1st tattoo! This is what I'll be getting!
 

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I actually really like it. It took a lot of thought and quite a bit of time to actually draw...

So here's what it all means:

Tiger lilies are my favorite flower, and this one's a bit tattered. It's still pretty and alive, however scarred. That's me. I've survived a bunch of crap, but I'm still here. I'm all the better for it too.

The thorny vine is life. It's not an easy thing to deal with and it will hurt at times. I just noticed that I sort of drew the three vines in a triskel. For those that don't know, a triskel is a celtic symbol for birth, life, and death.

The angel wing is death (naturally). It's for all the past deaths in my life as well as the future deaths I'll have to endure. Grim, yes, but still very important. And you can't have life without death, which is why the vine winds around it, I suppose.

"We'll carry on" is a My Chemical Romance lyric from the song Welcome to the Black Parade (if you didn't know already). More recently, this means to me that I'm able to life my life as normally as anyone and I'm happy for the time I had with my dog. It also means that I can move past everything else.....being suicidal, being severely depressed, even just possibly failing a class.

Even the placement has a symbolic meaning. I want this tattoo on the outside of my left shoulder. For one, that's the side your heart's on. For some reason, all the scars I get from being clumsy is on my left side. The left side is the only side my cat likes being held on (odd I know). It'd be on my shoulder because I'm putting so much of my self into designing this tattoo, so it's like I'm putting my heart on my sleeve. I'm a really emotional person, but I don't know how to express myself unless I'm writing (like now). People can't usually read my expressions and I don't know how to talk about them, so I tend to talk to people in lyrics and quotes. This tattoo, as I said, symbolizes everything that's important to me, so it'd be another way for me to let people know about me. If it's on my shoulder, I know people will see it.



What do you guys think?

Re: 1st tattoo! This is what I'll be getting!
 

i love it.

Re: 1st tattoo! This is what I'll be getting!
 

Re: 1st tattoo! This is what I'll be getting!
 

Thank you!

To answer Elle, no I'm not getting colors. It'll be pretty expensive as it is now and color costs more. Besides, I think the black and white gives it a nice effect. I do have to day that color would look pretty awesome as well though. ^_^

Re: 1st tattoo! This is what I'll be getting!
 

I absolutely love it! It's beautiful and inspiring. Even your placement is your own and meaningful, I love how you designed this yourself and it's your own and it means so much to you. I have to say for this tattoo I would definitely go with black and grey ink, it'll look much more "sophisticated" and look like a classic, please post a pic of it once you get this on your shoulder, I have 2 and each are on my shoulders, one on left and one on right, and I love the placement to begin with it looks so nice and you can show it off when you want to or keep it to yourself. Best of luck once again astounding idea!

Re: 1st tattoo! This is what I'll be getting!
 

Thank you so much! I'll definitely post pictures when I get it done. ^_^ As for every bit of it meaning something, that was the only way I'd actually get myself to go through with the process. I've always like tattoos, but I'm terrified of needles and pain. But I'm actually more excited than scared for this! I can't wait to get it done. Don't know when that'll be though...probably not for another month or so.

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Re: 1st tattoo! This is what I'll be getting!
 

Thank you! That means a lot to me! Especially since you said you're a hard critic. ^_^ You're actually the second person who's said that to me. xD

Re: 1st tattoo! This is what I'll be getting!
 

This is definitely really pretty. It looks amazing.
I am a hard critic as well :3

Re: 1st tattoo! This is what I'll be getting!
 

Aww! Thank you! That means a lot to me as well then. ^_^