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Post by RickW on Nov 24, 2014 2:12:23 GMT -5
No, no pictures. She has talked about this for a few years. Hinted that she'd like us to pay for it as a Christmas or birthday present. Susan said it was up to her to pay, that she needed to be sure herself about doing that. Also that she had to wait until she was out of high school.
Well, she's 18, and she did it. Her name is Aidan, which is Irish for Little Fire. When we adopted her, we decided to get a chop cut in China, and asked our facilitator what the characters for "Little Fire" were in Mandarin. She told us that no one in China would call their daughter Little Fire. But Little Fire Flower would make more sense. So that was what we did. Aidan always liked that, much more than the Chinese name that the orphanage gave her, which we kept as her middle name. So she found a Chinese calligraphist who is quite well known for creating tattoo templates, (some famous folks have gotten Chinese character tattoos that don't quite mean what they thought.) and paid her to create the brush work. And last night, she went to a tattoo place downtown here, (she did her research, they do good work,) and got the characters tattooed on her right side.
It seems to be somewhat common now to do this, and in the art world in which she is entering, it's very common. It is a beautiful piece of calligraphy, and hopefully she will happy with it.
She also told her mother that one day she might want to get a full sleeve. I don't know whether she was just yanking mom's chain, or not. I guess we'll see.
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Post by dickt on Nov 24, 2014 7:13:58 GMT -5
My daughter has about five tats. My psychologist son also has several as does his lawyer wife. Only my 28 year old son is ink free and he's the one who resembles the Big Lebowski if he goes too long without a haircut.
Working in a nursing home in 50 years will be really interesting.
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Post by Doug on Nov 24, 2014 7:28:59 GMT -5
My daughter has a few. I keep telling her that the rose on the top of her breast will be a long stemmed rose when she gets older.  I think some are sexy but too much is not. |
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Post by aquaduct on Nov 24, 2014 7:50:06 GMT -5
My daughter's got a few. All small, discrete and employer accommodating. Not sure she'll get any more but my wife and I have both half-joked with her that one of these days she can take us out and we'll get tatted.
Who knows? She'll be home Thursday for the holiday.
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Post by Dub on Nov 24, 2014 7:56:53 GMT -5
Both my daughters have serious tattoos and both granddaughters do as well. So far my great granddaughter (3-1/2 months) is ink free.
I understand that tattoos are popular now but I don't recall ever thinking I'd like to have one. Why people do that to their bodies is beyond me.
I'm engaged to marry Sue,
Honey,
I'm engaged to marry Sue,
Babe,
I'm afraid to get undressed,
Cause "Mary"'s tattooed on my chest,
Honey oh baby mine.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 24, 2014 8:04:10 GMT -5
Nobody in my family has any "tats". Must be a cultural thing, since they are completely unacceptable here.
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Post by Marshall on Nov 24, 2014 8:36:47 GMT -5
Sounds quite nice, Rick. So far me, my wife, and 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren are ink-free. If anybody in the family is going to get one it'd most likely be me. I just can't think of anything to get.  |
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Post by fauxmaha on Nov 24, 2014 9:19:42 GMT -5
My older daughters jumped into that particular pool some time ago.
I blame myself.
I'm reasonably certain that if I had gotten some 25 years ago, they'd never have wanted their own.
Alas.
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Post by millring on Nov 24, 2014 9:28:56 GMT -5
There's still a part of me that is heartbroken when I see people with tattoos. I can't fully explain it except to say that tattoos appear to be the expression of a severe self-loathing. But then, I don't clap along at concerts either.
My sister has only one of five children who are tattoo free. All the rest have tattoos -- including the pastor and the daughter with the tramp stamp whom I am positive had NO idea it would be referred to that way at the time she got it. She now has a five year old. "Hey mommy, why did you get a tramp stamp?"
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Post by majorminor on Nov 24, 2014 10:19:30 GMT -5
Never had the urge and never much understood it.
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Post by Lonnie on Nov 24, 2014 12:17:29 GMT -5
I'm engaged to marry Sue, Honey, I'm engaged to marry Sue, Babe, I'm afraid to get undressed, Cause "Mary"'s tattooed on my chest, Honey oh baby mine.  |
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Post by Doug on Nov 24, 2014 12:19:07 GMT -5
I got tired of being the only Marine with out a tat so about 8 yrs ago I copied Tom (orsino) and got a small guitar on my calf.
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Post by Marshall on Nov 24, 2014 12:21:39 GMT -5
My older daughters jumped into that particular pool some time ago. I blame myself. I'm reasonably certain that if I had gotten some 25 years ago, they'd never have wanted their own. Alas.
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Post by epaul on Nov 24, 2014 12:53:23 GMT -5
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Post by epaul on Nov 24, 2014 12:55:19 GMT -5
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Post by Doug on Nov 24, 2014 13:02:34 GMT -5
Here ya go Marshall  It was upside down.  |
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Post by Russell Letson on Nov 24, 2014 13:28:16 GMT -5
My father had one in the traditional upper-arm position--a bunch of roses. But he was in the Navy at the time (long before I was born*) and he once suggested that the interaction of shore leave and alcohol might have been involved.
* Yes, tattoos had been invented back then. Zogg has told me stories of flint chips and charcoal and gangrene.
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Post by Resolve on Nov 24, 2014 13:52:17 GMT -5
I don't get it either (although I loved the story of your daughter's name, Rick!!). Neither MrR or I have any. My two offspring are tat-free as is my DIL. My SIL comes from a family of Marines so has a tat supportive of that.
My daughter's girlfriend has a "full sleeve". Looked horrible in her wedding gown IMO. I honestly think the tiny ones placed in areas that can be easily covered (e.g. lower back or tummy) are fine on young women but anywhere else just seems tacky to me.
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Post by RickW on Nov 24, 2014 15:02:08 GMT -5
If you're going to get a full sleeve, it better be by a great tattoo artist. The Miami ink guys were amazing.
My wife's niece got a small horse done on her back when she was a teenager. One of the older women at the stable laughed at her, and said, "Honey, when you're my age, that little pony will be a Clydesdale." She has got a few more since.
My daughters is tasteful, in a discrete spot, but not small. The artsy community that she'll be working in is full of folks with body art, so I doubt it will be a problem. And the other two, I'll be surprised if either of them goes there.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Nov 24, 2014 15:27:35 GMT -5
A friend was called 'Judy' by her husband and all of us, even though her name was 'Julia." Eddie, her husband, had one of those big heart tats on his bicep with an arrow through it and the word 'Judy," who was his first wife. Easier to change wife #2 to Judy than change the tat. Julia apparently did not mind, though she did eventually become ex-wife #2.
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