Quickfix when the wallet is empty

I would really like a sleeve. Or two. Well, I have two arms after all. However, money's tight so I'd never be able to pay for something like that before the wedding. Besides, it takes some time to make one too and I don't feel like stressing about it either.

There are solutions though. There are henna tattoos, an ancient way of decorating skin. I won't call it mendi because this technique is found from Morocco to China, and it's called differently depending on where you are.

There are also fake tattoos in the shape of polyester/spandex sleeves. I'm seriously tempted to wear that. If I did get those I'd have to reconsider the sleeve I was going to have on the dress because the tattoo sleeve will end somewhere just below that dress sleeve and that's not very pretty.

The only on-line store I've found in Europe who sells these is found in the UK (of course) and is called Space Monkeys.

No metal

My Darling don't like jewellery. He's also got a job where it's potentially dangerous to wear rings, so there will be no wedding bands for us. This doesn't mean we've not been thinking about alternatives. The next obvious thing is of course getting a tattoo. I have been thinking about this the past 20 years but it's never been a priority to get one so I have put it off many times. Darling however, has gone under the needle.

This could actually become the one thing we're going to debate for a very long time, even after the wedding, because we don't have quite the same taste. The easy solution could be to have one original idea but execute them differently. We'll see if we can agree on something.

The one thing I don't want is a tattoo instead of a ring. I want it to shine in its own right, not be a substitute for a ring.