Marked

[serijules]

I finally got my much awaited tattoo....my Owner's mark. Although she has warned me she isn't done marking me yet *smiles*

Chinese lettering down my left calf for "Her jewel" done in garnet gradient tones. I tend to heal dark because of my olive skin tone, so the reds are a bit brighter right now than I want. Once it heals, we will be going over the outline in clear UV ink, and putting a black wash over the red to bring it a bit more into the darker garnet tones I want. Better to start light and go darker to get the exact shade we want than to have it too dark.

I'm very happy. I feel very beautiful and complete with her mark on me.

http://www.serijules.com/marked4.jpg

 

[snowy ciara]

It's lovely!

 

[Caitlynne]

Oh, it's beautiful! Really beautiful.

You must be so pleased.

~ Cait

 

[graceanne]

Woo hoo! It's beautiful!

 

[SierraMoon]

It is beautiful!! I'm sure you are both very proud!!!

 

[sphynx's dragon]

That is absolutely gorgeous! <speechless>

 

[Guest]

 

[TaintedB]

I'm very happy. I feel very beautiful and complete with her mark on me.

http://www.serijules.com/marked4.jpg

Ditto squared on the beautiful! To me, the calligrafic style (all except for the last ideogram) looks arabic rather than chinese. What does it say?

 

[jasonlf]

I'm not a big tattoo or piercing person, but that looks alright.

(that's high praise coming from me regarding a tatoo )

 

[serijules]

Ditto squared on the beautiful! To me, the calligrafic style (all except for the last ideogram) looks arabic rather than chinese. What does it say?

It translates to "Her jewel" or "Her precious stone" to be more exact. The problem with chinese translations is you get down to the very basic english words. The wonderful thing about this translation is that it has meaning that goes back to my childhood as well, so it will never lose its appeal to me no matter what should change in my current relationship.

The calligraphic style is an artistic style unique to the artist that rendered it. I'm not a fan of traditional chinese calligraphic styles...being an artist, the uniqueness and flair of individual calligraphy was much more appealing. I used to study calligraphy in college so I learned an appreciation for different styles of calligraphy. I am very happy with the results

 

[serijules]

I'm not a big tattoo or piercing person, but that looks alright.

(that's high praise coming from me regarding a tatoo )

LOL Jason, this is one of those "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" threads

Thanks for the effort though *grin*

 

[serijules]

It's there for life

That's the point *smiles*

 

[serijules]

There will be an ankle band of vines and a garnet jewel below that in a few months...and something neat about that is the artist that designed the band from what D described to him came up with something very different than I had in my head but is absolutely perfect because the style of the vines matches the flowing artistic flair of the calligraphy as well. If I didn't know otherwise, I would think the same person designed both to compliment each other (which is what we wanted, but hadn't made a point to actually do).

 

[shy slave]

seri Its beautiful,

I bet you can't stop looking at it

 

[Netzach]

lovely!

 

[cellis]

I love it. I love it was not done in haste but after much careful consideration.

 

[catalina_francisco]

It is beautiful serijules and I imagine with the extra work you will be putting into it, the result will be exquisite. Hope you post pics of that too.

Catalina

 

[serijules]

I love it was not done in haste but after much careful consideration.

That is something that makes a difference in whether I love or hate a tattoo too, on myself or on others. One of my closest friends happens to be my tattoo artist, so in hanging out at her shop and just talking to her, I see a lot of tattoos and the people they are on, the decision making process, etc. I'm FLOORED by how some people make decisions regarding something like this! When I went in for this appointment, a young lady and her parents were in there too. She had a whole bunch of chinese lettering and the alleged translations that she found on some website the night before, and wanted them done. It sounded to us like she hadn't done any research at all because when my artist asked her what they meant, she went into this dramatic explanation that from my understanding of chinese lettering from my own research, that "exact" of a translation in that few of characters is no where near accurate or possible. D and I actually wanted a different verse originally, but it didn't translate how we wanted so we choose something else.

Especially with something like a BDSM mark of ownership. It's really nice to think that your relationship with someone will never change, but reality being what it is, at some point a relationship will change in some way. Thus, any mark that I put on me in order for me to love it and want it and be as happy with it as I am with the tattoos that I have, it has to have a meaning that embraces more than just one concept. In this case, the reason and meaning for this tattoo is being owned. The other things surrounding this tattoo are too personal for me to share or I would, but they are there. Plus the fact that D has had such an enourmously positive impact on my life and who I am (and I on hers, for that matter) that I will always be her jewel, even if the most we are is just friends. I wouldn't allow myself to be marked like this if I didn't feel that strongly about our connection. Another person that I have very negative memories of used to call me jewel too, but D helped me become the kind of person that doesn't let my past justify who I am in the present. I'm HER jewel now.

My duckie on my ankle is a good example of this. When I got it, I was in another relationship with someone else. I've always loved ducks because my husband and I raise them...I've been "mommy" to hundreds of baby ducklings, and they are the most innocent, adorable things on the planet. Many happy memories of taking care of ducklings and the joy that them being so devoted to me brought me. My Domme at that time did not know this about me really, and wrote a humiliation-based story involving a childrens pull along duck toy. That started a lot of fun teasing and gift giving and whatnot from my group of friends...friends which I never had growing up, so I treasure them a lot. Before one of our twice yearly parties, I decided to get my first tattoo, and didn't tell anyone what it was until they saw it... a duckie on my ankle. Everyone assumed that it was a symbol for my then-Domme because of the story, and while the story did kind of inspire the thought, what the tattoo symbolizes to me is innocence, friendship and good times and laughs. Long after my relationship ended, I still love this tattoo as much as when I got it, and my friends still buy me rubber duckie things all the time. They still make me smile as much as they ever did.

All my tattoos stem from deeply personal feelings that I treasure. The phoenix and moon scene on my back symbolizes personal growth and believing in myself. The image of the phoenix is something I got in a quarter machine when I was a kid, one of those fake tattoo things, so I've loved it as long as I can remember. Can't get much more thought out than that, LOL. The man on the moon symbolizes a very special man in my life, my father. He's the one that used to tell me there is a man on the moon, and to this day I can't look at a full moon without seeing the man on the moon face, lol. I'm adding some wording below it one of these days...either Believe in Yourself, Believe in the Magic (meaning the magic of life) or simply Believe. Still thinking on that one.

Sorry to ramble, I love body art because it tells a story. As an artist myself, it feels right to use my body as a canvas to tell my own.

I wonder sometimes what all those people out there with skulls and crossbones and bloody-gory stuff tell people was their inspiration.