I got my first tattoo the day after my 18th birthday.
I knew what I wanted but I hadn't chosen a specific image, I just went down to the tattoo-parlor and said "I want a skull".
Two months later I was there again, this time with an image I had found a few weeks earlier "I want something kinda like this".
I have six tattoos so far, and five of them has been done with a minimal amount of thinking it through, wheying the pros and cons, worriyng about if I'd still like them 10, 20, 30 years down the road. The only reason I waited a year before I did my forearm was that I couldn't afford to do it when I first found it.
The first three tattoos I got didn't have any special meaning to me before I got them, but the way I got them made them special, they show who I am.
If I want to do something, I do it without worrying about the consequenses.
I'd rather regret the things I did than having regrets about what wanted to do, and didn't.
This is what I see every day in the mirror, and I have no regrets whatsoever.
Closeups are to be seen in the "Post your tattoo" thread in Tilted Portraits.