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Q: I got a new tattoo today. Anyone get a tattoo in China before?
If so, what design?
EDIT: Thanks for the down votes. Weirdos.
9 years 48 weeks ago in Lifestyle - Other cities
No, I am not a big fan of tattoo's. I'm not against it, and I've seen some pretty cool ones' before, but I'd rather get a fake tattoo that rubs off. So what does yours look like since you are so interested in finding out what design others have? (
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He he, I said: "rubs"!
I got a Li River Catfish, which is quite well known in Guilin.
Got it when I first moved to Guilin and I do not regret it at all.
Thumb up no 2 is mine.
i got my first tattoo just last week here in shanghai. its the character mei (with the female radical and the mei li de mei) and it mmeans beautiful. its in calligraphy style and i love it.
I've thought about it many times but never did,..for those who have, did they use new needles when they did the tattoo?
I don't have any, don't mind some on Chinese women. One girl I know went away and when she came back, she had half her face done, didn't care for it.
Tats have been around long enough that at home upper middle aged women are walking around with their arms covered in em, can't say I like it either.
GuilinRaf:
Lol！
Yes， the tattoo craze that swept the US and Canada in the late 80's and early 90's! Those 20 year old college students are now 40+ year old middle agers...
In the year 2000, there was a commercial shown in the movie theaters in Puerto Rico about health insurance, and they showed very old people with arm tattoos, old ladies with pierced tongues, etc. and the tag line was, (in order to encourage us to think of old age insurance now) something like "you are young today, but in 50 years what will you do...?
i plan to have one,but i am afraid it will be quite painful.By the way,how much does it usually cost?
GuilinRaf:
Mine was 800 RMB. It is on my triceps and is brightly colored.
The pain is not exactly like wen you get an injection. To be honest, i found tha pain quite relaxing, which surprised me. However, after four hours, I was very happy when it was done!
Rin:
I've had three done in China. Actually the first two were free because a friend of a friend was opening a tattoo parlour.
This recent one cost 800 RMB. Not so cheap, probably about the same as it would of cost in England.
As for pain, it depends where you get it. My most painful one was probably the one on my hip bone. The ones on my arms weren't so painful.
Chinese friends are amused at foreigners getting chinese characters tattooed on them, especially when they think they are getting one 'awsome' character, but in reality get something else - ha ha
I like fat women that wear their jeans low so they can proudly show off the picture of a butterfly they have tattooed directly above their anus... Super sexy... 
