Colour tattoo of a woman with sugar skull face paint, flowing blue hair and maroon and teal flowers on a limb.

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Sugar skull woman portrait with blue hair

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A realistic portrait of a woman with sugar skull face paint, ornate black filigree and teal-edged eye markings, framed by long wavy blue hair. Maroon and teal flowers sit at the top left, right and bottom left of the design. The shading is smooth and detailed on the face, with bold black outlines and saturated colour throughout.

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Dear Marisol,

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The blue is still in the grout, so you can stop asking whether I was careless with the bath. Your mother thinks I have turned the bathroom into a swimming pool, and she is right, but the colour came out exactly as I wanted it. I sat on the edge of the tub with a towel round my shoulders and thought of Tía Concha's old missal, the painting of the woman with the skull face that she kept pressed between the pages of the Psalms.

Tomorrow we grieve nothing and celebrate everything, which is what she always said about the first of November. The flowers came from the market at six this morning, paper ones in maroon and green, the same dark red as the petals in that picture. Ricardo's brothers hung them from the chapel rafters on wire, and the whole room smells of candle wax and crushed marigold. Your cousin Inés has been piping names onto sugar skulls at the kitchen table since Tuesday, and she has run out of icing sugar twice.

Last night I found Concha's own skull in the drawer, the one with my name written across the forehead in pale green. It was chalky and cracked along one eye, and I nearly threw it away, but I held it to the lamp and bit the corner, and it was still sweet. I think she meant for me to have it. I have put it in my handbag for the morning, and when Tomás lifts my veil I will show him that silly, lovely thing and we will laugh before anyone has time to cry.

Your loving Abuela, Pilar

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