^^ what they all said.

I think all tattoos should have meaning, because isn't half the reason of doing it to "express who you are"??? Something like that.

Anyway, it shouldn't just 'mean' something to you - but have sentiment, or a deeper meaning. Because it's special now may not be special later, so think loooong and hard. I spent YEARS thinking before I got tattooed. I have 2, the first one I planned out for an entire 2 years before I got it. The second one I spent 1 year before getting it, to make sure I thought long and hard if I wanted it. I am also a person for 'less than obvious' tattoos. I.E. I don't like sleeve tattoos, or gigantic "HERE I AM" tattoos in plain sight. My tattoos are both more hidden.

If you're set on cowgurl and barbed wire.. Go for it. I think spelling cowgurl wrong is extremely bleh and I would never ever do that. As for the barbed wire, that seems to be the 18 year-old fad and I think it's very overdone and not so cool. If you get really focused, I bet you can find something better.

My first tattoo was a horseshoe - to symbolize my horses. At the bottom of the shoe was a heart, with a banner and a "K" on it (for my name Katie). The colors of it were very intricate and changing, and were my favorite colors (including the colors of my heritage from Norway). It is located on my left hip, and I've had it several years and still love it to death. I do also recognize that if I do have kids or gain large amounts of weight, the horseshoe may change into something else.

My second tattoo was the words "Maybe Tomorrow" on my left ankle. It's written in black (my most favorite color), and has "the points of life" (dots) all scattered around the word. The meaning of the word was something a good friend had told me when I was 13 (and entering years of depression), and it was the ONE thing that kept me going until I was 18 and finally found my way out of severe depression. And even since then, any time I have a bad day or things look gloomy, I tell myself "maybe tomorrow, things will be better". Those two words mean more to me in this entire world, and the tattoo is located over scars from cutting (I cut my ankles) as a teenager. This tattoo has a deeper meaning to me.

Food for thought.

An eye for an eye way of life may make the world go blind.

Maybe then we would learn to start listening.