Hellooooo SG Land! I don't typically do alot of blog homeworks but this one seemed super fun so I figured I'd partake in it!
These are all my tattoos, from oldest to newest, with the story behind them? :)
My very first tattoo I don't have a photo of just because the spot it's in is very hard to photograph. It's a small black lined heart behind my left ear. I got it exactly a month after my 18th birthday.
My second tattoo was a graduation gift to myself. I got left back my senior year due to lack of seat time in one class so while I graduated in January, my official graduation ceremony was the June that followed. I went to an all girls theraputic school so my graduating class was very small, there was no more than 20 of us. Everyone in my graduatin class got $300 each. Not 100% sure why but I took some of that money and got this piece. It's a reminder to myself to "be happy".
This next piece I technically don't have anymore as I got it covered up due to how horrendous it was. I got it as a Friday the 13th flash piece on a whim with an ex-boyfriend & an ex-friend.
The one after that was also a Friday the 13th flash sheet piece. This one came out a bit better but the placement is off. I got this tattoo with the same ex-friend from the previous one. I've since decided that my left sleeve is going to be all flowers so sooner or later this piece is going to be covered up.
This piece is one of my favorites. Back in highschool, I had commissioned a friend of mine to draw up a design for me. My prompt was "candy corn witch". Halloween is my favorite holiday and nothing screams Halloween more to me than candy corn & witches. I didn't get this tattooed on me until about 4ish years after the intial commission
This piece was the one that covered up that first Friday the 13th piece. This one is also a memorial to someone in my family. My uncle's mother, although not blood related to me, was the best grandmother I could ever ask for. She was the sweetest woman in the world and I loved her very much. She unfortunetly passed away from cancer a handful of years ago. When I was thinking of what I wanted to commerate her as I remembered how much she loved butterflies, monarchs especially. Her birthday is in December so I originally wanted to get a poinsetta flower with a monarch. But after discussing it with my artist & my uncle + his brother, we decided a rose would look better and would be easier.
This next piece is also a memorial piece, for my other grandma. A little bit of background info - when I was born, my parents were not fit to be parents to say the least. So my paternal grandparents took guardianship of me. My grandma eventually got diagnosed with cancer and passed away from it. When she was still alive, she would plant tulips in the front yard every year. The tulip is blue because that's her favorite color. As for the dragonfly, there's a story behind that. Shortly after she passed, my grandpa & I went to arizona to visit her sister. I was running around the edge of my aunt's pool and whoever was watching me noticed that this dragonfly was flying behind me, following me as if it were watching me. Then I ran over away from the pool and when I did, the dragonfly flew away. Everyone says that that dragonfly was my grandma watching over me, making sure I was safe.
Last but not least, is my favorite tattoo. As I just mentioned, my grandparents took custody of me when I was young. Ever since my grandma died, it's been just me and my grandpa. The 2 of us against the world. It'll be 19 years next month since she passed and thus left me with him. When my dad & aunts were growing up, my grandpa was the breadwinner while my grandma did most of the home stuff. So after she passed, he had to take on the role of mom and dad. Being a single parent is hard but having to do it in your 60s is even harder. My grandpa is my best friend and I would do anything for him. He is my entire world. I got this piece on my inner left wrist. I specifically got it there because as a teenager, my left arm was my self harm arm. Although I haven't done anything like that in years, whenever I'm struggling I look down at this tattoo as a reminder to myself that I will always have atleast one person in my corner.
If you've made it to the end of this blog, thank you very much for reading! I hope you enjoyed learning more about the significance behind some of my ink. Until next time!
@penny @missy @lemon @eirenne
