Lotus (open) Tattoo Completed.

Here it is...



Awesomely swollen, hot off the gun...



A couple days later...


Took about 3 hours to do the entire Lotus / Water and finish the Rose on my forearm. I chose to do the Lotus in traditional colors with a lot of pink. I got it 2 days after my job "dissolved" at Mattel and thought it was only fitting to use those colors. Lyndsey, my tattoo artist, wanted me to go with it growing out of water, instead of mud. For those of you that do not know the symbolism of a Lotus, here it is: "In modern times the meaning of a lotus flower tattoo ties into it's religious symbolism and meaning. Most tattoo enthusiast feel that the a lotus tattoo represent life in general. As the lotus flower grows up from the mud into a object of great beauty people also grow and change into something more beautiful (hopefully!). So the symbol represent the struggle of life at its most basic form.

Lotus flower tattoos are also popular for people who have gone through a hard time and are now coming out of it. Like the flower they have been at the bottom in the muddy, yucky dirty bottom of the pond but have risen above this to display an object of beauty or a life of beauty as the case might be. Thus a lotus flower tattoo or blossom can also represent a hard time in life that has been overcome."

For the Rose, I chose orange, as that is what Rebekah wanted. Most of you probably don't know this, but her middle name is Hebrew for "Rose". :)