I love tattoos. A lot. I’m sure you’re completely shocked given the tone of my recent blog makeover.
I got my first one at 20 years old and was immediately hooked. Over the past 14 years I have added 11 more to my collection. I definitely like some more than others, but each one represents a certain time in my life and I have no regrets over any of them. And also I couldn’t care less about how they will look when I’m 90.
By the time I’m 90, I figure at least half of everyone else will also have at least one tattoo anyway.
So naturally I considered Betty’s birth to be a fantastic opportunity for a new tattoo. From the start, M and I had a cherry blossom themed nursery planned for her so the decision of what to get was a very easy one. The hardest part was picking the shop. I researched many places and dug through countless artist’s books, carefully choosing one based on the style I had in mind. In the end I made an appointment back at the Baltimore Tattoo Museum where I had gotten some work done in the past. The artist I chose drew it out for me prior to my appointment, which was at the end of April. He did an excellent job designing a tattoo that is all pretty cherry blossoms and water because Betty is a Pisces. Like me!
Here is an awesome MySpace-selfie mirror shot of my arm with the outline done. Is MySpace even relevant anymore?
Good lord that picture makes me look like I have freakishly long arms. I promise I don’t. Or maybe I do and that’s why all yoga arm binds have always been so easy for me.
Anycomplex here’s the colorful finished product!
AHHHH I LOVE IT! It is the no-contest favorite of all my tattoos. It even has my little B’s birthday in a very understated fashion up there at the top because giant in-your-face name tattoos are not so much my style. Maybe for a blog header, but not on my body. (No offense if they are yours.)
Do you have any tattoos with special meaning for a person in your life? Would you ever get one?
I absolutely love it. I don’t have a tattoo – YET. I want one. I just don’t know WHAT I want. I know I want something for Nellie. But maybe I could just go to a tattoo artist and give them a few things and they could design something?
That’s what I did! I told him what I wanted and he put something together. I tweaked some things and voila! That’s what they are there for.
I love it! What a beautiful tribute to your little girl. I have a tattoo of a blue plumeria flower on my right hip. I got it after a car accident I was in where I broke the right side of my pelvis and had to train my body to walk again. The plumeria blossom means “independence” and the blue is the awareness color for PTSD (I was diagnosed with car-accident-related PTSD a year after the accident). A lot of thought and planning went into it. I want to get a second one but I’m still on the fence as to what.
I’m so sorry about your accident and everything you had to go through, but I love the significance behind your tattoo!
You know the answer to all these questions – we just discussed it recently. I am not a huge fan of any of mine, but that’s OK. I know my next one will be well thought out.
I LOVE yours, and I love that the water has a meaning too. Awesome! So So cute. I think my favorites of yours are this one, your black cat and the one on your ankle.
I love ink. Love it. And you’re right, by the time we’re 90, we’ll have friends who’s nip rings are doubling as toe rings in the nursing homes
I have 3. I want a bajillion more. I haven’t incorporated the kids yet. I need to get on that. I know what I want, but I’d have to cover it up at work.
Love love love it Salt!
I just got a tat behind my ear for my grandma… it’s my 6th one and before I could even leave the shop I was already starting to think about the next one I want, hehe.
LOVE IT! i have one that i got as a stupid 19 year old in college. i’ve been wanting a second, but i’m having the hardest time deciding on location!
I have somewhere in the area of 10 tattoos and each have significance, most noteably:
8 hearts on my right arm signifies the number of years my fiancee and I have been together
Cupcake on my left wrist – 30th birthday present to myself
8 stars on my wrists – 2 for each man that broke my heart, to remind myself to not make those mistakes again
Dave Matthews Band firedancer logo and peacock feathers on my left upper thigh – tribute to a band that I’ve been obsessed with for nearly 30 years
Love your new tattoo! I’ve wanted cherry blossoms for years, but can’t figure out where to put them.
Correction – I’ve been listening to Dave Matthews Band for 20 years, not 30. Whoopsie.
Very cool that you chose something so meaningful for yourself and this time in your life. Tattoos are totally not my thing, but I absolutely love the tribute to your little sweetheart.
Beautiful! I love it! I have so many tattoos that I want to get, but I need to wait until I have extra funds lying around.
Also, yay Pisces! Being born emotional is fun, isn’t it?
Haha we didn’t even have a choice. Emo from the start!
Ooooh I love it!
I have no tattoos. I think they’re amazing, but I’m really wishy-washy so I’m not the kind of person who should have things permanently printed on her body.