I would love to get a crystal on my right hand representing my nerdy love for Final Fantasy. Autobot symbol on my right arm and Decepticon on my left to represent that geeky balance between good and evil.

I wanna get a small mediumish tattoo ony left hip bone? I'm thinking like flowery something like maybe medium
But I don't really know how that would look
Wht would you recommend ??

I don't think I'll ever get a tat, unless I find out that for one reason or another I can't give blood.

You can still give blood after tattoos.

You can? I thought there was a period after which you could not...

Edit: Yeah, in the UK you can't give blood for 6 months after getting a tattoo.
https://secure.blood.co.uk/c11_cant.asp

There is. I'm just saying, there's no reason that Never can't ever get a tattoo unless she can't donate blood. After a couple months, once the skin is healed, they'll let you donate again.

Tattoos are so addicting! I have three, and I already have four more planned out. It's sad, I know. (:

This is my first one. It's an orchid.


This is my second one. (: It's Italian for "happiness".


I don't have a picture of my third tattoo, but it's a star on the side of my heel, right below my ankle. I just got that one about a week ago. (:

Unless you go for a tattoo on a parlour that's on red cross's safety list, which is always a good plan to consult anyway.

None of the websites I can find agree with you on that. You got a cite?

No, sadly. I looked through a book they handed to me when I gave blood at the school blood drive. However, I believe this lists the APT certified ones, which are on the list.

By including APT in my search I found this:
http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x723442745/Tattos-piercings-no-longer-obstructions-to-giving-blood
Is good :D

Indeed.

Does anyone know what to do about itching? I've slathered A&D on it, but it's driving me mad.

I understand, but I really want to give every chance I can.

I heard putting aloe vera mixed with a thin coat of anti-itch cream really works.

This may sound a bit odd, but my cousin just got a tattoo on her calf and says the itching goes down when she slaps it. She Googled it and found that if you slap it, the itch goes away for a while.

I was thinking of a tiger (surprise), but my brother beat me to it. Perhaps I'll pick a few lines from Mr. Wilde:


Your empty eyes are stocked with nocturnal visions,
In your cheek's cold and taciturn reflection,
I see insanity and horror forming.
The green succubus and the red urchin,
Have they poured you fear and love from their urns?
The nightmare of a mutinous fist that despotically turns,
Does it drown you at the bottom of a loch beyond searching?

I wish that your breast exhaled the scent of sanity,
That your womb of thought was not a tomb more frequently
And that your Christian blood flowed around a buoy that was rhythmical,

Like the numberless sounds of antique syllables,
Where reigns in turn the father of songs,
Phoebus, and the great Pan, the harvest sovereign.

I'd like to have this on my arm, I will when I'm 18^^

My stepbrother got that tattoo. ^

I really dislike tribal tattoos. They're very unoriginal.

One of my friends goes up to people with tribal tattoos and asks them "Oh, so what tribe are you from?" It usually results in a red face and a departure on their part.

I don't like unoriginal tattos, but that's no reason to be an ass to people.
It's aesthetic, purposefully misunderstanding the intent behind the tattoo doesn't make you witty or cool, it makes you an ass.

He doesn't think you should get a tattoo unless you understand it. But I always thought tribal arm bands were just a look, and didn't necessarily have a history behind them.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the majority of tribal tattoos have no significance at all, they're meant to be aesthetically pleasing.

I want to get an anchor tattoo in the centre on the top of my thigh, if that makes sense. I want it to be really pretty though with the chain all wrapped around it and maybe some seaweed.

I probably won't get it though considering I'm too scared to even get my ears pierced.

I don't have the money right now, but when i get the money i'm going to get this. Or something alone the lines of this on my left shoulder. :)

I have no tattoos and I think they are disgusting.