Body mods

Body mods have been on my mind a lot recently. I blame mermaiden, who has been getting some of the most gorgeous tattoos I've seen in a long while.

As things stand right now, I have no tattoos, but I have several piercings - two lobe piercings in each ear (the first mildly stretched to 12g), a 14g helix in my left ear and an 18g nostril piercing on the left hand side. I've had my navel done, but it rejected.

I think I only want to get two more piercings, both on my right ear - a conch and tragus. I'm seriously thinking of getting at least one of those soon. I'm always slightly worried about healing cartilage, given how my immune system can be, but my health is pretty good right now. Hmm.

Tattoos are something that I've been thinking about for years, but have never really committed to the one design. Mostly because I really want them to mean something. I know too many people who have generic flash tattoos, and I just don't want that.

I do want a writing-related tattoo, the actual design of which is undecided. At the moment, I'm leaning very much towards the quote "We are all made of Stories". I also want a raven and/or Australian magpie, and a serpent. I'm thinking of the back of my left shoulder for the bird, and base of the spine for the serpent.

Thoughts. I need designs first, and then I need to find a good artist.