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post #151 of 171
4/24/11 at 2:38am
Looks better without the shading. Maybe it's some reference I don't know or recognize by why the hell would you get a hairdryer tattooed on your arm?
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post #152 of 171
4/24/11 at 5:20am

Yeah, the face looks a little odd in the shading pic but I had just stepped out of the chair so the irritation is most likely a factor.
 

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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post

Looks better without the shading. Maybe it's some reference I don't know or recognize by why the hell would you get a hairdryer tattooed on your arm?


My mother, who passed away ten years ago this year, was a hairdresser.

 

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This hairdryer was/is an extremely popular model for stylists.  It is an "iconic" hairdryer in my mind because my mother had one and at every station in the shop she worked in there was one.  A little more difficult to see is the pair of scissors with filligree engraving.

 

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post #153 of 171
4/24/11 at 5:23am

You had a sexy pin-up like model tattooed on your arm...in memory of your mother?

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post #154 of 171
4/24/11 at 6:05am
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post

You had a sexy pin-up like model tattooed on your arm...in memory of your mother?



Yes.  Problem?  The pin-up came first, the idea to make her a hairdresser second.  My mother would have loved it. 

 

Should I have been in lockstep with everyone else and just gotten a heart that said "mom" in a banner?  Or maybe I should have just done a traditional portrait with a name or birth/death date banner?  Taking a traditional idea that most people have, a pin-up, and adding a twist to it that makes it uniquely mine was the impetus.

 

Read what you want into it, nothing in your head is present in the idea for this.

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post #155 of 171
4/24/11 at 7:15am

I like it.  I think it's an excellent homage.  Plus if it means something to you, who cares what anyone else thinks?

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post #156 of 171
4/24/11 at 10:37am
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I think it looks great!

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post #157 of 171
4/24/11 at 11:32am
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I like it.  I think it's an excellent homage.  Plus if it means something to you, who cares what anyone else thinks?


Exactly.

 

 

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I think it looks great!


 

Much obliged to you both.

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post #158 of 171
2/2/12 at 10:13pm
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Newest tattoo from today. Done by Danny Reed at Hot Stuff Tattoo here in Asheville.

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post #159 of 171
2/3/12 at 12:11am

I'm this close to getting a Judge Dredd style eagle wrapped around my right shoulder once I get in shape. Which should be by summer. It's the one tatoo out of everything I ever wanted that I never see myself getting tired of. I just don't know if I should get it colored or just shaded. Would an orange/gold type color look good on a white guy that doesn't do tanning, at all? I tend to think it would not look that good. And since the tattoo would get pretty big they way I'm picturing it, uncolored would be quite cheaper, too. 

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post #160 of 171
2/3/12 at 12:19am
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I'm this close to getting a Judge Dredd style eagle wrapped around my right shoulder once I get in shape. Which should be by summer. It's the one tatoo out of everything I ever wanted that I never see myself getting tired of. I just don't know if I should get it colored or just shaded. Would an orange/gold type color look good on a white guy that doesn't do tanning, at all? I tend to think it would not look that good. And since the tattoo would get pretty big they way I'm picturing it, uncolored would be quite cheaper, too. 


[gasp] A JD shoulder eagle would be so badass! Too bad my right shoulder is already covered or I would totally get that myself.  With regard to coloring, it really depends on your skin tone but I'd go with just stark black maybe with a thin gold inline. Coloring can look really lame & cheesy with pop culture tats. Ya gotta be careful.

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post #161 of 171
2/3/12 at 12:23am
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[gasp] A JD shoulder eagle would be so badass! 


Fuck yeah it would! Just picturing it on me makes me smile like a crazy person.

 

 

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post #162 of 171
2/3/12 at 12:39am
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post

I'm this close to getting a Judge Dredd style eagle wrapped around my right shoulder once I get in shape. Which should be by summer. It's the one tatoo out of everything I ever wanted that I never see myself getting tired of. I just don't know if I should get it colored or just shaded. Would an orange/gold type color look good on a white guy that doesn't do tanning, at all? I tend to think it would not look that good. And since the tattoo would get pretty big they way I'm picturing it, uncolored would be quite cheaper, too. 



stick with black for the shading.

 

That will look fucking mean as, man!

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post #163 of 171
2/3/12 at 5:22am

Like this, stel?

 

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Or something like these?

 

 

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post #164 of 171
2/3/12 at 6:02am

Definitely bigger. I picture it starting from the middle of my pec and going all the way around to the back and from the top of my shoulder to the middle of the bicep.

 

And as for style, probably something like this:

 

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post #165 of 171
2/3/12 at 6:19am

That would look pretty sweet wrapped that far.  Go for depth and shading obviously and not the solid print like the pic you posted and see how it sits with you.  You can always go back to color it.

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post #166 of 171
2/3/12 at 6:22am

Yeah, I'm not going to go exactly like the picture. I meant the art style mostly. High contrast and geometric. I want it to pop.

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post #167 of 171
9/19/12 at 9:55pm

My wife has one on her side that spells MOM...When i turn her upside down it spells WOW...

 

 

This is one of mine which is located over my heart...

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post #168 of 171
9/22/12 at 11:08am
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My wife has one on her side that spells MOM...When i turn her upside down it spells WOW...

 

 

This is one of mine which is located over my heart...

Wow, the confederacy, right over your heart? Um..

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post #169 of 171
11/8/12 at 10:41pm

So... no tats here yet, but I have a question:
How much of a pain in the ass is the healing process if you get a tat in a place where a lot of hair grows? Thinking of getting one on the side on my head above and slightly behind my ear. I shave my head all the time, just didn't know if the stubble would be a pain for healing, or if it could later end up being a pain for shaving if it ends up being slightly elevated above the rest on the skin on my head.

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post #170 of 171
11/8/12 at 11:33pm

Not particularly hairy but they do itch like a bastard when they are healing.  I imagine dealing with stubble on top of that would be a bit of a cock.

 

My tats, which I'm appalled to realise are nearly twenty years old.  Fucks sake.


Left arm,  loosely inspired by The Stone Roses Fools Gold single cover.

 

 

1000

 

Right arm.  Charles Rennie Macintosh Rose.  Something Celtic but not Celtic.

 

 

1000

 

I'm going to get another one done on my right forearm when I get my NZ Citizenship.  I'm still deciding what it will be.  Needs to celebrate both my cultures (Brit and Kiwi), and also my family (which is the whole reason I moved to NZ). 

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post #171 of 171
11/9/12 at 8:49am
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I'm going to get another one done on my right forearm when I get my NZ Citizenship.  I'm still deciding what it will be.  Needs to celebrate both my cultures (Brit and Kiwi), and also my family (which is the whole reason I moved to NZ). 

 

Andy Bain, get... the Union... Jack but done in... All...Black. /fleed

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