Show off Your Tattoos!

[Luke78]

Not taking anything away from any of you,its obvious theres some great artistic work done here but are you guys covered up most of the time when you work? head to a function? or any other social event? I know most places ive either worked for or volunteered,people with tats were told to be covered up and not exposed when working with the public.Just curious and had to ask

[hgi]

Here's my arm, and you can see the bull on my chest (my 1st tattoo)





I have a sun on my other arm but it's a really badly done, not worth showing.

[katienaha]

Not taking anything away from any of you,its obvious theres some great artistic work done here but are you guys covered up most of the time when you work? head to a function? or any other social event? I know most places ive either worked for or volunteered,people with tats were told to be covered up and not exposed when working with the public.Just curious and had to ask

I have never personally been asked to cover my tattoo, and I work in community care for people with disabilities.

[hdrob]

That's awesome. When I was there, he was booking ten months in advance! He's done some amazing work. The cancelation waitlist for him was like 2 pages. Lol.

i also got mine done at genesis in vernon, by rob!

[mortava]

I work at an animal hospital, and I've never been asked to cover up my tattoos in the animal health field. At my former job I just ignored the "dress code" as tattoos were supposed to be covered up, but I was their sys admin.. I didn't see the point, as I wasn't dealing with the public and fortunately no one ever complained.

Each of my tattoos was chosen carefully and they each have a great deal of sentiment and/or meaning attached to them - they represent parts of me/parts of my life. I definitely don't cover them up when I go to any sort of event or function!

Not taking anything away from any of you,its obvious theres some great artistic work done here but are you guys covered up most of the time when you work? head to a function? or any other social event? I know most places ive either worked for or volunteered,people with tats were told to be covered up and not exposed when working with the public.Just curious and had to ask

[katienaha]

That's awesome. When I was there, he was booking ten months in advance! He's done some amazing work. The cancelation waitlist for him was like 2 pages. Lol.

When I heard the waitlist, I booked a year and a half in advance (and this was more than 5 years ago!) because I needed to travel. I was put on cancellation list too but I asked them to give me notice. I had booked for August but I got squeezed in for May, which was nice because it gave the tattoo a chance to heal before it got exposed to the hot summer sun.

I did that all in one sitting too, and I will never do that again. It was horribly painful with all the detail work. Rob wasnt very happy I wasnt a very good reciever of tattoo work, because there are some "mistakes" that he was anal about, but I really think they dont affect the overall appearance of the tattoo. I love it. Everytime I look at it, it brings me to a place I like to call my home away from home.

Anyone want to share what their future tattoos will be??
I plan on having a snowboard on my inner forearm (for winter, and my fave sport), the graphics on the snowboard will be maple leaves turning from green to red (for summer to fall, and Canada), and dogwood flowers (for spring, and British Columbia). I hope for the graphics to be very scratchy and rough looking, and in those lines I hope to disguise my home mountain initials.. PK. You can snowboard some awesome places, but there is nothing like the feeling of cruising down your favourite run on your home mountain.