My first time....

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Today I'm linking up with Helene for her total social link up! 

http://www.heleneinbetween.com/

 The first prompt for the link up is: Your first time. 
Show us your first blog post, your first boyfriend, your first day of school - whatever!
When you post on your blog you can of course link up with us the day of (which will be Thursday, May 15th). But you can also post on other social media outlets using the hashtag: #firstsTOTALSOCIAL

Basically she will give you a prompt in hash tag form because duh hashtags make everything better, and this weeks is #myfirsttime. Now join in and sit with the cool kids. K?!


I thought about a bunch of my first times I could post about and well I decided to talk about my first time getting a tattoo. Someone posted about tattoos earlier, sorry I read like 9 million blog posts and I dont remember which one it was. Anyway I commented and said I really think the minimum age for getting a tattoo should be 25...wait don't hurt me...I'm totally going to explain!
Well really I'm not going to explain Im just going to paint you a picture of WHY I should have waited until I was 25 to get a tattoo... #thankgodIdidntgethisname

9 years ago I had just turned 18 #woohoo #norules and I thought it would be pretty awesome to go to Panama City for Spring Break for some drunken fun Not really because my friends mom totally crashed our party but lets just pretend. So by drunken fun I guess I'll admit her mom totally let us drink Zimas and smoke ciggarettes because we thought that was what looked cool. Now picture us in the back of a mini-van crusin the strip. I know you're mad jelly right now that you weren't as cool as us! We put her moms hair up and put makeup on her trying to make her look younger... I'm pretty sure the mini-van was a dead giveaway.
I imagine we looked about this cool!
So after getting totally drunk see sipping on a few zimas I was like I want to get a tattoo! I was totally old enough but her mom said I had to call my mom BLAH! My mom obvi doesnt know me very well because she actually said I dare you to do it. See, she thought I'd see the needle and chicken out. Um no #challengeaccepted Biotch!





So me and my bff went walking down the strip we decided we'd leave the mini-van at the condo and I walked in the first tattoo shop I came to #mistake1. A fat biker man with long gray hair patted his chair and told me to have a seat. He asked me what I wanted,ya know this isnt really a big decision Im only going to have it for the rest of my damn life. So like any 18 year old in Panama City in 2005 I was like I want a butterfly on my lower back #mistake2 #ewtrampstamp. I dont know why I dont have pictures of this..Im guessing this is before I had myspace and a cellphone. So the old biker was like unbotton your pants and Im like dude no just put it on my back... I mean would mistake # 3 being two young girls 18 in a different state in a tattoo shop alone with weird old men?

Anyoverdramatic, Yall I was so in love with that crooked ass butterfly I wore a crop top the rest of our vacation to show it off. Ps My mom was totally pissed. Now at the time I freaking loved that butterfly it meant I was free... im 18 a "grown up" and whatever else bullshit I convinced myself of as why I got it. So I didn't stop there, nope I had to keep the #badtattootrend going. My next stop a chinese symbol also on my back in hot pink. Its supposed to say love.
I went in that tattoo shop with the intentions of getting my 'fiance's name on my back #EW. Instead I settled for this. However, my tattoo looks nothing like that, and I'm pretty sure it says drunken whore or something equally offensive.

So that my friends is why you should wait until you are at least 25 and semi have your shit together before you go out and get tatted up!






23 comments

  1. haha that is pretty funny. i do think you should wait, since you never know if you'lll like it forever. I am 27 and will never get a tattoo, just now for me!

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  2. You my friend are funny "pretty sure it says drunken whore" haha Have you tried to get it fix? There are some awesome tattoo artists that could fix that right up!

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  3. haha this is so funny! i got my first tattoo when i was 18 - i dont hate it, but i dont know if i would have gotten it if i had to wait till 25.

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  4. Haha! Well at least you have a good story to tell ;) I was 17 when I got my first one and 8 years and 10 tats later, no regrets. I also had the picture of my first tattoo when I was 15 and carried it around EVERY SINGLE DAY looking at it to make sure I still liked it years later. But I think I'm one of the lucky ones with no tattoo horror stories!

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  5. Oh no! Tattoo gone horribly wrong. :o( I never bothered with tattoos but I did have an older boyfriend who talked me into a bellybutton piercing which I seriously regretted...especially after he dumped me a week later. Pleased to say I'm now bellybutton ring free and happily married to a much better guy. :o)

    V @ Life+1
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  6. OMG- I agree with 25. I don't have any ink but my three blood brothers do. The one is 30 and wanting to get a sleeve... I fear needles big time and therefore they are not for me.

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  7. I got a cow on my hip as my first tattoo. I was dating a guy that was covered on tattoos and I had wanted one for a looooong time. So I got a pic of the stuffed cow I use to sleep with. I still love it, even though when I am bloated it looks like it has a fat head. My second was an infinity with hope in it. I wish I hadn't chosen my ankle for it. It limits what I can wear when I'm working. I think the biggest thing when getting a tattoo is research the shop so you can see their other work and know that what you are getting is quality.

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  8. That is great advice! I 'drew' my first tattoo. I can't even draw... so yea, plus it is right by my hairline and is so faded and needs to be redone by a pro so that it doesn't look so terrible. Definitely should have waited until age 25.. I was 22 when I did that craziness.

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  9. This is hilarious, but I am glad my mom put a stop to my tattoo as now I would be Most likely paying a fortune in laser removal.....

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  10. I agree about being 25! Ha! My MIL ans SIL have a bunch of tattoos and they are so gross. Not even cute!

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  11. I was pretty late to the tattoo bandwagon...well at least among my relatives. My middle sister and I got matching tattoos in 2009, my first and her third tattoo. I laughed so loud when I read the "drunken whore" bit. Haha!

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  12. Instead of having the drinking age be 21, perhaps the tattoo age should be 21, or better yet... 25 like you said!! When I was younger I got a barbed wire henna tattoo on my arm... dear god thank you that thing just washed off... can you imagine if I had been dumb enough to make the permanent!?!?!?! Thank you so so so much for linking up with me and Helene, we are glad to have you! :)

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  13. OMG Zima's!! I can't believe she dared you!

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  14. its great to share things like this and remember from day one.

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  15. Why does it seem like we can only learn these lessons the hard way??

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  16. Haha! This makes me smile because I think there are SO many people that regret anything that they did to their bodies before 25! I myself got a tattoo the day I turned 18. My parents took me and it was my bday present. My dad drew me a butterfly and we put a heart on each of it's wings in memory of my grandparents. I still like it today...but it had a special meaning to me. It is on my upper right shoulder blade and done by someone very reputable.

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  17. "I'm pretty sure it says drunken whore or something equally offensive." BAHAHAHAHAAH! Dying!
    I have one tattoo... I want another!

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  18. This post is hilarious! I get your point as I also got mine at 18 and wish I hadn't put this huge bird on my ankle. Anywho I hope the Chinese symbol doesn't mean drunken whore, but you gotta admit that would be f-ing hilarious!

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  19. tats are addictive! i agree though; tats shouldn't be done on a whim; that's shit's permanent, yo! it takes me YEARS to get a tat because i plan everything. my last tat too me 3 years to get from the idea to the actual tattoo itself. this one i'm thinking about is already 4 years in the making!

    -kathy
    Vodka and Soda

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  20. Haha funny story. I have many friends now that hate the tattoos they got when they were younger. The very reason I don't have any tattoos is because I really can't think of anything I want on my body for the rest of my life! I'm thinking they should change the legal age for a tattoo.

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  21. Um yes, agree, agree....I've thought several times about getting a tattoo but I wait a few months to see if I still want it. So far no dice and I'm glad I haven't gone under the needle. Though I'm not gonna lie I see so many people with kick-ass tattoos so I'm a (kinda) fan.

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  22. this cracked me up! so true. i didn't get any tats until i was 29!

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  23. "Drunken Whore" is too funny! Honestly, at least it is a symbol and not a name...yikes!

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