Guys, I am saving money so I can finally get my tattoo finished, it's a half sleeve of a snake 'coiling' down my arm. Towards the top is the symbol for "earth" in chinese. I need to get the spots on the snake finished and get the shading done. Its been like 3 months, I just don't have the money but I'm tired of it not being done. Oh, also there's bamboo near the snake too. But thinking about that dull pain of the tattoo... I hate it and love it. I think I'm going to start saving money for a tattoo budget to get half sleeves on both my arms.
Also, I'm undecided on if I want to add color to the snake tattoo or just leave it uncolored. I was going to go with a lot of bright colors, green bamboo, orange rays of light, blue or red snake, and yellow earth symbol (because the color for earth is yellow). And just in case you think I'm just getting a tattoo of a snake with earth in the middle for the hell of it: There's reasons. My chinese zodiac animal is the snake. I was also born in the Yin Earth year. In addition to that, according to the Five Animal Fist Kung Fu practices, the snake is the animal in the center of the diagram and the element that goes with the animal snake is earth. SO THERE.
Question: I'm thinking about getting maybe one of a Yang Metal Monkey as that's the animal-element combo of my mentor. I dunno. I want more but I'm not sure what to get yet.