new tattoo :D

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The Story: In 1991 i was born, my parents got married and my dad, at the age of 21 wrote and recorded his first album. On the cover of the album there was a silhouette of my dad holding his guitar which he had designed. He now has this silhouette tattooed on his bicep. The album was in part dedicated to me and the sentiment and the music means a lot to me and as i only met my dad when i was 7 we have been making up a lot for lost time. Despite the fact we live 250 miles away from each other we are pretty close. My dad since then produced three girls and so after him there wont be anyone to carry on our family name... he only has one brother who has no children. I'v wanted for a while to get the same silhouette tattooed onto me somewhere so that even when i get married i will still have that link to my own heritage (if that makes any sense) so even when i give up my surname, I'll still have a part of it with me!

Today i got up and since it was my birthday yesterday i had some spare cash. I phoned my dad and told him what i intended to do, I have never heard him more chuffed, gave me complete permission to use the image and said he was really proud and choked up. We went to Angels in Middlesbrough and a lovely lass called Mel tattooed the two inch silhouette onto the inside of my right wrist... I absolutely love it and now i can ensure that despite giving up my second name i can still recognise my own family and roots :D

Anyways here is a pic and sorry for going for so long... Just thought it might be nice to tell people about why i got my new tattoo instead of just posting pictures of it
thanks guys x

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yeah his exact words were 'I feel like someone has replaced my stomach with blancemange' hahah hes fairly chuffed :D
 
its stinging a fair amount at the mo but it was definitely worth it :D
 
hardest part is gonna be not picking the scabs, I'm a manic scab picker :p
 
annaliese said:
hardest part is gonna be not picking the scabs, I'm a manic scab picker :p
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Use Preparation H on it (yes I know it is haemerroid cream LOL!). It is the advice I was given when I had mine done years ago and mine healed within a couple of days; no scabbing, no soreness and no swelling & most importantly no loss of colour because of the lack of scabs. I think my tattoo artist must have really known his stuff when he told me to do that. He advised not to get water on it for the 1st couple of days and def not to use Savlon.

Hope that helps

PS fab tattoo and fab reason for getting it xx
 
redfrock said:
Use Preparation H on it (yes I know it is haemerroid cream LOL!). It is the advice I was given when I had mine done years ago and mine healed within a couple of days; no scabbing, no soreness and no swelling & most importantly no loss of colour because of the lack of scabs. I think my tattoo artist must have really known his stuff when he told me to do that. He advised not to get water on it for the 1st couple of days and def not to use Savlon.

Hope that helps

PS fab tattoo and fab reason for getting it xx
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Haha yeah my dad gave me the exact same advice so i bought some bepanthen its working wonders :D
 
thanks everyone :D I was really pleased as the tattoo itself only cost £30 :D
 
argh *** its on the underside of my arm whenever i put my arm down its either sore or getting bepanthan everywhere ¬_¬
 
I love the reason behind it and I think it turned out really neat. Hope it's stinging a little less this morning!
 
Looks awesome, I am a scab picker too lol I'm getting a Ghostbusters tattoo in a few weeks LOL
 
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