I got a tatoo today!

Heliotrope,

Selfridges has just opened a tattoo parlour !

Really ?!!!
Wowser.
I'll run a Google for that.

Thanks !

Frank, very cool! I like it a lot You don't look grouchy at all.

And I had to go back and look at the quilt. Looks beautiful - your wife must also be quite an artist - like the tattoo guy...

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The tattoo guy -- was a gal.

And she was talented.

Thanks for all the nice words.

Thanks to everyone.

nice one!
I find it pretty interesting when people get tattoos in the first place. My boyfriend has his tribe's symbol around his heart. Very meaningful and sexy (hehe). Does anyone else have a story behind their's?

Totally awesome Frank ;-) Gus had me going back to look at the quilt as well and my compliments to your wife for her very fine quilting.

A friend of mine just had a tatoo done last week and it has already faded a lot and she's very disapointed about it. I guess they never told her that she needed to keep it out of the sun for awhile and it had constant exposure to the sun ;-(

Well, that's no good, is it? I know that when I had my first pre-tattoo interview and in the after-care instructions, I was advised to keep the tats out of the sun for as long as possible, and to use Tattoo Goo under sunscreen for at least a year. It does seem to have helped to keep them looking fresh.

Tattoo Goo has pretty decent aftercare info on their website.

Will your friend be able to go back for a free touch-up, Montana? It's standard at the place I go.

She says that they never told her anything at all about how to care for it, which is a real shame. I told her she should go back and have them do it over, but the place is in Nova Scotia and she's in New Brunswick without any transportation. She's my sons girlfriend and she's only 17, so traveling is a problem for her. She showed it to me tonight and it's VERY faded to the point that it looks like one of those temporary ones that wore off :-(

grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

i guess she'll know to ask you for advice before she gets another tat. (has she seen yours?)

I told her that she needs to stay out of the sun as long as possible, so now she knows. She has seen mine, but mine has faded over the years since I've had it since I was 16 and I plan on getting another one to cover it. Now that I think about it, I'm gonna look around for a place around here to get it done.

I have 2 tats 1 is of a lil dood lifting weights as it is my life long goal to stay fit the other is of a symbol I made a drawing of that stands for my son my wife and I as a family and can be added on as needed My cousin is a tat artist I get mine free. I was 13 when I got my 1st 1 done but I don't regret it as I thought about it a looong time before I got it Inked

Sounds great, safecracker! Any pix of the tats?

I will take some asap and show yall

Mine gets some sun (I play golf every morning -- and I spend some time at the beach) -- but I've been using suntan lotion.

Looking forward to seeing those other tats that have been promised.

Frank, be sure to use some of the special lotion for tattoos, under the sunscreen, unless it's a tattoo specific sunscreen. Many of the sunscreens contain ingredients that kind of dissolve tattoos. That's why a good artist/shop will give you aftercare directions including a list of ingredients in lotions that are detrimental to ink.

First Frank, very nice job!!!

Second, get a sunscreen that doesn't contain to much water, because that could dissolve the color pigments in the tattoo! My first tattoo artist told me that, and I've never put any kind of cream on my tats that contained water, and they still look like new!

Thanks EhBeth and Bigdice.

Ya can never get too much advice on something like this.

I'm gonna talk to the artist next week -- but I gotta be careful. I'm already thinking of second ink -- and I ought really to think that out a bit more.

Frank - they're addictive!

I've spent a bit of time this morning trying to take a pic of the tat I got in June. Didja know it's not that easy to take a picture of your own back?

I'm trying to get the nerve up to go out and ask a neighbour to do this. The problem is that they'd have to see a bit more of my butt than any of us would probably be comfortable with.

why am i telling you this? well, cuz the pix i've got so far show parts of the tat - and it looks good! and it makes me want to call Grazzhopper and say - i know i said i'd be back next year, but i want the next one NOW!

this is the stuff i use - they've got a good product line and really helpful information.

http://www.tattoogoo.com/


addicted. i'm addicted. i'm planning the next section of what i want on my back

I'll replace these with a better pic next week (i hope).