Re: Thinking of getting a MJ tattoo
Hello,
I'm not much of a poster on this forum, but I do visit regularly and read it on a daily basis.
Anyway, this is my tattoo, I've had it done on the day before the 6-months anniversary. I wanted to chose at least a little bit of a symbolic date, but I wasn't ready yet on His birthday and I just couldn't wait until 25/6/2010.
The tattoo took about 4 hours to make + some huge correspondence with my tattoo artist before the actual tattooing, because I wanted to chose a motive that would symbolize everything what I felt on June 25th 2009 and ever since. I wanted my tattoo to express the perfection that is Michael Jackson, hence the very excellent and iconic SC pose, which surely is one of his most recognizable ones.
I wanted my tattoo to express the incredible sadness that I felt and still feel, hence the dates.
I wanted to express my gratitude for having been able to be a part of his time on earth and of having discovered him and the gratitude for the huge part he's had and still has in my life, hence I also included the year when I became his fan, a year that had such an input on my life, as his birth and ultimately his passing (I don't know if input is the good way to put it, I wanted to say that after his passing I haven't really been the same).
I wanted to express that no matter what has happened, my fandom has not ended in 2009 and I can't imagine it ever will, hence the forever part.
And finally I wanted to express how helpless I felt last summer at the thought of Michael's life endind so suddenly and unexpectedly. To express this feeling I was choosing between this part of Gone to soon, which quite perfectly describes my state of mind and heart, and a part from another The Jackson's song (Even though you're gone). It went something like this:
Got to find a way somehow,
nothing's gonna stop me now,
got to find a way somehow,
even though you're gone.
Or the following verses from the same song:
Things don't look as bad
as they did yesterday.
Every minute I get stronger,
somehow some way.
But I ended choosing Gone to soon.
As I said the tatooing itself took about 4 hours mainly because of some details in his pose and then the writing which takes quite a lot of time. The pain wasn't as bad as I thought. It was more like "When is this annoying feeling gonna stop?!" and not "Oh god, it hurts so bad!" The writing does hurt a little bit more than doing the larger parts, simply because with the writing and other small details he used a 3-needles-tattoo head (sorry, don't really know how to put it) and with the larger parts (for example his Michael's jacket) he used a 7-needles-tattoo head.
Since than I've had it retouched because tha black didn't quite stay as bark black as it was supposed to. But the guy was very fair in not charging me the extra work, only the extra needle.
I must say I'm very proud of my tattoo and don't regrett it at all.
Plus one more thing, that I have to say: I was never, never really a fan of tattoos and I never thought about getting one myself. 25/6 changed everything!
