I want a tattoo in the style of the first picture but with the placement and positioning of the second.  I’m thinking something with a gnarled branch spreading out from my shoulder blade, the lower leaves being a deep red but as the branch sprawls out towards the arm they gradually become greener and fuller.

In a perfect world my hair would look exactly like this once it got to this length:

My co-workie Ryan and I spent most of the late morning looking up octopus tattoos and I got fixated like I sometimes do, my brain bouncing with tattoo ideas.  Christopher was kidding, I was right in initially thinking that, he was bored at work and isn’t getting an awesome tattoo for me swoon over on Saturday.  However I came home and basically used my one track mind to do the absolutely pointless task of designing an octopus tattoo and refining the whale tattoo I want.

I love whales. I’m thinking about making the whale big with a spout carrying a pirate ship like this: Some guy’s enviable tattoo.The basic layout would be a very simple whale in black outline, with the eventual spout morphing from simple to more and more complicated with the pirate ship at the top being complex, bright, and amazing.  The location would probably be on my right hip with the water carrying the ship over to my back.  My dreams are big but I am scared of permanence.