Peg, it's beautiful. I agree with everyone: let it sit on your monitor for a few months (my most recent tattoo was on the bulletin board in my office for four months; I have another one there now, waiting to see if I want it); try it in henna if you can; get it simplified (a good tattoo artist can do this for you).
My friend Lorelei, who has many many tattoos, says: Don't get it where your skin is going to sag (neck) and don't get it where your skin will be fragile when you're older (back of hands). As if you would! Those are pretty edgy places for tattoos, anyway.
Lorelei also says everything doen the fron along your center line hurts like crazy. Breastbone sucks, but so does the belly -- she got a huge black orchid on her belly to cover her C scar, and she said it worse than having the baby. So I would think about either aligning it along a meridian, or putting it on an arm. Or the back. You wouldn't see it every day, but you would have it embracing you.
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Date: 2007-03-08 05:57 pm (UTC)My friend Lorelei, who has many many tattoos, says: Don't get it where your skin is going to sag (neck) and don't get it where your skin will be fragile when you're older (back of hands). As if you would! Those are pretty edgy places for tattoos, anyway.
Lorelei also says everything doen the fron along your center line hurts like crazy. Breastbone sucks, but so does the belly -- she got a huge black orchid on her belly to cover her C scar, and she said it worse than having the baby. So I would think about either aligning it along a meridian, or putting it on an arm. Or the back. You wouldn't see it every day, but you would have it embracing you.