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Butchtastic Tattoos!

9/1/2011

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I'll admit it: personally, I'm tatt-less.  I'm the kind of person who considers a bumper sticker too "permanent."  What if I suddenly *don't* want to save whales or listen to NPR anymore?  What if it turns out that "NPR" also stands for the National Project for Racism?  What if people take it the wrong way? 

Silly, I know.  And yet, my 30-year-old self wouldn't have been thrilled with whatever my 20-year-old self would have inked onto her body, which makes me wonder if my 40-year-old self will someday feel the same way about today's me.  If I *had* to get a tattoo, I'd probably choose a cuff: a row of books like a library shelf, wrapping once around my upper arm.  I'd have my all-time favorite books written in as the titles, leaving plenty blank for future favorites.  (Yes, I am a dork.  Surely, by now, that comes as no surprise.)

In any case, I know that tattoos are often part of the lesbian fashion repertoire--and for good reason!  At best, they can make your body into a sexy canvas.  See exhibit A, sent in by a reader: 
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I mean, yowza, right??  They can also just be super artistic.  Here's another one someone sent in--one I thought was particularly cool:
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And of course, tattoos also have personal meaning for many of their wearers.  Some of the tatts people sent in included people's names, special symbols, memorials, or spiritual/religious significance.  For example, one reader has this ancient Christian symbol to ward off evil tattooed just southeast of her belly button (and yes, that placement is hot):
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So many dozens of butches sent in pictures of their tattoos that rather than choosing among them, I've made a slide show so you can see ALL of them.  Enjoy!
What a cool collection of pictures--thanks for the submissions!

Now, some questions for you:
  1. How many tatts do you have?  Why not more?
  2. Have you ever gotten a tattoo and regretted it (even secretly)?
  3. What ONE thing, if you saw it tattooed on someone else, would make you absolutely certain that person was your soulmate?

Looking forward to reading your comments.

20 Comments
Alex
9/1/2011 05:01:34 pm

I have four tattoos. All of them are symbols so they're a little more versatile than they might be otherwise. I would have way more if my financial circumstances were different.

I don't regret any of my tattoos and my oldest is 17 years old now. There are a few things I would change now, perhaps, like placement but they're also a history and mark where I was at that point in my life. The meanings of some of the symbols have expanded from the meaning they had when I got them.

Damn, Exhibit A is hot.

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Kerren
9/1/2011 05:04:33 pm

I have one tattoo - but am in the process of finalising the design for my second.

I dont really regret my first, just wish I had put a little more thought into it - which is why the second is taking so long to actually get on my skin.

Exhibit A is more than hot.. saying it is hot seems a bit of an understatement...

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Bugg
9/1/2011 06:26:51 pm

Exhibit A is hot because of the bod and the pose, amiright?
/also inkless, and ok with it

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Val
9/1/2011 07:15:33 pm

I have 6 at the moment, and plans for 6 others, next one in october (tribal dragon on shoulderblad yay, and after that i am getting a Victoria Frances sleeve). All have a special meaning to me, and i wear them with pride, even when some of them aren't as perfect as i wanted to be. My biggest prides are the one my nephew designed for me, and the one on my wrist, sister celtic knot, in honor of all my sisters/friends/lovers that died over the years, with their names written all around it.

I have 1 tattoo I regret (lower back) but I am gonna get it covered up. soon!!!

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Gndr_Rebel link
9/1/2011 10:35:31 pm

I have 2 so far and at least 4 more planed for when I have the funds. Next one is a Phoenix rising from flames. I don't regret either, just wish I had put more thought into the first location. Oh well they are a part of who I am and how I got where I am today.

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Cat
9/2/2011 12:34:43 am

I have plans for at least three tatts. Being artistic...I'm scared to death to have someone mess my tattoo up....And i'll have to look at it forever..UGH!

I have a special one ready to go just saving the money. Of a koi and a bullhead in a Yin Yang, to honor my Brother who has a brain tumor. (we used to fish for bullheads when we were kids.)

What tatt for a soulmate... My name, then maybe I'd believe it. LOL Cynical.

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Nikki W link
9/2/2011 03:48:32 am

I've lost count of how many as most of them have merged.
I don't regret any of them, not even my tattoo'd wedding band,(I was married to a man, but I'm now divorced) or my butterfly "tramp stamp" (That one is ten years old and it was an original idea at the time)
If I meet someone with a raccoon tattoo like mine, I will know that she's my soul mate:)

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Heather R
9/2/2011 07:02:17 am

I have 5 completed tattooes, none of which I regret. They all have meaning to me, especially the tattoo that is in memory of my grandmother that helped raise me. Soon I will have another memorial tattoo for my dad, who passed away a few yrs ago...

Regretable tattoo...oh yes...NEVER EVER let a tattoo apprentice tattoo u until they have been tattooing for years...I have one that was suppose to be a pin-up angel, sorta looks like a really bad cartoon character..plan on having it covered with a half sleeve.

Hmmm...if I met someone that had a tattoo of K-9, Marvin the Martian's dog...I think then that sh would be my soulmate...

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Pirate
9/2/2011 08:09:13 am

I have 7 tats and i don't plan on getting any more since mine are totally balanced. I wish I would have seen your request cause I would have sent pics of mine on over...enjoyed all the artwork.

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Nicoliana
9/2/2011 11:37:03 am

I have ten tattoos and I only regret the twoo chinese symbols on my inner wrists. My favorite tattoo is of the koi I have on my right leg....I love it because I recieve so many compliments and questions about it...it is also free advertisement for my tatttoo artist marc jackson from tattoorevolution in redlands.

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Auggie
9/2/2011 01:48:23 pm

Right now I have 2 and I am wanting a few more. If I were younger I would have a lot of them by now. I don't care for the do it yourself kind that you see, big turn off for this femme...but I love butches with or without tatts...

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Sheri link
9/3/2011 12:25:39 am

These are just a few of the tats my wife and I have. We have quite a few, all "nicely" placed to be public PC as we work in retail in an art department. We are finishing up a piece that is a rendering from a painting I did and is an image that is complete when we stand side by side, so the two images of the design match up. Very cool!! Enjoy...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1103552832823&set=a.1103549512740.17697.1346792352&type=1

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1103553152831&set=a.1103549512740.17697.1346792352&type=1

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1103553352836&set=a.1103549512740.17697.1346792352&type=1

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Sheri link
9/3/2011 02:05:41 am

Oh...copy and paste the links above to your browser to see our tats above ...xoxox

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melissa
9/9/2011 01:46:03 pm

1. Currently, I have three and am working on ideas for three or four more.
2. After my first one (a small crescent moon and star), I only regretted that I didn't get it bigger. About five years later, I had it expanded to the beautiful piece I love showing off now!
3. How about a celestial tattoo on upper left arm, in the same spot as mine? Oh yeah, that would be what I found on my wife-to-be the first day we met. ;)
<3

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crystal
9/13/2011 01:58:38 pm

i have 11 tattoos and i dont regret any of them they make who i am today and as long as when i get up in the morning i am happy with it i will keep getting them..... i love tats with a passion i think it away to express your self and be a rebel and more or less it makes to who you are.... im looking to get a whole lot more just so i know when i die i did something that made me happy ......

if a girl had a same guns or there thighs as me and they totally didnt look the same but they where almost that would be it.... we could live happy and i would know we would always have something i common

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Mandi J. link
12/10/2011 07:08:13 pm

I happen to love tatts and the whole body modification culture. I have 4 tatts but only one of them was done by a professional. The 3 that werent done by a professional were done ceremoniously by my coven leader at the time. I want more but lack the FUNDING! Grrr... I only regret one which was my zodiac....little did i know that there were two versions of the symbol and the 2nd one suited me better. I want one added onto. Now I am not for sure what symbol my soulmate will have, but I will know it when I see it.

I would love to see a back like Exhibit A lying next to me when waking up everyday

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Kyle link
1/17/2012 07:37:21 am

Can't believe I missed this when you posted it... but imagine my surprise when I ran a vanity search on 'Butchtastic' and found this post... I guess I need to pay more attention. Nice tats

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Stacy
4/12/2012 06:55:33 am

I have three all together. The only reasons I don't have more is because I haven't come across the exact perfect one yet, but I'm also afraid of bleeding all over the tattoo parlor floor since I bled quite a bit for my first three, and now I take blood thinners.

My first is a nautical star on my wrist that I got the month I came out in honor of my sisters before me who used to tattoo their wrists back in the 40's as a way of letting other lesbians know what they were in bars, but still be able to cover it up with a watch or bracelet in their everyday lives. It's purple and my favorite.

I regret the one my first girlfriend and I got together, but it's also the one I get the most compliments on.

My current girlfriend has said that if I got her name tattooed on me, she'd leave me.

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Jomo
6/18/2012 12:16:45 pm

I have only one tattoo - the nautical star on my wrist. It's placed just where my watch face sits. I never really wanted tattoos - but this one I felt I had to have, in honour of the tradition.

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Mel
10/17/2017 10:38:15 am

I just want to know what the tatt reads on the first girl with the white sports bra. very sexy!

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