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[spyderfyngers]

How strange.

The other week I had a sudden powerful urge for a tattoo. I saw a model with little symbols in the crook of each arm and was envious. And today the urge has come back.

I'm way too fickle for a tattoo. It would be stupid to get one, what with my changeable moods and body-hatred. I don't even have a design; just a vague idea and the crook of my left arm. Henna, yes, but I change my mind too many times a day for anything permenant.

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But there's an urge, damnit!

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I /love/ that song.

[phable.livejournal.com]

I think a henna tattoo would be a good idea. But not a permanent one—you'd likely regret it horribly the following week upon deciding you'd have preferred something else, or no tattoo at all.

I can also understand tattoos being an expression of identity, but identity isn't static. Whatever you have injected into you aged twenty may well be little more than irrelevant faded ugliness by the age of thirty, forty, fifty.

Besides, if you want something stuck to you forever that you'll be sick of within a year, I volunteer myself. ;-)

The voice of reason. How ironic.

[spyderfyngers.livejournal.com]

I know deep down I wouldn't do it. I'm just too fickle. I'd be caught between a Rossetti motif and something angelic. Henna, absolutely. It's just a case of getting someone clever to do it.

Also, my arms are unusually skinny at the moment, and if I gained wieght (which I'm kind of trying to do, if half-heartedly) a tattoo would probably stretch. And I don't need more reasons to stay thin.

Re: The voice of reason. How ironic.

[spyderfyngers.livejournal.com]

*offers superglue*

Re: The voice of reason. How ironic.

[imjustso.livejournal.com]

I think I need insulin. ;)

[nick-l.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what it's like to have sudden overpowering cravings to get a tatoo, but even if you have the slightest doubt at any point it is best never to get it done. I really don't want one at all at the moment - for this reason I'm glad I didn't get it done last year when I really did want one!

[spyderfyngers.livejournal.com]

Very true. And this is what I'm telling myself. I have too many interests bouncing off one another to pick just one image.

I haven't even got my ears pierced. Maybe I should just do that instead?

[nick-l.livejournal.com]

And if you don't like having them pierced, people tell me they close up again if you don't keep stuff in them. I've never really had much desire to have my ears done - The thing that really put me off was my old next door neighbour who had loads. Being a guy he had just normal rings which he didn't take out, and he told me how he always got his hair tangled in them in the shower as he also had long hair. That would annoy me way to much.

But it's different for women because they tend to wear easily removable pretty ones.
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I must still be really tired, I actually thought that was interesting when I typed it, sorry if it bored you.

[sistermorticia.livejournal.com]

Not wanting to disagree with our learned friend Phable, but... don't fight the urge!!! (Or indeed his other suggestion!)

My tattoos make me smile every time I see them; they make me happy, I love them - they are my favourite part of me! :o)) I will say, however, that I waited a long time (years) to find the right image for the first one, and once I'd had it done I found another one that went with it perfectly right away. They were the right designs and I don't regret them for one second.

If you found the right design, you'd know. If it's right it will mean something to you, not just something pretty or cute or - god forbid! - fashionable, because those are the ones that you'll hate and regret in a few years (months?!) time. You'll know when/if you see the picture you must have.

I myself am failing to fight the urge for another tattoo; my skin is telling me to have it, and I'm just waiting for the design to find me. :o)


[By the way, heard from tim_wonderland over the weekend and he was having a wild time in the midst of EuroPride in London. I dread to think where he is now...! ;o) ]

[spyderfyngers.livejournal.com]

That's the thing - I'd know. And I don't, not 100%. I'll keep my eye out, and keep an open mind, but my intuition says I'm too changeable at the moment. I love your swans, though. And I look forward to seeing what this new one will materialise as.

[sistermorticia.livejournal.com]

You will know when you see it; even if you're not looking for it, suddenly an image or design will just jump out at you and you know that's what you want to be a part of you for the rest of you life. If you're still in change mode, this isn't the time you'll find it anyway. :o)

Mmm, I love my swans too, they make me happy that they're with me all the time. :o) I too am looking forward to seeing what the next one is going to be; got some ideas but haven't hit the right one yet. LOL and it will probably turn out to be something completely different from what I think it's going to be! :o)

[primal-sanshin.livejournal.com]

*grin* Just go henna, lass. ;)

Go with the henna... BE the henna... *grin*

[spyderfyngers.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I'll have to go to Dubai again and have it done there. Oh no. What a chore.

[primal-sanshin.livejournal.com]

Don't you just hate it when that accidental travel necessity happens? Shucks. ;)

[imjustso.livejournal.com]

Much like the urge to kill annoying people, the urge to get a tattoo will (most likely) pass. If not, go look at some very old people with tattoos and see how very beautiful they are on wrinkled skin.

Someone needs to invent a tattoo that stays for about a year and then fades. People would be able to get the desire for one out of their system and not have to suffer either permanency or expensive removal.

[spyderfyngers.livejournal.com]

I ought to draw on myself in biro. The henna you get in this country is dreadful quality, and unless I have a template, I'm useless at drawing.

Good idea about the one-year thing. Whenever my henna ones faded after a couple of weeks, I wished they'd stay for a few months or more.

[tim-wonderland.livejournal.com]

My tattoos will be beautiful forever...

[imjustso.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, dear.

[tim-wonderland.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :o)

Not only do I have (in my eyes) their unending beauty, but I have the experience of them, the memory of them, the delight of others and lovers who see them. They cover scars, they masked pain and turned it to a source of pleasure, they comfort me and are alive on my skin...

My body may change, but my delight in them will always remain.