Before deciding that the people who have them are as common as table salt, I used to want a tattoo, I wanted something typically welsh, like a dragon or something, and it had to be classy (after seeing a mate of a mate with a tattoo of Mr. Funny on their arm). However, I also didn’t want my tattoo to not suit me (as I have unbelievably pale skin), so I decided to experiement.
It was “free henna tattoos” night at the university. I wanted one to show my patriotism, which would eventually become a permanent feature on my arm - a Welsh Dragon. Alas, they didn’t have it, so I made do with a a prince of wales feathers (the photo to the right for the unitiated).
The woman obviously didn’t like me, so she fucked up the bottom of the tattoo (the crown and everything below it), it fell off after about an hour, leaving me with the top part of the feathers.
Unfortunately, I have since found out I have an allergic reaction to henna, so when I came to wash it off my arm, it left a faint - yet prominent - scar outlining the prince of wales feathers.
As well as this, the scar is simply the outline, which - when you look at it - it kinda looks a bit like a cock.
Surprisingly, I’ve managed to keep it hidden from multiple girlfriends and mates, but it’s surprising how prominent it is, to me anyway.
Where are your scars?
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay.
I have a scar on my right hand from when I was defending my face from a frying pan…comical but true
My only scar is the tattoo I’ve got. I’d like more but I’m yet to see anything I like.
I have a scar on my thigh from when i hid in an amazing hiding place whilst playing hide and seek - I cut my thigh on the corner of a mirror. I bloody hid there for 30mins as well. I’m quite competitve!
I have a load of other scars too. One in my eyebrow from when i fell down 2 flights of metal stairs that fall also scarred my lip, one on my finger from shutting it in a very heavy door, one on my thumb from when i sliced it to the bone.
Nothing exciting though.
I have some scars from being run over by a car when I was four. I’m a survivor! I also have a tattoo that I got when I was 5. Or was it 18?
I would love to see that cock on your arm! Err I mean, scar.
I have a scar on my index finger, it looks like I can bend the finger in 5 different areas, you usually have 4. I was about to cut a french roll with a butter knife, and let me tell you that it wasn’t the best idea I’ve come up with. It was like a splatter movie, blood everywhere
Please, please please don’t have a real tattoo with the three feathers on it - I can’t think of anything less patriotically Welsh - it’s the symbol of English rule in Wales
Ahem… the cock scar… PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN.
I’m relatively scar free, can’t really think of any I have
yeah put a pic on here of it
I had quite extensive orthopedic surgery throughout my childhood and teens, so I have over a dozen surgical scars on my legs, including: Frankenstein, cartoon-style cross-hatched affairs on the back of my knees (from when I had my hamstrings lengthened) and a rather impressive 8 inch “double” scar running the length of the outside of my thigh. It’s a “double” scar because they had to re-open alongside the original incision to remove the metal fixtures they’d placed inside my leg 2 years previous. (I still have the titanium bar and screws - they let me take them home to keep as a souvenir and if you look really closely, there’s still parts of my bone stuck in them!)
Bet you wished you hadn’t asked now…
I was eating my lunch when I read this. I stopped immediately.
All mental, Rhys, alas, all mental.
@Kristoff it did happen! I’ve seen rhys’s cock by which I mean the tattoo gone wrong….but i’d be a pretty rubbish girlfriend if I hadn’t seen the real deal too lol.
and Rhys you can’t deny that my tattoo is both sensible and pretty. I always forget I have it until people are discussing tattoos and someone goes “han has one” and I’m like ey what oh yeah.
I have a big scar on my left index finger from when I was nearly 3 and almost cut my finger off whilst trying to cut an apple.
My second major scar is underneath my left eyebrow from when I was drunk and had a massive bike stack and my head met the asphalt rather abruptly splitting it open and breaking a tooth. I didn’t actually feel it I was that drunk… 16 year old stupidity. The [kinda] painful part was when the doctor had to insert a needle directly into the wound to apply local anesthetic so he could do the 5 stitches required to sew my head back together. The tooth has obviously since been repaired… several times.
I demand pictures of your cock
I have various scars, the most significant being those from carrying declan, I didn’t get any stretch marks until the last week when he “dropped” and wedged his head in my pubic bone causing the skin under my pubes to stretch and leaving me with what Dan now oh so kindly calls my “Zebra Snatch”. It totally doesn’t look attractive and I would happily swap it for all the hip and belly stretchmarks that EVERY other woman gets but me.
I have some tiny scars from chickenpox on my chest… and a birthmark on the back of my righthand… those are my only distinguishing features though…
A friend of mine has 3 degrees including one from University of Cambridge. He was brought up in the family of bankers, with his old man being in charge of one of well known banks in UK for 9 years. And then there is my ex, who’s dad is an MP. There is also my friend Ed who swam the channel for charity 2 years ago, brought up in the family of lords. Guess what these people have in common? They all have tattoos. I would not call them common however. Even though I am against tattoos myself.
According to my experience, henna does not suit everybody. But I definitely find henna tattoos much better than those painful ones.