So here is the new tattoo...i have posted three pictures so you can see it from different angles...at least that's what i was trying to do.

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but to explain it a little bit....

i haven't really told anyone what it means. as far as my friends know, its just "cool" cuz a) i drew it and b) it just is. but it has meaning, every tattoo i have or will ever get in the future has to have meaning otherwise i wouldn't put something so permanent on my body.

this tattoo is my way of showing beauty. so much now-a-days beauty is shown through perfection. women with the perfect body, flawless face, biggest "assets" are the ones who we are told are "beautiful." but so often we focus on perfection that we miss all the beauty that comes from the essence of things being imperfect. things being flawed. things created so that they're different from every other thing in the universe. the reason i chose the dandelion in the seed stage is because of how the wind effects it and blows the seeds in different directions. it depicts how the smallest, most beautiful things in life, get blown away and lost in the business of this world...especially in the united states. so much anymore we don't have time just sit down and take time to appreciate the natural beauty of life around us. we are rushed from one thing to the next and by the end of the day feel unfulfilled even though we have surrounded ourselves by so much.

so that's why i chose the dandelion. to most it's a hated thing...a weed that is a bitch to kill cuz it just never goes away. the seeds get blown in the wind and next summer the dandelions in that area are ten times worse. now don't get me wrong, as precious as it is for a child to give ther mother "flowers," aka dandelions, picked fresh from the yard every year, the yellow dandelions are just ugly. and they stink. but when we are young, they are the prettiest flowers we have ever seen. and to me that is beauty.

i wish i was still 5 where a fuzzy ugly caterpillar was the cutest thing i have ever seen. or the simple yellow dandelion was the BEST flower i could ever pick for my mom. but anymore i find everything wrong with something instead of seeing everything that is right. so i tattooed it on my body. as imperfect as i see myself each day, there is a true naturaly beauty about me that makes me different from every other person in the world. i'm not sure i have found out what that is yet, but God keeps reminding me that everything he created is beautiful. i just hope i can show others that beauty too.