new ink

Today is Wednesday, so I was about to post a 'whatcha wearin Wednesday' post, but I gots new ink today, and I'm wearing it, so that's what I took pics of to show you.

It's around my inner arm (the pictures make it a bit hard to see) and you can't see wear it ends in two leaves on my upper arm, but you get the drift. It is much darker than I hoped (i pictured grey branches but forgot.to.say), but I am NOT. panicking... the colours lighten as it heals, and when I go in next I'll ask if she can add some white to the branches to make them light brownish grey. yeah.

It's supposed to be apple blossom, but turned out looking suspiciously like cherry-blossom.. I may add a little apple coming off the branch, and whiten the blossoms a wee bit.

It started off okay, but the shading was not-so-comfy. It hurt like the dickens in some places, and tickled in others. Some places it hurt AND tickled, so I just took the benefit of the doubt and giggled.

I have another appointment in 2 weeks, so my thoughts turn to all the empty patches of skin, and what I would like to put on them. Thinking about what I love in my life, music and craftiness came up, so I'm looking into something representing those. Looking around I've seen some incredible work on crafty lasses, check these out..

(image credits: sewing tattoos flickr pool , Chloe crossland, Imeanhoneybee, Softsarah)