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My tattoo in Shibuya
This was last summer when i added the Kanji to my wings.
Its the kanji for Kazoku meaning family and the wings are ment to always protect my family and friends The shop is the center of Shibuya and the tattoo artists is named Ai! she was very nice and cutte=) YouTube - Thangs Tattoo and here are some progression pics of the wings. Approx 14 hours of work 4 for out line and 5 for each wing filled in and 1 hour for the kanji      |
Wow. That's an awesome tattoo.
The video looked a little painful, but you're right, the girl appeared to be cute. :vsign: |
thats, very nice, but must have hurt like a b*tch. Do they put some kind of anesthesizing cream before tattooing?
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nah, its not so bad. you get use to it after a while, cept when they get near the ribs that hurts like hell.
also the kanji hit the bone on my spine so my eyes kept freaking out and shaking after it was done. the main part of the wings felt good to me, i can deal with that fine, its just the sensitive rib area and spine that gets to me. |
itai........:eek:
But really nice:p |
in the process of designing 3 new tattoos.
A siloette of a Sakura down my ribs into my abs and V area on the right side. and 2 Kanji of Loyalty and Honor on my left and right upper arms near the shoulder. after that im gona research some poems and have them trail off from the Big kanjis. kinda hard to explain, but im not sure when im gona get it done. im really picky with the designs. i keep trashing ideas and coming up with new ones |
Wow those are amazing wings.. Must have been quite painfull on the top of your back? Really nice though :) Are you going to get any more?
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WOW!! :eek: Very nice tats!! I love how you're putting so much thought into the ones that you're getting...so many people these days get tats for the commercial attractiveness of it. I like the ideas you have going, I'm sure they'll be beautiful! :rheart: I have five of my own and counting. My next one is going to be my son's name in graphitti on my inner wrist :D
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Housetek you have so cool tattoos...
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Ouch... It's worth it though. Seems like you really love your family. :)
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That's awesome man well done! I really like how the tattoo symbolizes a wall of protection for your family and friends. Very nice. I have always liked looking at other people's and I intend to get some of my own.:cool:
Thanks for uploading the video on youtube. It's cool seeing it get done. I also gave a comment... Now you have more of a reason to walk around with your shirt off, so all the ladies can look at you, while the men get jealous. hahaa;) (when you get the other ones, be sure to post images and show us.) :D :vsign: |
ill be sure to do so!
i jus gota do some sketches then then wait for my tattoo artist to give me her imput. I only like having the same tattoo artist do my tattoos. and i figure if im gona get more kanji then it must be in Japan. ty for the nice comments =) arigato!!! i love my family and friends more then any thing in the world. The people who care for you and the company you keep are a reflection of who you are as a person. And they remind me of how fortunate i am with every breath i take. And this community just makes me feel better inside and makes me happy. Arigato arigato arigato a million times! |
No problem! I'm glad to comment.... You are going to do sketches? Does that mean you are an artist as well? So your going to have that girl in Shibuya do it for you. Do you live in Tokyo or are you just visiting.
It must be really cool having those Kanji tattoos getting done there. |
well im stayin for 3 months this trip, i finished school and i want to get my masters here, since i cant work with out a work visa.
Which is VERY hard to get w/o connections with some one who owns a company that sponsors. I draw and i sketch but im not that good. i like to give a basic idea of what i want to my tattoo artist, and she is just amazing. She'll turn my dinky sketches into a beautiful piece of work. I have to go on a day when she doesn't have alot of appointments b/c she makes a few sketches for me and usually ill pick one or 2 and then add new ideas to them. Shes very understanding that a tattoo is meaningful and lasts forever so we go through many sketches and drawlings b4 things get right. even if the end result is simple, it takes many sketches to get just the right one i like. i dont want to just pick somthing out of a book. as of now ill be here til august, then i return home to get my transcripts then mail them to Temple University Japan and then im going home to Vietnam in the fall to visit my family and then moving to Japan for a year and 1/2 to get my masters Degree in international business. |
Have you seen that lady in Shibuya do other ones? Did you meet her by walking in one day, or you had been there before?
Yeah, I understand how that is. Anyone can go to a book and just pick an image that they think looks cool. However, when you make the image yourself, and breath life into it, then it has much more meaning. It is best to create and customize your own tattoo. That way, it have much greater meaning, and has more of a purpose on your body after all, it'll be there forever. You always want it to have a symbol of something. That shows great love, when you want a picture to be a mark for that special person....:D That is the way I am, it took me so long to think up my first tattoo. (I still haven't gotten it yet, but it took me so long to think it up.):cool: Ah, so your Vietnamese. Sometimes it is hard to figure out Asians nationalities. lol ;) Nice your getting your masters degree in business. How does your family feel about you living there? It is good that you stay so close to them. So many people are so willing to just discard their family and move away when they come of age. I wonder what they'll say about your body art. :) |
I was a walk in and she was very nice and i liked her artbook. Shes been tattooing in japan and then traveled to Miami to pick up new techniques. Its hard to catch her on a non busy day.
In my family all the males get tattoos at 18+. Well all the ones in the states do, my family in vietnam do not get tattoos. My father likes mine and was there for the wings. He actually came for a few of the design sessions. He said the arc angel wings were too girly so i we came up with a Asian Style wing thats very rare in paintings. That show long asian dragons with wings, which is very rare to see. I like the design alot so we went with it. My parents always want me at home but like my father said, you put any person in our family any where in the country and we'll succeed. So he belives ill make it any where. I wasnt even a legal citizen in America til 10 yrs old, and i came over at 1. My mom even likes my tattoos and she doesnt mind as long as it is not past the elbows or can be seen wearing a dress shirt. She has her lipstick and eyebrows tattooed on as well well as my grandma. My sister has a tattoo of love on her hip in chinese. my father has a dragon fighting a tiger on his left and a giant skull breathing smoke on his right. which orginally was a dragon but due to a motorcycle accident it was totally ruined and this was the only way to salvage it due to the intense scarring dark colors had to be used. What are your plans for your tattoo? id like to see some sketches or somthing any thing with that much time put into must be great! |
Good luck in earning your masters. Do you have to speak Japanese well in order to go to Temple college? I was looking at that college couple of months ago for psychology major. My family is oldfashioned and they dont want me to get a tattoo. I respect their opinion , but I still want a tattoo. Not to upset them, I will get a small one but with a meaning on the back of my neck so my hair can cover it if I go somewhere to a formal dinner with my family. Or I might get it on my lower left stomach. I'm going to Japan August 2008, so may be I'll get a tattoo there. For now Ihave to figure out my design. The thing is if it is not in my parents' taste it is wrong to them, but I still love them. I understand them cause most of their life they lived among old culture ( from another country) and it is sometimes hard to start thinking differently from what they used to and from how THEY grew up.
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They teach all of their courses in English, its just a sister branch of Temple. Yea i understand if your from a different country then they are strict about certain things. The thing is my Father is not the average Vietnamese man. He was labeled a traitor to his country and a rebel for not fighting in a war he did not believe in, also the same war which took most of his family including my grandfather. He was always the type that would break the boundaries of what would be deemed normal in vietnamese culture. During my entire life, he never put any rules or boundaries on me. I could do what ever i want, w/o consequences. But he would lecture me in his philosophies in life and spend a lot of time with me being my friend and a great father figure. At the same time he came to America not knowing any English working multiple jobs just to support my poor family who lived in a trailer park in Pa. So it was never in my nature to disappoint my parents and just finding the right thing to do my self. And what ever i did, i knew they supported me. The tattoo was a lil big in his opinion but the meaning behind it justified it. |
It's really beautiful. ^__^v
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I'm sorry about your family who was killed in the war. I respect your father and his choice not to fight for something he doesn't believe in. Same thing is going on right now with Iraq.. A lot of people now (ex soldiers) believe that it was waste of lives and money on that war. I think so too. It is very hard to live here and have everything you wish. People who want to come here think it is so easy in the USA. But really, you have to work hard and may be even multiple jobs to have a decent life with health insurance roof under your head, food and education... Sometimes I think I'm a disappointment to my parents cause they are such perfectionists and I'm not.
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They are very beautiful and well done. Along with the kanji. It's best to get a Japanese artist for things like kanji, so they don't f*ck it up. I'd like to meet Ai =]
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she showed me pics of people who came in with tattoos that said Pork n Rice.
i remember online of a scrap book of people with Messed up japanese and chinese tattoos that ment really stupid stuff. also people who got their tattoo writen backwards! yikes! |
while this is on the topic of tattoos, anyone here with the ability to draw dragons[asian type dragons] really well? i'm thinking about getting a tat of a dragon on my hips/waist, kinda symmetrical. any advice? thoughts? |
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And my deepest respect for your father. He's a damn hero who believes in what he chose to do. We need more people like your father these days^^. Take care and we'll talk again. |
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THAT TATTOO IS SOOOO KEWL :cool:
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omg i love the wings!!! i was thinking of getting some just like those...only bigger.... |
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omg thats so cool!!!!XD yourz is kinda lyk hydes but his are smallr omg-looks so painful tho T_T |
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May be you can get areally tiny dragon on the back of your neck, so your hair will cover it. or the ankle?... |
Those tat's really rock! I was thinking about getting one too once I'm sixteen. But first I need to think of a nice design.
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the last pic is so creepy. o__o You're like, totally red. x__x ~
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I love your tattoo but I am too young to get one and my mum will totally kill me if she knows I have one. Haha. Scared of pain too. Haha. What a loser I am but I can still daydream about getting a tattoo can't I. Maybe when I am older and under anastaetic(spelling?) will I get one. Hopefully. Love the wing colour of your tattoo by the way.
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It was painful I guess.
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Oh! amazing taboo. It is a matter of patient which you have.
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how much to tattoo your whole back?
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Wow. That's an awesome tattoo
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