Tattoo Part Two March 20, 2007
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So for those of you who read this and keep up with me I thought I would add some more.
More musing on my tattoos I don’t have and my never get.
I have been toying with the idea of getting part of my family crest tattooed on my side rib cage. I have seen a couple recently on females I think are very attractive. That being said also completely coverable. So–anyways I was thinking a lion in heraldry as a throw back to our Irish side and due to the fact I am a Leo (lion here too) and he has a crown which is also a throw back to Leo and semi religious undertones thought I don’t consider myself religious. Then he is holding a scepter of a fleur-de-lis which is very important to me because I am VERY fond of the fleur-de-lis idea due to the fact I have lived and will probably live in St. Louis then I will anywhere else in my entire life. Then on a scroll underneath him i want written in Latin my family’s coat of arms motto. “Palmam qui meruit ferat’ Let him who has earned it bear the palm. In other words almost a sign of identification, achievement and prestige. Such as they gave palm leaves in historical times to victors. I feel that my last name is a very significant and powerful thing. Although I also exclude that to my immediate family and people we choose to bring into it through birth or marriage. Such as, my daughter she was born in. I was born in. My mom married in and anyone me, my sister or my brothers chooses is a right that if we have taken the time and looked and chosen you it is a great honor to be apart of our clan. And while I may be a feminist, I am not so far out, I do want to take my husbands name and I want my children to have his name but they will forever be apart of our family- starting with my dad. They have earned the palm to be one of us.
Also going on that tangent–i have a fairly common last name–thousands of us–from all over very doubtful were all related so I was thinking about like trying to have heraldry make a comeback and I thought it would be funny if everyone with the same last name no matter how old or where they came from repped it. The idea amuses me!
So that lion sorta and with the banner that reads something else….otherwise just script down my side. I dunno probabaly won’t happen but i like ot think about it.
Tattoo’s and Haircuts->sluts and nuts March 28, 2006
Posted by prex in Out and About, Ramblings, tattoo.3 comments
This is a kick back to last Tuesday.
So I really have this great story but I am not quite sure how to tell it with out offending or disclosing to much information…my luck at this rate you will all alreayd know these people and tell them I am blogging about it and I can cry and slit my wrists of something dramatic to that effect.
Brief pre-history about me. I am a huge fan of 80% of tattoos. They are pretty bad ass…that or trashy…but that badass ones.. I am a sucker for. I don't have any and sometimes I wish I did. I made an appointment once with a friend of mine on the last day of finals first semster freshman year back up in canada had already met with the artist had it sketched out and was finishing up my final and find out my buddy who I had made an appointment with had gotten out of his final before me and left with out me…and to me the whole point was I didn't want to go alone…*rolls eyes* So I don't have any. Not that I absolutely can't find anyone to go with me…but now at 22. I have gone this long with out getting any, why start now. I went through my piercing stage. I am easily addicted I wouldnt know where to stop.
So lately I have been on this new kick- partly Angelenia Jolie inspires, part Brad the buddy who ditched me out back in freshman year, and part this guy in one of my classes who used to work at a shop who I am "hanging out with frequently" recently. And when I sat "hanging out frequently" I really mean that. It isn't really dating, but might be, were both admited were attracted to each other, but havent and not sure if we want to do anything about it…so litteratly we just hang out and sometimes I think we a just to darn similar for anything between us to work out and I would hate to loose him as a friend. THAT BEING SAID…it is always fun to have hot guys as friends!
So I am getting my hair cut like I do every six weeks and talking to the girl who does my hair about wanting a tattoo finally. I have picked two that I think I want and one that I am 90% sure I am ready to do. I am telling her all this a. because she is covered in tats and I admire her and am jelouse but couldn't really do it myself. Secondly her boyfriend is an tattoo artist. Now–when i hear this i ask her if he does a certian technique…that i had seen it done and that it is in fact what I want done…she says she isn't sure but will ask…but she had a exboyfriend who had what i wanted done on his arms and tells me what it said…I think I about passed out in my chair…she totally had what is said wrong..but this was my friend she was talking about and I knew it…so ten minutes later i get the balls to ask her if it is….this girl is cutting my hair after all! Dangerouse position for me to be in! And it totally is and she is like " YOU KNOW HIM!?" and I am a horrible liar and am like "yea…" She goes on to tell me that he cheated on her with a married woman and that the married womans husband is out to kill him and he had to leave the state and is in hiding and about thier sex life and on and on, and somwhere in there I mutter I don't really know him it was along time ago trying desperately to change the subject but she won't have it so I just mumble listen. I admit a part of me was stabbed and in shock. And of course i hadn't even left before I am calling mysister and telling her…and she is going into a pitty party for me like wtf…
I drove home wondering why girls are attracted to bad guys. Is it that we want to be the special one to change them? Why is it that even though a part of my heart is remembering all my past hurt I don't really care. My sister asked me what I was going to do, and well being me I told her give him shit about it of course! Although for abou 30 seconds I will say I thought about just blowing him off the rest of my life what a jerk and liar and a scum bag…..then I thought about what certain guys from my past would say about me….ouch. I have my own past history that is less then stellar and that I am less then proud of. Who am I to judge.
That night he text messages me we play the text game for a few and we finnaly end up talking before we meet up and I mean I was trying to hold this in. I had to bring it up, and I didnt want to wait and act like I was hiding something, and I was down right tickled to see what he had to say..and a part of me didn't care- I like him for who he is good and bad, just like people accept me and some of the shitty things I have done.
I told him I had a funny story…I think he could tell it was going somewhere I sensed nervouseness in his voice. I think that he could hear the sarchsim in my own. I told him he would laugh I promised him I laughed. I started out…sooo…I got my 6 week hair cut today..and he just stops and goes "Oh god where do you get your hair cut…" and I told him to quit interuppting that , that point was EXACTLY where this was going and to shush and listen. So i recapped for him and we both laughed and he felt the need to explain his side even though I told him not nessicary. He did anyways and whatever i didn't care before and i didn't care afterwords. He was caught off guard that i brought it up and he said he was amazed at how secure i was and most girls wouldn't have done that and would have been really insecure and jugemental…soooo after reminding him that i am NOT most girls.. I am P-Rex– i walked him through my though my thought process and explained what i have told you all and that there are always two sides to every story…and see as how he had clearly not fled the state and was not in some proection agency I wasn't to worried about her credibility…though it was a good laugh and I think i might have to find a new hair dresser.
All this over a tattoo…which ironically this guy and I share another similarly related story. So like i said he worked in a shop before and we discuss tattoos quite often esp. with me being preoccupied by them right now. And one night we were out drinking and for some reason i start ripping on this girl who had a tattoo on her neck. Whatever some can be hot but what stood out to me about this one was that is said…and I sat behind her in a class and had to stare at it every class and I always though about what it said…and I told him and made some joke and he looked at me and was like…"Dude I totally dated that chick. I am not kidding"…and he had….and I was very apologetic and embaressed and didn't really know what to say, and he said it wasn't a big deal and i was right about what it had said on his arms! HaHAH! I win…and I won major cool points for being an open minded un judgemental girl who wasn't afraid to bring stuff up! What could have been bad turned out really good.
So there..TWO incidents involved one of the same people in both about random tattoos linking people that never would have ever ben recongnized or known or identified. I will say i am FREAKED OUT. I don't want to be that identifiable…this is a pretty big world what are the odds!!! While i was driving home I was back to my old self of I am never going to get a tattoo after hearing that story. Keep the skin pure and beautiful…but it didn't last long.
I will have to link the site with tattoos i like and see what you guys think of my ideas. Didn't you enjoy how vague this was! Just wait till I put the pictures and some flavor up!
I am a fan of lower back tattoos on chicks. Tramp Stamps…ya whatever they are hot…esp when girl wear low rise jeans and like half the tattoo sticks out….yea I wish i had one. I was thinking a fairy. I love fairies and I have for years I have tons of them all over my house. I collect them and what not many people know this about me. So i had this awesome tattoo i created and this guy up in seattle working on it and doing a concept sketch and then my friend bashed it for me. He told me that 90 of girls get fairies and hearts and flowers. Broke my heart I don't wanna be like all the other girls out there….granted this was a personal creation not to mention a fairly large tattoo to a naked fairy with hair over her face and rainbow wings with flowers on both sides..i am a sucker for nature too. I <3 Trees. -=P I don't wanna be a cliquche sell out…so I put it on the back burner even though this is a very person image for me he really shook me up.
So then I also think wrist tattoos are pretty darn hot guy girls…hot! And the hippie in me is very into "one Love" and I was thinking at first I'd get a red heart on my foot really small and have it say one…well same guy ruined this one for me too by informing me that your foot regenerates skin very quickly and due to the circulation they fade out very quickly and this is a horrible place for them…I though it would be a great first step…small easily hideable and I like tattoos on feet though I don't like feet at all. So once he ruined my foot idea he suggested wrists but while this unlike the other is HIGHLY visable. So i am thinking maybe do it in a color that isn't really noticable. I am super pale and could pull it off maybe and I was thinking of using this heart symbol i have drawn to represent the same thing but makes it even more personal.
NOW i am pondering maybe a lion like on the ethopian flag that is wearing a crown and holding a flag or septer/staff/thing and perhaps put flowers in his mane on my lower back…I am a leo..were lions and it is a very romantic idea for me..though I think it is a very masculine thing to have tatttooed. I have some ideas I will link when i get home, I would definatly have to think through it some more I have just been pondering it this week and been saving images i like. I started out thinking the crested lion also known as the dancing lions on ancient crests… i liked this but i think it would be better in black and white…and I could almost do one on onside of my lower back…but then what on the other…. But I like color on the lower back…and I like the idea of magisty and i like realistic looking lions which is easier to work with in prancing striding lion of the ethopean type flag lion.
Thoughts, comments and general responses always appreciated and welcome! ESP concerning my tatoo ideas. I know your supposed to get them for you..and I would only get one if it was for me..but ya know other people have to see them so you might as well get feed back! Whatch me never get one and all this time and enegery I have put into this…hehe it has been fun..and p_tricia if you are reading this I can't wait till your tattoo becomes a reality. It is beautiful and it is you. I am so excited! <3
~P-Rex
Images Links:
Fairy-Google Image Result for http://z.about.com/d/tattoo/1/0/e/k/061204p.jpg
lions:
