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I have like 10 tattoos

I got my first tattoo when I was 21 and decided to get a huge american traditional dagger on my right forearm. In hindsight that was a very bold place to get my first tattoo lol. As time has gone on I've tried all different types of styles - I have some stick and pokes, cybersigilism, and some nature inspired pieces. None of them have been super painful but I just started a back piece last year (pictured below) that definitely had some ouch moments, particularly near the spine.

@willreschke

Mar 24, 2024

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getting a tattoo simply bc you can and want to

I have 6, all fine linework except for a trad style convo heart on my upper thigh. I love hand poke from professionals - it’s super intimate and a lot of the artists I followed when I lived in Austin almost exclusively did hand poke work instead of machine. they are not blown out and have not faded :-) I think long and hard about placement, but I just get stuff I want from artists I love. Not everything has to have A Deep Meaning. My faves are a pear on my right forearm (stranger: why the pear? me: I love pears), “form” on the back of my left arm, and the lightbulb eye from Picasso’s Guernica above the inside of my right elbow. tattoos are sexy as hell, and I plan to keep collecting them for the rest of my life. The pain to me usually feels like someone scratching a sunburn - worst was my finger since it’s close to bone and the convo heart since the artist went IN! it can be really bad or very tolerable, but I have genuinely enjoyed talking to all of the artists who have given me their work and just focus on the overall experience ✨ the more shading/color, the more it’s gonna hurt and the more intensive the healing process

@nicolefar

Mar 25, 2024

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I have 6🎀

I have 6 tattoos (plus one stick and poke I let a man do on me at a party when I was 18.) And of course- I want more. My first tattoo I got during my first month of freshman year of college freshly moved to New York- it’s on my rib cage- it says “goodnight nobody” which is pulled from the children’s book goodnight moon. 1. I was read that book as a kid. 2. I remember I rediscovered that book when I was high in the mall in high school and that blank page saying “goodnight nobody” felt poignant for all kinds of reasons. Just a call into the void in a children’s book? A rendition of a sculpture from Portia Munson’s installation ‘Bound Angel’ that I saw at PPOW a couple years ago- because the work just spoke to me and womanhood at large i have a fairy (way bigger than I intended) because fairies were a huge part of my girlhood hey arnold (helga’s locket of arnold) because my mom watched that show with me before I can even remember and 2. I like Helga was also a yearner in middle school A bunny because bunny And most recently two of my best friends and I got matching three-headed deer. I haven’t even known them for very long but a portrait of our love felt like a very beautiful and sentimental thing to do regardless of fate. The only one that hurt was the poorly done stick and poke done at the party right next to my vagina- but ofc I acted like wasn't that bad (it was pretty bad).

@gabz

Mar 24, 2024

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This photograph of anthony bourdain

so much to talk about, the sunglasses, the scarf, the fresh baguette and coffee, the always lovely cafe setting. I think this is the most swag ever captured on camera I aspire to be at this level

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Espresso tonics

alright hear me out: carbonation and coffee with a squeeze of orange shouldn’t work, but it does. Been making them daily and i feel a lot better in the morning each time i do

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Maps - yeah yeah yeahs

the greatest love song of the 21st century??? wait…. They don’t love you like I love you

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