Body art ! (Possibly TMI !!)

Hehe ...that's a good point sb1337! I remember my second mum telling me once that she had a rose tattooed on her butt ...but, at 60+, it was looking a bit wilted! She said so with a huge smile on her face Probably the only tattoo I've seen which I thought 'Hmmm' about was my SIL got a large one tattooed on her back when she was very young, and then piled on quite a few kilos and it's all stretched out of shape ...but she still loves to show it off! I've wanted a tattoo for a long time, but have never come up with a design that I love enough to have indelibly inked on me. The husband suggested a kiwi (for kiwi-made - a salute to my parents) holding a thistle (a salute to my scots heritage). I like that idea, but I'll probably sit on it for ....oh ...about 10 years!!

Thanks for answering my questions Jax, and for not being offended It's quite good to hear your own thoughts on it!

I think the most fab tattoo I have ever seen was on a friend of mine - she had quite a few, but this one was my favourite. She'd lived in England for a while, in what was apparently a gorgeous, really old house, and one night (she was something of an artist) she'd sat down and drawn the design on the bannister, and then had it tattooed into her bicep. It was a really large, gorgeous, and intricate tattoo! I always loved it! Funnily enough, it was my curiosity that bought us together as friends ...she had a shaved head, other than a bright pink (very full) ponytail that went down to her butt. She was also the most beautiful women I've ever seen ...very Angelina Jolie, without the lips! Anyway ...after a year of seeing her around campus and wondering how on earth she got such a fab ponytail when the rest of her head was shaved, I (with my prudish strictly religious upbringing) sucked it up one day, walked up to her and asked    and so a friendship was formed (Oh, and it turns out that the ponytail was a fake - it was attached to hair that she had left to grow where the ponytail needed to be anchored).

I have five tatts - got the first one at 2am in Kings Cross in Sydney one drunken night when I was very young, it's a ribbon with Carpe Diem (seize the day) on it. I have an indian feather on my left ankle which means 'the warrior has been wounded in battle' to symbolise getting out of a bad relationship, my stepdaughters name tattooed on my right boob with some flowers and stuff (she picked the design), the chinese symbol for rebel on my left arm (OK so I was young and stupid...).

My most recent addition is Maya's newborn handprint with her name and date of birth on my right arm. I have had so many comments about it, people seem to think it is just fantastic. I thought it was pretty clever myself, but can't take the credit - I stole the idea of somebody else. Will get the twins hands as well, but that will have to be on my back coz it's the only 'blank canvas' left.

Oh and I took my tongue piercing out when I got preg this time (decided it's about time I grew up), and have a few holes in my ears, I think 3 in each but I never wear earrings. I do wear one earring at the top.

Jax - both my brothers have stretchers, Paul's are like yours, not that big, but John has these massive ones (not sure what size they are but I can ask him) and they look so bizarre when he takes the stretcher out - his earlobe just hangs lol. Mind you, he also has about 20 piercings and his upper body is completely covered in tatts, so it kind of suits him.

I have a tatt on my back of a sun and another one that goes from my hip to where my bra sits on my side, everyone thought it wud go real gross when i was preg but it didn't and its still the same now.
I wanna get something to symbolize Jack but don't know what me and Ben were thinking of getting the same thing so it can't be too girly. Now i wish i had a print of Jacks newborn hands that is the best idea.
I had my nipple peirced and a few different hols in my ears but don't have them anymore. Now i have my lip and bellybutton and lobes.

Hey art lovers! I have a fairly lge tat on lower back (which I designed) of some thorny gothic-looking vines intertwined coming out from a seed. The weired thing is that from the right angle, it (unintentionally) also looks like two scary-looking eyes staring at you!! I want to add to it to take away from the whole "scary eyes" thing though!! I'm also looking at getting some kind of celtic symbol on my wrist, cant quite decide what 2 get tho.

Robyn - will get Willie to take a pic and post it. It's at a funny angle for me to take it myself lol.

I have had my belly button pierced twice, my tongue 3 times, my nose twice, my lug once, and both my ears pierced once. But all I have left of all of those are my ears.
I have a butterfly at the base of my back (so darn cliche I know!) and my star sign symbol on the lower left hand side of my tum. I had the first one done and was really pleased with it and wanted another one so got the butterfly one which I now really regret. I am going to get it removed in a few years when we have a bit more spare cash!