Tattoo First Timer Yet?

[RoninJedi]

1.) Make sure it's something you won't regret years from now.
2.) Make sure you'll still be able to recognize it later when age begins to take its toll.
3.) Unless you can actually read Japanese/Chinese characters, STAY AWAY!

When I got my first tattoo, I was really nervous because my threshold for pain can be pretty small. I was totally fine sitting in the chair, and then he started the gun (sounded just a like a dentist's drill!). I had to call time-out and take a breather.

He said, "I'm gonna count to 3, and then start. Whatever you do, DON'T jump."

"Okay."

"Ready?"

"Not really but yeah."

"One...two...three..."

"..........that's it?"

"(Laughter) Yeah, dude, that's it."

I felt a bit like an imbecile. In all honesty, my first one didn't hurt a bit. My second one got really tender toward the end, though. Of course that's because I was in the chair 8 hours and they had to triple the size of it to cover up the fact that they inked the outline backwards. But that's another story...

 

[farouk]

1.) Make sure it's something you won't regret years from now.
2.) Make sure you'll still be able to recognize it later when age begins to take its toll.
3.) Unless you can actually read Japanese/Chinese characters, STAY AWAY!

When I got my first tattoo, I was really nervous because my threshold for pain can be pretty small. I was totally fine sitting in the chair, and then he started the gun (sounded just a like a dentist's drill!). I had to call time-out and take a breather.

He said, "I'm gonna count to 3, and then start. Whatever you do, DON'T jump."

"Okay."

"Ready?"

"Not really but yeah."

"One...two...three..."

"..........that's it?"

"(Laughter) Yeah, dude, that's it."

I felt a bit like an imbecile. In all honesty, my first one didn't hurt a bit. My second one got really tender toward the end, though. Of course that's because I was in the chair 8 hours and they had to triple the size of it to cover up the fact that they inked the outline backwards. But that's another story...

So are you done getting tattooed?

 

[RoninJedi]

So are you done getting tattooed?

Not yet. I have to get the aforementioned backwards tat fixed eventually - just having a hard time finding someone who won't charge me three fingers and both pinky toes to do it. Then there's probably 4 or 5 more I want to get, but they're pretty low on my priority list. I'll get around to it eventually, though.

 

[farouk]

Not yet. I have to get the aforementioned backwards tat fixed eventually - just having a hard time finding someone who won't charge me three fingers and both pinky toes to do it. Then there's probably 4 or 5 more I want to get, but they're pretty low on my priority list. I'll get around to it eventually, though.

Sounds like you're a bit of a veteran tattooee already, anyway, and I guess you are no longer nervous of the needle as it pumps hundreds of times.

 

[farouk]

Stan: Yes, well, these days the young women often definitely want to be tattooed as well as young men; I doubt that it surprised you that she wanted it, too.

Blessings.

Stan: PS: to my post:

I would have thought that, just as it's obvious that -despite what some folk say on other threads - it's not only women who pierce their ears, so also it's not only men who get tattooed (and in North American now more women - 59% - than men get tattooed). Blessings.

 

[RoninJedi]

Sounds like you're a bit of a veteran tattooee already, anyway, and I guess you are no longer nervous of the needle as it pumps hundreds of times.

Not quite a veteran yet. I've only got two, but no the needle doesn't bother me anymore. I think it's more annoying than painful.

 

[Guest 3]

Even for those who want it (and we're not talking about the folk who don't!) getting the first tattoo can be both a bit of an anxious time, but also quietly exciting.

It's all sorts of people for many reasons that have it done, of course, many Christians included. From moms and grammas getting the dates of birth of their kids and grandkids, to young people willing and motivated to carry a faith challenging Bible ref. or Christian fish sign, planning the first one can be an emotional and maybe a bit of a scary time, too.

Any thoughts and observations from past tattoo first timers, or those wishing to be?

Blessings.

I did my first tat myself, I regret doing it only because I was too hasty and I did not plan it out right. I have been thinking of painting over it with something better. I have no problems with tats I think they look nice, but what you make of this verse.

Leviticus 19:28
Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.

But thats all old testement law right ?

 

[farouk]

I did my first tat myself, I regret doing it only because I was too hasty and I did not plan it out right. I have been thinking of painting over it with something better. I have no problems with tats I think they look nice, but what you make of this verse.

Leviticus 19:28
Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.

But thats all old testement law right ?

Hi Chris Vaggos:

Next to this verse is one about not trimming the corners of one's beard. (Do preachers shave?) The verse also says about not cutting 'for the dead', i.e. the context of pagan necromancy. I wonder if the overall context of the passage relates to Old Testament Jews, an earthly people in the land under the law? Whereas the New Testament believer is a member of the church, a heavenly people, exercising Christian liberty (though not as an occasion to the flesh). Many Christians would include in that liberty the possibility of using a faith based tattoo design as a conversation-starter in witness situations, for example.

(Make any sense?)

Blessings.

 

[Guest 3]

Hi Chris Vaggos:

Next to this verse is one about not trimming the corners of one's beard. (Do preachers shave?) The verse also says about not cutting 'for the dead', i.e. the context of pagan necromancy. I wonder if the overall context of the passage relates to Old Testament Jews, an earthly people in the land under the law? Whereas the New Testament believer is a member of the church, a heavenly people, exercising Christian liberty (though not as an occasion to the flesh). Many Christians would include in that liberty the possibility of using a faith based tattoo design as a conversation-starter in witness situations, for example.

(Make any sense?)

Blessings.

Don't know, I am not a jew and not living in that time.

 

[farouk]

Don't know, I am not a jew and not living in that time.

Are you a Greek-Australian from the Melbourne area, btw? I know there are many people of Greek extraction in Melbourne, anyway...

Back to tattoos: I guess my point was dispensational; we are living in different times and under a different dispensational economy...

Blessings.

 

[Guest 3]

Are you a Greek-Australian from the Melbourne area, btw? I know there are many people of Greek extraction in Melbourne, anyway...

Back to tattoos: I guess my point was dispensational; we are living in different times and under a different dispensational economy...

Blessings.

Yep I am the real wog boy.

 

[farouk]

Yep.

I wonder if more Greeks than Turks wear tattoos..?

 

[Boerman]

The most important thing to consider is the artist. A good artist will take your idea and think of things that you never would, improving it. Also, placement is a big deal and a good artist is knowledgeable at this as well.

 

[farouk]

The most important thing to consider is the artist. A good artist will take your idea and think of things that you never would, improving it. Also, placement is a big deal and a good artist is knowledgeable at this as well.

Boerman:

Yes, you are right!

Do you have a sense of what are particularly suitable placements for a first tattoo? I guess it can differ sometimes between men and women; each placement has its advantages and disadvantages, I guess.

 

[farouk]

... both considering it.

PS:

christianvolume: So how are you plans going? your wife is plucking up the nerve, as well, to do it, then.

Blessings.

 

[farouk]

I have been thinking of painting over it with something better. I have no problems with tats I think they look nice...

PS:

Chris Vaggos: It's not so unusual for ppl to get cover overs for their tattoos. For example, a woman that has a tattoo of an ex-bf's name 'Bill' and she is converted and prefers to display something faith related, may well decide to get the 'Bill' tattoo changed to 'Bible', etc.

I guess lots of similar examples could be given.

Blessings.

 

[Guest 3]

PS:

Chris Vaggos: It's not so unusual for ppl to get cover overs for their tattoos. For example, a woman that has a tattoo of an ex-bf's name 'Bill' and she is converted and prefers to display something faith related, may well decide to get the 'Bill' tattoo changed to 'Bible', etc.

I guess lots of similar examples could be given.

Blessings.

I have a design in mind, a snake in a figure 8 with its tail in its mouth with the name of my daughter writen around the middle of the cross section of the body of the snake.

 

[farouk]

I have a design in mind, a snake in a figure 8 with its tail in its mouth with the name of my daughter writen around the middle of the cross section of the body of the snake.

Chris Vaggos:

An interesting, intriguing and distinctive design that you have in mind! Sounds a bit like the tattoo that Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill had on her wrist (mother to the famous statesman).

Maybe your daughter will feel kind of thrilled to be the subject of your tattoo, anyway (whether or not she would eventually want to get something similar herself; not sure if she is of tattooing age yet).

Blessings.

 

[Guest 3]

Chris Vaggos:

An interesting, intriguing and distinctive design that you have in mind! Sounds a bit like the tattoo that Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill had on her wrist (mother to the famous statesman).

Maybe your daughter will feel kind of thrilled to be the subject of your tattoo, anyway (whether or not she would eventually want to get something similar herself; not sure if she is of tattooing age yet).

Blessings.

It also will be on my wrist, it has to, to cover the old tattoo. The old tattoo is two rune stone symbols NF thats what it looks like. I don't know what those symbols mean anymore. I used a needle some indian ink and a ice block to make them, this was in 1993.

 

[farouk]

It also will be on my wrist, it has to, to cover the old tattoo. The old tattoo is two rune stone symbols NF thats what it looks like. I don't know what those symbols mean anymore. I used a needle some indian ink and a ice block to make them, this was in 1993.

Chris Vaggos: Well, interesting, anyway; sounds like the old one that you want to cover dates from before your daughter was born, maybe, anyhow.

I guess the snake significance is for the S shape dictated by the rune shapes that you want to cover. Anyway, what with Moses lifiting up the serpent in the wilderness (John chapter 3, etc.) and the connection with your daughter, you'll probably get a lot of milage out of it, in terms of its meaning and significance to you.

Blessings.