Tattoo complete

Back when I decided that I would get a bilateral mastectomy with no reconstruction in 2018, I knew that I'd get my chest tattoo'ed to cover the scars.  Not because I hated the scarring but because it was the perfect canvas on which to do the memorial tattoo for my grandparents that I'd been wanting to do for 20 years.  

 It took about 9 hours over 3 sessions and hurt like the buggery!  Over the scars was fine because that's still numb but close to the armpit and over the sternum was rough.  I used a numbing cream for the last session and that helped enormously.  The oxycodone I took probably helped too lol.

I gave my tattooist the references and she designed the whole thing.  My references were lemons for my grandma who used to always make me lemon butter from the trees they grew in their orchard.  The feather is the colours of the Rhode Island Red chickens my granddad used to breed and show.  I've also put in a little nod to the town I grew up in with the jacaranda flowers.  The rest is just design elements the artist put in to tie it all together.

I'm beyond happy with it, I love that I get to look at a piece of art on myself forever!  I'm not sure if I'm allowed to put the details of my tattooist here so I won't initially, feel free to message me if you'd like her details.  I'm in the Newcastle, NSW area and so is she.