My first tattoo was something I'd been thinking about since I was a young child. My mother had heaps of tattoo magazines when I was growing up and I loved looking through them, imagining myself getting tattoos 'when I was older'. I loved the colours and, as I grew older, the symbolism and representations of different tattoos. Although I'm aware of the certain amount of negativity associated with the area of my 1st tattoo; I love it, and have always loved it. My first tattoo was/is on my lower back; a tramp stamp. I was 18 years old.
At the time, I was going through a break-up and the hurt feelings were still all raw, fresh and ever-present on my mind. I had been working with ideas from the internet and by the time I went in to get it done, the tattoo artist had combined a few images I had selected to create exactly what I wanted - adding a few bits here and there that reflected, to me, the painful experience/emotions that I had been going through (as well as the fact that I very much liked the way it looked).
Anyways, love it or hate it this is/was my 1st tattoo <3
