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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Inked, how much is too much?

I've debated off and on about posting something with my tattoos. I know I've shown many twitter friends pics of my tattoos. But when it comes to putting them up on the Internet, and leaving them there, I worry that someone may use it, and they are uniquely mine, I assisted in the design, and my tattoo artist, Gina is an incredible artist. I will never go to anyone else. She is amazing at what she does.
So, anyway, I'll put the stuff up on here, and maybe I'll take it down later?!

My first tattoo was just a piece of flash, a little one at that. I turned 30 and got a bug up my ass to do something rebellious. Just a heart impaled by a rose on the inside of my ankle. I loved it and it gave me the itch for more.

The next was another little one. After hundreds of hours of training, countless bumps & bruises, 1 broken foot, and 2 broken toes, finally reaching 1st degree blackbelt in TaeKwonDo, I decided to celebrate it in ink. I chose Korean writing, In Wha, and Pilsung, 'unbroken glory' which resides just below my broken foot bone, and 'personal victory'. On the blade of my foot, so when I sparred, it could be read by my opponent. I was also teaching TaeKwonDo at the time, assisting with the little ones, our Tiny Tigers program, and a couple of them wanted to 'write on their foot like teacher'. I didn't take that into consideration when I got it...but it was completely accepted by my instructor, (and my student's parents) whew! 2 ACL repairs and a total of 4 knee surgeries later, I got my 3rd degree blackbelt...I think I want to tattoo something on the incision scars on my knees, I just don't know what lol.


Next I got brave & got a wolf face (but with blue eyes, for my Huskies) inside a paw print done, and after a few years, decided to elaborate on that, so Gina came up with a fabulous design, sent it to me, I changed a few things, and after about a hundred emails, we nailed it! More Korean letters underneath it, Choon Jung 'all things turn out perfect & beautiful'.
I drew this little heart design while at a tattoo party, just a lil' somethin' cute.
(it's impossible to watch everyone get tats at a tattoo party and just walk away without something! lol)
About a year earlier, before redoing the Wolf Face tat, I asked Gina to make me something with flowers for my Mom & Grandma who had both passed away. My Grandmother's favorite, Tropicana rose, my Mom's was orchid, and two little orange blossoms for me and my son. She drew this, and I fell in love.
I've wanted a breast cancer ribbon tattoo ever since my Grandma passed away from it. So I found this heart pendant online that had a crystal pink ribbon around it, so I sent it to Gina, asked her to flower it up, and I wanted it to wrap from my big toe around the back of my ankle, she came up with a basic idea, but essentially, free handed on my foot with a marker until we got it where I liked it, and voila! there it was...OUCH
So...here I am with the 'itch' again. So what's next? I'm thinking 3 halo's (for obvious reasons) and 2 stars (for my 2 Huskies that I've lost) ...so Gina is working on it as we speak
AND I might throw in a little heart on the inside of my wrist...I don't know why, but I have a bug up my ass to get one there...lol

And there you have my body's ink history, a work still in progress...
So tell me, at what point do you think a woman has too many tattoos? Am I approaching the limit yet? lol

*BREAKING NEWS*
Here is my latest love...the little heart on my wrist. Gina, you're fabulous girlfriend! I never could've imagined how pretty an M and a heart could be.
(The M is for my Mom's side of the family, who's last name was Miller. I think it's quite lovely....even better than I could have imagined! :D