Last night I tweeted about tattoo removal and received a good few tweets, all of which evolved into a rather insightful and truly interesting conversation. I have a lot of thoughts, feelings, advice and general tales about tattoos and would also love to open the floor to those who didn't get the chance to weigh in via Twitter.

If I could offer one piece of advice in regards to tattoos, it would be to think long and hard about the design; what you think is wonderful and cool at 18 may come back and haunt you a few years down the line. Trust me.

I got my first tattoo at 18 - a dinky, intricate crown on the back of my neck/top of my back for no other reason other than I liked it. I personally don't think that every tattoo requires deep and meaningful purpose, I do however think that you should spend more than 15 or so minutes debating on what essentially may be marked on your body for the rest of your life. I also have musical notes behind my ear and a tiny butterfly on my leg - again I settled on the concept in the moment. For the record I still like my crown, most likely because I can't see it and the butterfly is pretty cute - the musical notes I utterly hate and can not wait to get them removed. 
If you are keeping count that brings us up to three tattoos - I also have a selection of lucky charms, a name on the back of my neck (I hate this more than I hate life), a tiny anchor and the number thirteen on my foot. The vast majority of my tattoos are tiny - no b...