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scarlett_vancouver
02-24-2008, 04:34 PM
^ i remember looking at that title... the YA label was great around 10-13... a lot of really talented authors wrote specifically to satisfy expanding young minds.


YA is (arguably) the toughest genre...also the most important, imo. I have a hell of a lot of respect for the talent of (good) YA authors.

Lola Rose
03-02-2008, 02:05 PM
dammit, I missed it! :(

Corgan
03-02-2008, 02:11 PM
me too

Sophia_Starina
03-02-2008, 02:13 PM
This post makes me sad.... :( I wish the picture was still up. Boo.

ColetteCalahan
03-02-2008, 02:14 PM
I have another session tomorrow, don't worry! hehe that was the 1st of 4 installments! more pics soon! *it's all spine work tomorrow, ouchies!*

Lola Rose
03-02-2008, 05:30 PM
ouchies, good luck! I want more tats, but not till I have a baby first.

ColetteCalahan
03-03-2008, 08:10 PM
Session #2 Pics!!! The books are up!!! There will be one falling off on my shoulder... now, keep in mind my webcam makes things backwards... so the girl on the ladder is really on my other side... *sigh* oh well. I'mma have someone take a cell pic & send it to me later, but this is RIGHT after i took off the bandages 5 minutes ago. DUUUUUDE this hurt like a BITCH when the vicoden wore off (yes, i'm a schmear, i know.) But i LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!!! ;D 2 more sessions to go... shading in mostly, more details, but now you can really see what it is! WOOOOHOOOOO!! I can't wait to dance with this... it actually elongates my spine and twists when I move... *eeeeee!*

OdysseusNJ
03-03-2008, 08:14 PM
Ooh ooh ooh! That's awesome, right up the spine. Hot! \m/ \m/

Some asshole stole the percocet I was saving for my next ink. Fucker.

ColetteCalahan
03-03-2008, 08:15 PM
^^^ *scratches head and decides not to pursue any line of questioning... * ::)

OdysseusNJ
03-03-2008, 08:17 PM
^^No threadjacking this away from the awesomeness of your tattoo

Sh0t
03-03-2008, 08:22 PM
It looks very elegant. It reminds me of this:



You continue to exemplify your trend of elegance.

AudreyLeigh
03-03-2008, 08:30 PM
Thats AWESOME and I want to add...

Im so sick of people taking down photos! Its sooo annoying!

ColetteCalahan
03-03-2008, 08:30 PM
^^^ Oh my gosh, thank you sh0t, not only for the compliment but for that link!! i'm going to show it to my artist!!! there are also the small sculptures on each side of the third st. promenade in santa monica that resemble this- i had no idea they existed until 3 weeks before my sessions... artistic (ehhe pretentious?) minds think alike? :D 8) ;D

audrey- i said i'd keep updating this thread with installments... i don't leave any truly identifiable pics up (unless i'm in a helmet/leathers or something) for longer than a week, just for anonymity reasons... i'll leave these up for a week (when you can't delete them anymore) but this is a pretty identifiable tattoo. sorry, but that's a total of 4 weeks for people to view these pics- i think it's enough time. as much as i like sharing, i'm still wary.

ColetteCalahan
03-03-2008, 11:02 PM
mmm one more for the curvature effect... i am way too in love with this, i apologize.

AlexxaHex
03-04-2008, 05:59 AM
Oooh lookin good! It reminds me of mine, only it's better.

Guenevere
03-04-2008, 06:09 AM
Aw baby!!! I remember you telling me about this tattoo!! I haven't been posting a lot so I missed all the excitement at the emergence but I'm glad I've caught in so far!!!

It looks so incredible! And the way the books must come to life as you twist your torso is so cool, like they're about to tumble!!!!

ColetteCalahan
03-04-2008, 06:11 AM
hehhe thank you so much! yeah, since vegas isn't a possibility what with licensing/background and what i intend to do with law, i figured it really didn't matter and i'd get my Large Trash-ay Strippah Tattoo I'd always wanted. :P
Oooh lookin good! It reminds me of mine, only it's better.

that's so funny- i actually thought about yours a lot while getting this! (and i SO don't think it looks better- i love your stitches!) before my first session especially i was like, 'if alexxa can get a tattoo up her spine, then so can I' and pretending to be all hardcore while reminding myself you'd told me (in YSL- hehe) that it wasn't that bad.

(edit: i shouldn't post without having coffee. that last paragraph was like opening up a page of Sweet Valley High. :P )

murdock
03-04-2008, 07:26 AM
That is seriously awesome!

ColetteCalahan
03-04-2008, 09:06 AM
Thank you so much!!! ;D

OOHH someone sent me an ACTual picture from a REAL camera in color... OoOoooOo....

(please ignore my hair, it was doing odd things... and yeah, there are still tape-marks on my back from having just removed the bandages.) I'm guessing he's gonna darken in the ladder in the next 2 sessions as well as shading the rest of the books.

SundayMorning
03-04-2008, 09:42 AM
Gorgeous. Absolutely spellbinding.

Ava Jadore
03-04-2008, 01:10 PM
very beautiful...can't wait to see more!

AlexxaHex
03-04-2008, 02:36 PM
that's so funny- i actually thought about yours a lot while getting this! (and i SO don't think it looks better- i love your stitches!) before my first session especially i was like, 'if alexxa can get a tattoo up her spine, then so can I' and pretending to be all hardcore while reminding myself you'd told me (in YSL- hehe) that it wasn't that bad.

(edit: i shouldn't post without having coffee. that last paragraph was like opening up a page of Sweet Valley High. :P )

It WAS that bad! Did I say that it wasn't? I must have been high on caffeine too. LOL I cried like a bitch when I got my spine done. Worst part is I am sooooo not even close to done with mine.

TigersMilk
03-04-2008, 03:22 PM
^You wanna pic whore too? I wanna see pics.

I love the books stacked so high. Is there more of the tat or just shading and coloring and you'll be done?

ColetteCalahan
03-04-2008, 05:04 PM
hehe yes alexxa post a pic!! umm, no color, just shading and some more detailing. but as you can tell in the last pic, the top half of the stack are only outlined, so it's still gonna take a while. Oh, alexxa i'm sorry it hurt :'( ! I only cried for the last 10 minutes at the top of my spine... i.e. when the 2 vicodens wore off. (they WORK.) It would have been pretty unbearable without them. I consider myself brave enough to have gotten the damn thing to begin with, no way I was doing it without help. I'd specifically saved half a bottle of leftover meds from my oral surgery around the time I made the tattoo appointments. Glad I did!

AlexxaHex
03-05-2008, 12:16 PM
The vicodin didn't even work for me! Or maybe it made it worse? But the one session where I didn't use drugs it wasn't as painful. :shrug:
Here's sort of a skewed pic of it. It's stitches and various species of moths:
http://barelyevil.com/g/d50ah/barelyevil04.jpg

As you can see it definitely needs more shading. Oh and that weird thingy in the trampstamp area is an upturned chaos symbol. It was there before I decided to do the rest of the back piece. My artist was supposed to integrate it somehow. THREE artists were to have worked on this so far. All of them are unable to finish it for various reasons. It's like the neverending back piece.

ColetteCalahan
03-05-2008, 02:43 PM
i can't see pic :( (but i'm stoked you're posting one!!)

veronicavale
03-05-2008, 03:18 PM
You are so awesome for thinking of this idea for a tattoo. I'm so jealous.

rooster470
03-05-2008, 03:26 PM
I really like it. You have a great artist. If I ever grow a pair, I want to get the painting "The Sleeping Gypsy" by Henri Rousseau on my back.

Dottie Rebel
03-05-2008, 03:31 PM
Collette: I had a dream about you last night. You got your whole back filled out with book tattoos and whatnot and later you got a full chest piece of books and then your whole stomache...

ColetteCalahan
03-05-2008, 03:43 PM
??? are you serious?? Ouch! that's a lot of needless needling! :P (but pretty funny... didn't mean to interrupt your sleep!) ;D


I really like it. You have a great artist. If I ever grow a pair, I want to get the painting "The Sleeping Gypsy" by Henri Rousseau on my back.


That could look soooo gorgeous... you'd need the right artist, though!! There is the most AMAZING replica of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" done by an artist fairly close to me... if I were ever getting anything Asian or in electrifying color, I'd go to him. Check out the link under tattoos in He is one of the most talented artists I have ever seen.

Edit: found the tattoo itself. too big to post- here's the link:

rooster470
03-05-2008, 03:53 PM
That's amazing work. Van Gogh is my favorite artist. I'd love to have Anil Gupta do it. Check out his work. The miniatures are unbelievable.

AlexxaHex
03-05-2008, 09:10 PM
i can't see pic :( (but i'm stoked you're posting one!!)

Damn - I'm not sure why, but here it is in attachment form:

ColetteCalahan
03-05-2008, 11:26 PM
OOOOOOOh MAMA!!! wow... umm.. whatta pic! i LOVE the dark hair on you... and for the record, like HELL your tattoo isn't beautiful.

Next time you're back in Cali (if ever) we should totally do a photo shoot together. ;D

Yekhefah
03-06-2008, 11:03 AM
That's so beautiful! It's so much better than I'd pictured, even! I love it!

Do spinal tattoos really hurt that badly? I want one but my wrist tattoo was such agony!!

TigersMilk
03-06-2008, 11:07 AM
You're a whole different kind of hotness Alexxa with the dark hair. I love the original spine tat too.

SundayMorning
03-06-2008, 11:10 AM
That's amazing work. Van Gogh is my favorite artist. I'd love to have Anil Gupta do it. http://www.anilgupta.com/portfolio/portfolio.htm Check out his work. The miniatures are unbelievable.

Some of those brought tears to my eyes, they were so amazing. If I ever have a story to tell on my body, I'm looking him up. Thank you so much for the link!

hockeybobby
03-06-2008, 11:13 AM
WOW Alexxa!! Yes, beautiful tattoo. And you are tres gorgeous too btw...great hair, awesome body.:)
hb

Zinaida
03-06-2008, 12:02 PM
I'm not big on tatoos, but I really like that one. Your face is stunning, very femme fatal.

AlexxaHex
03-06-2008, 01:20 PM
Awww thanks everyone. I really don't look like that anymore. That's pre-pregnancy me. Add about 20 lbs and a fatter ass.
OKay now back to Collette's tattoo. Mine will have it's own thread when it's finally done. :)

Zinaida
03-06-2008, 02:42 PM
Nothing wrong with a fat ass! :)

Yekhefah
03-06-2008, 04:15 PM
^^^ I like big butts and I cannot lie!

BalletBaby
03-06-2008, 08:57 PM
That is an awesome tattoo CC!8)

ColetteCalahan
03-18-2008, 12:44 AM
3rd Session Pics!!!! Books are done, falling book has been added... one more session to darken in the ladder. These are crappy webcam pics from today (just had the session)- I'll get a real/more detailed pic soon... The shirt was for st. patty's! yay! i had matching shoes, too. hehe. soOoOoOo many compliments @ the bar- i felt really good about this! *eta- damn, this webcam REAlly sucks- the falling book, AMAZINGLy detailed up close, just looks like an ouchy black smudge. :( oh well- better pics soon.

AmazingKat
03-18-2008, 12:50 AM
That shirt makes your back absolutely hypnotizing. The tat itself is amazing but I can see why green is your favorite color. I absolutely love your tat. I have a book fetish that takes over the majority of my tiny apartment.

Shit I'm burning my muffins now.....

ColetteCalahan
03-18-2008, 12:59 AM
^ thank you so much!! (btw- i read your 'weed cake' thread and actually looked at laweekly.com, but found nothing, so i didn't post. sorry. but i hope you guys have an amazing time!) yeah, i love bending my back 'cause now it looks like books are falling off!

AmazingKat
03-18-2008, 02:26 AM
Well I'm not actually going to make a weed cake :(. That would be mucho dinero. Also, hes trying to wean himself off smoking and its a rare occurrence I partake. Its fun to dream though. I think I could pull off one of those realistic boob cakes with a bit of practice.

I'm settling for some nummy muffins, a few cook books, a picnic at the Arboretum and this new organic restaurant, Akasha, in Culver City. He asked about going to the Getty too so we may do that.

AlexxaHex
03-18-2008, 07:20 AM
That is SO HOT!!! I love it.

Vyanka
03-18-2008, 07:25 AM
Wow, those are very cool... impressive.

ColetteCalahan
03-18-2008, 11:23 AM
Thank you so much!!

blondi553
03-18-2008, 11:55 AM
it looks so amazing when you twist your back....simply amazing!