Colourful watercolour-style tattoo of princess figures around a script quote on the outer thigh.

Princess figures and quote on a thigh

Thigh · Colour · Photo

Six princess-style female figures with blank faces are arranged in a ring across the outer thigh, each in loose, splashed colour. A black script quote in the centre reads Laughter is timeless, Imagination has no age, and Dreams are forever. The soft wash effect uses pink, green, blue, yellow and purple, with the black lettering giving strong contrast.

Thigh Princess Mermaid Figure Quote Script Silhouette

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You find the sketchbook in the cabin locker the week the Lydia is due at Braunston, its cover swollen from a winter of damp. Inside are six women in long skirts and gathered sleeves, drawn in pencil and splashed over with your grandfather's cheap watercolours: pink here, a bruise of blue there. None of them has a face. He always said the faces were the last thing you decided.

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At the lock at Hillmorton you sit on the gate beam with the book on your knees while the water drops. A lad in a hi-vis vest asks if you're the one doing the murals. You say no, you're the one with the wet brush and the wrong colours. Your father taught you to paint roses on tillers and never people, and the women stare up from the page as if they're waiting for the verdict.

That night, moored under a hawthorn, you write across the top of a page in his careful capitals: LAUGHTER IS TIMELESS. The sentence refuses to stop there. You keep going, imagination, dreams, forever, and the ink runs where rain drips off the roof hatch and pools in the gutter of the page.

In the morning the faces are still blank, but the paper has dried with a ring of colour around the words, as though the women danced round them all night. You close the book, take the finest brush from the tin, and paint one clean stroke of yellow at the first neck. The water takes the rest of the day's light, and for once you don't mind it going.