Get a Skydiving Tattoo Or A Tattoo Skydiving –Your Choice
A Swedish man only referred to as “Jonas” in May, 2007 combined two loves of his life – skydiving and tattoos. He received a tattoo while at over 13,000 feet. The tattooist had to jump, too. It was not a very complicated tattoo, being only four letters long – WFFT (for World’s First Freefall Tattoo) — but it counts as a skydiving tattoo to the Guinness World Book of Records. Perhaps you find getting a tattoo challenging enough without worrying about dropping out of the sky. You can then get a tattoo of a skydiver with your first firmly on the ground.
Why?
Out of all the images you could have permanently impaled into your skin, why choose a skydiving tattoo? Perhaps you feel as if it is perfect symbol of your life – there are many dangerous forces like gravity around, but you are not only in control of your decent, you are a master of it. Or perhaps your favorite book is What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles. Or, just maybe, you might be a skydiver.
The image of a skydiver sailing down to earth with a colorful fully opened parachute is a graceful image in and of itself. You might want to add clouds or startled birds passing by. To emphasize how much in control the skydiver is through the seeming anger, you could have him smoke a cigarette on the way down. If you are into the exciting part of life, you might want a skydiving tattoo of a paratrooper in freefall. If you are into puns, your skydiving tattoo could be of the Native American chief Geronimo who yells “ME!” while jumping out of the plane. The imagination and your chosen tattoo artist’s talents are the only limits to your skydiving tattoo.
Some Basics
Choose your tattoo artist carefully, whether he or she is a skydiver or not. The tattoo parlor should be clean with sterile equipment. The tattoo artist should be pleased to show you samples of his or her past tattoos, which may or may not include skydiving tattoos. Talk about your idea of the perfect skydiving tattoo with the artist – he or she should be able to give hints or tips. Perhaps a silhouette of a skydiver would be more economical and less painful for you than a full palette of colors.
Your chosen artist for your skydiving tattoo would then need a template – a black and white outline that he or she can easily transfer to your skin. The outline is usually done in black ink. Putting on different colors may take many sessions at the tattoo parlor.
Links:
Sky Diving Weblog 
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