thanks AOX81 :)

we have some brothers here at umass who brand themselves with hot coat hangers- ouch. i personally have threetattoos, the previously shown one with letters, a tribal one on my back, and a small pink M on my front hip.. they all have alot of meaning to me :)
for piercings have my tongue, navel, and 4 in each ear.

i have many sisters who have tattoos, and a few with letters. two of my sisters got the chinese symbol for sister tattooed on together. my org doens' tlook down upon self expression, and the way nationals put it at summer workshop (summer national convention) this weekend was "if you love KDPhi nas, and its in your blood, why not put it on your body". :) beautiful way of putting it!!!

thanks to everyone who replied to my thread post,i love tattoo stories!

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Personally I don't have much of an opinion on this thread because I'm not huge on tats to begin with but I will say this: When I first was a new member, the first thing my pledge class was told was "DO NOT GET OUR LETTERS PUT ON YOUR BODY, YOU'LL REGRET IT"...and while I was like "Why?" at the time, I thought it through and now I realize that that is right...I mean really, what if (God Forbid) you get black balled?? Or what if you just up and quit?? So maybe getting a heart or a dove or something wouldn't be so bad but maybe the letters themselves wouldn't be so good.

i can't believe your glo would tell you that you'd regret getting the letters tattooed on.. i can understand if it was a national rule or even a local rule.. wow, who would have thought? everyone is different though, and life would be boring without diversity ;)

I have a tattoo of a violet on my lower back (our flower) and it's a personal reminder of Sigma Kappa for myself that isn't letters. I know of a couple girls who got small violets and our letters on their ankles and they look really nice. One of my sisters also got a dove on her shoulder and it's just beautiful. Other than that, a lot of people in my chapter have piercings and tatoos but most of them can be covered for formal events or when required.

My husband's step sister got a tatoo of a dolphin on her foot and then resigned from Tri Delta! Oops...

We were told that we should not have our letters tatooed on our bodies. I would personally never get a tatoo, but several of my sisters got turtles, one even got the chinese character that means turtle.

No one from my chapter has our tattoos with our letters on them. A couple of sisters have roses (our flower) and butterflies (our chapter mascot), but they got those done before they were members.

I am thinking about getting a tat that has some sort of meaning for my sorority. I donno if I wanna get the letters. Even though I love my letters to death, I don't want anyone to think I'm disrespecting them, if they see me drinking or anything like that. There's so many different things that I wanna do, and I want to be original, so I donno what I'm going to end up getting. That is if I end up getting them. (I'm such a baby when it comes to needles...) :(

I also wanna get my tongue pierced, and have on many occasions ALMOST gotten it done... I chickened out.

For those of you who have tats, were you scared??? Did it hurt??? I've heard from some people that it's very painful, and others that it's like a massage! What do you think?

~Beth

I've got a cross and crescent tattoo. It's one of the symbols of my house. As far as other people go, there are three or four other people in my house who have similar tattoos. Originally I wasn't all about tattooos, but now that I have mine, I absolutely love it.

i got my tongue pierced more than a year ago and i love it... things like that differentiate between people, but mine didnt really hurt too bad other than the three days after i got it done.. may i recommend Biotene instead of listerene and also Glyoxide will help it heal much faster.. mine didnt swell at all, and i never developed a speech impediment!! i was lucky..actually im looking into getting it done again.. i cant wait....:p

i'm thinking of getting a rattle snake wrapped around my ankle or the badge on my chest. :)

One of my bros, who is now an active at Ohio State got our coat of arms on his calf. Myself and another guy from my class have different cross & crescent tats. mine is like the friendship pin (http://www.lambdachi.org/fraternity/symbols.asp), and his is just the cross & crescent with the letters, and no shield over it. Another guy in the class under mine has stylized bubble letters on his bicep.

I've never heard of any SAI's getting tattoos...I don't think we have a policy against it though.

When I got my first tattoo (I have two) I was SO scared. Yes, they hurt, but while it is unpleasant, it's not unbearable. My first one took about 45 minutes, and my second about 30 -- and I can tell you that, at least for me, the first few minutes hurt the most, and it gets easier after that. Also, I think the pain level is affected by where you get the tattoo, because it hurts more if it's over a bone.

a girl in our sorority has our letters tattooed on her ankle, and they look awful because she got it done at some shithole parlor and they got messed up the day she did it or something...anyway, not many people in the sorority like it and it makes us look kinda bad because this one chic has messed up letters on her foot....what a way to impress huh?

SapphireSphinx9:

i was insanely scared for my first tattoo, i was only 17 and its BIG.. maybe 7.5 inches long and 3 tall... also its on my lower back which isn't a good spot because it goes over your spine..

after that i got a tiny tiny one little M which wasn't *TOO* painful...

then the letters i got on my hip weren't bad while coloring in.. the outline sucked though. outlines are usually worse because they use different needle and speed.

the tongue hurt. i'm not gonna lie.. but glyoxide helped alot, and so did listerine, although listerine DOES sting and glyoxide tastes like blood.

navel was cake. not painful.

http://www.translucent-love.com/rebel.html

those are pictures of my tattoos and piercings

lol...you think glyoxide tastes like blood?? how do u figure?? i thought it tasted like peroxide!