I'm glad this got revived too. I'm going sometime within the first week or so of February to get a back peice done/started. Its just black and white, or really black and shading, but its going to be fairly large. I've got one on my ribcage as well. I got it right after I turned 18 and my mom didn't find out for two years! Lol! But its on a fairly EASY place to hide, and once I was like 12, she didn't see me naked anyway
I can't wait for my back piece. I AM going to miss soaking in the tub for a month though, lol. I'll post pictures when I get it done and of the healing process, since it is a full back piece. Its a chinese dragon actually, but not at the same time. More of a blend between asian and european dragons, and I love it.
Anyway, I highly recommend waiting until you are 18. I gave myself tattoos when I was sixteen, and while I don't have one of them, I DO hate the rest and though they're small and no one but me really notices them, I plan on having them covered up. Its just not worth it because a BUNCH of things I planned on getting when I was sixteen id set aside and forgotten about. Now, years later, I'm looking at them going WTF was I thinking???!!! And I know you think that won't happen, etc, but more than likely it will. I don't regret the one I got when I was 18 because its a commemoration of turning eighteen and freedom and changning my life (by joining the army, lol) and I still love it. I do wish it waa a little bit better drawn (I drew it, and I suck) but all in all I love it, its a sexy tattoo to me, even though its nothing sexy at all really, ha.
I'm planning several others, from a pirate ship on my calf to a alligator on my thigh to a portrait of Charlie on my other thigh. I really don't like being unbalanced either, so who knows what elese, lol. I want a forearm sleeve as well, or is that considered a cuff? Not sure.
Anyway, sorry I'm rambling again. Just wait. You'll still want tattoos in two years, I promise. They're very addictive.