I'd like to add my own thought, though I have never had one...its at least good to keep in mind.
Take your current age, subtract 10 years from it. Were you smart back then? Not at all! You were a god damn idiot.
(Hell looking 5 years into the future and I Know I'll be twice the idiot I was in this year.

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Your just as big an idiot today, it'll just take 10 years to realize it.
Now imagine if you had something drawn on you 10 years ago, would you be happy with it today? Chances are...you'd not be.
Never Get:
The Barbed Wired Ring.
Any Band Logo.
ANY
Exceptions would be made for Karma Inquisition.
Most importanly
The Asian/Tribal Character/Design.
Nobody gets it, and someone had to explain it to you, and you had no idea if they were telling you the truth.
(Have a similar experience, bought a chinese zodiac of the dragon, which was bullshitted on me and was not the character. Imagine if that was near-perminant). Not only that, but lets face it, nothing is more cliched and simple than this. Even if its just a bunch of squigly lines to you, it is deemed "Cool" only because it looks odd, f*cked up, and foreign.
Odds are this was echoed, I'd just like to throw my thought into the ring.
Its obvious of course to get it in a place that is not delibrate. A bad idea is the forehead or lower arm, since nothing would possibly bring you away from a chance at some high paying "Uptight society" job than seeing a tatoo.
Thank Red and Blue for some of this information
However on the topic, I've got a question for a possible tatoo. Its a bit...hmm, too grand for a first tatoo, but I did consider the design.
The idea is a dragon, either the oriental serpent like one, or the more idealized type of a dragon. Its head starts on the front of my shoulder (Side of the chest), and its neck and body goes over my left shoulder, around the base of my neck and topmost back, and then goes over my right shoulder with the tail on the front left shoulder (Side of the chest).
I'd make sure it would be covered up by a shirt, but I've sort of liked the idea. I'd guess something smaller and simpler on my ankle or something first, no?
