[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Ageing will depend on the design - they all "soften" with age so it's down to design and finesse as to how big a problem (or indeed none at all) that will be. Worth discussing if you find a tattoo artist you're happy with,

I have two partially symmetrical ones, one on the back of each shoulder. The feather design is symmetrical, the elvish script is not. One says "May it be a light for you in dark places when all other lights go out" which I got part way through my trauma counselling, and the other "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost", done after we did the Yorkshire Three Peaks walk. They were momentous times in my life and although I'd never been interested before except from an artistic perspective, they were very firmly something I wanted to do. And that's just it - as Puck says, tattoos are often deeply personal and sometimes difficult to explain.

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 19 June 2020 - 08:02 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

Incidentally TRB promised me that one of her future ones would be a big one of my face

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Tiste Simeon, on 19 June 2020 - 08:31 AM, said:

Incidentally TRB promised me that one of her future ones would be a big one of my face

I mean, promised is a bold interpretation of what I said...

[Tsundoku]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 19 June 2020 - 09:13 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 19 June 2020 - 08:31 AM, said:

Incidentally TRB promised me that one of her future ones would be a big one of my face

I mean, promised is a bold interpretation of what I said...

And in such a "cheeky" location too. Saucy minx.

[Aptorian]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 19 June 2020 - 08:02 AM, said:

Ageing will depend on the design - they all "soften" with age so it's down to design and finesse as to how big a problem (or indeed none at all) that will be. Worth discussing if you find a tattoo artist you're happy with,

I have two partially symmetrical ones, one on the back of each shoulder. The feather design is symmetrical, the elvish script is not. One says "May it be a light for you in dark places when all other lights go out" which I got part way through my trauma counselling, and the other "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost", done after we did the Yorkshire Three Peaks walk. They were momentous times in my life and although I'd never been interested before except from an artistic perspective, they were very firmly something I wanted to do. And that's just it - as Puck says, tattoos are often deeply personal and sometimes difficult to explain.

I bet the Elf Tattoo Artist actually wrote something like "I'm a smelly human" and "Death to the hut dwelling monkies".