Hey,
At the weekend I was very brave and got myself a tattoo, now most people think of teenagers and tattoo's and think that its a quick, off the cuff decision made without much thought, but I can assure you that my tattoo has had a huge amount of thought behind it, has a personal meaning and is basically not a waste of time or money.

I had been thinking of getting a tattoo done since around January, but didnt know what to have, I wanted something personal that I only knew the meaning to but I could tell people if I chose to. So I decided that it would be something that meant alot to me, but written in chinese. After looking on websites I checked out a few of my favourite sayings, and whilst looking I found the perfect one. I checked on a number of forum's and in my local chinese take away and asked what it meant, their answers matched what the website had said, so I moved on to the next step -finding somewhere that would do it.

We went to a town which is famous for the number of tattoo studio's there are, but none of them would do me a tattoo underage or without I.D. So I spoke to a couple of friends in school who were my age and had had tattoo's done, they told me where they got them and we went there this weekend.

As we walked in I heard the gun buzzing and my stomach flipped, but I really wanted the tattoo done and was happy to endure the pain to get what I wanted. I asked to have a tattoo and they said yes, we told them that I was going to be 16 in a week (its actually June) and she said on the form they ask for my age, just put 18. So I did.

I was given a price of £35, and the offer of numbing gel for an extra £10. I decided to not have the numbing gel because I had intended on going in their and having it done without it so I might as well anyway. So with no numbing gel I went into the proper studio area.

It was so clean!! I'm not joking I would have happily eaten my dinner from the floor, it was spotless and the bloke was very clean to. I lied down and he began. HOLY SHIT I dont think I had experienced so much pain since I did my back in a while ago. It was like I was being drawn on with a sharp pen, which realistically I kind of was, it felt like a sharp pain being dragged along deep under the skin. I was lying on my side and holding on to the arm of the chair so tightly. I swore once and it was when he did the little dot part of it. He said I was very brave for my first tattoo =]. He wrapped it in a cover and set me on my way.

So I had my tattoo and I had it for life. 4 days later I am still really pleased with it and other people seem to like it, its quite small and dainty so it doesnt take over my whole ankle. Its started to get a little sore the last 2 days because its healing and kind of scabbing over. But like I said I am so pleased with it!!

I've put a picture of it here:

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And it means 'Don't Die Wondering'

One of the things I live my life by is if you want to try or do something get on and do it because you always be wondering what it would have been like if you had, and you'll never know if you dont do it whilst you can.

xxx