Has anyone else watched this Tatooing show on TLC? This woman is beautiful and a tatoo artist and wow! Even with all those tatoos I'd call her a classic beauty of the 1940's 1950's style! The show intro even has her clad in 1950's Nudie Poster  style sexywear.

No doubt about it - first magnitude babehood!  My wife - a beauty in her own right  - just loves her!  Good thing, cause I do too!  Saw her on Letterman, too!  The boy was definitely smitten!

You think you're smitten! I'm gay and she's stolen my heart! :wub:

to each his own.....for me the sight of a tatoo is the most un-erotic, un-romantic and un-beautiful thing associated with humans. Total turn-off to her as a person and woman.

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The fact that she thinks alot of herself is kinda a turnoff for me. Yeah, she's an awesome tattooist, and yeah she's a babe but she's got that whole "look how awesome I am" attitude :/ I think that's a lot of why her and Ami (from Miami Ink) clashed so much. She always acted as though she was better than them and wouldn't lower herself to do 'regular' tattoo's. OTOH I think all the other girls are lovely and Pixie is a deadset hottie :)

Oh, and there is an official LA Ink calendar that you can get that has them all in their 40's/50's gear :)

Kat's ok... I LOOOOOOVE Pixie though!!!  Now she's HAWT in my opinion!!!  Kat just seems a little rough around the edges!!!  That's just me!!!  I've always loved women with tatties!!  I only have 5 myself (tattoos, not women!) and I've never been intimidated by women with more tattoos than I have!!!

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I'm not into tatoos myself (I mean on myself) but the artwork some of the high end tattoo artists create is just amazing!  I love to see how it's done.

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I've got 3 tats, and am planning my fourth..want to create my own this time. Couldn't bring myself to do anything so loud as sleeves, but I think they look cool on certain people.

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ya..she is for sure way hotttttttttt.
Saw her on Miami Ink, ehich I watched all the time...and now LA Ink...
Great art..and some of the people they get in their shops are pretty funny...plus the stories are cool

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I'm designing my left sleeve at the moment. All Egyptian stuff :) I only wish I could draw faster LOL

I've just begun tattooing. Started about 12 months ago. It's sooo awesome. I have my first real client (non-family member) coming in next week to get a very simple design (he's been pre-warned about my limited experience). I'm so excited .... and terrified :D
As much as I love 3d modelling, tattooing is the only job I've ever truly wanted.

hey Xena...my kid has a couple of Egyptian tats...

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doesn't look as hot as Kat ... but  he also has some heiroglyphics here and there

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Quote - The fact that she thinks alot of herself is kinda a turnoff for me.

I feel this way, too, about... oh, pretty much every possible field/area out there. If someone has to make a point of pointing out how much better they are than everybody else, my first thought is usually, "Well, if you're that much better than everybody else, shouldn't we have been able to notice that on our own?" If I have noticed, I just get annoyed by the egotism, which is patently unattractive to me in all forms. If I can't see this supposed major superiority, I shuffle them into the "deluded moron" pile and move on.

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Surreality, I think the same way. And besides, no matter how good something thinks they are at something, there's always someone better at it.

Bleh. I'm not into gypsy sideshow women.

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They need to run another TV series immediately after that one -- with a title like "Un-Ink, Inc".  The new TV series would feature the large percentage of people who decide 10 years down the line that it was a big mistake -- 

On "Un-Ink, Inc.", they'd show plenty of close-ups of the 'victims' grimacing / crying / pain-wracked face in the plastic surgeon's theater as the laser / scalpel are applied to them to undo the damage that they did to themselves back when they were drunk and 19.  Especially if it was the name of an ex-boyfriend / girlfriend / whatever.

I understand that removal hurts a lot worse than the original application did.  Typical of life.

I won't go into my own taste on the subject.  But......y'all can probably guess.

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Yuck.

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Quote - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. With that said, it's not very nice to knock what someone else finds beautiful. Some things in this thread could have gone unsaid.

 

Trust me -- I was biting my tongue.  Big time.

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Quote - > Quote - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. With that said, it's not very nice to knock what someone else finds beautiful. Some things in this thread could have gone unsaid.

 

Trust me -- I was biting my tongue.  Big time.

and yet... you had to post.

Spaceman you were confusing me then, I was like WTF, has he turned??? don't confuzzle me like that!

Next thing you know you'll be rendering Naked Vickies with Ginormous Boobs, it's a slippery slope my friend :lol:

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Quote - and yet... you had to post.

 

shrug  This is a public forum.

If one person is helped to avoid making a mistake -- like others that I've known who came to bitterly regret it later -- then it's actually a mercy.

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oh don't explain... just finding it interesting you posting on a subject you find distasteful..

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If you issue a challenge, then you shouldn't be surprised when that challenge is answered.  I wasn't "explaining" anything -- I was making a point.  Just as you are attempting to.

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the only challenge is with you laddie... I made nothing but an observation. you yourself are drawin conclusions on thin air.

but if you wish to take it as a challenge, name your fish and we will meet at dawn at Teddington Lock in London to enguage in Fish Combat.

I don't know what "conclusions" you are indicating that I've drawn.  It was I who made an observation -- and it was you who challenged my making that observation.

The fish part sounds smelly.  I think that I'll pass on that one.  I've never even been to Teddington Lock.

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Back to the topic at hand LOL.  Kat Von D....... Hrm.  I dont mind tattoos at all, I dont have any, but my husband does.  Some are lovely.  its not the tattoo thing that bothers me.  She's pretty, physically and visually so I guess.   Its her attitude.  I dont actually watch much of the show, the commercials alone for it tell you all you need to know.  Her voice? It could be nice, if she didn't do that "I'm a sexy ho" type hushed whine when she speaks.  its like that lazy ditz drawl that has nothing to do with where you come from.

Just dont find anything really appealing about her.

Quote - I don't know what "conclusions" you are indicating that I've drawn.  It was I who made an observation -- and it was you who challenged my making that observation.

The fish part sounds smelly.  I think that I'll pass on that one.  I've never even been to Teddington Lock.

 

Never seen the Monty Python Fish Dance, then?

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Insofar as the attitude part is concerned -- I've known many, many human beings over the years with attitude.  They were quite proud of themselves.  And I've also seen life & circumstances which were totally outside of their control take them down -- hard.  Both personally and publically.

There's confidence.....and then there's attitude.  It can be difficult to find the balance between the two.  The confident person is aware of what they can do: while keeping in mind that they remain 100% mortal -- just like everyone else.

The person with attitude flies high until something happens to them.  Which it inevitably does.

I well remember fans of Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson who literally worshipped those celebs in their heyday.  Phil Spector was hot stuff in his day, too.  At one time.

They all had lotsa attitude going for them.  At one time.

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Quote - I don't know what "conclusions" you are indicating that I've drawn.  It was I who made an observation -- and it was you who challenged my making that observation.

the conclusion that you drew was that I challenged you, which I have not done. you drew that conclusion on your own.

Quote - Never seen the Monty Python Fish Dance, then?

 

No, I haven't.  But it does sound like Monty Python.

Personally, I prefer the Knights Who Say "Neyh! (sp?)".

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Quote - > Quote - I don't know what "conclusions" you are indicating that I've drawn.  It was I who made an observation -- and it was you who challenged my making that observation.

The fish part sounds smelly.  I think that I'll pass on that one.  I've never even been to Teddington Lock.

 

Never seen the Monty Python Fish Dance, then?

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Quote - the conclusion that you drew was that I challenged you, which I have not done. you drew that conclusion on your own.

 

snort

OK -- let's say for the sake of breaking out of this möbius that you didn't challenge me.

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oh yes tats

never got round to the couple I wanted sigh maybe one day...

but I find it strange the quote about the removals involing pain etc... my Sister had her Unicorn removed a coupla years ago.. no pain or fuss and almost no scar.. just peeled off in a few days like sunburn... she said it was more painful to have the tat done than to have it lasered... maybe more modern techniques are used in the UK?

*(Mimes machine-gunning)

*tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat

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Quote - maybe more modern techniques are used in the UK?

 

Probably.

From what I've heard, your sister's experience is atypical.  Some people undergo surgery like falling off a log.  While others find it quite unpleasant.  Not to mention pricey.

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And....oh yeah......there are some tattoos which can't be removed.  At least not completely.  It depends upon size & other factors.

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My tattoo wasn't painful at all.  Quite pleasant, in fact.  I'd never consider having it removed and plan to add to it as soon as I can come up with a design I like and can then afford it.

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Quote - and can then afford it

I'll take the money that I've saved by not getting myself tattooed and invest it in something truly worthwhile -- like lotsa V4 content. 

It won't hurt a bit -- really, it won't. 

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for Xeno....

Thanks for the link, Khai.  I'll take a look at it later tonight.

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I wish some of the really cool tattoos are available in a peel and stick (temporary version), then I could jump on my harley and play a really bad girl on the weekends, and be on really good behavior in the office!

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Oh, and of you guys wanna fight, please mosey over to the food fight thread and start duke it out by throwing glow in the dark jello shots at one another....

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I just wish Khai and Xeno would get a room.

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naw... I prefer to use Tuna.... canned and fresh ;)

We got glow in the dark jello shots over there?? :woot:

runs over to the other thread

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Quote - I just wish Khai and Xeno would get a room.

:biggrin:

 

No, thanks: I already have one -- on the other side of the Atlantic.

Don't take that as an anti-Brit comment -- while I can't say that "some of my best friends are British!" (although they are / have been)......I can say that I once owned & drove an MGB GT back in my misguided youth.  So that fact alone obviously means that I am totally free of any prejudices on that score.

BTW - come on over to the US.  The only thing that you'd have to do would be to talk.  You'd find yourself instantly the center of attention pretty much anywhere that you went.  English accents are très chic over here, and a ticket to a certain amount of social notoriety.

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Xeno is in the UK?

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...BTW - come on over to the US.  The only thing that you'd have to do would be to talk.  You'd find yourself instantly the center of attention pretty much anywhere that you went.  English accents are très chic over here, and a ticket to a certain amount of social notoriety.

 

I know.  I had an American gf a while ago and we spent some time in Dallas, then OK City. 

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Quote - Spaceman you were confusing me then, I was like WTF, has he turned??? don't confuzzle me like that!

Next thing you know you'll be rendering Naked Vickies with Ginormous Boobs, it's a slippery slope my friend :lol:

 

LOL! Hardly, I just happen to think she's beautiful. Sure she's got some attitude, but I like it. She reminds me of one of my Tatoo'd ex's in that respect. To each their own. I just happen to like her better than Ami. She's young still, she'll get over the attitude with age.

Quote - I know.  I had an American gf a while ago and we spent some time in Dallas, then OK City. 

 

Yes......I think that's the reason why some of the folks from the British Isles that I've known and worked with in the past didn't want to leave here after their contract time was up.  They came to like the attention.  Which is certainly understandable.  I've known Scots, English, and Irish -- they all get pretty much the same reaction over here.  It's usually a very positive one.  There aren't many Americans who genuinely dislike the Brits.  I've known one or two: but they are actually quite rare.  Mostly, an Englishman in this country is an instant minor celebrity -- without even trying.

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Quote - Xeno is in the UK?

 

Not me.

Actually: I'm in the Southern UK.

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Khai:

Quote - my Sister had her Unicorn removed a coupla years ago..

I read that and for a couple of very confused seconds I was picturing your sister getting a horn removed from her forehead... Hahaha, it's been a long day :lol:

Speaking of tat designs and your avatar, Khai, I know of a girl on one of the LJ DW comms who's intenting to get the Seal of Rassilon on her bod somewhere. I think it'll work well.

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Oh and I meant to say:

I was once with a guy who had a lot of tattoos and had originally had them all over his arms including on his hands and knuckles.

They were all homemade jobbies from when he ran on the mean streets of Kilmarnock...

Anyway he turned corporate and the company told him he had to have them removed or he could not be considered for a managerial role. So he had them taken off. He said it was incredibly painful, far worse than doing them initially, and they left really bad burn scars behind.

That was way back in the 80s though, so it's good to know things have moved on.

I haven't got any ink myself, but I've flirted with the idea. At one point I was dead set on having the Metallica logo on my upper arm, but considering how crap they've gone now I'm glad I didn't!

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I thought about having a black kitty... some cute thing like that in an inconspicuous spot

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Oh, LOL, check this out:
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Well, my kitties gave me scratches, I just need the tatoo to give them context LOL

Then I could really be considered the crasy cat lady :lol:

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other than this, i find her quite pleasing to the eye. Edited to make the point I think she would be a lot more attractive without the tats.
Now Pixie would be pretty hot if she got rid of those dimple studs or whatever they are.

Quote - Back to the topic at hand LOL.  Kat Von D....... Hrm.  I dont mind tattoos at all, I dont have any, but my husband does.  Some are lovely.  its not the tattoo thing that bothers me.  She's pretty, physically and visually so I guess.   Its her attitude.  I dont actually watch much of the show, the commercials alone for it tell you all you need to know.  Her voice? It could be nice, if she didn't do that "I'm a sexy ho" type hushed whine when she speaks.  its like that lazy ditz drawl that has nothing to do with where you come from.

Just dont find anything really appealing about her.

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Quote - to each his own.....for me the sight of a tatoo is the most un-erotic, un-romantic and un-beautiful thing associated with humans. Total turn-off to her as a person and woman.

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Amen.

Id recommend anyone getting a tat for the first time {mainly females} get something small and somewhere it can be covered

All of mine are where they can be covered, and are not over the length of 2"

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Quote - I just happen to like her better than Ami. She's young still, she'll get over the attitude with age.

Yeah, Ami is far too angry. I love Chris Garver. I think getting tattooed by him would be very zen. He seems to exude that type of energy.
I think the problem with Kat is simply that she's been told constantly how awesome she is (with regard to her tattoo work) that she's begun to believe it. But hey, that'll happen. I've no problem watching LA Ink each week :)

I agree about getting your first tatoo somewhere is can be covered by clothing. As a general rule, most tattooist's won't tattoo necks, hands, visible areas unless you're self employed or work outside society norm.
I have pink and grey flames on my wrist 3-4 inches high, but even those can be covered with a long sleeved shirt.

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I think the problem with Kat is simply that she's been told constantly how awesome she is (with regard to her tattoo work) that she's begun to believe it. But hey, that'll happen. I've no problem watching LA Ink each week :)

 

Kat is really young too, isn't she? I forget the exact age, I do remember being floored when I heard just how young she was... like 22 or something IIRC. She's got a lot to learn, especially between now and I dunno, 27 or 30.

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She's now 26, she was 22 when she started on Miami Ink so yeah, she got her head filled with a bunch of praise and it got a little big. She will grow out of that. She seems to be somewhat genuine so there's hope for her. I found a picture of her on one of the buildings in LA. This is the image from her show that knocks me out as far as the old classic bathing beauty type image.

As for Tat's, that wasn't really what the thread was about, but I'm used to thread drift and hijack's so whatever. My last BF was all gahgah over tatoos and had his share. Everytime I think I want to get one personally, I just can't think of any image important enough to me to put it on my skin forever.

Hrmmm... I wonder if Kat would like to be Poserised? :blink:

It's hard to discuss someone like her without discussing tattoos -- as that's the thing which she's defined herself by.

It would be like talking about Tiger Woods without talking about golf.  Or talking about the Clintons without talking about politics.

There's much, much more to say: but it's all guaranteed to light fires.  And this isn't C&D.  I might put it in a blog.  If I ever start a blog.

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That image is in the official calendar :)

I agree that she's big into Tattoo's, but that's not all she's about. She's a heavy rock chick as well which is what greatly influences her self image as well. In anycase, I didn't start a thread about a beauty to incite a flame war over tattoo's and their merits. I understand it's September and all and everyone's starting in on their fall SAD episode's and such. I'm just trying to keep mine upbeat this year.

Quote - I'm just trying to keep mine upbeat this year.

Not a bad goal.  September's almost over in any case.

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