@ ArniVidar – When I said black & grey, I meant shades with black 🙂 It’s pretty hard to explain what the tattoo guy said, but basically he said they could expand/cover up my existing work with tribal, but incorporate the outline of hibiscus like the pic above into the design and use the existing black along with the white skin to create a shaded…[Read more]

ArniVidar;73833 wrote:
Why go with more tribal, when it’s obvious you don’t like tribal?

I don’t completely dislike tribal – I think there’s some very nice tribal designs out there – but I just feel like I’d rather have something a bit less ‘blocky’ and more intricate on my arm. But equally I don’t really want a whole picture on my arm, plus I…[Read more]

Well I went into another tattoo place today and got some very good advice from some really friendly staff – I think I’m going ot go for a custom tribal with a few hibiscus flowers interspersed (they even said that they could shade the flowers).

Very happy with that assessment and just need to save the pennies up now!