Ever since I was a child I have loved mermaids. Disney's "The Little Mermaid" was the first movie I ever watched, the stepping stone for my passion with the beautiful fish-tailed creatures.
When my tattoo-loving father asked me when I was 12 if I would ever get a tattoo I knew exactly what it would be of, but what would she be doing? Like you read in this website a tattoo is very serious. Its placement and design are permanent! I spent 6 years thinking about what I wanted, and when my grandmother passed away in October 2005 I knew what it would be. A mermaid sitting on a moon, covered in roses. The mermaid represented my love, the moon represented the sky where my grandmother now lives, and the roses, they are my grandmother. Roses where her most treasured of things. Mermaids are a figment of our love for the mystical, and for me my tattoo is a permanent reminder of the ones I hold dear to my heart.
