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Inkdancer
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Tatts
I want a tattoo. I have wanted a tattoo for years. I can finally afford my tattoo. FI says "maybe wait til after the wedding?"
Dude, it's going to be on my thigh. Even if we were doing a garter toss, ain't nobody gonna see it but you!
Do any of you have tattoos? Did you/ will you cover them up for your wedding day?
Dude, it's going to be on my thigh. Even if we were doing a garter toss, ain't nobody gonna see it but you!
Do any of you have tattoos? Did you/ will you cover them up for your wedding day?
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Re: Tatts
My aunt and her now ex-husband got matching bear tattoos when they were dating. It was huge, over her whole shoulder, and depicted a bear with a salmon in its mouth. No amount of makeup could make it look like anything but a huge black blob on her back. We couldn't do anything to cover it, since she was wearing a strapless gown.
After the marriage dissolved she tried to get it removed. It was too big to do in one session, and the removal hurt so much that she went and got the part they took off re-done so she wouldn't be stuck with a headless bear on her shoulder forever.
So what I learned from this: pick your tattoos carefully, and if you don't want them to show then don't put them where your clothes won't cover!
For the painful part: even the outer part of the thigh on the largest muscle would hurt? I'd always heard that bony or sensitive parts of the body like ribs, hands, and feet hurt most.
Side not: I am jealous of y'alls guts to get them, I think tattoos can be beautiful artwork.
Thinking placement more like this:
I have lots of tattoos, and I sure as hell wouldn't cover any of mine up for my wedding or anything else. I have some on my legs, and two on my back. The one on my shoulder is decent sized (you can sort of see it in this photo).
It's on my body forever. It seemed silly to try to fake that it isn't there.
Websites/blogs where our wedding has been featured:
http://www.dapperq.com/2013/11/a-very-dapper-wedding/
http://www.onabicyclebuiltfortwo.com/2013/10/wedding-christina-g.html
http://4realequalityweddings.com/2014/05/16/g-christina/
I have 6 tattoos. One on the back of my neck, one of my foot, one on the inside of my wrist, one on my side(ribs), one on the inside of my upper arm, and one on my back starting below my shoulder blade going up towards the middle. My dress has a high back so really only my neck, arm and wrist tattoos will be showing and I am not covering them up at all.
Also, for what it's worth, the tattoo pain is definitely different for each person. I saw a few people say that their wrist tattoo hurt the worst but for me that was my first and least painful one. The tattoo on my back when it went towards my spine hurt worse then all of my other tattoos together. So really it's a personal thing and you'll never know where your more sensative area will be.
@prettybirdy27 It's a fine line to walk... you want to honor people you love and you want your tattoos to have meaning, but I definitely wouldn't want mine making me sad every day either!
Ditto. I have two that aren't visible and they were the first two that I got. I knew that I was going to end up in a career where visible tattoos are not accepted so I wanted to exercise caution, even at 19 when I got my first. I have one on my hip and one on my ribs. The two on my arms are always covered at work, despite how difficult it can be in the summertime to find blouses and dresses with sleeves long enough to cover them. While I would love to have tattoos all the way down my arms and on my lower legs, I know that it's not something that's possible in my field. When I'm not at work, you can bet that my arms are uncovered whenever possible