Hell yea my head hurts too. I have been trying to think of a half sleeve tattoo myself (first tat) and it is tough. I have a million ideas running through my head but I don’t know how I want to express them. I first started with the good vs. evil idea but it is pretty hard to show without having religion somewhere in there which is what I don’t want. Now I have been looking into symbols with different meanings.

I like the idea of all of the flowers and roses out there that each have meaning behind them. I really like the color and look of the japanese tats with the flowers and koi and all that but I don’t think I would want the koi. I like the look of the black waves or kind of like lines that are the backdrop and some colorful lookin flowers thrown in there. Not really sure what else I would want. John Mayer has a pretty sick looking sleeve.

http://www.hollywoodbackwash.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/john-mayer-tattoo.jpg

So maybe I will try to think of something like that but throw my own ideas in.

I didn’t look long at all and I found a picture of something similiar to what you want. http://www.imagecows.com/uploads/6738-butterfly-strand-flower-tattoo-design.jpg Try searching something like “japanese flower and butterfly tattoo” or something like that. Hope that helps!