My name is Julie Villani - a self-confessed tattoo enthusiast. What I find so scary is that many young women impulsively go and get their first tattoo, with little or no thought to design, body placement, if the design has meaning / symbology, how it will look in 10, 20 or 50 years, or worse still - they have a boyfriend's name inked, then the relationship ends at some time. Or they just choose something in a parlor that's kind of pretty or trendy at the time.

I searched through piles of magazines, researched books and spent hour after hour online, looking for anything that was specific to women getting tattooed. There's hardly any info specific to women getting inked, so I decided to write this book to make it really easy for myself and other women.