Grieving - Tattoo Suggestions

broken123

Hi everyone, I am completly new - please go easy on me , so here it goes.

I am looking help re a design for a tattoo - I had a miscarriage during the year and really feel I want a tattoo to represent the baby I lost. I was thinking along the lines of a crying angel/fairy/tears and I googled same but all i can see are scary looking tats. I would like something feminine, small but pretty but I just can't seem to see one that I want.

Any recommendations/ideas would be appreciated.

Catari Jaguar

awh, so sorry to hear that

There are loads of fairy tattoo ideas here. If you find one you like, go chat to a tattoo artist and they can work with you to create a design you like! Good luck!

Fairy Tattoos

Edit: Loads of those have really crap faces.

This is really pretty imo

smurfy89

Sorry to hear that

Thought this one was quite nice

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2285/1532579977_5a5b2ca7d5.jpg

If i see anymore nice ones around i will post them

Diceicle

Check out fairy books by googling Brian Froud, decent fairies are very hard to do unless you go quite large to get a good amount of detail. you might see some nice ones on bmezine.com

Catari Jaguar

I found more pretties! Different styles

Lilliput69

i know where u are coming from, i would sugest maybe a flower with a pixie sleeping in it, as in letting sleeping babes ly. Beleive me it does get easier.

I would also go for a position that u know its there but its not on full view, maybe tummy by ur hips, when u find a pic u will know in ur heart that its the right one for u

Will

Sorry to hear that.

Along with the others i would suggest looking at some images you find appealing. Have a good long hard think about, print out some images, bring em to a decent artist and see what they can do for you.

Good luck

Kastro

sorry to hear of your loss... you didnt happen to get a wee print of the hands and feet by any chance? i know some hospitals give em.. perhaps it would make a good tattoo?

Star Lord

Lilliput69 wrote: »

i know where u are coming from, i would sugest maybe a flower with a pixie sleeping in it, as in letting sleeping babes ly. Beleive me it does get easier.

I'd second that, and here's a nice sleeping fairy style one I found:

Hellrazer

Really sorry to hear about your loss OP.

This might sound a bit cliched but I remember seeing a tattoo of a pair of hands holding a baby with the words "In Gods Hands" underneath it.

When we had our loss we named a star after the baby and my wife got a tattoo associated with the constellation that the star was in.

Maybe something like that might help.

broken123

Thank you for the lovely replies and ideas..... wow thank you I really like the sleeping fairy/pixie idea....

tatt chic

my friend had a still born, she got a side view angel of herself, basically just changed the face, very realisitic looking and she was holding a sleeping baby. its just beautiful, she got it on the inside of her thigh.

marti101

Op sorry to hear about that the sleeping pixie is lovely.Have a look in Easons at the tattoo mags and you might get some other ideas.

RubyXI

Hi OP. Maybe you would consider a happy angel instead of a sad one. I know you must be very sad right now but i don't think you'll want to remember your baby as being eternally sad.

Lilliput69

phi3 wrote: »

Hi OP. Maybe you would consider a happy angel instead of a sad one. I know you must be very sad right now but i don't think you'll want to remember your baby as being eternally sad.

+1 that is why i suggested a sleeping pixie;)

hostchecker

I'm trying to think of something really good

mary123

Hi now how u feel i had a cot death yrs ago my baby would be 22 now, she was 11 months when she died. For her 21st last yr i got my first tattoo on my shoulder of angel wings and her name Kellie underneath.
I am now going to get my 4th tomorrow.