A heart-shaped floral tattoo in pastel coral, blue and pink tones on the inner forearm, set against green ivy leaves.

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Floral heart on the inner forearm

Botanical · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A heart made up of loose flowers, including coral and red roses, pale blue blooms and pink blossoms, with small leaves and sprigs around the edges. The motifs are drawn with soft outlines and gentle tonal shading, giving a delicate, painterly look. The tattoo sits centred on the inner forearm, with a blurred green foliage background that makes the pastel colours stand out.

Botanical Forearm Heart Flower Rose Blossom Leaves

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The heart kept sliding apart on the trestle table at the back of the Mill House, and by half past eight I had pricked my thumb four times on the wire. There were coral roses, pale blue blooms that Gran would have called cornflowers though they were nothing of the sort, and a spray of pink blossom Dev had cut from the tree by the gate before anyone was awake. I had never been asked to make a heart before. Most brides wanted a cascade, something that tumbled.

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Maeve Ashby had sketched it on the back of a seed catalogue, loose shapes like flowers that had been pressed into a letter and then opened again. "It has to look like it grew there," she said, and then, because she was twenty-six and nervous, "Sorry. I know that isn't a real instruction." I told her it was the best one I'd had all year. We bound the stems in florist's tape, tucked the sprigs round the edges so the leaves hid the join, and misted the whole thing until the petals shone.

At eleven her father came in from the car park with his tie undone and stood in front of the heart for a long time. He said his wife had grown roses like these against the back wall of their first house, and that he had never once told her he liked them. Then he asked whether a bouquet could be kept longer than a day. I said that pressed between sheets of newspaper under a heavy book, the petals would hold their colour for years, though they would go thin as tissue. He nodded and asked for two more hearts for the tables.

When the speeches were done I found a single blue petal on the stone step, curling at one edge. I slipped it into my apron pocket instead of the bin. It is still there now, flattened inside an old atlas on my kitchen windowsill, and every spring I open it and look. The heart itself went off in the back of a hire car, but that one petal stayed where it fell.