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sian kisses · Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Posts: 19 Location: brighton

does anyone have any pin up girl tattoos, or know a good artist.
i really want a lovely pretty lady and kitty kat tattoo.
photo's would be fabulous.
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Miss Baby Bones · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject:

my friend katja in london loves doing that

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Thrilby · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject:

BB yours freidns pics are great!

I have a pin up girl, oon the front of my hips. I had it done a few years ago at the tattoo's on Dean Street in Soho, but the girl who did it has moved on and I don't know where to Sad

She was great as I took in a very rough picture and we developed it together.

I'm looking at stocking seams next
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Miss Baby Bones · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:23 pm Post subject:

lol Thrilby surely for a vintage lover like you having tattooed seams is just a big fat cheat? Laughing

and what if you then wear seamed stockings but those seams arent straight with your tattooed seams? imagine the hours you might spend with your back to the mirror trying to get them perfectly aligned...

sorry im kidding Wink

yeah katja's fab. shes working in north london i think. just msg her if you're interested.

or visit your local tattoo places and view their flash to see their styles.

a good AND local tattooist is like gold dust. haha!

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Violet Ecstasy · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 533 Location: West Midlands

I've heard that the seams kill at the back of the knee - yowch!

I'm thinking of getting a small tattoo (couple of inches) of cherries, but i'm worried that it might be a bit passé now, and I don't know where to put it. I have a rose on my stomach that I had done when I was 18 (nearly 12 years ago Shocked

) I'm a bit restricted because of work, I was considering my ankle but I'm not sure whether I would get sick of it being there later on. Confused

Oh the dilemma.

Miss Baby Bones · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject:

if you're worried about work i wouldnt get your legs tattooed below the normal skirt line

unless you're very secure in your career never get lower legs, ankles, forearms, hands or neck tattoos.

why secure yourself a lifetime of minimum wage jobs just for a tattoo?

theres going to be a whole generation of idiots who all wanted to be the most tattooed person in their peer group, and then once they got over 25 realised they went too far.

oh and all their retro style tattoos look the same!

god it annoys me...

violet i like cherries too hunny. its annoying they're so 'in' at the moment but if you like them, thats what you like so get them anyway.

when they go out of fashion you'll still like them.

how about your side or lower back? somewhere you can hide it. shoulder?

dont go for your ankle unless you're prepared to wear trousers on hot summer days, just in case your job dont like it

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Violet Ecstasy · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 533 Location: West Midlands

Yep that's what I'm thinking, and I'm already 8 years into my career so I'd be undoing a load of hard work if I suddenly started upsetting people. (Let's not say anything about my double life Razz

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I want to have one where I can show it off if I want to, I bought a pack of 10 temporary cherry tattoos so I could have a play about with placement, I've worn one on a shoot on my ankle and I wore another one (again on my ankle) for my Dad's birthday party. I haven't really tried putting them in other places, but back could be an option. Although I don't often have my back exposed.

There is a PE teacher who has a thin tribal design along her ankle and she wears shorts so it is on show at the moment. Some of the kids have told me she has to wear a plaster over it but every time I've seen her she hasn't had a plaster on. Confused

I might have to just stick with the transfers Laughing

Miss Vincent · Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 78 Location: Brighton

I'd love a tattoo. I've been seriously thinking again about getting one , I have various images and locations loating round my head, but what I reaally, really want is a vine of flowers creeping down my little finger and the side of my left hand. BUT I know I shouldn't really get a visible tattoo....as I am extremely likely to end up a teacher, and it's seriously frowned upon.

Other places I'm considering are the backof neck/behind ear, or feet.
I don't plan to get loads, and I only want ickle ones.

I think it's bullshit that teachers cannot have visible piercings, or tats. It in no way affects your ability to teach, and I thought we were supposed to teach kids that it's okay to show your individuality? Not that it's even particularly individual anymore!

Violet Ecstasy · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 533 Location: West Midlands

Yeah I have my tongue pierced (had it done when I was 20) and I take it out for work. At my previous school they asked me to, even though I had a special bar with pink ends that you could barely see (that I ordered especially from America)... they said it affected my voice projection!

I don't wear it at my current place when I'm teaching, but I had it in today because we are off timetable for the week doing enrichment activities. It was a planning day for me cos I wasn't involved in any of the activities but I popped in to see some of the kids from my tutor group etc:)

Miss Honey Bare · Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 200 Location: London

Thrilby · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:57 am Post subject:

I know that you are only taking the mickey BB!!

How much easier would it be though not to have to worry about your seams being straight!!!
To be honest I am not rushing to get them done as I have found out that you can't tattoo on the back of the ankle to have the fully fashioned effect. If I'm going to do it, I want to do it properly.

There is also the consideration of work, similar to what is being said.
I can't image it being too much of a problem, but as I am an event co-ordinator and have a lot of face to face customer work, I can image the commments I would get especially considering within the area I work, it is mainly men attending the events!

I would love another pin up girl on my other hip, but i have to save first.

Violet - my tattoos are out of the way, lower back, but under the waist band of my clothes and then up my spine and front of hip.
It is not often people see then - usually if I am stretching and my top rides up, but that is not often.
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Miss Baby Bones · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject:

lol im not sure about teachers and visible tattoos!!

i dunno. its odd.

personally i think you should cover up all tattoos in any work place (unless its specifically an alternative place, like say a tattoo parlour or a rock bar...)

the day tattoos become 'normal' and 'acceptable' to display is the day i want to scrub all mine off with a pumice stone.

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Miss Honey Bare · Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 200 Location: London

Miss Baby Bones · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:43 am Post subject:

lol why is having tattoos like being gay or a religion?

i dont think you got my meaning hun. ill try be a little more clear.

it is an odd subject, but for me personally, i like tattoos because for a white english person, they would be an alternative statement, a lifestyle choice.

i want them to look imtimidating. my main thought when younger was i wanted to look scarier, and with tattoos i could do that.

but they're not any more. they're very fashionable and i hate that.
its just become so 'safe',
and the more acceptable it is to have tattoos in places like where you work, the more i think tattoos look pointless.

its got nothing to do with 'being accepted'.

i got tattoos because i didnt want to be accepted by popular culture.

now its like im a member of a fashion clones club i didnt want to be in.

very frustrating. lol

hope thats easier to understand. obviously thats just my view, but its something i feel strongly about.

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Miss Honey Bare · Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 200 Location: London

I see what you mean. I love having tattoos for some of the same reasons, ie. it's an alternative statement. But mostly because I just really love tattoos and retro style, and if I didn't have them I wouldn't quite feel like 'me'.

But the flip side to being 'alternative' is the constant barrage of abuse. Don't get me worng, I do get positive comments too, but for me it's not really about trying to scare anyone.
I don't wear new rock boots and heavy black eye make-up to frighten the bejeesus out of people, it's because I find it aesthetically pleasing.

And I really get annoyed when people feel they have to get up on the train or bus and move away from me because they are scared of what I might do. I'm a pussycat....they just assume I'm a bad person!
I get damn well sick of people passing judgement and being rude.

I equate it to being gay or black to emphasise the predjudice side of things. It's unacceptable for people to be rascist/ageist/homophobic etc...but then people have no problem with yelling 'hey freak bitch' and 'where are you off to? A funeral?'...etc.
And I'm from London, I'm a born and raised Camden rat, so I imagine that I get a much easier ride than those living in smaller towns and cities! What about that poor goth girl killed only recently, simply because she was different?

And for people to say 'well you choose to be like that, so you need to put up with the abuse' is simply not a good enough argument (and I hear it a lot).

And so what if these 'fashionable' people get themselves sleeved up by the time they're 18? More fool them, because they may well regret it in time, but hey, who am I to tell people what they can and cannot do if they're not hurting me?
It's part of their personal journey and growth as a person.
It might teach them not to be so foolish and rush into following fashion and being a sheep. And who knows, they may find that if the older people on the scene accept them, they may end up dizcovering that they really enjoy the goth/psychobilly/burlesque lifestyle and scene and become 'one of us'.