I’ve never gotten a tattoo in my life … mostly because I’m not a fan of pain. Being a lifelong diabetic, I already stick needles into my body multiple times every day, so I’ve never had the desire to have someone put hundreds of little needles into my body at once. However, at nearly 72 years of age, I’m re-thinking this! When I came across a post on Bored Panda yesterday, saw some of these absolutely beautiful, whimsical tattoos, I’m thinking about getting one! Just a small one for starters, but who knows? The sky (or rather the square inches of available skin) is the limit!
Seriously, though, I really do think these designs are beautiful and certainly unique. I wonder how much time some of the more detailed ones take? Take a look at this sampling, and if you want more, head over to Bored Panda where there are many, many more! And have a great weekend ahead, dear friends!
The shadow is part of the tattoo!!!
This is the one I want!
What do you think, David?
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A great way to welcome spring- go for it.
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Still pondering it! Thanks for the encouragement, though!
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I know…
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I’d like a little one on my back shoulder maybe..or my ankle..some cute little animal. You’ve given me a thought😊
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Awesome!!! Let me know if you decide to!
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The small butterfly? MAYBE! And I might consider a dolphin since they’re my most favorite animal. But the rest? Interesting for sure, but definitely not for me. (I think I’m too old to appreciate body art …)
P.S. That shadowed one was VERY clever!
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Yeah, I hear you. I would want to start with something small, for a number of reasons … time, pain, money, and it wouldn’t be so hard to hide if I decided I hated it! But the art is just amazing, isn’t it? I did love the shadow in that first one!
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I have a border of wavy lines, stars and planets from the front of one ear, around the hairline to the other. In hot climates I’ve been known to shave my head as well. In the twenty five years since I put it on (I’m 63) I’ve been astonished by the number of often ultra-respectable looking women who take the trouble to tell me it looks great. Still does, too ~ nothing’s changed about that (though, after twenty years of baldness, I do have hair now!)
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PS I took your head off for it, but when I discovered I wasn’t even violating any local laws it was your spinal fortitude that kicked in, as you’ll see by last night’s post. Good timing, and ~ sorry 🤭
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No worries, Ana! I felt that I had spoken out of turn, without a real understanding of your situation. I (along with 2 of my 3 children) was homeless once, but only for a few days before a friend took us in, so I sort of have experience with homelessness, but not really, not like what you’re going through. So, I’m sorry if I came across as not being very understanding. I really do care.
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Oh, darlin’ ~ thank you.
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That sounds really cool!!! I have to ask, though … did it hurt a lot? It just seems to me that the head/neck would be the most sensitive parts of the body.
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Everyone warned me about that, so I looked for pain killers among my friends. None were available, so I went for it cold turkey. Took my friend Venus with me, who can actually run a chain down her body through her piercings (plenty of experience). When it was over, she looked at me and said, “Didn’t that hurt? You actually had a pleasant smile on your face through the whole thing.” And THAT’S when I finally realized how much pain I’ve lived in every day, all my life ~ I hadn’t experienced anything stronger than what I would call mild discomfort.
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Good to know!!!
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Those tattoos are wonderful. There used to be a show on A&E about a tattoo parlor and it was so interesting to see the human emotions and reasons for people getting a tattoo – often after suffering a tremendous loss. If I ever got a tattoo, I’d want it to be of my family’s names.
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I’m amazed by the quality of the artwork, the talent that goes into these! Yes, I can see the appeal to getting your family’s names … maybe in some really pretty font. I remember you talking a while ago about T wanting a tattoo … did he ever get one?
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Haha, no. He’s 8. Maybe one day when he’s 18 or older.
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My dearest sister friend!! Tattoos are awesome!! I have a total of 17 — yep!! — and I say ‘it hurts so good’!
I’ll try to tag you on my algún in FB.
If I can’t now I’ll wait till I get back home by 3/22 … 🫂
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17!!!!!!! Wow, my friend! I’ll never catch up with you! I checked FB and didn’t see anything, so I’ll check it again after the 22nd. I hope you and MJ are having a marvelous time! 🤗
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I have to go to my albums on FB. I’ll try to do so on the cell. If I can’t, I’ll have to wait till I get back hom to use PC. Lol … 🥰
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Thank you for sharing!.. whatever works for You!!.. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming; “Wow! What a ride!” (Hunter S. Thompson)… 🙂
Hope your journey all that you wish for and until we meet again..
May the sun shine all day long
Everything go right, nothing go wrong
May those you love bring love back to you
May all the wishes you wish come true
May peace be within you
May your heart be strong
May you find whatever you’re seeking
Wherever you may roam
(Irish Saying)
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Thanks, Dutch!!! You’re so right … as I told someone else a few comments back, I’ve quit worrying about what people think … dance in the rain, get a tattoo, have that second glass of wine! And many thanks for the beautiful Irish Saying!
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“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary” (Steve Jobs).. 🙂
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Jill, good post and pictures. Best wishes on what you decide. Keith
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Thanks, Keith! I’m glad you enjoyed them … a lot of talent there, isn’t there? I haven’t decided whether I’ll get one or not yet, but I’m definitely considering it, and if I do, I’ll post a picture of it here on the olde blog!
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love it
Great blog post! I find it interesting that you are considering getting a tattoo, especially at your age. I totally understand your hesitation due to the pain factor, but these designs are certainly beautiful and unique. My question is, have you done any research on the process and aftercare of getting a tattoo? I’m just curious to know if you have any concerns or reservations before taking the plunge. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
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Thank you!!! No, I haven’t done any research into it, but I will if I decide to follow through with it, and will also research the local tattoo artists, for I’m sure some are better and more reliable than others. Thanks for your support!
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“This is the one I want!”
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🤣🤣
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What incredible artistry. Particularly the 3-D effect on the first one.
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I know … that amazed me!!! I think I’m as enamoured of tattoo art as I am street art!
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Indeed Jill their creators are folk of great imagination, skill and artistry.
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1 – 1.5 hours for the lizard, dunno how exactly they did the shadow or how long that took. But generally you can say 1 hour for a normal black tat. Preparations will take a couple minutes: Shaving where needed, the stencil, getting the machine ready, finding the most comfy position for you.
Jill, you a mom and a granny, no? So you know what pain is, and I can guarantee you getting ink doesn’t hurt nearly as much as that. Actually it’s a bit uncomfy but very bearable for the first 2 minutes, after that you’re getting numb. Weirdly the pain isn’t different at different pieces of skin but differs wildly even in a inked surface of just a couple cm².
I wouldn’t worry about your age. Hubby just got a tat for his 60th bday. He’s like “Everybody’s afraid that the cool tat you got with 20 will look shitty and out of place when you get old. Newsflash: You’ll look shitty and out of place anyway once you pass a certain age. And you can’t blame it on the tat. The cool thing is that you don’t give a flyin phucque about what other people may think about you.” 😉
Know what? He’s absolutely right! There is nothing like “age apropriate” whatever. And anyway, 50’s the new 30, 60’s the new 40, so if you get some ink now, remember you’re just 52 … and what other people may think is their problem, not yours. Maybe start with a tat in a non-visible place, where you can hide it under a shirt sleeve. My first 2 tats are on the left and right shoulders/upper arms, the left is like, never visible, the right one peeks out from under tee shirt sleeves.
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Well, an hour or hour-and-a-half isn’t too terribly bad. I think I’d start with something small.
Oh yes, I’m a mom, a granny, and a cat-mom, the latter of which can sometimes be very painful! And, doctors have long told me that I have a high tolerance for pain, which is sometimes a dangerous thing, but in this case could be a very good thing!
And you’re right … comes a point in our lives where no matter how we try, our looks fade and I stopped caring about that years ago! Used to be, I wouldn’t leave the house without makeup on … now, I don’t know the last time I wore makeup, but it’s been a few years I’m pretty sure. Just don’t care what people think anymore.
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“Used to be, I wouldn’t leave the house without makeup on …”
Mhm, many wimmin are like that. Me, I never wore makeup, except when getting paid for it. Still no plans to ever apply makeup to my face. Hubby thinks me’s the prettiest whoman evarr, the poor delusional idiot. Can’t he see the wrinkles and crow’s feet? But who am I to crush his pipe dreams?
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You are a lucky woman to have a hubby who thinks you are the prettiest woman ever! I’m sure he sees past the wrinkles and crow’s feet … I repeat … you are lucky!
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No, I’m just super super pretty! 🙂 Hubby is admittedly superficial, he gives a fucque about my intellect or character …
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No, still not tempted
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I get that! To each his/her own!
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😎
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Yes. I love the bird tattoo as you’d expect Jill but it would be waste for me as I don’t display the amount of skin needed for something like that. I’d sertle for a small Welsh Dragon on my wrist or the back of myhand or maybe the Welsh flag.
CWTCH
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Naturally, I immediately thought of you when I saw it. Well, I think a small Welsh Dragon on the wrist of back of your hand would be just perfect!!!
Cwtch
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Never wanted one, still don’t. No reason, there are fabulous artists out there. I’m not afraid of pain. I think what I might be afraid of, if I get one I’ll never stop. And I don’t like the way people look who are covered with tats. It’s apersonal thing, of course.
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“I don’t like the way people look who are covered with tats.”
See, that’s the cool thing about inked people: They’ve freed themselves from the thought they have to be liked by anybody.
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And so they snould. But that is not what I meant. I don’t have to be liked by anyone either, but I do have to be likec by me. And I do like me…
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Without any inkage? Highly unlikely, you freek!
🙂
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That’s freak, with one e and an a. Been a freak all my life. Why stop now!
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Ya, me finkered so, too. Buuuuut …
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That’s a whole new type of freeky. Cute, but makex me want to return to The Summer of Love.
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Nice idea, nice sound, cool guitar but drags a bit towards the end. Best consumed while on drugs. Didn’t know this song but in the comments some people said it’s a Zappa cover.
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The title certainly is, but the lyrics on Zappa’s song are muffled and undervoiced, in my opinion. I was going to play it at first, but then changed to this one. From The Mothers of Invention — Freak Out if you are interested.
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I’m more of a grunge and stoner rock girl, and all sorts of Britrock. While I can admire Zappa’s wild creativity and prowess as a player, I just don’t like his music.
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He is hit and miss for me, but he was rock’s first genius composer. 100 gears from now he will probably be more famous than The Beatles, or anyone else. Geniuses are seldom recognized in their own eras. (And maybe he will never be recogmized. That’s a possibility too.)
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“And maybe he will never be recogmized.”
Come on. Even a relative youngling like me knows Zappa. I guess I even had one of his records: Sheik Yerbuty, with the top hit Bobby Brown on it. That song was sexy, and even we punk grrls loved it. So I guess Zappa is very broadly recognized. More in the jazz and other strange sounds scene but also as mainstream as one can get with that kind of background.
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Might be no one here to recognize him, as in any humans alive then may not have electricity to play music!
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“if I get one I’ll never stop.”
Shit’s addictive. Only the strongest characters live with 1 tattoo for the rest of their lives.
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And I have struggled with addictions all my life. I’ve got it down to an addiction to Word Press. It isn’t as harmfil as alcohol, heroin, or gambling, etc. And it satisfies my addiction bone.
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True, but WordPress can wreak havoc on your stress levels, especially if, like me, you are mostly political!
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My comments are very political on many blogs, but I try to maintain a balance on my own blog. I actually came to Word Press to find out if there were any spiritual people i could relate to. What I found was a bunch of Atheists and Anti-Theists. And then I discovered Filosofa’s Word.
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And I’m glad you did, though I don’t think you’ll find many spiritual people here, either.
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Nope, few enough indeed. But I never meet many in real life either, so the potential is better online.
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Don’t you think it’s rather the people – critical readers and know-it-alls like Orca – than WP itself that cause the stress?
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Some days, yes! 🤣 But more often, it’s the topics themselves that drive the angst.
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I’ve long thought it grossly unfair that humans don’t have fur … bare skin really isn’t that appealing … but maybe tattoos are our answer! But no, if you don’t want one, then there’s no reason for you to get one! To each his/her own.
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I find bare skin very sexy — on a woman. On guys, not so much.
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Well, the way I see it, there’s a big difference, or at least CAN be a big difference between ‘sexy’ and ‘beautiful’. I look at a tiger or a wolf, a cat or a dog, and I see a beautiful creature. I don’t see that in humans. Sexy is in the mind of the beholder and the mood of the moment, I think.
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And we each have our own definitions. Outer beauty is meaningless to me, while inner beauty is everything. But sexy is different from those, and does have an lement of physical atteaction combinef with inner beauty. I don’t know how other mean define these things, but my sense of beauty seldom meets that of society. Onner beauty is more important than anything else
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I would get a tattoo, but it wouldn’t look good. I have more wrinkles than a prune…
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“wrinkles”
You old? Cool, so no pressure on you to look your best or anything. We oldies look like shit with and without tats. Get as much ink as as you can afford!
For yourself!
Not for critical weirdos. Remember, the 20 y/o hottie with her sexy whole-body tat will some day be 80, too.
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Exactly!!!
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Great advice, Orca…
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I hear you! But, I figure … what the heck? I don’t really care what anybody else thinks anymore! Dance in the rain, get a tattoo, have that second glass of wine!
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Yay!
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But never, never ever dance in the moonlight. We’re not werewolves!
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OHHHH!!! I have always LOVED that song!!! Thanks for reminding me of it!
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