I don´t know if this has to do with "teach us something" from @missy blog, but a lot people ask me about me sleeve, what it means, what is it, so this is kinda the first time i write or tell about it, hope you like it and if you have some questions i would glad to answer... not just about my sleeve about my other tattoos. :D it´s way to long this blog, hope you read it all. :D
Very often people ask me about my sleeve and most of the time i don´t answer cause its a very long story or i just tell a quick version of it. So this time i take the time to talk about all details and tell you how began and what is and means.
The first was 4 years ago when my dad died, what i want it was basically something powerful and colorful, i didn´t want something sad, i wanted a tattoo that everytime i saw make me happy and yes cry but with a smile, so i chose a beach flowers on orange with some crazy waves, when i was about to do it, two days before it came to my mind about put some letters, but i didn´t know what... So i asked my mom because she´s always there for me (shes catholic but a real one, she accept me and support me for who i am no matter what) so she told me about the word Abba, it means a nickname between Jesus and his dad (God) for me was perfect so i decided to add it into the tattoo... Right now the tattoo needs a make over, sun and years don´t pass by for free, but still there remind me my dad.
This sleeve basically is about him and i... He was a not stable person neither his mind and i´m kinda like him, in some ways scares me but tried to do my best everyday and for me a way to deal with it it´s getting tattoo, so i imagine this crazy world for the bottom of my arm, with the meaning of our craziness... I have this big crush for zombie, i didn´t want a real zombie face, i´m a girl after all, my corny side think about a zombie bunnie surrounded by candys. was not a real idea about full my arm but i didn´t care. Few years later was complicated make this whole idea to work for a full sleeve, but not impossible.
Spent like year before i decide it to put something new, i did combine styles in my arm... i stared to read and search about old school and traditional style... i want one so i didn´t give a fuck if looks good, i tattoo a traditional girl face with red roses, his birthday on a band and of course an anchor (thats when my dad became one) for me thats the thing that he didn´t have, i could be his anchor and he mine. My new tattoo at that moment was beautiful still is, the tattoo artist that make it, tried the girl look like me, make more happy.
Don´t take more that 4 months to decide to finish my sleeve... I stared to look for new tattoo artist and thank God i did find it, he´s really talent, his studio it´s the older here in my town, and his speciality is color, was exactly what i was looking for, before i go with him i decided to fill my arm with alice in wonderland stuff, quotes, characters etc.... He just understood perfect what i wanted and by hand he drawing and tattooed sleeve was almost finished. Was 8 months later, or maybe a little more to complete, can´t remember, between appointments and heal. When i realize to my wrist to elbow i had a colorful and gorgeous ink about wonderland, a hat with my best friend birthday, a clock with the time i born, candys, signs with a cat on the top and the quote around my wrist "we all mad here".
The only part that was clean was my tricep next to my traditional girl, so we decide to put something traditional too, to make sense, my love for sea was getting bigger, so this time i choose a helm with a quote "stay with me" and a swallow that means loyalty. And with that my sleeve was finish, he put some strong colors as background. When it was done i couldn´t believe was real, this complete me, and everyday i wake up and see all the colors and things that represent me and my dad, put a smile... I would never forget who he was and how he stay with me forever.
