Realistic colour tattoo of three pink roses with green leaves covering the shoulder of a person in a grey top.

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Pink roses on a shoulder

Realism · Shoulder · Colour · Photo

A large cluster of three pink roses with green leaves and stems covers the upper shoulder and arm. The petals are shaded with soft highlights and deeper rose tones, giving a realistic, dimensional look. The tattoo fills most of the frame against bare skin, with a grey top and blonde hair visible at the edges.

Realism Botanical Shoulder Rose Leaves Flower Petal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, sit down, you're letting the cold in. Mind the buckets. Right, I'll tell you about the Haddon roses, and you'll not interrupt me, because I've told this one to the Rotary and they dozed off before the end. My mother's father kept a bush behind the chapel wall in Ludlow, a pink climber nobody had a name for, and he grafted it onto every stock he could beg off the nurseries.

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Three brothers inherited the wall when he died. Walter wanted the cuttings sold to the council for the new car park. Harold wanted them burned, because the bush had done nothing but drop petals on his good boots since 1931. Leonard said nothing at all, which was worse, and went out every morning with a flask and a pair of secateurs. Nobody spoke to anybody for two summers. The roses did not care. They climbed over the chapel gutter and into the vestry window, and the vicar gave up trying to get a ladder up there.

Then one March Leonard came into the yard with three cut stems wrapped in newspaper and laid them on the table between his brothers. Each bloom was the pink of boiled sweets, shaded darker at the heart where the petals folded in on themselves, and every stem had a leaf that looked as if someone had painted it with a wet thumb. Walter asked where they came from. Leonard said the wall. Harold asked why three. Leonard said, 'One for each of us, and one for the man who planted it, and nobody gets to argue about who that was.'

They never sold the cuttings. The bush is still there, though the car park took the chapel. And if you ask me, the pink ones are the only honest thing about the whole business. Now pass me that grey bucket of stock, and mind how you lift it.