Did you have regrets? I got my first tattoo when I was 19 and it sure is silly. A big old ugly heart with wings and some terrible font in latin. I had to come to terms with myself that these tattoos especially the ones with the latin words in script that no one can read are a moment in your life. Whenever I start thinking about how ugly it is or how uncomfortable it makes me, I try to think what about what I got it for.
Exactly how I felt when it was finished. At the time that tattoo was incredibly important. Would I get the same tattoo now? I have moved around quite a bit the last several years, and every time I live in a new state I get a tattoo there. They all have other meanings attached to them, but they also serve as a reminder of my experiences where I was living at the time.
This explains why so many young people in their teens or early twenties frequently make decisions which are not necessarily in their long term best interests. First of all, how temporary is this craze? Because it has certainly been going on for many decades, at least. And the ages presented are always different.
The other reason is that a lot of people over the age of 25 make a lot of stupid mistakes, while a lot of teens make really stellar choices, sometimes about tattoos, sometimes about careers, sometimes about things even more important, like social activism. I loathe ageism. Heres a question: Could ones decisions before 25 directly contribute to developing their prefrontal cortex? I feel exceptionally better about my tattoo after reading your words.
Thank you. Maybe I will reconsider a cover-up. So of course the pigment in my flesh is going to occasionally make me pine for the days when my skin was plain. I have two tattoos. Like any other facet of my appearance, I have good days and bad. Funny—I have a purple crescent moon on my shoulder, no outline, and my mom tells me she thinks it looks like it was drawn on with a Crayola marker.
I wanted one the moment I turned 18, but after getting a few little ones, I told myself to wait. I got three relatively small tattoos in my late teens, and to this day I still love them and find them beautiful and love showing them off. I love this! I got all four of my small ones in a 6 month time span. I still really love two of them, but the other two I can take or leave.
I totally know how you feel. For my 30th birthday I got two tattoos on the inside of my forearms that were very special to me and represented a lot that I had gone through.
They were even more beautiful than I could have hoped for, but as they healed I started to feel weird about them. Tattoos are not the only thing holding me back from looking like Karen Gillan. Time helped. Just getting used to them and allowing them to feel like a part of me. Also looking at tattoo websites or the tattoo tag on Tumblr.
Seeing other women with tattoos made me feel less like a freak. There can be room for doubt without feeling guilty. Thank you for this! I just got a half sleeve started yesterday and am having serious regret because of the drastic change. Thank you!! I completely related to this comment.. You nailed it, Chantel. It is a reminder that we are always changing, that some of the choices we make are irremediably permanent.
I just got a new one, my 6th actually, but it is the biggest one of all. We humans are all the same. I just had this thought. Us who are here sharing this are inked people. We are already amazingly fearless and stand out from the crowd.
Everytime I look at my stunning Aries Ram outline in red! I will now think of all of you and I will never feel regret again. Thankyou so so so much for this answer! Chantel, Your lovely positive outlook has totally transformed how I feel, I have suffered regret extremely badly since having a tattoo on my upper back. My mind has done the rounds, I decided against removal removal-leaves scars and upsets family members, I still have the scars from a previous incomplete lasering where I even surprised myself by crying when the ink dispersed!
If only they knew!! Well, after reading your uniquely wise opinion, I feel totally different, have stopped the mental punishment I was giving myself!! When I start to think negative, your words cut in and I see sense! When I finished the first of my two half sleeves upper arms I had a similar, yet also different reaction. It was my first large visible tattoo, and right after the piece was completed, I had looked it in a mirror at the tattoo shop, and it seemed so right that it was there, and of course I had just sat for several hours and watched it being completed,so well, of course it was there.
And I was in a tattoo shop, and everybody there was tattooed, or getting tattooed, and so was I. So, yeah, no big deal, right?. But the next morning I got up and immediately started my cleaning routine. In the process, I glanced up and and saw myself in the bathroom mirror. It was the first time I that truly saw my tattooed self in my normal life context. It really shocked me — it was like I was looking at another person, a stranger. Somehow seeing the tattooed me in my normal routine, made it suddenly very real, and very foreign.
My sleeve seemed huge, bigger than I remembered at the shop. My arm is going to be like this forever. I was actually exhilarated by the thought that it would never be the same.
I liked that feeling. I made a choice to alter my body forever. It did take me about a year to get over the surprise of seeing it in the mirror in the morning, or catching it out of the corner of my eye when I was in the middle of doing something else. When I took a shower I sometimes scrubbed at it especially hard. But now it is just a part of me, both physically and emotionally.
For me, that is part of the appeal of tattoos — you have to go through process of healing until your body finally accepts the tattoo as a permanent part of your skin, and you also have to go through a mental healing process, until your brain finally accepts them as permanent part of you. You have to adjust to being different. I love that. My very first tattoo was ginormous. It covered the entire front of my right thigh, from hip to kneecap. It was like, holy shit, my leg will never look the same again EVER.
It took time to adjust to such a big change in my body. I agree with the majority of your advice and appreciated your story. For better or worse, once the decision is made to put ink in the skin, it will never again look like the fresh virgin skin it was before no matter what you do. I totally understand being caught off-guard and maybe put off by the attention.
My hair has been dyed blue for the last 6 months, was yellow for 6 before that, and to be honest I am super sick of talking about it. I agree with most commenters about having a natural adjustment period.
I was so excited to get it, but it did not turn out the way I wanted. I cried so hard realizing my arm would never look the way it did before and thinking about how I had ruined my skin. What I looked like while I was on this Earth will not matter. Tattoos become a part of you that like everything else you have to learn to love:. I really enjoyed your comment. People might say the same thing about other body mods but there are some that I would never personally do.
I think I would totally regret NOT getting my tattoo! And eventually, tattooed or not, we all end up with baggy skin, and then with no skin at all.
However, I realize that a lot of folks regret their sleeve in the first month. I have nausea every morning, and constipation , I was having acid issues but they seem to have lessened. It is really nothing major. I am just frustrated at the lack of progress. I am starting at a higher weight than most people so I expected to lose more my first month. It is hard to know you forever altered your body and left yourself open for some pretty heavy side effects and not see results.
Hoping in the long run this was the right decision. But only time will tell. I wish you luck, this is not a decision to be taken lightly. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. By sillykitty , July 17, in The Lounge. Vitra » Garnold Alyssa Dalrymple.
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Kadidy Posted May 23, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites. EsoKev Bryn Posted May 23, edited. GreenTealael 22, They are addicting. When I got my first one, I was coming from a period of a lot of trauma. And I always loved the [Chinese] characters. I was looking through the book and saw the characters for wisdom and tranquility. I needed both of those things in my life, and I thought, "Well, if I can't get it [in life] I'm going to put it on my back.
The three butterflies signify my grandchildren. I enjoy it because when I look at it I see my children and my grandchildren. And I love the colors -- the pinks, the blues and the turquoise. I think they are pretty. People that get tats, we march to our own drum beat.
So people are usually not surprised when we do something like this. And people that have tattoos, we don't care if you don't have a tattoo. The people without tattoos are the ones that tend to be judgmental, I think! I love mine! I consider it wearing art. I was like, "I will never let them know how bad this hurts. In fact, I have to fight the urge to go and have another one. But, they are forever, so they really have to speak to me. It will have to be something that is really, really special to me.
I love mine, I think they are beautiful. I got ticked recently when somebody [on Facebook] said, "I don't need a tattoo to be a badass. Let's just be real.
Shari, from Wyoming, is a tattooed midwife who also works with sexual assault survivors, and has helped heal some of her own pain through tattoos. I have three sons and a daughter. My sons are 33, 31, 23 and my daughter is I was married to their dad for about 23 years. I got divorced and I thought, "I'm never getting married again. I'm an alcoholic and a drug addict in grateful recovery. So that's been a very long journey. I had to take a break from midwifery, I had to go to rehab and get well.
But, about six years into being single and thinking I wasn't ever going to meet anybody, I just met this man who rocked my world and I got remarried.
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