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Mine is all healed and is finally starting to be truly healed, as in the shiny quality is starting to go and I can rub it against something without it feeling tender. I am enjoying festival season when I can show them off. I don't care if it's bad to do that.

I'll have my lawyer look into your request.

I think I upvoted that one on reddit.

It's not so much that a bird with outstretched wings is "pretty" but it fits nice there. The breasts kind of complicate a woman's chest. As for roses, I always think of that photo from the 1920s or something with the woman who had the black roses. They really looked good. She had a lot of other things too, but the roses were really striking.

Much better now!

I think what looks nice on ladies is either a neckline of roses or else a bird with outstretched wings.

I don't know that I saw that thread. I'm not exactly obese but I have always been heavier than I should be and self-conscious about it. Plus I'm large-framed and short so there's really no hope I'll ever be lithe and sleek ha ha. But since I've gotten some larger tattoos I've noticed how they do make me feel better about my body. I saw a girl on campus with nice generous thighs like mine. She had the start of some kind of impressive dragon tattoo or something. I thought wow, how brave of her. Then I thought, wow, that really looks good on her. Made me think maybe I shouldn't be so scared to put a tattoo on a large body part.

Well, in my case it was about 24 hours of swelling so I don't think that's too bad.

Ah, c'mon. You know you're all thinking if you ever get a chance to have Valerie Vargas or <insert your favorite here> tattoo you, you'll be ready. You might even have a spot you're saving up just in case. Just because you don't have any big-name tattoos--yet--doesn't mean you're not a collector.

As a 48 year old woman (with a 72 year old mother) I can say that the skin on my chest has degraded quite a bit and the skin on my mother's chest has degraded quite a bit more. By degraded I mean it is spotty with dark spots that have too much pigmentation and white spots that have lost pigmentation plus a general redness for some unknown reason probably having to do with being of Scandanavian descent and living in California. Not sure what that would mean for a tattoo, but more does happen to the chest than just sagging of tits.

I have a 2005 Vespa ET4 with 22,000 miles on it. Red.

My mom lives on the epicenter. Nothing in her house broke or anything.

I thought a collector signified the difference between someone who gets tattoos vs someone who makes tattoos.

I ended up going down there to ask him. He didn't seem that certain and I ended up having to go around to all the guys for their opinion. In the end I kept my appointment and everything worked out okay but man it really hurt way more than the first session.

Here are a few I've seen on reddit lately: - - - Updated - - - Wow, sorry some of those are so huge. They didn't look like that in the preview.

I think maybe people get less gothic script because it's popular with gang members, or at least it seems to be here in So Cal. I guess I started this because I was looking at reddit and also saw similar tattoos on the campus where I work. I try to steer people over here or to certain tumblr accounts with good tattoos but it's strange how some people just insist that they want a white ink infinity symbol or three brown dots that look like freckles or American Typewriter font and a book written across their arm and nothing you can say will convince them otherwise.

I didn't know the hand (or bird) with the letter was a Dear John letter. I always thought it was a love letter.

Hey, I really like this idea. The one I went by for my coverup was the 10 foot rule. I'm glad I did because being a big-boned gal (and I don't mean fat), it just looks a lot more flattering on my body. As for cheap, I really someday want one of those cheap special promo tattoos (you know, like Friday the 13th or whatever) just for the experience and the ability to say I did something like that. The meaning would be: don't take things so seriously.

My own personal success story is I had an appointment scheduled for a cover-up for my ankle tattoo with one of the most highly praised tattoo artists in my town. His waiting list was 6 months. I figured I'd chosen well. Because I was so excited with my appointment drawing near, I started looking at blogs about tattoos. I learned a lot in the process. I also started to realize that I had been wrong all these years about traditional tattoos and that I really liked them a lot. I went back to the artist's facebook and saw a tattoo he had just posted and was appalled. I kept looking and it seemed he sometimes did really nice work and sometimes did really poor work. None of it was really traditional. Japanese maybe, but nothing American trad. I started to worry I might be making a mistake. I canceled the appointment and instead make one for a totally different tattoo with another guy at another shop who had really nice work in his portfolio. I got a really nice tattoo. While he tattooed me he told me he sometimes refers people to another shop so I looked them up. I went there for my coverup just to have a new experience, see if I was missing anything. Now I can't seem to stop looking at all these great tattoos and whenever I see this really badly done stuff either around the campus where I work or on various websites, I just feel so bad for these people. Meanwhile I really want more tattoos but am torn about whether I should. Maybe it's okay just to look for a while.

There's a difference between a bad tattoo that you didn't choose and a bad tattoo that you did. All my first tattoos were bad until I fixed them. But at least they were an attempt at creativity. I mean the other day I saw the word Imagine written in computer typewriter font. I'm hoping that's just irony.

Really do you think it is TV? I have never seen a tattoo reality show on TV. What channel is it on?

Your girlfriend can lift all the weights she wants. I can deadlift 165lbs and squat almost my bodyweight and can bench half my bodyweight (I'm female, 48 years old and about 130lbs) and you can hardly see a muscle anywhere on me.

After I got my big blue roses I kinda thought that from the front the tattoo looks a little empty. I casually said to my partner that I think a butterfly should go there. He said, "I think you are getting carried away now." Well, that was an interesting thing to say. He doesn't have any tattoos.

I don't mean to sound like a cranky old man. Honestly, I am sort of curious from a sociological standpoint. Has all the texting kinda done away with visual literacy or something? I'll admit I hardly ever do any texting so it's not something I ever got into. Or maybe people are afraid of criticism? I notice that they do seem to be afraid to have any opinions of their own and certainly putting a large image on yourself suggests you had a strong opinion about the art. I have no idea, but I really am curious about this.

Well then what is it about people these days that they walk around with so many sob stories that they absolutely have to put on their bodies with typewriter font? I mean, my cats and dogs have all died, my grandparents all died, and in my 20s I walked around with dysthymia like nobody's business but I never once wanted to tattoo a word on myself about it. I went to meetings instead.