So, I know a lot of people that get inked. In fact besides my dad (who has plans to get ink soon) and my youngest brother (who isnt old enough yet) Im the only one in my family that hasnt gotten a tattoo yet. Some of the tats my family members have gotten have special meaning (like my brother got his sons name and birth date tattooed over his heart, and my sister got the words "Father is God in the eyes of a child" and my dads name tattooed on her arm), while some are there just to look cool (like my other sisters cross based on the manga Priest on her arm, and my brothers half naked slutty chick >.>).

Some people see tattoos as trashy and classless while others see it as turning their body into a work of art and immortalizing something on themselves that will serve as a living monument to something special. What do you all think? Would you get any tattoos yourself and if so, what would they be?

I had thought about it long and hard for a few years and I think Ive finally decided to go for it, since for my birthday my brother had offered to pay for me to get one. The one I was planning on getting is this on my right shoulderblade, about 3 inches tall:


And Im one of those people where it has to mean something else I cant see marking myself with it forever. This tattoo will be one half of a full tattoo that wont be fully finished until later, and its meaning is a secret >.>
I also want to get a small tattoo of a firefly, and that meaning is also personal, but the final tattoo I want to get one day will be my family's crest, and all 4 of my siblings expressed interest in getting the same thing so itll be like a family tat <3