?) of them seem to have quite a bit of white ink in them....so far my understanding has been that white ink was a bit of a no-no due to quick discolouring/fading...
Am I mistaken or blind perhaps? Or do we not care in this case because the cats a just too cool (which they are of course)...?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, still trying to learn...
Example:

There was a story going around not too long ago about a guy denied entry into Sri Lanka
due to his buddha tattoo.
The Man with the Buddha Tattoo - Robbie Bulloch
I say, if you're a visitor to that country, you need to do a little research and respect their culture, full stop.

Total bullshit but sounds like Sri Lanka's got a proven record of bullshit.. and if you're gonna travel there, you may wanna read up on said record and invest in a long sleeve t-shirt or ace bandage.

And just came across this pretty cool one by Civ:

And just came across this pretty cool one by Civ:

And just came across this pretty cool one by Civ: