My Tats
my tattoos are very personal and I have spent many hours planning them and sitting (and lying face down) in my tattooist's chair collecting them. 😳 Luckily, I don't seem to feel much pain. 😅 but at the end of a few hours session I am ready for the finish. Sometimes I find it so relaxing though that I almost nod off. 😱
I would remind everyone that permanent tats are just that. Make sure you are happy with what you want inked and you discuss it and the placement with your tattoist fully first. Removal is a pain and an expense. 😭
1. The Memorial Tat
My first tat, a memorial to my hubby. ❤️ He loved Pink Floyd so I had the dark side of the moon prism inked on with a dove on my left forearm. That set me off. I loved the tat but thought that I looked unbalanced with just one.
2. The Aladdin Sane Tat
This is one of my favourite tats, it's from the 1973 album cover Aladdin Sane and although not one of my favourite albums, the art work is surberb and has led to the image that most people instantly recognise today as 70's Bowie, (even if they mistakenly think it is Ziggy Stardust). Aladdin Sane was the character that killed off Ziggy. 😭
My tattoist excelled here and this tat is very dear to me.
3. The Roses Tat
Every year on Valentines Day, Martin would buy me 12 red roses. ❤️ When he died we had been married for 25 years so I asked my tatooist if she could ink one red rose on my left arm and one silver rose (to represent 25 years). She did just that. Martin was cremated on Valentines Day 2019. I had no choice on the date and it isn't one that I would have chosen.
4. The Screaming Wall Tat
Then came this beauty on my left shoulder. 😱 It's the screaming face from the film 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd. It was always a favourite film of mine and Pink Floyd was Martin's music. The graphic summed up how I felt in the years following his death.
These are the words underneath it, taken from the Pink Floyd song, 'Hey You', it says...
'The wall was too high as you can see. No matter how I tried I could not break free'
That's how I felt after my Husband's death.
5. The Time Tat
I've called this The Time Tat because the words come from Pink Floyd's 'Time'. To me, it represented the last days that I had with my Husband, how time kept ticking away, the sun was setting and all the while our time together was getting shorter. It's on the back of my left arm.
