Thanks! This advice is great! I have heard that chest can be a bear as far as pain is concerned, but I didn't realize that red faded so badly. As for timing, this is something that I've been sitting on for years, literally, and I am more and more sure that I want it. I just want to work out details. One bit of advice that goes along with what a couple of you have mentioned, from a tattooed coworker, is to find my artist and get a henna tat put in the place where I want my real tat to go to make sure that's the spot I want permanently marked. That makes sense to me, too.

Although I still like the idea of placement over the heart, I'm still leaning to a more visible placement - I thought the side of the calf, but maybe I should think upper arm or somewhere else that won't get quite as much sun, and hopefully not as much fading, as my calf.

Big Mikey - that's a nice design! I like it.

Thanks for all the insight and advice guys. This is a great help!


Chris