I’ve got a tattoo on my right arm just above the elbow, but it’s not centered. I’ve had it for a long time and while I enjoy the tattoo i regret it being ‘lopsided’. I’m looking to have something added to it to make it look more balanced out across my arm.

I’ve asked two local parlors their advice, one blew me off and the other suggested having four wings sprout from the phoenix instead of two, with one side being twisted so as to be very thing and the other extended across the breadth of my arm to help center it out. I’m skeptical how it will look, but that’s as much because I haven’t seen anything similar to that to compare.

My own idea is perhaps trying to ink over the tatttoo a bit to give it the trailing tail/plumage so often associated with a phoenix, and to have it twist and curve along the right (left as you look at the image). However, I didn’t know if that could be done very easy with the black outline already existing around mine.

Anyone else have any other suggestions or ideas as far as expanding this? I’d prefer to not have two separate tattoos just to fill up the space – I’d rather it look like a single piece, so something that can be incorporated along those lines would be great.

Two images – one is a closer up to see the tattoo itself, the other is more zoomed out to give an idea of where it’s at on my arm. The close-up picture was done just after the tattoo healed a few years back and the other was taken today, if it matters.