Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Tattoos: My Story

Wednesday, 25 March 2009 11:35
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It’s no secret that I am into tattoos. I love them on myself and on other people. I love everything about them: coming up with the idea, working on a design, booking an appointment, the nervous anticipation before starting, the discomfort/pain of the needles and the healing process. You could probably say it’s a passion of mine. It’s kind of hard to count how many I have really. I have a sleeve and some matching tattoos that could be counted as either one single or one double tattoo. But roughly speaking I currently have 14 tattoos from the back of my neck down to the tops of my feet. I love them all, even the not-so-great ones, and each one has a story of its own.

The story of my love of tattoos isn’t one of rebellion, in fact far from it. My mum always tried to convince me girls couldn’t get tattoos, that it made them look rough and unattractive. I guess I always had an interest in tattoos because she told me this from a fairly young age, and it almost worked. When I was 18 I considered getting a tattoo, but it had to be somewhere easily hidden, something pretty and I had to get the courage to ask my mum first. I eyed off a sleeping dragon that I wanted on my lower back for ages, but I put it off so long I lost the piece of flash, and eventually chickened out of it entirely, thankfully. When I was 20 the thought of getting a tattoo was the strongest it’d ever been and became a bit of an obsession, so shortly after turning 21 I got the logo of my favourite band (Die Ärzte) tattooed on my back. The hardest part wasn’t the pain or the permanency - it was asking my mum permission. I honestly thought she was going to disown me. She wasn’t overly impressed but said it was my choice and told me she’d never, ever disown me over something like a tattoo. And that was that, my first tattoo over and done with with many more follow over the next five years.

People often ask me if I’m going to keep getting tattooed til I’m completely covered. The answer is no. I love tattoos but don’t feel the need to cover myself in them. Maybe when I’m older I might find myself completely tattooed like the World’s most tattooed senior woman (well, maybe not) but as such I’m in no hurry to completely cover my body in tattoos. I’m also careful about getting tattooed for the pure sake of it, which is a trap I know is easy to fall into. Although I’m not one of those people hung up on saturating my tattoos with lots of meaning and significance, I like to make sure I’m getting the right design for the right reasons (since I’ve gotten some fairly random tattoos in the past, which have ended up taking up valuable real estate).

Coming soon: My guide to getting tattoos.

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