Meet the LOB Squad

Good for you hun and thx so much for sharring the story! You write very well. I have a few and I understand how you feel about your hubby's reaction. MY issues are with my father who after I got the first at 19 freeekd out that I had defaced my body like that!!! How dare I do such a horrid thing! Needless to say, for fear or disownment and disinheritance, he does not know fo the others! LOL! Sad but true!!! I am part native American and knew as a kid I would get my namesake one day when I was old enough. SO, his shock was baffling to me! All of them are custom and one of a kinds and are quite lovely! Very tastefully done and by a very good award winning artist! It is a way for me to not only express who I am but, to show omage to my heratige as well and respect for where I came form! I have little old lady's stop me at teims and comment how lovely they are and wish they had the nerve to get one themselves. Luckely they do not have the stigma they had years ago yet,some dont care4em

Susan, Way to go girlie! I must say that a tattoo is the most outspoken and liberating thing one can do. My best friend and I got matching tattoo's last summer. It was a momentos occassion and now that is the one thing that I have to remember her by. My best friend passed away 2 weeks ago. My tattoo is not a regret or a "redneck" personification of whom we are, but that as adults you can make a decision of something so beautiful and what a story it holds for us now. Hold your head up high and let the blue bloods know that if they want to label you a "REDNECK", way cool. Its the white trash you have to worry about being called. Hold your memory and how you came to your decision and be very proud of who and what you have become in life. Redneck Woman in California God Bless you my dear.

Love this story! I'm going to have to single white female you and steal LOB to use with my girlfriends, but I promise to attribute the phrase to you. By the way, anything that doesn't get lumped into the LOB category is probably not fun enough to consider doing anyway.

Good for you for getting a tattoo...I have 5 and just wrote an article on this web-site about tattoos...they are not the stigma that they used to be.....they are pretty and many times professional, educated people have them (I'm a dietitian)....And a person on this web-site told me that if a person judges you by a tattoo then they are not a friend but instead a shallow person..........By the way I am getting another one next week.......a chi rho symbol with the alpha and omega by it..........My husband has tatttoos also.....maybe try getting your husband to get one.....tell him to "loosen-up" and stop being so critical/judgemental! Good Luck.....they are addicting!