Here is a great tattoo work by Cathy which i found in David Bolt’s site. Here is what he says about the tattoo :
Cathy is a talented tattoo artist. She has a kind friendly spirit. She wanted a laughing Buddha tattoo to represent joy and enlightenment. He rises from a giant lotus flower that surrounds him like a spiritual flame. Cathy sat like a Buddha for more then five hours while we worked on this large leg tattoo

The classic piece of tattoo design, dagger through the heart, successfully manages to capture both our attention and our emotions. The real power of the image of a dagger through the heart is the combination of two symbols which are well known in their own right. The heart has long represented the seat of the emotions and the very core of a person. Similarly, the dagger is not just any weapon. It long ago became the stealthy weapon of choice for assassins since it was easily concealed and quiet. As such, it inflicted much more than just a stab wound, carrying with it an additional sense of betrayal and hurt, since the attacker had to be close to be effective. So, the heart-with-dagger tattoo is essentially the heart in great pain, perhaps mortally wounded, sometimes a love betrayed, and sometimes even a sacrifice made.
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