Tattoo - It's Done!

No, not mine (ye-gods!), but a friend's.

Remember, ages ago, I was asked to do a design for a tattoo of an angel?

Well, it's taken all this time for my friend Gary to get sorted with an appointment to have it done, and it took more than one session, as you can imagine, in fact, it took over 7 hours to get it all done.

He came round to show me this week and here are the photos of the finished thing, hot off the press, so to speak. It's hard to get the full effect in just one image, because the wings spread round the back onto his shoulder blade and round the front towards his chest.

It's so big, it MUST have hurt though - eeeooooooo!

I rather like the additions the tattooist has made, especially the roses at the bottom. The tattoo is in memory of Gary's wife Sindie, my cousin, who died recently, and Gary tells me that yellow roses were her favourite.

Gary has a jacuzzi in his garden (lucky devil), so I imagine him sitting in the hot bubbles one frosty evening, with his angel rising out from the steaming water...