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I think your artist can blend a traditional scheme with the B&G just fine. There are so many traditional that have the same colors that you have on the other arm that he should be able to blend from B&G to full color on your forearm easily.

Yes, bugs or bees for the flowers!

Well, those all look great (particularly the newborn)! Where in the Bluegrass are you located? The wife and I grew up in Monticello.

Ham Jordan, Jimmy Carter's COS, was a director of the company that I worked for. We are a major player in cancer detection instruments, and Ham was a three-time cancer survivor (and ended up dying from mesothelioma). He spoke at a company function once, and noted (also in his book "No Such Thing as a Bad Day") that no one has more interest in your health than you.

And yet, the Oak Ridge Ihop hires waitresses with visible ink. Things like that are usually local management option.

Yeah, I have no problem with the comfort and such. The Black Pearl is so easy to ride straight or twisties. It's the absolute boredom (or terror on some interstates) that gets me. If I ever get to take a trip out West when I retire.... (but I like to see the local scenery so much!) I like going through small towns and riding the back roads. An Iron Butt certificate is not something I'd treasure unless I could earn one like Yellow Wolf did on the Dragon - and I'm WAY too slow to do that! Might happen some day if the need arises, you know like have to get home for an emergency or something. But I ride for enjoyment and big road riding is not enjoyable to me. I like the 170 mile loop that I take several times every year through the GSMNP, Cherokee NC, Bryson City NC, Deal's Gap NC, back up the Dragon then Foothills Parkway. Only about 50 miles of straight roads there and back.

I have no desire for 1000 miles a day,because I have too much fun stopping and seeing the sites. We put in around 580 miles one day last year on the way to NOLA. The miles didn't bother me but it was so boring doing mile after flat, straight interstate mile. I'd rather do 1000 curves! The Duke looks like she wants to play!

I've had so many friends and family with life-long lower back problems. I had been blessed until a few months ago when I had a week of problems after doing no more than my normal pittance of physical activity. Advil, heat, and rest had me good as new until a little over a week ago. I lifted a well-loaded garbage can OVER the tailgate of the truck instead of lowering the tailgate. I small twinge, but fifteen minutes later it started to really ache. Heat and hydrocodone that night then naproxin sodium the next two days. I'm fine again. And, at 62 a bit wiser as to what the old rusty hardware is no longer capable of! I do pity you young folks, and hope you can find a fix. Life is too much fun to go through with a bad stem.

Just be forewarned that some are very allergic/hypersensitive to lidocaine.

>wearing 4inch wedge heal boots< What you dear ladies go through! (NOT complaining!) I do think the wedge heels look to be safer than spikes. I had a student in spike heeled open-toed shoes that I had to have put on my old steel toes (at least five sizes to big for her) before permitting her on the factory floor where we have uneven floor plates.

1. Most thieves are pretty dumb. Particularly ones that work in groups to steal a couple hundred dollars worth of ink and drive off in Geo Metros. 2. They made an appointment? Probably used their real names and phone numbers (see #1)

Knee, ass crack, inner thigh - why not go for nipples while you're at it?

April 23rd with Sarah Hurst in Knoxville for a piece on my left shoulder/upper arm. Congrats to Sarah for being Best Tattoo Artist in Knoxville this year, and Vivid Tattoo 2nd best shop! It is a pretty low-key shop, but starting to get good recognition (at least locally).

Actually, in the Navy it means your belly done lopped over your belt. Soooo goooood, Swifty!

Actually a three-month old tattoo, but I finally got back (weather and schedules kept putting it off) to the artist and he was very agreeable to correcting what I saw a major flaws in the design and execution (and, I told him I was to blame for not rejecting the stencil). This will need to heal for a month or more for the new to blend in, but I now feel comfortable to wear a short sleeve shirt. Please excuse the flash glare on the aftercare ointment. And no comments on my Dunlop disease, please!

This afternoon I go in to have my last tattoo worked on. I have been unhappy with it, both design and execution - some my fault for not stopping him at the stencil review, (but I thought he would correct flaws in it as he worked) and some his execution. If he is willing to make two corrections, it should be good enough that I can live with it. It is on my forearm, and I've worn long sleeves (well, it has been weather for it) ever since. I sure hope he will fix it. Besides the cost of laser, I'm too damn old to wait for it to be blasted off and replaced.

Creative block might be an added problem for artists, but otherwise it is pretty much the same. I think if you ask your mentor, he would agree that helping others (like taking on an apprentice) aids in freshening the spirit.

So.... right!

I think your best advice is to find the artist that you want to do the cover-up work, and consult with them as to how much (if any) laser blasting is needed. Some can do amazing cover-ups with no laser work. I doubt the pain will be much worse (actually, it should be better) that the initial butcher job.

Don't think I've seen this one mentioned: support_good_tattooing is wasting huge amounts of my time the past few days.

Welcome. I can't speak for all except..... we like pictures!

Ha ha. You ladies had to appear as major dorkettes hunched over your wheels. The result is well worth it, though!

Shop is a good idea. Also, be honest with them about when you got it. They may want a little longer healing time.

This!