I got this tattoo because my previous tattoos had upset my mother quite a bit. so I figured that I would get a less offensive tattoo to represent my mother.
I picked the cross and thorns with a rose in the middle to represent my mother's religion and her favorite flower. I got it in an arm band style so it became very painful around my inner right arm.
I had to tell my artist Gina to take a smoke break because of the pain and rawness of the inner arm. I eventually finished it in about 2 hours of pain and listening to some southern metal music.
My mother was very pleased and now I have a beautiful tattoo on my right arm. The image I posted is backwards due to the fact of the photo is taken from my macbook photobooth program.