So, you have a tatoo or want one?

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Hell City Tattoo Festival
Hell City Tattoo Fest
August 24-August 26, 2007



The Hell City Tattoo Festival ignites in Phoenix. The Hell City Tattoo Festival is a celebration of body art and the education of tattooing and other forms of body modification for all. Nowhere else can you find such a collection of skilled tattoo artists in one area. Every year thousands of people come for the weekend to be tattooed by the worlds best artists and hang out with others in the tattoo community. This is an industry tradeshow, one that covers body modification in all forms, historical to futuristic, education to exhilaration.

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[funtime2 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close funtime2]

Don't have one because I don't like needles..... I have seen many people with them however. We live near several military bases and often they have tatoos. Yesterday I saw something I had not seen before and that was a tatoo on the top of the foot. I think it was a butterfly.

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

Think I will pass this year.

[TimeshareVon Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close TimeshareVon]

Don't have one because I don't like needles..... I have seen many people with them however. We live near several military bases and often they have tatoos. Yesterday I saw something I had not seen before and that was a tatoo on the top of the foot. I think it was a butterfly.

I have two of them . . . including the one that is my current avator (the hot air balloon which I designed myself). One of the misnomers about tattoos is that they are done with needles. It's really more like an exacto knife, but that probably isn't much consolation to you

I got my first one in Key West in 1996 and was surprised at how little I really felt as he did it. Admittedly, it was in a rather fleshy part of my body, so that probably helped. The hot air balloon was done in Ft. Myers in 2000 and is in my upperback/shoulder area as did hurt a bit, mostly because it was like carving into the muscle. It wasn't terrible though.

The strangest place I have ever seen a tattoo was this dude in Key West when I was getting my first one. He was getting one on the back of his bald head . . . a single "eye ball" which he said would let people know he had an eye in the back of his head to keep a good look on them. HA - I thought it looked silly but who am I to comment or critique someone else's body art?

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

I'm old enough to remember when getting a tattoo was an act of rebellion instead of conformance.

[TimeshareVon Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close TimeshareVon]

I'm old enough to remember when getting a tattoo was an act of rebellion instead of conformance.

LOL that would be what my ex-husband would say since I got it about a month before asking for a divorce. I think his exact words were "I knew something was different when you came back from South Florida with that tattoo."

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

I always wanted to get Mom and Dad but my parents were against it. I am happy I now have no markings. I still want to get MOM and DAD but it is against there wishs and since they are no longer here I will respect there wishs for life.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

No tattoos here now or ever. Tattoo's and body piercing are two things that really put me off.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

No tattoos here now or ever. Tattoo's and body piercing are two things that really put me off.

must be getting pretty hard to enjoy exotic dancers!

[ladycody Member Find all posts View Profile Close ladycody]

nah...no to tattoo's....but I'd like a belly ring.

[odaddy Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close odaddy]

None here either, but with 4 small boys, I wonder if someday one of them will come home with a surprise!

[TimeshareVon Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close TimeshareVon]

. . . but with 4 small boys, I wonder if someday one of them will come home with a surprise!

Would that be a girlfriend with tats??

[odaddy Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close odaddy]

Would that be a girlfriend with tats??

Now you are really scaring me!!!!

[Juleen Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Juleen]

LOL, don't have one/don't have the nerve to get one! In a moment of weakness, I did fleetingly think of a pale peach orchid but that thought flew out of my brain. Our son has two armbands--which his mother-in-law paid for his birthday! He designed his own to represent his personality. The tat artist gave him 50% off to keep the designs. I'm not really at tatoo lover but those two are kind of cool!

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

My youngest got one on his 18th birthday last September. It's a big Celtic cross with the fighting Irish leprechaun in the middle of it. Last week he got another one to celebrate graduating high school. It's the Irish flag with a shamrock in the center. I'm not wild about them, but I told him just never to get a tattoo where a prospective employer may be able to see it. (One is on this back and the 2nd on his upper arm). I believe it may present a negative first impression, stereotypical as that may be.