My friend and super-tattooist, Ms Aureole McAlpine came to visit me in Tokyo on her way back from various tattoo conventions in Europe. She gave me my second tattoo - a follow up to the foot tattoo she gave me last year. We used a similar design idea, something that blends Japanese and Australian culture - using stylised water-designs with sakura flowers arranged in a Southern Cross constellation (as seen in the sky only in the Southern Hemisphere)... It hurt a little more than the foot tattoo, mainly because it took twice as long and used twice as much more colour and ink.

Charlene, Tyler and Steve were the support team.... they fed me some much needed beer afterwards. It was an intense experience and I was quite exhausted by the whole thing but gawd, I do love the final result. It's quite beautiful and the colours are just gorgeous.

I made a flickr set of the proceedings...

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