"Hello" to all you people out there in Cyberspace, if your lucky enough to have come across this site and be reading this.
Well for a while now i have been thinking about getting another Tattoo, so i was searching the internet for ideas and couldn't really find anything that jumped out at me, so i decided to design my own Tattoo, with an idea in mind, i did some more research and decided on doing a Tatt that incorporated what is essentially a part of me, and that is my M.S.
Macarbre, "some may think", but not really, when you think of it. It is what i think about the MS and an easier way to describe it to others, and as a bloke i work with said you have taken your condition buy the throat and own it, which i suppose i have but never really thought about it that way before now.
Anyway back to the Tatt, i was trolling the internet looking for a Logo or an emblem for Multiple sclerosis and couldn't find anything, then i started to think "is there a ribbon, like the one for breast cancer -the pink one", for MS. Well i finally found it on a couple of sites, and if your interested in looking up that type of thing,when you type it in you need to put Awareness Ribbon. anyhow with a picture of the ribbon i was then able to sit down and make a few small changes and additions.
So i have the ribbon, i have the quotation - "The Stalker Within", and i removed the original writing from the ribbon and replace the Multiple Sclerosis with MonSter on the ribbon, i then went trawling the internet again for different pictures of claws and faces peering, eyes and whatnot so i had a lot of pictures to choose from and try to incorporate into the tatt.
With all this information in mind and written down on a sheet of paper,i could picture the end product, the hands being as crappy as they are, decided on taking my ideas and whatnot down to my local Tatt parlour and saw the tattooist "who has done my other tattoos in the past" and asked him for some help, we sat down and i showed him what i had, and described what i wanted, and could he draw it up for me. With that i left him and was waiting for a phone call from him within a few days.
Well thinking about it overnight i came to the conclusion that the size of the ribbon that i gave him, the picture of was going to be TOO BIG , so i called in to see him after work the next day and asked if we could make a change to the design, he wanted to know what that was and i said we will make the ribbon smaller as i thought it would be to big, well he called me a shit "with a smile on his face"as he had already made the tatt up, but yea that shouldn't be a problem so just leave it with him and he would redo it.
the following night, when i got home work there was a message on my answering machine, that the new design was ready so i jumped back in the car and headed down to the tatt parlour to have a look, Well it was what i had envisaged, so with that i made a time to go in and get the Tatt done which was on the saturday afternoon.
Saturday
When Saturday finally came around i headed down to the tattoo parlour and when i walked in he was ready to start, so asking me where i wanted to put it i said, we will stick it on my right forearm as it is the most affected arm that i have from the ms and, i will either not feel it or it may be oversensitive so we'll see how it goes.
As i was about to sit down i pulled out a new picture of the Ribbon which showed the colours alot betterand gave it to him so he had a better idea of the colours, he looked at it then me and said you just love to make my life difficult dontchya and i just laughed and said i trust you, with a big grin on my face.
So shaving and placing the stencil on my right forearm we were all set to go and away we went. Pain wise there was bugger all or none whatsoever, and about an hour into it he was doing an area towards the bottom of my forearm and i could feel a pinching up in the shoulder area for about 2 mins then it went away. Not long after my wife rocked up to have a look and we all sat there shit stirring each other for the rest of the time while he was finishing the tatt.
Just as he was finishing up the Tattooist said it would look good with some eyes or face starting to come out of smoke/mist above the top of the tatt with eyes looking down or straight out,and with that he looked at my wife,saw her looking at him, then said theres that look i am getting from your wife "dont give him anymore ideas", but she just said no thats not what i was thinking, i was thinking yes that would look good with it. So with that we cleaned up and left and i was going to go back with some more piccy's for him to consider using.
PS - the original design tattoo, took about 2 hrs from start to finish ( but will now be more as we will add to it) LOL
The colouring in the ribbon represents the different areas that MS affects on a person, (picture a prism and the sun shining on it from different angles, it shows different colours)
" this is the original design in its finished state, now we are doing an addition to it."
Tuesday
Got home from work today and went straight down to the tattoist as i wanted to get everything finalised and ready to go so i can have this puppy finished off, after showing him some more piccys that i had, and looking at stuff he had, i have decided on what i am going to use in the addition piece,so am know booked in to see him and get it done Thursday week after work around 5.30, then that gives me 3 days healing time before i go back to work and struggle into my overalls.
So for now i will post this and i will update it after the work is finished, and add some more Piccy's.
Well for a while now i have been thinking about getting another Tattoo, so i was searching the internet for ideas and couldn't really find anything that jumped out at me, so i decided to design my own Tattoo, with an idea in mind, i did some more research and decided on doing a Tatt that incorporated what is essentially a part of me, and that is my M.S.
Macarbre, "some may think", but not really, when you think of it. It is what i think about the MS and an easier way to describe it to others, and as a bloke i work with said you have taken your condition buy the throat and own it, which i suppose i have but never really thought about it that way before now.
Anyway back to the Tatt, i was trolling the internet looking for a Logo or an emblem for Multiple sclerosis and couldn't find anything, then i started to think "is there a ribbon, like the one for breast cancer -the pink one", for MS. Well i finally found it on a couple of sites, and if your interested in looking up that type of thing,when you type it in you need to put Awareness Ribbon. anyhow with a picture of the ribbon i was then able to sit down and make a few small changes and additions.
So i have the ribbon, i have the quotation - "The Stalker Within", and i removed the original writing from the ribbon and replace the Multiple Sclerosis with MonSter on the ribbon, i then went trawling the internet again for different pictures of claws and faces peering, eyes and whatnot so i had a lot of pictures to choose from and try to incorporate into the tatt.
With all this information in mind and written down on a sheet of paper,i could picture the end product, the hands being as crappy as they are, decided on taking my ideas and whatnot down to my local Tatt parlour and saw the tattooist "who has done my other tattoos in the past" and asked him for some help, we sat down and i showed him what i had, and described what i wanted, and could he draw it up for me. With that i left him and was waiting for a phone call from him within a few days.
Well thinking about it overnight i came to the conclusion that the size of the ribbon that i gave him, the picture of was going to be TOO BIG , so i called in to see him after work the next day and asked if we could make a change to the design, he wanted to know what that was and i said we will make the ribbon smaller as i thought it would be to big, well he called me a shit "with a smile on his face"as he had already made the tatt up, but yea that shouldn't be a problem so just leave it with him and he would redo it.
the following night, when i got home work there was a message on my answering machine, that the new design was ready so i jumped back in the car and headed down to the tatt parlour to have a look, Well it was what i had envisaged, so with that i made a time to go in and get the Tatt done which was on the saturday afternoon.
Saturday
When Saturday finally came around i headed down to the tattoo parlour and when i walked in he was ready to start, so asking me where i wanted to put it i said, we will stick it on my right forearm as it is the most affected arm that i have from the ms and, i will either not feel it or it may be oversensitive so we'll see how it goes.
As i was about to sit down i pulled out a new picture of the Ribbon which showed the colours alot betterand gave it to him so he had a better idea of the colours, he looked at it then me and said you just love to make my life difficult dontchya and i just laughed and said i trust you, with a big grin on my face.
So shaving and placing the stencil on my right forearm we were all set to go and away we went. Pain wise there was bugger all or none whatsoever, and about an hour into it he was doing an area towards the bottom of my forearm and i could feel a pinching up in the shoulder area for about 2 mins then it went away. Not long after my wife rocked up to have a look and we all sat there shit stirring each other for the rest of the time while he was finishing the tatt.
Just as he was finishing up the Tattooist said it would look good with some eyes or face starting to come out of smoke/mist above the top of the tatt with eyes looking down or straight out,and with that he looked at my wife,saw her looking at him, then said theres that look i am getting from your wife "dont give him anymore ideas", but she just said no thats not what i was thinking, i was thinking yes that would look good with it. So with that we cleaned up and left and i was going to go back with some more piccy's for him to consider using.
PS - the original design tattoo, took about 2 hrs from start to finish ( but will now be more as we will add to it) LOL
The colouring in the ribbon represents the different areas that MS affects on a person, (picture a prism and the sun shining on it from different angles, it shows different colours)
" this is the original design in its finished state, now we are doing an addition to it."
Tuesday
Got home from work today and went straight down to the tattoist as i wanted to get everything finalised and ready to go so i can have this puppy finished off, after showing him some more piccys that i had, and looking at stuff he had, i have decided on what i am going to use in the addition piece,so am know booked in to see him and get it done Thursday week after work around 5.30, then that gives me 3 days healing time before i go back to work and struggle into my overalls.
So for now i will post this and i will update it after the work is finished, and add some more Piccy's.
Thursday 24/04/08
Well todays the day gunna finally get the tatt finished. Headed down to the tattoist a little earlier than what i had to which was just as well as the apprentice had booked someone else in after me and had only allowed an hour b/w appointments, so my tattooist wasnt all happy as he wanted to spend time with me and get it all finished,so we ended up starting as soon as i walked in,He didnt no wether he was going to get it finished but said he would get the outline done and take it from there. After doing the outline he then got all the shading done along with the eyes and highlights so then quickly lightly outlined the body area to be finished next time, which will be either the following friday or friday fortnight,so for know will just have to wait. "Bugger i was looking forward to getting it finished,but u know what they say good things come to those who wait".......So i wont add any piccy's of the addition as yet, as like me u will just have to wait as well. Ain't i a shit LOL
till next time
Fri 9/05/08
Well this is it ,today is the day that i get my Tatt finished off, woo-woo............... am i excited ( you bloody betchya i am) LOL. Any how headed down to the tattoo parlour tonight as i had the appointment made for 6.30, got there around 6.15 and headed in and basically got straight into it. All the original outline was gone over again ( on the second part of the tatt) as it was done very lightly originally so it had time to heal then it could be picked out and darkened were needed, so all outlining done and then some areas on the original were touched up where needed, (and that was only in some areas of the writing) so with the job now all done, it was around the 7.10pm - i was (am) as happy as a pig in shit, it came up a treat and i like how my tattoo design has turned out. So now i will put up a couple more piccy's of the tatt in its finished form.
Well now, with that done i will have to sit down and design something else for my other arm, LOL as i am starting to feel lopsided, and having said that i already have an idea for my next piece of body art, but for now you will all just have to wait and when i go ahead it will be put up as a new post. (again - gee im a shit lol ) Anyhow im off till next time .
for now - the wombat waddels off.
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