New tattoo!!!

Hello everybody!!

Finally, today, at a quarter to one (p.m.) I got my second tattoo! It has been a little bit challenging, because I was hesitant in choosing the design of it.

But let me tell you the story from the very start.

One day of September, when I had two days off (I was working at Expo from May to November and I had rented an apartment near Milan), I came back home (which is about 50 km from Milan).

We had decided to eat sushi and, after lunch, my family and I had a walk around the town. Suddenly, we bumped into a tattoo studio and I thought I could take the opportunity to show the tattooer a sketch I had found some time before, this one

and I also made an appointment for the 12th of February (because I got my first tattoo this month, three years ago).

Yesterday, I was looking at some tattoos in my favourite tattoos website and I saw another drawing which stroke my attention. From then on, I was very doubtful because I didn't know which tattoo was the best for me: they both had a meaning and they both seemed beautiful.

Today, at the tattoo studio, when the tattoo artist "impressed" the phoenix on my arm, I realised it wasn't for me: it was too thin, too "artistic". Instead, the other one was more marked, blacker and it represented in a better way what I wanted to express.

I felt really nervous, because I was afraid of making the wrong decision (you can't go back once you got a tattoo): I think I looked into my heart and I asked myself if I was really sure about my choice.

The fact is that I had a precise idea, but maybe I hadn't already found a drawing which managed to reach that idea. I believed that this phoenix was perfect for me, but I was wrong: it didn't sum up the most of what I would have liked to portray, it didn't integrate my thoughts.

In my opinion, tattoos can be also a way to highlight the most important moments we experienced. So, at the last minute, I opted for this one:

It was originally composed by only one warrior, but I thought I could give more simmetry to it, adding a specular warrior on the other side (I had the two-headed Aztec serpent on the left arm), and also to my tattoos.

I'm very happy for the final result and I hope to keep it as beautiful as it is now.


Do you like it? I hope so.


Bye for now


Yours, Silvia