Cocky wee Gordon!

[MACKAY]

Nice - I like the contrast between the formal and the informal pictures. Really shows how diverse kilt wearing can be.

[djweso]

Great Pics! Thanks for sharing.

The info about the facial tattoos is very interesting. I'd love to see, and hear more about it.

[cessna152towser]

Nice kilts there.

[Raptor]

Great Pics! Thanks for sharing.

The info about the facial tattoos is very interesting. I'd love to see, and hear more about it.

I've posted an unfinished closeup in Celtic tattoos in off-topic. As to more info, not really that much more to add, other than it ranged from almost pleasant right through to outright excrutiating!

[Fearnest]

Super pics -thanks for sharing them!

[Doc]

Great pics, you do your heritage proud.

[Tattoo Bradley]

Thanks for the kind words, guys!



The face is certainly a long way from Maori, although I get that a lot. In fact, one would think that the Maori had a monopoly on facial tattooing! (although I can understand the attitude, especially here in Aus.) My face is pure Pict, mostly Caledonii tribe, centered in Aberdeen & Inverness (My family are from Aberdeen). The stag's head symbolises the highlands, & as the Picts never marked their rulers with a crown, the torc combined with the stag is for the Gordon crest. The 4 horizontal slashes are for the family deceased, while various other parts denote my status as head of the family, & battles fought in (I'm ex-military). I went with the Pictish style as one branch of the family is Clan Skene, an old clan that can trace ancestry back to the Picts. I never considered tattooing my face either, until my mother died & I decided our heritage would not die out with her. However I did draw the line at cutting it in with a sgian-dubh!


Thank you, my mother WOULD have been honoured.



Tapadh leat, mo fear-cinnidh

All I could see from these pictures were the slashed lines at the cheek. That is all very fascinating. Sound's like I have some reading to do. And my "Maori guess" was indeed due to your locale.