my advice would be to do millions of research first
I have 4.5 tattoos, all of which (apart from the 0.5) are my own designs, including a plains Indians rock art thing on my back and my favourite Greek proverb as an armband tat. First decide on the "genre" of design you'd like: arty, sentimental, personal, patriotic etc. Any tattoo artist worth their salt will be happy to apply transfers of possible designs in different places and in different sizes. That way you can have a leisurely peruse and ponder at home before you commit ink to skin. If you're attending Tightly's bash in 3 weeks I'd be more than happy to discuss this further "in the flesh" if you like? ;o)
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 23 May 2009, 22:48, Reply)