TATTOOS!

I believe tattoos are a symbol of a journey in your life. When my daughter was born, I got her name with my favorite flowers next to it. Now, I'm in the process os getting my second tattoo, a ovarion cancer ribbon with angel wings. As a reminder of what my sister is going through. I like to think that I can protect her. That way every time I look at it, it will make me feel like eveything is going to be okie dokie because she has me, her cancer angel.

that is so beautiful, the perfect thing today to make me smile =]

I have a Dead Bear on my "lower region" - early 20's were rather bizarre - not so nice now that I've had kids and it's gotten all stretched out...
Peace and rock on ~

I have the kanji symbol for healing with a flourish design frame on the back of my neck....i'm so not the tattoo type....but I LOVE it. I got it on my two year anniversary

Currently I only have two butterflies swirling in a circle on my right hip but it feels a bit dated...it's about 12 years old now or more. So when I have enough healing on my skin...I had thoracic surgery a few years ago and because of all my illnesses I don't heal at all...so I have to wait but plan on adding a magnolia tree up the side starting the roots at the base of the butterfly hip and then having a couple of other small bflies added as well as a major cocoon with one bursting out representing my rebirth, several times through my illnesses and my final one with the big cocoon...no more illness one day!

I really want to get a tattoo with butterflies. I think they represent so many powerful things. I just don't know what or where to put it UUGGHH! any suggestions?

For a first tattoo you have to be comfy with where you put it and the yes, still angst against us tattoo lovers out there. I put mine on my hip to hide it from my mom but also so I could be corporate if need be and kind of as a personal secret to myself to try and be beautiful and graceful like butterflies are since I am so not graceful...

I have the word Hope in Hebrew on my inner left wrist. never regretted getting it. LOVE having one that I can look down and see hope when I need it!

Hello, fellow ass-kickin cancer survivin' tattoo (or soon to be) sportin' hotties! I NEVER dreamed I would get a tattoo. All my friends have tattoos - some from their heads to the their feet. It wasn't until I made it through the Lymphoma and they removed my PICC line that I realized, "I finally have a PHYSICAL PLACE that was meaningful to me that I want to remember with a tattoo". So I began drawing my ideas on my kitchen chalk board, my husband helped me to refine it, photographed it, took it to the artist (the utterly BRILLIANT JILL JORDAN) and she made it into the final image - which is a cross between the yin-yang and Pisces symbol done with a New Zealand Native Maori style. The central DOT was the insertion point for my PICC line. I am in love with the image. Which is a good thing, because it's staring at me every day when I wake up and it smiles at me all day long. I embedded a gleaming smiling face in the body of one of the fishes (first photo) to remind me to keep on smiling, always, even through the harsh times, there is something good to be found in life. That's my tattoo story. -Tad

Fantastic and congratulations!
Beautiful art and story.
Chris in Wyoming