Posted on 10/01/2011 9:43:40 AM PDT by redreno
Mario Barth may be the only tattoo artist who admits that getting inked hurts.
While many artists and even some customers insist the process is pain-free — some even say it feels good — Barth has become famous to the extent that he can call it like he sees it without risk of turning away customers or rankling others in the business.
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And they’re SO attractive, too! Especially when the entire body is covered with them! Love the comic book effect it has! And such a small investment - only hundreds of dollars for each one!
I stopped on some show the other month. One of the comedic commentators said the best way to get your kids to not consider tattoos is to take them to the beach and point out how great the tattoos look on those 50+ in age, 300lbs+ in weight...
A simple tattoo here or there is fine, but when people treat their bodies as ghetto graffiti walls, it becomes sick and gross.
Meanwhile, we’re all laughing at her.
Sow the wind reap the whirlwind.
tat + too = tacky + also!
Skin is actually an organ with a function.
Wonder if there is a protocol for surgeons who need to mark a limb or body part for incision/amputation - when the whole body has been inked in?
Anyone ever heard that a spider’s web tattoo on the elbow represents affinity with jailbirds?
The most basic right any of us has is the right to do as we please with the bodies we’re born with. I don’t have a tatoo and probably never will, but if people want to get them good for them.
“A simple tattoo here or there is fine...”
No it is not fine. It is totally ugly and culturally backwards. There is nothing attractive about a tattoo. It makes me want to puke.
Thank goodness it is not part of the Panamanian culture. Here in Panama, I would/will never ever hire anyone with a tattoo.
I don’t have one, but both my children do. One designed hers to reflect her Celtic heritage. It is on her back at her waist. My son got a stupid lady luck on his shoulder, which I hate, but it is lite and a classic. Both tatoos are small. They got them in college. I guess as a rite of passage. If they feel they want to express their individuality that way, I’m cool with it.
I have been a professional artist in my day and I must say that some of the larger oriental tatoos in reds, blues and blacks (dragons etc.) are absolutley stunning. Not all over the body but down one arm and across the shoulders.
CC
I got three tattoos when I was in the army and I can tell you they hurt.
It may now be associated with jailbirds, but as I recall, way back in the day of sea merchants, I believe it was supposed to be good luck.
The thought, as I recall, was that water couldn't pass through a spiderweb over a drain, so if they had the webs tattooed on, if they fell overboard, they wouldn't drown.
But it was a long time ago that I heard that and I could be completely off the mark. :-)
I don’t like seeing people mutilate themselves with tats and such but making and wearing costumes is much better like at DragonCon 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYDrwujtV2A
She misspelled “gelded”.
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