Realistic colour tattoo of a silver key with a keyhole charm tied with a pink bow and the script words follow your heart, on the ribs.

Pink bow key with follow your heart script

Realism · Ribs · Mixed · Photo

The tattoo shows a silver key with a rounded keyhole charm wrapped in a pink ribbon bow, with the script words follow your heart running down beside the key. The key and charm are shaded in greys and brown with soft highlights, giving them a three-dimensional look, while the bow is rendered in bright pink. The design sits on the side of the torso against a plain, softly lit background.

Realism Lettering Ribs Key Keyhole Bow Ribbon Script Lettering Lock

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Nell, the brass key came back to me this morning wrapped in a pink ribbon, which is how I knew it was you who had been at the workshop after closing. Mr Hollis swears he locked the drawer, but he has also sworn the cat cannot open doors, so I am not inclined to believe him. Your note was tucked under the ribbon, three words in your looping hand: follow your heart. I have read it perhaps forty times since the kettle went on.

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You will want to know that the sea has been up over the harbour wall all week. The boarding house on Crane Street has three new lodgers, a retired organist and two sisters who argue about the weather as if it were a personal insult. Mrs Penrose asked after you on Tuesday. I said you were in Plymouth learning to make sextants, which she did not believe, and I did not blame her.

I went down to the old lighthouse steps last night with the key in my pocket, the one that fits nothing in town. Its shank is worn bright where my thumb rests on it. I tried it in the iron door at the end of the pier, the one nobody has opened since the storm of '09, and it turned as easily as a page. Behind the door there was a tin box full of your drawings, all of them keys, none of them locks.

So I am writing to ask where you are, and whether a door can be opened from the wrong side. Send word to the boarding house. Mrs Penrose will keep it safe, whatever she tells the sisters.

Yours, with the key still in my pocket, Tom