Tattoos, Piercings and Other Fun Stuff

Once upon a time, I wanted to be a tatto artist. Yeah, me. Unfortunately my goals outpaced my artistic ability. I even went so far as to get a tattoo gun and self educated myself, after all practice makes perfect and tattoos eventually fade... kind of. To tell you the truth I wasn't that bad. I put a tattoo on myself and tattooed four friends (one of them not so much my friend as my ex-wife) and touched up another friend's tattoo. The only two complaints I had were; it didn't hurt enough so I must be doing it wrong and I didn't get enough ink under the skin on my ex so instead of saying "I Love Mike" it said, "I Love Ike". Nothing a little touch up couldn't fix. Then something went wrong with my tattoo gun, a bad electrical connection or something so it stopped working. Thankfully, the only tattoo I was working on at the time was my own. Once again where I was doing it not to gain a new carreer but as a new medium for my artistic expression there was no big loss.

Piercings are another unique form of self expression. There are so many types of piercings if you can get a needle through it you can get it pierced. I have had a a total of four piercings. I had my tongue pierced, twice and my nipples pierced. Why did I get my tongue pierced twice? The first time after I had had the piercing for awhile I had taken it out and I hadn't had a problem getting it in the hole. Well, this time I couldn't. So I got it repierced. Now as to getting my nipples pierced. Yes, I was going through a rebellious stage and low and behold every time my ex-wife made me angry I'd spend the child support on a new piercing. Yeah, I know not exactly right, but I have matured a little since then. The other logic I applied was one that never actually came to be. I figured I could get girls to show me theirs if I'd show them mine. Once again never quite worked out that way. How are my nipple piercings now? There is a term called migration that is when your body rejects the piercings they push out through the skin. Doesn't sound nice and isn't I removed them before it became really ugly.

Some brief trivia on tattoos and piercings. Tatoos have been around for over 5000 years. The first tattoos were theorized as to have been by accident. An open cut of some kind and some sort of dirt or ash were rubbed into the wound. When the wound healed there was a permanent mark... a tattoo. I have heard several rumors about body piercings. The ancient roman centurians used to pierce their nipples to prove their bravery. Think about getting your nipples pierced. Yeah, either brave or crazy. The verdict is still out on me. (Some day after I get enough blogs up here so that you think you know me I'll put up a readers poll titled "Am I crazy".

I am currently running a tattoo contest as you can see to the left. I went around and hung posters up in several buisnesses (tattoo parlors, cyber cafe and music stores). For their participation I am going to give them a brief mention in this particular post and I may follow up in more details later.

As to other fun stuff... oops drawing blank. Well, I guess I will talk about other fun stuff another time.

Have Fun and Be Great

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