Welcome home, fellow Gator.

The Gator Nation's oldest and most active insider community
Join today!

Gator tattoo.

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by swamp life, Jul 6, 2024.

  1. INGATORSWETRUST

    INGATORSWETRUST GC Hall of Fame

    16,760
    1,082
    1,328
    Apr 8, 2007
    Florida
    I think the easiest way for me is to save the image as a photo on my iPhone and then click on the “upload a file” section below the post to select feom my photo library
     
    • Like Like x 1
    • Fistbump/Thanks! Fistbump/Thanks! x 1
  2. ETGator

    ETGator Long-Time Gator Stuck In East Tennessee Moderator VIP Member

    12,576
    7,934
    3,013
    Sep 15, 2007
    OK.
     
  3. Wanne15

    Wanne15 GC Hall of Fame

    16,178
    4,148
    3,088
    Jan 18, 2015
    That never works for me
     
  4. Wanne15

    Wanne15 GC Hall of Fame

    16,178
    4,148
    3,088
    Jan 18, 2015
    Kind of my sentiments also as to why I don’t have anything
     
    • Fistbump/Thanks! Fistbump/Thanks! x 1
  5. malscott

    malscott GC Hall of Fame

    12,231
    10,296
    2,948
    Apr 3, 2007
    West Hills, Ca
    It's funny ya'll we're talking about tattoos and a buddy called me today and asked me to talk with this dude about some Real Estate needs. Anyway, this guy does some wild stuff, kind of hyper realism style, 3D too. Quite the evolution from my uncles old Navy Anchor tat!!

    Check it out...

    https://www.darkageftw.com/rember-orellana


    Go Gators!
     
    • Informative Informative x 1
  6. Wanne15

    Wanne15 GC Hall of Fame

    16,178
    4,148
    3,088
    Jan 18, 2015
    It’s the debil
     
    • Funny Funny x 3
  7. swamp life

    swamp life All American

    495
    224
    1,828
    Aug 12, 2017
    Jacksonville
    IMG_8938.jpeg
    It will look something like this..
    I’ll let my guy jazz it up a little and fit it into my sleeve..
     
    • Like Like x 3
  8. SmootyGator

    SmootyGator GC Hall of Fame

    3,103
    577
    383
    Apr 17, 2007
    Tampa, Florida
    Make sure they spell it "Gators" and not "Gaoors"! :D
     
    • Agree Agree x 4
    • Funny Funny x 3
  9. swamp life

    swamp life All American

    495
    224
    1,828
    Aug 12, 2017
    Jacksonville
    I know right... Not sure what happened there.
     
  10. swamp life

    swamp life All American

    495
    224
    1,828
    Aug 12, 2017
    Jacksonville
    IMG_8939.jpeg
    I also like this one… Decisions…
     
  11. paidinfull

    paidinfull GC Hall of Fame

    5,947
    1,449
    2,038
    Feb 22, 2017
    Those are awful. Who the hell did the lettering in those images?
     
  12. hhpgator

    hhpgator GC Hall of Fame

    2,808
    2,309
    2,033
    Jun 13, 2017
    Having ink, I would never dissuade an individual from getting a tattoo. As for interests and such changing throughout life, that is somewhat true. However, things you truly appreciate in youth tend to stick with a person later in life. As a kid I loved soccer and the great outdoors. Having kids, my life has been recentered around them, but my passion for the sport grew into coaching and I’ve gotten my kids into hiking. Tattoos have been around for thousands of years and are becoming more common today. My only advice to anyone getting one is to make sure you spend time thinking about it and don’t be impulsive. Make sure it is deeply personal to you. I have no regrets and at this stage in life I seriously doubt I ever will with my choice in ink designs. The permanence to me is a draw, it is something that can never be taken from you involuntarily. It is my art. Just my thoughts on the matter.
     
    • Agree Agree x 2
  13. TrueGator

    TrueGator GC Hall of Fame

    2,108
    929
    2,063
    Nov 11, 2014
    Thanks for the perspective HHP.
     
    • Fistbump/Thanks! Fistbump/Thanks! x 1
  14. tommyvee

    tommyvee GC Hall of Fame

    17,268
    9,247
    3,293
    May 16, 2007
    Make sure he doesn’t use the AI spelling of Gators.
     
    • Funny Funny x 1
  15. swamp life

    swamp life All American

    495
    224
    1,828
    Aug 12, 2017
    Jacksonville
    I know. I keep staring at it trying to figure out what the hell he was thinking.
     
  16. A100

    A100 Sophomore

    79
    27
    1,833
    Oct 8, 2011
    Article today in USA Today about the booming business of
    TATTOO REMOVING
     
  17. manigordo

    manigordo GC Hall of Fame

    Same for me. I had a professional career where my peers would have been shocked by my ink. I waited until I was 42 and my first tattoo was one I had adjusted (with my son) for years before I got it. Then, when my son died, I did something larger dedicated to him on my back. I have never regretted either and have enjoyed having them greatly. They are art that is dear to me.
     
    • Like Like x 2
    • Friendly Friendly x 1
  18. maxgator

    maxgator GC Hall of Fame

    4,113
    291
    378
    Apr 3, 2007
    Back in the day, I want to say it was late '80s, there was a dude who used to sell Gator heads outside of the porpoise and that whole plaza.

    He had the most amazing gator tattoo I've ever seen. He was always shirtless and always wearing his jorts. He had a full gator tattoo. gator head came over one of his shoulders, the claws around the shoulders, the body down his back with the tail emerging from the bottom of his jorts leg.

    I'm sure some of you must recall him.

    That might be the only tattoo of any kind I would ever get. I know if I got started I'd never stop. Personally I very much enjoy tattoos on other people..
     
  19. swamp life

    swamp life All American

    495
    224
    1,828
    Aug 12, 2017
    Jacksonville
    One thing is true. They’re extremely addictive. I always said I wanted a sleeve, so I finished it about eight months ago. The ink on the last tattoo was barely dry when I started looking at my other arm and wondering what I wanted to do… Lol. This Gator tattoo would be the fifth one on my right arm.
     
    • Like Like x 3
  20. hhpgator

    hhpgator GC Hall of Fame

    2,808
    2,309
    2,033
    Jun 13, 2017
    My wife had been saying she wanted to get one for nearly twenty years. This year was when it finally happened. She had our middle child create the design as she is extremely artistic.

    There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that love their tattoos and those that think we’re idiots for having them. I find the process therapeutic.
     
    • Like Like x 1
    • Agree Agree x 1