Tats/Piercings like a drug?

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It didn't hurt that bad... it was just a sting in a few places. I don't know how many tatts I'll get, but as far as I know it'll only be the one I have now and the one I'll tie into it.

The only ones I regret are those I did myself with india ink and a guitar string in my mirror when I was 15, and those are covered up.The guy I get most of my ink from does it at a rate of 150 an hour. hes well worth the cost if your serious about it. I like top notch shit and I think about a tat for months on the design, then after its finished a few more to make sur i really want it.For the 27 I have Iv forgotten about 200 that I wanted at one time. I dont regret any of them. Shit I cant wait to get more, one day Ill have damned near a full suit.

Fuck! That's expensive.
The more experience the Tattoo Artist has, the more money it cost -- ever noticed that?
My Industrial cost me 'bout 100, then 40 for jewelry and 60 to place in!

Joe will do a piercing at a standard price, its the ink that costs so damned much. Just one more reason to think it through and choose carfully. I always go big anymore, if Im getting new ink its gonna be fucking huge. Why shouldnt someone with more experience and better talent make more money for doing it?I can get some asshole in any shop to ink me for cheap, but the quality of the work matters a great deal to me.

I agree -- I've seen some though that look amazing on paper and sketches, but just don't come out as right on skin. Do you have pictures of any of your tattoos? Do they stand for anything?I want this

Im a big horror fan (whore fan too) the left arm is a big ass bitch vamp sitting ona headstone with a vortex behind her, when its finished it will include a entire cemetary scene complete with a dead priest. I like to think of her as my ex wife, she didnt suck blood, just life. the other arm is to the light, a sun, complete with sunglasses, the lizards, so many lizards, I always liked the bastards and they can fucking climb. witha egyptian death beetle over the sun. a huge dragon from the top of my chest to jsut above my wang onthe right side of my chest, a celtic band around my right wrist and an tribal bat marking the end of the one day to be completed graveyard scene on my left wrist, myright forearm has an old celtic symbol sitting between my two oldest sons names withteh same scroll work as I have on my favorite rifle on each side of them. I need to get some time to add my other sons name to that arm but havent figured out exactly how to do it and keep it right withthe other names. I have a bear on my right calf, a big ass grizzly bear, scotty would understand the reasons behind it. Im currently wanting a doa tag tatted onteh bottem of my foot complete with the tied string around my big toe. Its nearl yobligatory to have a hunge inked on my elbow, Im jsut debating the style I want. I didnt get any of my ink inside, I dont do prison ink or prison sybols, no watch towers, no tears, no spiderwebs onthe elbows. My back Im saving for one grand scene, I just havent decided what that will be yet, all the other skin thats yet uninked Im not sure about. Im currently trying to find some wasted abstract type of shit to fill in gaps on the partially done sleeve onthe right arm that works with the sun and the lizards. a good friend of mine is working on a nearly naked demonic bitch that will be put onthe back of my left forearm with the dead priest on the inside of it. They all mean something to me, but Id never expect anyone else to ever understand why I have any of them or what they mean to me.I dont do naked girls either, while the vamp is partially nude all her goodies are covered ina tattered red robe like a monk would wear if he liked bright colors. I dunno why, I jsut dont want naked girls permenantly inked into my skin forever. Iv also worked out a nice bit of scroll work that Im thinking of having inked as a necklace that simpley says "Fuck It". Theres a empty six pack of beer cans labeled apathy that I got from a green day song a few years ago, as in "just drank a six pack of apathy, the world owes me so fuck you"all mine were done for various reasons, While I dont figure anyone else would see much in them, they all mean something to me. Id nevre get som estupid shti that didnt symbolize something and part of my life. That shit dont wash off, its there for life. ink with no meaning only means your stupid enough to pay some asshole to permenantly mark you.

I bet people think you're crazy, no? At work and school I have to take out my piercings which sucks 'cause it's a bitch to put them back in! Do you have any piercings? Or you're just tattoos? I'd love to get an Aztec piercing.

Im too smart for piercings.I have 6 holes in each ear, had 7 but it was thru that little part in the middle right over the ear hole and it migrated out.Iv had my eye brow pierced once and took it out let it heal over. I also had one nipple pierced, I hated it, it caught on every damned thing, sheets, sweaters, t shirts, everything so I took ti out too. now IM too smart to stick holes in my body. I got one to eat 2 to hear and one to shit and onto piss out of, thats enough for me.Im smart enough to know that you wont go far in life covered in tats. All mine are easy to cover. If Im nto wearing short sleeves or shorts, youd never know Im so heavily inked. the arms end about 2 inches above the wrists, and none on my neck, face, or head.

I got my first tattoo when i was 15... last may... i plan on getting more... my dad has like 7 so its not a big deal.. i just have to pay for the rest :frowning: lol