Got my first tattoo yesterday!

[Ellen Forradalom]

I can't share 'em with the DU crowd, because I have no server to which to upload pics. Can someone help me out here?

On edit: Per the fine suggestion of DUers, I've posted them below!

[GOPisEvil]

1. Photobucket

www.photobucket.com

[Fenris]

3. Damn! Great minds, David. Great minds.

:D

[GOPisEvil]

5. Heehee...we're BRILLIANT!

Ooooh...Guinness! :beer:

[Fenris]

7. Slainte!

:beer:

[Fenris]

2. Try photobucket

www.photobucket.com

[vi5]

4. Can't help you, but details please....

Where? Of what?

What were your thoughts on the process?

Be careful. It's addictive. Once you get over the hurdle of getting yourself one, if you weren't completely turned off by the process you'll become hooked.

[Ellen Forradalom]

10. I've been asked if I'll get more

and I said, "As with babies, yes, if and when I forget how much it hurt."

On edit: My thoughts on the process? Well, it hurt. But it's not nearly so bad as any one of a number of routine medical procedures. It was a small design, too, so it was done sooner than I thought. A nice refereshing Italian lemonade before and after helped too.

[DS1]

6. You got one/them yesterday, and you've already finished with the scabbing?

wow :crazy:

[johnnie]

8. scabbing????

Better get a new artist. No really..my first one scabbed. It sucked. But then I went to another guy and told me how to handle them, and none of the other ones scabbed up on me.
DO NOT use anything like Neosporen (sp?).

[vi5]

15. How is it possible for it not to scab?

It may not look like a scab because it's covered in ink, and it may never get crusty because you should keep it moist, but it is scabbing no matter how good the artist is.

[johnnie]

17. It wasn't the artist's work

It's that he gave me a lot more info on keeping it from really scabbing. I had a few tiny scabs, but nothing like the first one.
If you take good care of it, it should barely scab at all.
Plus on this post the poster asked how can someone show it if they just got it. Even if you do get scabbing, it shouldn't scab up right away.

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. Hey thanks! HERE THEY ARE!

The tattoo covers a scar on my right leg. The design is by Max Bernischke, a Jugendstil graphic designer. The tattooist was Keith Underwood of Taylor Street Tattoo in Chicago.

[GOPisEvil]

11. Oooh...pretty.

:-)

[trof]

12. Pretty feets!

And no, I don't have a foot fetish.
;-)

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

13. You don't need a fetish to appreciate a foot like that.

Rowr.

[Ellen Forradalom]

19. Oh, aren't you guys sweet!

Making me feel like a woman again!

[trof]

23. What were you before?

hee
There's just something about a well turned ankle...

[Ellen Forradalom]

25. Wife, mother, geek

Doesn't exactly scream "sex appeal" to most people, you know.

[Taverner]

18. very nice :)

very...ummmm may i say hot?

[Ellen Forradalom]

20. Say anything you like

as long as it's nice.

[Taverner]

21. Ok. its hot then :)

I love a small tattoo on a woman

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

22. You have a comely ankle!

and nice ink - I should post mine

[jukes]

24. very pretty tat & flesh

:7

[XNASA]

14. I've seen that shop on the news.......

The unofficial 'mayor of Taylor Street' was trying to close down his biz. Something about being an unsavory gathering place. Imagine that.

Nice tat.

[Ellen Forradalom]

16. Yes, the University Village Association

threw a hissy fit at the mere thought of a tattoo shop. I read the whole story of how he won over the community in the Near West Gazette. He did it the old fashioned way, by visiting neighbors and attending meetings. There are signs in neighboring shop windows that say, "Support Taylor Street Tattoo--Let Him Work."

They might've had something about those unsavoury types, though. They probably don't want 40-year-old housewives like me bicycling in, picking up an Italian lemonade, getting a tattoo, and staying for lunch. :eyes:

[Ellen Forradalom]

26. Kick

for the evening crowd