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LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: Explain the tattoo (10/12/2010 9:57:02 AM)
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When I was 21 I met a woman who was called "Sandy the Billboard". She had a huge number of tattoos & her goal was to ink every square inch of her body. You have to understand that this was in the mid-60's & tattoos were very uncommon except on sailors. I had never met another woman with any tattoos. I was so enthralled by the use of her body as a canvas that I decided I wanted tattoos also. Fortunately, I realized that who I was at 21 was not necessarily who I would be at 30 or 40 or 50 & that I might not be so thrilled later in life with having body art.
When I was 43, I realized that I still wanted tattoos as badly as I had at 21 so I got my first. I had been collecting flamingos for a number of years, so naturally my first tat was a flamingo. With red Lolita sunglasses on.
In the 90's, I went to Maui & saw a tattoo shop in Lahaina & decided to get my next one there. It's a Hibiscus vine with a butterfly flying toward it. The vine curling across & down the back of my left shoulder had been a dream for awhile. The Hibiscus was in honor of my first visit to Hawai'i. The butterfly was an addition of the artist.
My third is on the back of my neck & is my former Owner's mark. I designed it with the assistance of an artist in Ogden, UT where my truck was parked for a day. While I love that tattoo as much as the others, I know that I will have to have it modified. I am currently working on a spider design because I have loved spiders since I was a small child. And I've always wanted a benevolent spider tat.
Not exactly Linea the Billboard. Yet. [8D]
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