Outside, the shop front is shabby and dull. I walk around the corner and look at the painted wood door, the red paint peeling with age. I push at it slowly and enter a corridor, a wall of must and heat greeting me. Slowly, I climb the steps, one at a time, trepidation twisting at my stomach muscles. At the top of the stairs is a relatively new, and comparatively well cared for door. I push through it, and enter a colorful world.
Inside the tattoo parlour, the walls are lined with sketches and rails of posters containing pre-made tattoo designs. Behind a sterile metal counter I see a man standing, a white surgical glove still on one hand, nothing on the other as he flicks through one of the many folders. He looks up, piercing eyes glancing to the potential customer. Upon his neck is an intricate flamed tattoo which follows lower down his arm.
Just when you're about to give up, allowing a wry smile at your own foolish notion that maybe you would actually get a tattoo for yourself, you come across one which makes you wonder if it was not so foolish an idea after all. You know that a butterfly or a fairy is so clich, but you want to get one anyway, because they're beautiful.
A butterfly. A change in your life. You came along to mark that anyway, didn't you? You have moved on now, grown up, it's a new chapter, a transformation. And that is what you instantly think of when you see the butterfly. You see it, and you know you will always be reminded of your childhood, of your innocence and of its fragility.
And then there is the fairy. You identify with her. There is something gentle and playful about her, she seems to have retained her childlike sense of wonder. It reminds you of when you were a child, of the magic world you believe in, and how desperately you did not want that veil to be taken away. Is that what you want now?
The combination of the butterfly and fairy could be simply because you think it is beautiful, but if you are like me, it may symbolize the fragility of childhood. Or, for others, the transformation from one thing, child hood innocence, into another, maybe explained by the womanly appearance of the fairy themselves.
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