Black script tattoo reading Hello Sweetie with a small pink bow beneath it, on the side of the ribs.

Hello Sweetie script with pink bow

Lettering · Ribs · Mixed · Photo

A black script lettering tattoo reads Hello Sweetie across the skin, with looping capitals and thin, even linework. A small pink bow with a black centre sits below the word Sweetie, adding the only colour. The tattoo is photographed close up against plain skin, with dark fabric draped at the left edge of the frame.

Lettering Ribs Script Lettering Bow

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mrs Dorothy Pask had been painting shopfronts in Margate for thirty-one years, and she had never once signed her name on a window. Her brushes lived in a tobacco tin on the back step of the workshop, the sable tips worn to points, and on the Monday the new sign for the Cosy Corner tea rooms was due, she found the gilt gone dull in its pot. Nobody wanted to hear about gold leaf on a wet morning, so she sent the boy from next door to fetch Harold from the chippy.

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Harold came in with vinegar on his cuffs and watched her work. She lettered the words in one long sweep, the looping capitals leaning like sailors into a wind, and she let the H drop below the baseline so it would catch the eye of anyone strolling along the front. Hello Sweetie, the owner had asked for, because his wife called every customer that, and because he believed it made the tea taste better.

Then the ribbon. Dorothy had meant to leave it off, but Pearl, who ran the till, had left a pink hair bow on the counter that morning and it sat there catching the light. Dorothy picked it up, pinned it flat on the paper, and copied its loops in two quick strokes of carmine. Harold said the bow looked as if it was waiting to be asked to dance.

The sign went up at noon. By teatime Pearl had a queue of people asking whether the bow was real, and Dorothy, wiping her hands on her apron, said only that some things were better left as paint.