Okay, I admit it. I’m one of those girls with a dragon tattoo—tiny and faded as he is. I got this guy tattooed on my left shoulder in New Hampshire when I was 19. I’d wanted a dragon tattoo since I was about 12. I finally did it two weeks before my brother’s wedding, although the timing was not intentional. On the day of the wedding, my mom and the hairdresser worked hard to create a style that would hide it as I walked down the aisle in my backless, floral print Laura Ashley bridesmaid dress. But it didn’t work.
I wanted my tattoo to look like a giant rope dragon statue my sister had given me for Christmas. I picked the closest design I could find, which was about two feet in length. The tattoo artist shrunk it way down for me but left the detail of each and every scale. Believe it or not, it took hours to complete. The upside of a back shoulder tattoo is I don’t see it everyday so I get excited whenever I catch site of it in a mirror. The downside: Sometimes I forget he’s there hence I’m way overdo for a touchup.
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