Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Put Your Thinking Caps On, People

Ok. I need some help. For a while now I have been thinking of getting another tattoo. I have two already. One on my back, below my neck and another on my right thigh. The one on my back is a black fancy scroll design and the one on my thigh is a few little green leaves of ivy.

My Aunt Carole, whom I loved dearly, passed away two years ago this summer. I started thinking about getting something in memory of her. And then I decided that I should get something that represents not only my Aunt Carole, but my mom and my Aunt Diane as well. My whole life I have envied, watched, listened and admired the closeness that they share as sisters. So I figured it would be fitting to include all three of them in my tattoo.

The idea that I came up with is to get a chain or bouquet of their three birth flowers: violet, lily of the valley and daffodil. I wanted to get them on the side of my left foot. I went to a tattoo place and the girl told me tattoos on the side of the foot sometimes last only a few months. She said they wear away from the constant friction of your shoes and socks. Which seams weird to me, I mean the ink is under your skin. So I am going to ask some other places as well.

But just in case, I need a back up spot! I chose the side of my foot because some day I hope to work with kids and that is not a completely visible spot, but can be seen if I want it to. So now I'm torn. Right now I have two options I have thought of: 1. Get the tattoo more on the top of my foot, but still over to the side-ish. 2. See if they can do a cover-up of my ivy tattoo on my thigh.

The downside of that option 2 is that I don't know if it can be done and well, I just think the flowers will look cuter on my foot. But the upside is that I don't love the ivy tattoo so turning it into something that I do like would be cool. Plus I could get it bigger on my thigh. On my foot it would be pretty small. But I do love flower tattoos on feet! I love when I get pedicures and my toenails are all pretty so I think having pretty flowers would be even cuter!

So what do you guys think?! About the idea in general and the location? I'm open to suggestions. But I will tell you I have already ruled out these locations: back, boobs, hands, neck, biceps and calves. Please, tell me what you think!!