Tattoo!

[eurydicebound]

So I've been planning for a while to get a tattoo -- got the sketch worked out and everything with Nigel Sade, who has done a fabulous job in working with me on the art.

During this week's sojourn in Cleveland, innocent_man let me know he was wanting to get a tattoo as well (a gorgeous coral snake around his ankle) and offered to take me to his friend, who owns a tattoo shop in Wooster, OH. Moving Pictures Tattoo Studio is the place, and Laura was the artist who did the work.



Here's the close-up:



And here's the larger shot for an idea of placement--sorry, it's slightly blurry:



I have to say... I absolutely love it. It just feels right, and I think it suits me. :) And the placement of it is such that although it's in front, it's not going to show unless I choose to wear something that shows it.

Matt's is likewise gorgeous, but I don't have a good pic of that at the moment. It also suits him, though.

The getting of it... well, that stung a bit. And I discovered belatedly that I should have eaten before I went. I just asked for a break, but everyone looked at me and someone went off to get me orange juice and water, and they turned a fan to blow on me, and they wouldn't let me stand up, so evidently I was unusually pale or something. "Blood sugar crash" was mentioned, and there was a definitely a bit of wooziness. Once I ate something I felt a lot better, though, enough so that I got through the rest of it without complaint. It wasn't bad, though, even though I evidently got it in a somewhat more painful area--not as painful as over bone, but a touch tender. I'll suffer a bit for beauty, though.

I'm so very pleased with it, honestly. I'm really glad I got it done. Go me.

Comments

[daydreamweaver.livejournal.com]

That is lovely, Michelle. Really, really lovely.

[anaka.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, m'dear. :)