Hi Kim! Welcome to the Tattoo Board! I agree with Becca, no age is too old to get inked Butterflies can be beautiful tattoos, especially when done really personally with a great artist. You can also search for other symbols of transformation and change and you will know when you find the right thing for yourself. Look for an artists whose work you can see either in person or portfolio, and one that you like, because you may end up spending A LOT of time with them if you get the tattoo bug And last bit of advice, you may think smaller is better, but bigger is better, the detail is better and i find the tattoo looks better over many years if it's larger. hugs, Inky

Monique...pics please! xxxbecca

Hi all. Just found this board. I have no tats at all, but as I get close to my goal I keep thinking about it. I would want something small, meaningful. Keep in mind too, I'm a mom and nearing 40, so I don't know... nothing too extravagant. you all have any good ideas of what would be good as a design like that? Of course butterfly comes to mind, but it seems too ordinary, in a way. KWIM? What would be a good representative of change and transformation?? Thanks for any suggestions! Kim

I just read it on your profile. I loved it.

This was emailed to me....it really touched me... TATTOO by Martha Marinara Until now my history has been the markings of men: mother lover lesbian woman daughter Eve Jezebel My life's work grieves for a new geography a new litany for the landscape of my flesh. I name my body beyond what earth imagined for me freshly sprung stories for bone, blood, muscle, and marrow. As the needle fires skin with the smallest of dancer steps desire designs the black ink of martyrs in miniature and burns with the benediction of terrible stars and loosens the thousand lucid tongues of my voice. My spine's expansion like the slow build up of prairie wind releases my back, my shoulders to psalm's fontanel angel wings make dust of the low whistling my flesh has been pulling my spirit from the aperture of my soul marking metamorphosis in lambent liquid that covers my skin with the sleekness of the newly birthed.