I have spent many years looking at tattoos. Whether it was watching a friend get a tattoo on his chest and looking through the artist’s book of work, seeing people at the mall with all sorts of different tattoos, or just looking at pictures and images I might like to sometime have as my own tattoo design, they have always been a source of interest to me. One favorite tattoo design I saw in a book of work was a girl with Chinese symbols placed vertically down her spine. They were not too big and she was very small in build. She looked great.