back on topic
i got a tattoo on my lower back, which is the same as the one my fiancee had on her lower back
when she got it, she wanted it and picked the design out the book
anyhoo, she died suddenly in 2005 and 2 years later i finally decided i would get the same one, in the same place
being the ever practical, boring sort, i'd avoided getting the full portrait/name treatment which i might conceivably regret later on
so now, i have a tattoo as a memorial to ma bebe, of an uncontroversial design, in a place where most folk will never see it, unless i go topless
but it is there for a reason - funny thing is tho, i forget it's there!
i will say that it's the most pain i've experienced, without even thinking about crying - it was lots of heavy breathing and gritting of teeth and feeling the vibration through my spine bones
glad i eventually got it done, for purely personal reasons - don't rule out others, but would have to think it through first
btw pierce your bairn's ears if you must, as long's they don't end up wi' 3 sets of 'creole' earrings/a shell suit/sovs/5 chains round their neck - that will stereotype them much more than any supposed religious connotation ever will.....