"What are you going to do when you look like that when you are old?"

Answer: I'm gonna look pretty freaking awesome!

This is one of the most annoying questions you can ask someone who has tattoos. It's just annoying guys! I mean seriously, why do you care?

The thing I hate about it is people act like when we get older we change into completely different people. Yeah, we will grow to be a little more mature and a little wiser and might even hate the music we love today, but we will still be the same people.

All the tattoos I have gotten and I will get have some sort of value to me. I'm not going to get a tattoo of something that I know I will not always like. The lyrics I chose to be on my body are from bands that I am either: deeply inlove with and will always be inlove with the lyrics cause they have some sort of connection to my past or how I feel. Or they show what kind of person I am. My personality.

For example, I have a tattoo from my all time favorite band since I started listening to music a lot in 2005, Panic! at the Disco. I will always love that band and their music, no matter how crappy it sounds. The lyric is "Show them all you're not the ordinary type" which fits me a lot. If you knew me, you'd understand...

The fact is, I am not ordinary. And that is because my personality won't let me. And I know for a fact, I will never be ordinary no matter what I do. No matter how old I get. And therefore this statement (or lyric) will always be relevant. Ps, please ignore the icky flaking. This picture was taken during the healing process :)

I also intend on getting some sort of rainbow tattoo. I am a VERY colorful person and have an obsession with rainbows. They make me happy. They make me smile. They're the only thing that brings up my spirits sometimes. Will I ever grow old and get tired of rainbows? Probably not. They are the most beautiful part of nature in my opinion.

I'm not saying I'm never going to regret getting something that I cannot hide. I have two on my forearms that I will have to hide with a long shirt, but that's an easy fix. I'm not going to be stupid enough to get that rainbow on my forehead.
And by the time I'm sixty, a new generation will be running the world and I guarantee most of them won't give a poop what you have on your body.

This tattoo on my left forearm is really special to me and I will never regret getting it for multiple reasons... "But I'm joyous that I had the chance to love you"
Why?
This is a quote from a really close friend I had a couple years ago who committed suicide. He helped me through hard times I was having (as you might have read in a previous blog of mine). His name was Tyler and he wrote a really moving poem about growing older and changing as time goes on. This was his favorite line in his poem and so it means a lot to me as well. He read me the poem many times and requested that it was read at his funeral. So it was.
The line in the poem I have on my arm was his way of telling the one he loved that even though the odds of them staying together were small (and they were), he would always be grateful for the little time he had with that person and was thankful that they were in his life in the first place.
To me this quote is not just a memory of a friend, it's also a lesson to my heart (as corny as that sounds). It tells me to not be heart broken over the people I've lost, but be thankful that they were there in the first place. And also that I am thankful that he was there because he really did help me and teach me a lot about things I was too weak to learn on my own. And therefore, I will never grow out of it.

Another thing that bothers me is people judge (and I do admit I have done this myself so I don't know why it bothers me lol) others for the tattoos they get. Say they are stupid and that they shouldn't have gotten them. I have one that most people would say I shouldn't have gotten it...

Its a large cameo that covers my right shoulder with a woman in it. Know why I got it? Cause I would like to think, that no matter how crazy I look and am inside, I am still an elegant being. lol... That being said, I have chosen to dedicate one of my arms to designs I love from the victorian era. I just love how that time looked and enjoy the feel of it. Will that look bad as I age? Actually, I think it will fit even better. I am going to be getting more roses added to it, a broken pearl necklace, an old locket and key and probably a little bit of lace like patterns. My Panic! at the disco quote is on the same arm and will fit in well with the ribbon it is under. Also Panic! loves that kinda thing aswell. Mostly in their earlier days when I fell inlove with them <3

And then there is my second tattoo I got and my biggest tattoo, my angel wings on my back with a corseted ribbon.

I always wanted to get angel wings on my back, even though they are probably overdone, just because I think they are beautiful. Mine aren't as big as I wanted them to be but I am a small girl so I think that what I got was fitting. Adding the ribbon just added to my girlie ness and made the tattoo a little bit more unique than all the rest of them out there. I will not regret this tattoo just purely because 1. When I'm old you probably won't see it much. 2. Who cares if you did see it? It's angel wings for crying out loud. Who grows out of angels?
I'm probably going to add some lyrics under it of one of my all time favorite songs that I have liked since about 2004-5, Your guardian angel. That was also my plan when I got them in the first place. Just goes to show what kind of person I am when I love someone.

And finally my last tattoo (for now), my two babies whom I love with all my being, my cats. Yes.... I said cats.

Meet Kink and Aria. My furrbabies.
I love these little hairballs more than most of anything in the world! (And just letting you know now, I am a crazy cat lady fer sure lol).
I got these little darlings just over a year ago and I would never let them go.
I got Kink with my old roommate cause I had always wanted my own cat when I finally moved out. We named her that because she used to go limp and purr and fall asleep when we would gently put our hand around her neck (not choking her hard just resting our hand around her neck gently!)

We got Aria a couple months after and she is usually everyone's favorite cause she is the more sociable one. Plus shes got six toes on each foot so shes a weirdo.

After shit went down with my roommate they were the only thing that I had that remained constant. I lost my best friend, my apartment and then my job after I moved to Mexico with my lovely boyfriend :] They were the only thing that was keeping me from completely going insane from the sudden change in my life.

They are my life and will be the one thing that I can (somewhat) control if they leave my life or not. I do not let them outside cause I don't want to risk losing them like everything else. So when we were in Mexico I found this cute picture on the internet of these two cats cuddling up against each other and thought of my babies. So I decided since they are a huge part of my life I wanted to get them inked on me. :]

And so I did. I will never ever regret this tattoo (no matter how much people make fun of me or judge me for being a crazy cat lady) because I love my cats and even after their gone, I will remember how much they meant to me and they will keep me strong. I feel like I will always have a piece of them close to me now that I have them on my skin. Although, that might be very painful when they're gone... But it's on my back so I won't see it all the time.
It will just be comforting knowing they're there. I'm sure you have felt the same way about something in your life. So no judging.

I intend on getting soooo many more tattoos. I was going to get a big one  on my chest that I had fallen inlove with, but decided I should wait a little longer. Despite how you feel about me and my getting tattoos, I do think about what I want to get before I go out and get them. Yeah, I got all my tattoos in just a year, but I do not regret any of them and I did think about what I was doing.

And in 40 years when I have more tattoos and you ask me if I regret it, I will still answer, no. And I will proudly show off years of my life and amazing memories that I can reflect on for the rest of my life. Good and the bad.