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So today, I am actually filming a tattoo concept video that I stole from our good friend Morgan Joyce.
However, when I texted her and asked if I could do it, she said that it's pretty common on YouTube so
So today, I'm going to be doing a video called "Tattoos I Didn't Get." Morgan's, I think, is like "Tattoos
I Almost Got" or something like that.
I will say the correct thing in my video title. But, lucky for us,
today I actually have one of my old
diaries. I believe I started this diary in 2009, so there are some
juicy tattoo ideas in here. This diary,
you know, it has like my first vegan macaroni and cheese recipe
with illustrations. All of the bus times from whatever year I was taking the bus that hard.
A bio.
It says "keep living the big dreams, and I'll keep dreaming mine." What is that from?
Oh, jeez.
Rules of the bus, that's a pretty good one.
A poem on disappointment,
you know. Favorite bands of 2011: Crystal Castles, Dead Kennedys, Radiohead, MewithoutYou. The other page is ripped out.
I guess I had feelings about that.
Flaws in modification community classification. Honestly, before this girl had YouTube
she was yelling into a book. Don't even worry, because this page,
tattoo ideas, is
what I'm going to be sharing with you guys today.
There are a couple
ideas that are not in here that I came up with along the way and just also never got it. So if they're not in
here, after I'm done reading this diary I will mention them, as well.
Juicy. Anyway, so tattoo ideas with a
HIM symbol, an
anchor, a
swallow,
um,
a nautical star. I'm just, like, the things that are sketched here.
So, the first one is an umbrella blown out. So, I wanted an umbrella,
an umbrella tattoo.
But, you know when you're like having your umbrella and the wind blows it the other way? I used to think that was a really
cool idea, because I was like "you know, it's like you like went out and it was raining,
but then like everything went wrong."
I was definitely that chick, and I still am. So, the next one says milk and honey,
and that is a tattoo I have shared with you guys on this channel before. I
really wanted a milk and honey tattoo, because before the poetry book or whatever the fuck, milk and honey to me always represented prosperity and
when I made this journal I was working at McDonald's, my car didn't work, my life sucked,
and I just thought that, like, milk and honey would be like that symbol of prosperity. I actually ended up getting a, um,
a beehive tattoo,
which was around this time. So, it's definitely directly related to this, except the beehive is a stick and poke.
So, the next thing says a bow and arrow,
parentheses, bow and arrow/axe. I think just, like, a bow and arrow,
probably Joanna Newsom-inspired or like fairytale-inspired or like an axe. I was definitely in this like
fantastical world.
I was not super heavily influenced by the internet in this time period. So, I definitely was reading a lot and like, I also used to
also used to like read lyrics as I was listening to music as just a way to absorb a lot more
like context. So, in this time, definitely thinking about like MewithoutYou lyrics and Joanna Newsom lyrics.
Probably, you know reading
Ethan Frome. So this says farm
(vegan theme), uh,
you know your girl was sick with some veganism.
I think I just wanted like farm animals or maybe like, like a for real, like a whole
farm-like thing going on. Um, I
never got that tattoo.
I think I just, I may have already had this and wasn't ready to start this arm, and a tattoo concept like this obviously
requires like a lot of space, like a full thigh or like, you know, a back, a
full calf. So, I think at this time, I just wasn't ready to dedicate that space yet.
But, here is, here's a good one.
Shark and ribbon tattoo! Oh my god, we love it! So,
I did end up getting that tattoo, um, and
here it is. Can't really see his ribbons.
Good for you, girl. So, the next one says burning farm.
A play on burning church, which is a pretty popular tattoo. I didn't get that. Venus statue or
Goddess Venus in a shell. I used to want that on my side,
and, I guess you know, I got the shark ribbon tattoo on my side, anyway, and that
tattoo was obviously just like a play on
beauty and the Venus statue, I believe I'm thinking of the right thing, who knows what she was thinking of. But,
back, you know, when I
made this diary, I was definitely really heavy into body modification
and I really still wanted to be perceived as beautiful.
So, I know I really, really wanted this tattoo to always have a symbol of beauty,
just like flawless beauty on me. There was this tattoo artist at the time,
he was big in LA, who was doing a lot of like, these, like
Roman
statues or like images on cathedrals and stuff. He was like really, really like hitting it hard, and
whatever platform,
like, I was following him on, this, I did not have an Instagram at this time.
It had to have been either on Tumblr or a
tattoo magazine. I
used to think, like, man, I'm really gonna save up and go to LA and get this tattoo. Obviously, that never happened,
but the other side of my ribs is wide open, and I still do think about this tattoo.
You know, raise your hand in the comments if you've heard me mention it before. It was a tattoo
I want, and one of the only black-and-grey tattoos I've really liked sweated hard for. So,
you know, that's in the diary, but it's something
I really want. So, this says Radiohead bear. Um, I've talked to you guys about that before, and I never got it.
Like, back during this time
there was an apprentice at the tattoo shop in our town who had reached out to
me via Myspace to ask if I wanted any apprentice tattoos, and at the time
I'm really glad I like, I believe I replied "yes" and then chickened out, and
I'm kind of glad I did because I don't know how big I would have got this thing,
but I used to doodle it, like, on literally everything, so.
Just now, I feel like I don't want any popular imagery very visible on me
and that's something I shared in
my,
in my like, adult tattoos video, like having a Playboy Bunny tattoo is like very
recognizable on my body, and I think I would have similar feelings about having the Radiohead bear.
But, if I had any freaking friends who liked Radiohead, I wouldn't be going to the concert all by myself. So, who knows?
So, this says Apple.
I've never gotten an Apple tattoo. Um, I have a lunchbox tattoo that has an apple on it
and I think when I got that I was like "oh cool."
So, this says a skull (with a heart brain). Um, at the time,
and it's definitely doodled somewhere,
I believe my little college boyfriend drew that somewhere for me, where it was like a skull from the side
and his head was cut off and there was just like a little
anatomical heart coming out at the top. I thought that that was sick. Um, I don't have it.
I don't know where I'd get it. Maybe I could edit the skull tattoo
I already have, but it was just an idea I never really ran with. But, it was imagery
I'd definitely surrounded myself with. A black rose.
You know, classic. I didn't get that, but they're still sick.
Ties and rails. So, that is a Joanna Newsom reference.
For a train track, you know the rail spikes. I
used to really want one of those. They're pretty common in tattooing,
but I wanted to get it for Joanna Newsom because she has the song where she says "ties and rails."
That one's still on ice, like I can definitely see myself still getting it.
Joanna bird tattoo.
I don't think I have that. I don't really know what that means, off the top of my head. A razor blade,
and this is a,
you know when you do the strikes and it's like four strikes and then you cross the fifth one through.
I don't know what that's called, but those are pretty sick.
I don't have one of those, but those are definitely like really chill, like, filler tattoos. Like, I have that space right there.
It's not a lot of space, but I could definitely see like getting one of those. But, I
don't, like, I would feel really fake
just having one of those tattoos. Like, I feel like I would have to get some strikes and then figure out what it's all about.
Unless, like you
could use the symbolism to mean like winning or like striking out, something like that, which could be sad. I
don't know.
This is a
life preserver. So, life preserver, you know it's a pretty cool
tattoo. Definitely like hits that aquatic theme.
But, being like a sad bitch and all this, I definitely wanted a lifeline and that's why I wanted that tattoo.
This is an image of a coffin that has two hearts on it. So, maybe like buried with somebody that you love.
It's kind of grim.
This is a candle burning at both ends. So, a candle burning at both ends is something that you'll find a lot in
traditional tattooing, and kind of like new-school, as well, like definitely like whipped all-around wax.
It's definitely the symbolism for like,
like if you're burning a candle at both ends I feel like you're cutting it really tight or like you're.
Burning a candle at both ends is to over work or exhaust oneself by doing too many things,
especially both late night and early in the morning. So, I can see, like, my McDonald's ass being like "life is hard."
And I'm not even kidding, I've never worked harder.
This is "if your heart was broken, you'd be dead." So, we didn't get that one.
Here is a locket, a
locket with a key. So, I did end up getting that,
which is way cool, okay.
So, that is the end of the tattoos in this little diary. Other than that,
a tattoo I really, really wanted, I used to be really into typography, and I really wanted a tattoo of
the alphabet, and I wanted it to start at the bottom of my leg and
go up and
it would fill in any of the gaps from tattoos I already had and it would go up pretty high.
I swear, I was this close to getting that tattoo. I really just really liked it.
I used to practice typography everyday. I had a speedball, like, little notebook that I kept with me everywhere. Every morning,
I used to get up and practice my letters by hand.
I did that
everyday, and I really, really wanted this typography tattoo so badly and
I don't know. I kind of just like talked myself out of it. Now,
I feel like a tattoo like that would take up a lot of space, and
because I want tattoos, I want to get a lot of tattoos, that
would be something, like I said, that would take up a ton of space and it would be, I imagine it to me black.
So,
maybe this will come off as like a very masculine tattoo,
even though arguably the tattoos on my leg are pretty masculine. I did talk myself out of it.
Another tattoo I really wanted, and I wanted this when I was younger,
I was in high school, and I did want a "this too shall pass" tattoo. I really wanted that quote.
I like looked up the meaning and presented this whole thing to my mom,
and I did want it on my wrist, and my mom was like "fuck no" and
after that I didn't pursue, like, getting it illegally, although I had the means to, and
now I'm kind of glad.
Not because I have any feelings about like "this too shall pass"
tattoos, like I think that it's a message that, like, if it was on my wrist and I could remind myself,
I think that that would be fine. But, I didn't pursue getting that tattoo
afterwards, and when I got older I did stray away from text tattoos. So,
we're just gonna scratch ourselves with a bell collar. So, I did stray from getting text tattoos
so that is fine with me that I decided to not get that, and then finally it was in here
and it was a tie on your finger. If you remember from Three Tattoos
I Was Refused, this video like accidentally went viral.
I, I don't know. I was going to get a tie on my finger, and
instead of pursuing getting it from somebody else, I actually decided I didn't want it. Now,
I feel like the culture around finger tattoos has changed. You know, back when I wanted it
I was, like, I'm modified to the nines, I have bright red hair, I have tattoos, like I want this tattoo and
then, you know, I was kind of
transient at that point in my life, like I didn't have a steady job,
you know, I had dropped out of college and then went back to college.
So, I was really unsure and at the time
really did like to have this life where I could be tattooed or hide it, and
that's kind of the bubble I live in now. I
will see Molina who has finger tattoos
and I'll see her like washing clients or like styling hair, like putting an apron on somebody
and I'm always really drawn to her hands, and I think that it's really cool.
So, I don't, you know, there might be a day where I get finger tattoos.
But, after I was refused that tattoo, like I don't know if I express it well enough in the video,
I don't think so the comments are pretty negative,
but I did walk away from that tattoo. If she would have given it to me, and I'd have it to this day,
I don't think I would have a problem with it. My
6's and my lawless tattoo held up pretty well. I don't know if it's just the skin on my fingers,
but I don't think I would have a problem having a finger tattoo. I
don't really wear rings, so I think that would be really fun, but I just never pursued it.
So, these were tattoos I wanted to get, didn't get.
Who knows what we'll title this video?
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