- This isn’t a photo of what I saw in the shop or anything. I just felt like posting a photo of the original Crest of Hyrule so that there would be a reference point (for those of you who aren’t complete nerds and don’t know what the Crest of Hyrule is) -
The date had finally come for me to begin my Crest of Hyrule tattoo. I was a complete ball of excitement and had been waiting what seemed like forever, because if I remember right, I had to wait about 2 weeks before he could fit me in. Kimber went with me to get this tattoo; I think she was just as excited as I was about it. Well, maybe not just as excited, but excited nonetheless. If you recall from my previous post we still hadn’t decided on where it was going quite yet, so that was the first thing that would have to be done.
Enter Tattoo shop:
Insert casual greeting here ________ - Casually walk into his tattoo room, then something like “Hell yeah, let’s get this started. I’ve been thinking about this all week!! Actually he may have already begun to exclaim his excitement before we entered his room. I just remember he was totally psyched to do this tattoo. The stencil was actually fairly small, about the size of small adult female hand, which is the size I expected to get. Oh boy was I wrong....
He starts explaining that we could put it on my hip as I had wanted the other week - I interjected that the shape would look strange. He had already contemplated that, and had come up with something a bit different. A tweak on the original design, if you will. He explains what his idea was (I’m going to leave the explanation out and let you see it for yourself in the photo); I pause, look at Kimber, look down at my body, back to him, and hadn’t said much about it yet. I was deep in thought trying to picture what he was talking about, but was having a bit of trouble getting there, but reluctantly (though I’m not sure he knew I reluctant my agreeance was) said it sounded good.
So, he got to work. By he got to work, I mean he took out some sharpies and started drawing the tattoo right on my body! Here I am on my fifth tattoo and that had NEVER happened. Artists had always used a stencil. He explained that this way, the tattoo was designed to fit the natural curvature of my body and would look better. Makes sense, right? As he’s drawing the design, I notice it seems rather large -- A huge line here, and a massive one there, the tattoo had gone from the size of a small adult female hand to.......well, close to the size of a 8 1/2” by 11” sheet of paper. My jaw dropped and I turned to look at Kimber. We both ended up agreeing that it looked a lot better than the smaller one, so it was a go.
October 5, 2011 & October 19, 2011 - Authentic Ink Tattoo & Piercing (Omaha, NE)
Spike -
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Location: Left hip/side
Tattoo: Crest of Hyrule (tweaked version)
Story: Alright, well you’ve already heard the story about how I ended up getting this tattoo, so now it’s time for the story about what this tattoo means to me and why I wanted it so badly. Do you believe in fate, or thing that are meant to be, or anything like that? Normally I don’t, but with how I came about getting this tattoo and what it means to me, I feel like sometimes fate does exist in some way... Most of us know Zelda is an older game and that we used to play on NES or Nintendo 64 back in the day. Well, I used to play Zelda a lot as a child with my mom. From earlier posts you will already know (that is if you started from the beginning and worked your way up my blog) that my mom died in 2005. What I did not explain in that post is that my mom and I didn’t always have the greatest relationship and the situation surrounding her death left a lot of questions, pain, and anxiety. Actually, that’s putting it mildly. Most of my life until the day she died, all we had were problems. There was constant fighting, battles of wills, and my persistent desire to grow up and care for myself, which she always opposed. Anyway, I’ll spare you most of the emotional personal details of that part of my life and skip to the part where playing Zelda (and other video games/board games/card games) were the few moments where my mom and I got along, laughed, enjoyed ourselves and didn’t fight. My mom was still very much a kid, so playing video games was an enjoyable past time for the two of us. I had never intended to get the Crest of Hyrule tattooed on me, nor had I ever even thought about it, but when I saw it - I knew I had to get it. All of the good memories began to flood back to me and that was something I dearly needed. Now, sometimes when I’m struggling with my mother’s death, or her life, I can look at this tattoo and remember better times.
Session 1 -
I’m trying to remember exactly how long this first session was, but I’m fairly certain it was close to 3 hours. That includes the time it took him to draw it on, though. The outlining itself only took about 2.5 hours, but I tell you what - It was an intense 2.5 hours! I loved every minute of it!
Session 2 -
I couldn't pass up posting my Slave Leia outfit...
This, my fellow readers, is the final product of my Crest of Hyrule tattoo, which ended up taking a grand total of 6 hours (5.5 hours of ink time). I’m sure you’ve been able to gather that this isn’t the complete Crest of Hyrule. His idea was to do the Triforce and only one set of wings so that it would fit nicely on my hip, and it sure did!
This, ladies and gentleman, truly woke me up. Small tattoos are...nice, but if you want a real tattoo it needs some space, especially if you want it to look good years down the road. Thus my true journey with tattoos began as I began contemplating future endeavors with Spike as my artist.
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