I was in Surfer’s Paradise, after spending a week diving the Great Barrier Reef in Cairns, and I wanted to remember this amazing trip – this first visit ever out of NZ, this first time scuba diving (it is like visiting another planet, truly breathtaking. I had visited every tattoo store between Cairns and Surfer’s Paradise, trying to find someone who could tatt my arm in a blue starfish, as a memento.
In Surfer’s, I found a guy – multi-award winning tattartist, been doing it for 25yrs, and he agreed to do my tatt right then and there. He had never done a blue starfish before, and only one other starfish at all. He did a beautiful (excruciating) job of my new baby, in at least 5 different shades of blue. It is so bright and beautiful that people don’t think its real :) I’ll upload a pic when I can, but he did me proud. It’s exactly what I wanted. :)
