you know what i find ridiculous about calling that location on a woman a "tramp stamp" is the fact that i got my tatt there because it was an easy to hide location but not vulgar if i wanted to show someone. i wanted to get mine over my heart but the first artist i talked to said he cldn't gaurantee his best work because it wld be on soft tissue and he'd have to charge way more becuz of it. he just didn't want to do the tatt but i found a woman who is extremely talented and had her put all the pieces together for me via my sketches. i didn't know it was called a tramp stamp until about two weeks later when a friend of mine came home from the navy. mine has meaning to me, it's my story and it'll evolve as my story evolves and it took 4 years for me to discover everything i wanted to include to tell my story. so that makes me a bad person? bfd cuz that's one less idiot i have to deal with in this life.

 

If you have a lot in it, it's not a tramp stamp....I think a tramp stamp has to be in the small of the back of course, but tramp stamps are something plain or common, like flash on the wall of a tattoo shop, like something tribal....Yours sounds like art....Would love to see a pic....

 

^^^What he said. Pics please!

 

Every on I have seen on the small of a womans back in those oriental letters says the same thing.

"beef with broccoli"

 

Yes I got some more work this weekend!!!!!!

 

After I got divorced my ex-wife went and got her name tattoed in the "tramp stamp" area. I proceeded to tell her why I think women get their names put there. she didn't talk to me for 2 weeks I have no problem with tattoos as long as they actually mean something.

 

They are not called tramp stamps around here, but if I said what it was, one of you would report my post and get me in a heap of trouble.

 

I remember the tattooist who did my armbands telling me how he disliked inking certain common flashes on people. He had just done a series of Celtic Knotwork for awhile and was growing "cross eyed" with them. My armbands were based on an actual Viking Art style and were slated to be done by his partner. But he liked my original design so much, he took the job instead (glad I did). As convoluted as they were, he found the style and design "Sooooo refreshing" as well as imaginative he said .

The tattooist who inked my first abstract blackwork piece, told me if he never, ever had to do another "Taz" for years...he would be glad.

Yet, they both said it is part of the "bread and butter" required to help pay the bills and put food on the table. Most common ones get used because of just wanting to get a tat. "Fashion" or "lack of imagination". Or a moment of indecision and just picking something off the wall. Yet to some people, the most common tat may have a real legitimate meaning or "story" to the recipient. So I never prejudge anyone who wears the "Taz" or "barbwire" or the Kanji (just hope the owner and/or artist "wrote" it right!)

Human anatomy, texture and placement does have to do with getting the best display...even if only YOU see it. A good tat artist, would have a reason and/or better "area" suggestion it your placement area would not work.

 

i've also heard 'em called target practice.

mine's not something that hasn't been done before i'm 100% sure of that but it's the combination that makes it uniquely mine.



the pic's kinda crappy but there it is. the lettering is cherokee syllabary. i also lucked into picking an artist who has an interest in language and she hadn't seen cherokee before. i left her with copies of all my research on the written language and gave her a few websites etc in case someone else came along. she asked me if she cld put it in her portfolio because of the colors i had asked for and i thought that was pretty cool because i never thought something like what i wanted would be something she would keep if that makes any sense.

 

cool tat I got some more work last weekend... I have about 30 hrs on one of my arms (and they all have there meaning ) probably another 30 to go

 

You are close.