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It definitely my family's coat of arms but thanks for your concern. My last name is rare enough that it doesn't even show up on those coat of arms sites anyways haha. I just don't know if it would work well as a thigh tattoo and if so should it be on the front, side, or back.

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Is that the thing where you type your last name into a webpage and it comes up with a rather generic looking image of your 'coat of arms'? A friend from a while ago did this, he ended up finding a decent tattoo artist even though the image was directly stencilled off the print-out he gave him; and I've seen a bunch of tattoos aparently taken from the same website that look almost identical (with a few colours and central symbol changed to represent the supposed family name).

However, I live in Australia and theres no real 'old family names' that date back to god knows when because everyone who lives here migrated within the last 200 years unless you are native, and coat of arms' arn't part of Aboriginal Australia's culture. Anyway my point is, if where you live you actually have coat of arms above your mantel piece in in your family history books or wherever they're kept, and that's what you want to represent your family, then go for it! Othwise, perhaps think about other imagery that symbolises your love for or bond to your family for a tattoo. Just my two cents:)

It definitely my family's coat of arms but thanks for your concern. My last name is rare enough that it doesn't even show up on those coat of arms sites anyways haha. I just don't know if it would work well as a thigh tattoo and if so should it be on the front, side, or back.

Everyone is talking about how pointless a black light tattoo is but I always thought it would be cool. Granted I don't know much about the possibilities of black light tattoos but isn't it possible to get a black light tattoo to high light a colored tattoo. I'm very partial to the idea of get a vibrantly colored jellyfish tattoo and get spots of it done in black light. Something like this.

I've always enjoyed thigh pieces so I've thought about getting my family coat of arms done on the front of my thigh, any thoughts? Or maybe on the back of my thigh?... Or not on my legs at all?

Keep it! If you don't hate it don't change it. You don't want to regret covering up your first tattoo if you're just doing it for your girl.

I think in general getting a tattoo of fireworks that look realistic is a difficult job for any tattoo artist, so I wouldn't say it's a bad tattoo. However, if you really are just not happy with it I wouldn't suggest just trying to get used to it. If you don't like it, let it heal and then cover it up. I don't know how a tattoo artist would fix that to make it look better and you don't want to risk spending the money and ending up with another tattoo you don't love.

Hello,

I'm a newbie but a long time tattoo enthusiast. I have yet to get my first tattoo but am looking to get that soon and hit the ground running. I already have many plans/ideas for tattoos but joined this site in order to get insight and recommendations from other people who know tattoos best.

Looking forward to learning a lot and to start covering my body in art!

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Actually, if anyone is feeling up to dishing out some advice right now I need some help!

One of the tattoos I am looking to get is my family coat of arms. Being a female I'm not quite sure where the best place on my body to get this done is. Obviously the back in between the shoulder blades is a good spot but I'm unsure as to whether or not I want to reserve that spot for a different tattoo I might get down the road. So where else would be a good spot for this??

Thanks!

I think this is absolutely beautiful!!