Feeling a bit daring again...

[calypso_21]

I don't have a picture, but I have two dragons intertwined on my wrist. One is blue, heaven, the other, green earth. I have a ying/yang symbol above them and the japanese kanji for truth, love and courage in between the two dragons. I designed it from a dream I had and repsent the world of opposites. On my other wrist i have white tiger on a moonlit sky with a a poem line, in kanji, In all in heavan and earth there is no where to hide. My next one will be on my ankle...a wolf wth another line from a poem which says whe can I be safe...only in surrender. They are definitely adictive.....

I would love to see your tats! Knowing the meaning behind them makes me want to see them more!

My dragons have many symbolic means within the one drawing too. The blue is for water and the red for fire. Yellow (gold) for happiness and wealth. Green for earth. Purple for sexuality and passion.

They are intertwined to show that twin souls are always together bound from the beginning. There is a circle to show the wheel of life...the heads form a heart though untouched as my love is never fully complete it is openended.

I also have two children...one boy one girl and my son was born in the year of the dragon.

These dragons are male and female...they have come together to be one. The tales continue to wind together...but I didn't get to get the whole tat in the picture...to show that love is never ending.

I know there is more but that is all I can think of at the moment.

 

[sufisaint]

I have never regreted getting my tattoos because they mean something to me....and will still when I am, or if, 90 years old. I have unfornately gotten a look a flack for them at work, since mine are visible unless i wear a long sleeve shirt all the time. I used to work in Mortgage Banking and the Bond Market, and of course I got some very hostile responses, never to my face, about them. So much for not being judged by the color of your skin. Noone ever asked me about their meaning or took the time to even look at them...just out right prejudice. The funny thing is those that gave me more flack, made class references, have less education and "pedigree" than me. I actually come fro a well established waspy family...I choose to live and look the way i do because I do not care about those things. well, I am going off here.... I love your dragons, the colors are really wonderful...

 

[calypso_21]

I have never regreted getting my tattoos because they mean something to me....and will still when I am, or if, 90 years old. I have unfornately gotten a look a flack for them at work, since mine are visible unless i wear a long sleeve shirt all the time. I used to work in Mortgage Banking and the Bond Market, and of course I got some very hostile responses, never to my face, about them. So much for not being judged by the color of your skin. Noone ever asked me about their meaning or took the time to even look at them...just out right prejudice. The funny thing is those that gave me more flack, made class references, have less education and "pedigree" than me. I actually come fro a well established waspy family...I choose to live and look the way i do because I do not care about those things. well, I am going off here.... I love your dragons, the colors are really wonderful...

And I love your comments. Mine is hidden for the most part. My mother is the one who encouraged me to get it and as far as I'm concerned, really only my opinion counts but mommy's doesn't hurt to have either.

As for other people they can bite an area I will never tattoo just so they can kiss my bare ...ass.

 

[lobito]

A few weeks ago, I was talking with a friend, and we were discussin tattooos, or getting them anyway.

She asked me what design I'd get. The next day she went and got a tattoo. 2 days after that, she showed me her tattoo when we were together.

Well, she ended up getting MY design on her ankle. It looked good, but I was really disappointed. Now I don't really feel like getting a tattoo anymore.

 

[calypso_21]

A few weeks ago, I was talking with a friend, and we were discussin tattooos, or getting them anyway.

She asked me what design I'd get. The next day she went and got a tattoo. 2 days after that, she showed me her tattoo when we were together.

Well, she ended up getting MY design on her ankle. It looked good, but I was really disappointed. Now I don't really feel like getting a tattoo anymore.

Aww, that sucks. But to be honest, my first desire changed. Think about all the things that are important to you and the symbols that represent them...colors everything. You may be surprised that something new comes to mind...even better than that of the "friend". If you need any help free thinking lemme know...if nothing else...I am a thinker!

 

[sufisaint]

I look at it as a quick way to seperate the wheat from the chaff....people who immediately have a negatinve reaction to my tattoos are the type of closed and little minded people that have nothing offer anyway....

 

[calypso_21]

I look at it as a quick way to seperate the wheat from the chaff....people who immediately have a negatinve reaction to my tattoos are the type of closed and little minded people that have nothing offer anyway....

I agree...am dealing with a few family members who could be described this way!