Tatted Thursday: Featuring Ant; Part Two (After Me)

 Last week I kicked off our Tatted Thursday blog series with sharing with you guys my husbands ink work (here). I had ALL intentions on throwing them all at you at once but since he started his ink collection since he was about 13 or 14 years old,

it would have just went on for what very well may have seemed like forever!

When I was writing this I realized that Ant's tats are in NO kind of order and I ask that you  bare with me on this fact. 

He has been working on his tat collection for almost 18 years and some of the older ink's information is a little fuzzy for us old folks...

They will seem pretty random chaotic ...

SO...

I tried and categorized them as best as I can...

Before Me (Part One) and After Me (Part Two) ;)

So now we can FINALLY move on to...

Part Two:

After Me

PAIN:

Shop Name/Location: Forbidden Images; Dothan, Alabama

Artist Name: Jeff

Placement: Left Calf

Pain Scale: 3

Price: $140-$150

Age: 26-27ish

Meaning/Story: He says in a way it is the summary of his life, PAIN in larger letters as the red Kanji characters read Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

Dakota

Shop Name/Location: Anchor Tattoo;  Bryant Arkansas

Artist Name: Chad

Placement: Left Shoulder Blade

Pain Scale: 5 to 7 (depending on location)

Price: $100

Age: 31

Meaning/Story: Dakota is my our oldest child and VERY much into music, I designed this tattoo for Ant to represent her. Though he is not her biological father he has been with Dakota since she was about 2 years old.

Dice

Shop Name/Location: Forbidden Images; Dothan, Alabama

Artist Name: Jeff

Placement: Right Calf

Pain Scale:  3

Price: $100

Age: 26-27 ish

Meaning/Story: This tattoo was picked out by Ant's youngest brother. So in a way you can say it represents Brad :)

The Skull

Shop Name/Location: Notorious Ink; Headland Alabama

Artist Name: Billy

Placement: Left Chest

Pain Scale: 4

Price: $75

Age: 27

Meaning/Story: There is no story or meaning behind this one, the itch for ink was present and it is what he had liked at the time.

SDJ

Shop Name/Location: Screamer's Tattoo; Ozark, Alabama

Artist Name: Dragon Dave

Placement: Left Side of Neck

Pain Scale: 3

Price: $40

Age: 22

Meaning/Story: These are my initials that he got after we had been together for a year. Our families FREAKED THE FU$& OUT! ;)

Black Tribal

Shop Name/Location: Forbidden Images, Dothan Alabama

Artist Name: Jeff

Placement: Back of Left Forearm

Pain Scale: 6

Price: $120

Age: 25ish

Meaning/Story: He has always liked tribal and decided that after talking to Jeff that they would piece two pieces into this one "custom" idea tat.

Faith

Shop Name/Location: Anchor Tattoo; Bryant, Arkansas

Artist Name: Chad

Placement: Left Triceps

Pain Scale: 6

Price: $120

Age: 29

Meaning/Story: He decided on this ink work after I have bitched reminded him over and over and over again to always have faith. I am usually the think positive about EVERYTHING type of person and I have tried to rub that trait off on him in our time together... so far it has not worked but now he at least has a reminder with him at all times and I can save my breath for something else. ;)

LEANNA/ CLOUDS

LEANNA:
Shop Name/Location: Forbidden Images, Dothan, Alabama

Artist Name:  Jeff

Placement: Right

Pain Scale: 6

Price: Free
 (this tattoo was priced into the sleeve start up at a HUGE discount)

Age: 27

Meaning/Story: Ant's youngest sister gave birth to her daughter LeAnna very prematurely. LeAnna graced us with her presence for just a few short moments before she went to heaven to watch over her family. The entire family was devastated and  her uncles paid tribute to our sweet angle with her name and halo on them for us to always carry her with us. 

CLOUDS:
Shop Name/Location: Anchor Tattoo; Bryant Arkansas

Artist Name: Chad

Placement: Around LeAnna's Tribute on Right Bicep

Pain Scale: 5

Price: Priced in with sleeve hours

Age: 31

Meaning/Story: With LeAnna's name being on the arm with the sleeve Ant wanted to make her name stand out more and not get lost in the tribal shuffle... Chad and him came up with this idea after a few hours working on the sleeve.

Patience

Shop Name/Location: Anchor Tattoo; Bryant Arkansas

Artist Name: Chad

Placement: Left Wrist

Pain Scale: 7

Price: $60

Age: 29

Meaning/Story: Ant had an old family friend who him and I absolutely ADORED!
Watt was such a character and I always enjoyed going to visit with him. Watt would always tell me as I would get ready to leave from my visit to be patient with Ant. He was a good kid and he would get his shit together he just needed someone like me to make it worth it...
After Watt had passed I had told Ant about my idea or getting the word patience or a Kanji Character tattooed to me to remind me to have patience with him through out our life together... and well the sucker totally stole my idea when I was across country :)

  Family

Shop Name/Location: Anchor Tattoo; Bryant, Arkansas

Artist Name: Chad

Placement: Right Wrist

Pain Scale: 7

Price: $60

Age: 29

Meaning/Story: Ant has become a HUGE family man, his family is his motivation for everything that he does and with 4 girls in the house GOD knows sometimes you need an extra reminder on why you go about your day to day routines.

Aaliyah

Old English 

  Shop Name/Location: Screamer's Tattoo; Ozark, Alabama

Artist Name: Dragon Dave

Placement: Backside of Right Forearm

Pain Scale: 5.5

Price: $100

Age: 23

Meaning/Story: Aaliyah is the name of our youngest daughter. After she was born he pretty much made a be-line to the tattoo shop to get his baby girl's tribute tattoo inked to him.

 Sleeve

Work in progress

Two different states, shops and artists

PART ONE- THE START- 2012
Shop Name/Location: Forbidden Images; Dothan, Alabama

Artist Name: Jeff

Placement: Right Arm Sleeve

Pain Scale: 1-10 depending on area being worked on

Price: $ 425 start up cost

Age: 27

Meaning/Story: When we left the hospital from loosing our niece LeAnna, Ant decided he would replace one pain with another and decided to start on sleeve-ing his arm after all the years of talking about it. The first initial start up of his arm was 12 different tribal pieces placed and lied out around his already existing tats and almost 6 hours in the chair.

Part Two: PROGRESS and ADDITIONS - 2013 to ONGOING
Shop Name/Location: Anchor Tattoo; Bryant Arkansas

Artist Name: Chad

Placement: SLEEVE CONTINUED

Pain Scale: 1-10 depending on area being worked on

Price: $100hr up to 6 to 7 additional hours

Age: 31 and counting....

Meaning/Story: Chad has been kind enough to help Ant bring his sleeved arm to a reality. These two have brainstormed and have added on new anchor points to the sleeve and ways to make everything "work" after it being an ongoing process..
We are all so VERY excited to see it "finished" but there are still several more hours to go...
Plus side?
I never run out of gift ideas for my so very hard to shop for hubby!

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*DISCLAIMER Pain scales depend on the individual getting the tattoo. These are not in anyway a guarantee  on how much a tattoo in a particular area will or will not hurt YOU.
The pain scale is based on a 1-10 scale (10 being the worst) and is just used to give you the reader an EXAMPLE. The pain scale is that of the featured person and their personal opinion on how much it hurt THEM.

** DISCLAIMER  tattoo pricing usually is charged by the hour. Depending on the location, size, detail, colors etc. will depend on the price of your tattoo. These prices listed are just to give you an idea of what some ink work could cost you. We are also DEDICATED tattoo enthusiast and are VERY LOYAL to our artist. SOME artists will show appreciation for your dedication and charge their repeat clients  with a discounted rate... This may or may not be typical in your area. Also me and my hubby always TIP our artist some pricing may or may not include the tip that we gave them... we can't remember :(