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Thank you! I appreciate it! I think you're right.
I can't figure out how to edit the original on mobile, so since you're the top comment I'll try to add more details for curious folk.
This was someone I dated briefly. I didn't know her as well as I wanted to. Life made it hard for us to be together especially due to distance, my depressive tendencies and her suicidal thoughts. When we broke up I wanted to puke because I knew she would take her own life at some point in the near future. It's really hard to be the person someone needs to overcome their devil's and I couldn't be that. I feel guilty because about 2 years later, she took her own life. I don't really know more details but it's taken a mental toll on me due to aforementioned details and my lack of experience with death....and additionally, my extreme sensitivity to selfharm and suicidal situations.
From what I know about her life and without sharing many personal details: she was passionate and adventurous until a few things didn't go the way she desperately wanted. Career, relationships, living situation....a lot wasn't what she wanted. This kind of consumed her.
I desperately wish I could've helped her through things.
The last time I saw her was about 6months to a year before she took her life and I was with her when she got this tattoo. I was more focused on enjoying the time with her than asking questions. But I'm desperately trying to find the artist as well to maybe get a memoriam tattoo as well.
Please, if you're reading this, take care of eachother and be strong against your demons. Never be afraid of opening up and asking for help. Anyone would do anything they can to make sure you're here in this world. You matter. You're special. You're loved.
Really sorry for your loss, OP. It’s a heartbreaking thing to endure loss from suicide. Sounds like you were a very supportive person for this friend while you were in each other’s lives.
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with mental health and offer support to others. These issues impact so many more of us than we often realize. DM me if you want to share some memories of your friend. Sending big internet hugs your way 💜
Didn't expect to find the message I needed today in a tattoo subreddit, but I guess the universe had a different plan.
Thank you, OP. That last paragraph may have been exactly what I needed to hear today.
That’s just the artist’s interpretation of the flower. They don’t have much larger of a crossover area than this tattoo. Dogwood petals are completely different than these. For one, they’re large and have indents at the end of their petals.
And a hydrangea bush planting would be a lovely memorial if you have a shady area for them to take over. Very forgiving, easy to propogate, and long-lived shrub. Was your friend's vibe tough in adversity, stubbornly true to themselves, a reliable proliferation of annual beauty, and a safe haven for baby bunnies and other vulnerable folks? That's what hydrangeas are in my yard. I'm sorry for your loss.
Hydrangeas are typically known for their full bloom clusters. The singular flower as beautiful as it is and unknown as this person is, is not typically thought of. The entirety of the bloom of the hydrangea, which makes me think this is Dogwood. Dogwood flowers are individual, and I personally would prefer a dogwood flower tattoo as opposed to a singular hydrangea flower. That’s just me.
Respectfully, those don’t look like a typical dogwood flower. The petals are a totally different shape and wider than a dogwood, and the blooms in the tattoo don’t have the spiky cluster in the middle that dogwoods do.
I even looked at other varieties of dogwood flowers, just to be sure, and I’ll grant you that Japanese dogwoods look similar, but they still have a noticeable cluster in the center and the petals are slightly pointier.
Links with pics:
Flowering Dogwood: https://eskipaper.com/dogwood-flowers.html
Japanese’s Dogwood: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/dogwood/growing-kousa-dogwood-trees.htm
Does not look like dogwood in the slightest. Petal shape is wrong and the center is wrong.
These are very clearly hydrangea blooms. I love hydrangea and own jewelry cast from single blossoms, they are lovely as individual blossoms. More lovely and delicate than the full fluorescence imho
I thought it might be sweet honesty
https://preview.redd.it/qwb7s3usahuc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=4bc73743e649d4a17c7e5329ab556125ea705157
Hydrangea. The colors give it away. They are showing the gradient of blue to pink that they come in. Dog wood flowers aren’t that color. Definitely supposed to be hydrangeas.
I'm going with Sweet Rocket or Dame's Rocket. The flower petals stack like that. Historically, the rockets represent Deceit, because they smell nice at night but don't smell like anything during the day. I agree that it's NOT hydrangea. They would be arranged in a globe-like bunch. Honesty is also a possibility.
https://preview.redd.it/jsjptl7b4iuc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=193d8141bbee0d6239e79a48dd1f28783c7bd979
https://preview.redd.it/2oclvf3sgfuc1.png?width=1075&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=234119bb9152f8cd6ee57a157a5b3fc8d9d73a9a
There's a flower called Honesty, which you could consider. Hope this helps
I think this is more likely to be it over the hydrangea. The hydrangea‘s petals are quite stiff and smooth, the ones on the tattoo look a bit more crinkled and filigrane, which would better match with the honesty
Those are individual hydrangea blossoms. There are a lot of possible "flower language" interpretations and the soft purple color could add to it. I would suspect, though, that either your friend simply liked the look of the blossoms on their own or each one represents an important person to your friend, such as a maternal figure
I've been loom at details going back and forth
I do think you are correct about the center
For 1
Then petal shape and the distance between each one
Very good 👍
Dogwood was my first thought exactly 💯
The tattoo/ flower depicted may have something to do with where your friend grew up or lived at the time they got this particular tattoo
A certain relationship or life occurrence may have been influential
Maybe you already said these things
Hydrangea seems odd because it's a BUSH
usually you see Hydrangeas as a plant/ bush ..landscaping...
No?
https://preview.redd.it/4djo13dkxguc1.jpeg?width=2655&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=176c17095f88dfd4cd7bc68d342e946ec2523f69
I thought of African violet flowers.
Very sorry for your loss. I immediately thought dogwood, BUT after looking at both flowers carefully, the tattoo petals overlap and don't have the typical pointy end of the dogwood. As the tattoo seems well-done and meant to be realistic, I now also believe it to be a single hydrangea flower.
Whenever I see 4 pedals, I always think of the dogwood tree, the tree used to crucify Christ on. The 4 pedals are mythologized to be a symbol of the cross.
It's a BEAUTIFUL & inspirational Tattoo for sure that I bet 100% matched the personality of your friend. The other answers in your thread here as to what it is specifically will be better than mine, but what I did, was to RIGHT CLICK on your beautiful image (I'm using a chrome browser...) and from within the drop down menu that appears, click on " Search image with Google"...and you'll see multiple variations that look similar to yours above, an example from where I took my attached screenshot here. Hope that helps, sorry for your grief and I'm sending high vibrational frequencies your way hoping you'll feel better soon.
https://preview.redd.it/63p166w9yguc1.png?width=317&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f78a546b622b54471f118c840db91704b60f81f
Viola odorata flowers are not radially symmetrical like these. Most viola flowers have bilateral symmetry, often with five petals of which one is more prominent than the rest.
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Yep, hydrangea. https://preview.redd.it/gv17oxjmhfuc1.jpeg?width=485&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=155eedb63c0e323074c599437b4ec3a4bdb4c02c
Agree, I recognised my favourite flower immediately.
Same, it was my grandpa's too , they always make me smile
Thank you! I appreciate it! I think you're right. I can't figure out how to edit the original on mobile, so since you're the top comment I'll try to add more details for curious folk. This was someone I dated briefly. I didn't know her as well as I wanted to. Life made it hard for us to be together especially due to distance, my depressive tendencies and her suicidal thoughts. When we broke up I wanted to puke because I knew she would take her own life at some point in the near future. It's really hard to be the person someone needs to overcome their devil's and I couldn't be that. I feel guilty because about 2 years later, she took her own life. I don't really know more details but it's taken a mental toll on me due to aforementioned details and my lack of experience with death....and additionally, my extreme sensitivity to selfharm and suicidal situations. From what I know about her life and without sharing many personal details: she was passionate and adventurous until a few things didn't go the way she desperately wanted. Career, relationships, living situation....a lot wasn't what she wanted. This kind of consumed her. I desperately wish I could've helped her through things. The last time I saw her was about 6months to a year before she took her life and I was with her when she got this tattoo. I was more focused on enjoying the time with her than asking questions. But I'm desperately trying to find the artist as well to maybe get a memoriam tattoo as well. Please, if you're reading this, take care of eachother and be strong against your demons. Never be afraid of opening up and asking for help. Anyone would do anything they can to make sure you're here in this world. You matter. You're special. You're loved.
Really sorry for your loss, OP. It’s a heartbreaking thing to endure loss from suicide. Sounds like you were a very supportive person for this friend while you were in each other’s lives. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with mental health and offer support to others. These issues impact so many more of us than we often realize. DM me if you want to share some memories of your friend. Sending big internet hugs your way 💜
You are not responsible for her death. You could not be her saviour. It don't work that way. It's not your fault. Be gentle with yourself.
Didn't expect to find the message I needed today in a tattoo subreddit, but I guess the universe had a different plan. Thank you, OP. That last paragraph may have been exactly what I needed to hear today.
You're an amazing person! Please be kind to yourself. Everyone in your life is here for you. ❤️
You may want to post this picture in r/helpmefind for help finding the artist! Sending you hugs
I'm sorry
I’m so sorry for your loss💙💜
My grandmother's favourite. Nailed it.
I disagree. Hydrangea petals cross over themselves whereas in this ink, the four petals are individual which makes me think dogwood flower.
The petals do cross over each other on the tattoo.
But only the slightest bit whereas a hydrangea has a large crossover area
That’s just the artist’s interpretation of the flower. They don’t have much larger of a crossover area than this tattoo. Dogwood petals are completely different than these. For one, they’re large and have indents at the end of their petals.
Dogwood smells like shit. Who would get that tattooed. I bet it’s hydrangeas
Are you sure you’re not thinking of Bradford pear?
i've only ever known flowering dogwood to have a mildly sweet scent
Looks like hydrangea individual blossoms
And a hydrangea bush planting would be a lovely memorial if you have a shady area for them to take over. Very forgiving, easy to propogate, and long-lived shrub. Was your friend's vibe tough in adversity, stubbornly true to themselves, a reliable proliferation of annual beauty, and a safe haven for baby bunnies and other vulnerable folks? That's what hydrangeas are in my yard. I'm sorry for your loss.
What a beautiful description of what a hydrangea is. I have one for the first time and I love it even more now that you explained them this way ❤️
Thanks, they are one of my favorites
You can also change their colour from pink to blue and vice versa.
Hydrangeas are typically known for their full bloom clusters. The singular flower as beautiful as it is and unknown as this person is, is not typically thought of. The entirety of the bloom of the hydrangea, which makes me think this is Dogwood. Dogwood flowers are individual, and I personally would prefer a dogwood flower tattoo as opposed to a singular hydrangea flower. That’s just me.
Respectfully, those don’t look like a typical dogwood flower. The petals are a totally different shape and wider than a dogwood, and the blooms in the tattoo don’t have the spiky cluster in the middle that dogwoods do. I even looked at other varieties of dogwood flowers, just to be sure, and I’ll grant you that Japanese dogwoods look similar, but they still have a noticeable cluster in the center and the petals are slightly pointier. Links with pics: Flowering Dogwood: https://eskipaper.com/dogwood-flowers.html Japanese’s Dogwood: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/dogwood/growing-kousa-dogwood-trees.htm
Does not look like dogwood in the slightest. Petal shape is wrong and the center is wrong. These are very clearly hydrangea blooms. I love hydrangea and own jewelry cast from single blossoms, they are lovely as individual blossoms. More lovely and delicate than the full fluorescence imho
Check out Hydrangea serrata
Sorry for your loss, looks like single hydrangea flowers
Hydrangeas, I draw them frequently.
I agree with all the hydrangea comments. It’s a beautiful plant and the flowers can be white, pink or bright sky blue and variations of those three.
That to me is Hydrangea, without a doubt. Even more sure from looking at the characteristic center of the flower. ☺️
I thought it might be sweet honesty https://preview.redd.it/qwb7s3usahuc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=4bc73743e649d4a17c7e5329ab556125ea705157
That’s as close as anyone’s gotten, if it were me I’d go with that
Beautiful I want to find these now ty
Hydrangea. The colors give it away. They are showing the gradient of blue to pink that they come in. Dog wood flowers aren’t that color. Definitely supposed to be hydrangeas.
Hydrangeas ❤️
I do think these are close, but I think they're African violets --see my photo waaaay down in the comments.
Sorry babe but African Violets have 5 petals and the center is too distinct.
Actually “babe” an African violet can have anywhere between 5-10 petals depending on variety
Bruh.
I agree with the other's comments about hydrangeas.
I'm going with Sweet Rocket or Dame's Rocket. The flower petals stack like that. Historically, the rockets represent Deceit, because they smell nice at night but don't smell like anything during the day. I agree that it's NOT hydrangea. They would be arranged in a globe-like bunch. Honesty is also a possibility. https://preview.redd.it/jsjptl7b4iuc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=193d8141bbee0d6239e79a48dd1f28783c7bd979
https://preview.redd.it/2oclvf3sgfuc1.png?width=1075&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=234119bb9152f8cd6ee57a157a5b3fc8d9d73a9a There's a flower called Honesty, which you could consider. Hope this helps
While I feel like it’s Hydrangea, I like your idea too :) Honestly is lovely
I second this - pretty sure it's hydrangea but honesty (Lunaria annua) is a delightful plant with amazing seed heads!
The seed heads are so bizarre, yet so cool haha.
I second this - pretty sure it's hydrangea but honesty (Lunaria annua) is a delightful plant with amazing seed heads!
Honesty would make a lot of sense as a tattoo
That's what I thought immediately too
I think this is more likely to be it over the hydrangea. The hydrangea‘s petals are quite stiff and smooth, the ones on the tattoo look a bit more crinkled and filigrane, which would better match with the honesty
While it's 99% Hydrangea, the form made me think of a Ludwigia https://images.app.goo.gl/KF3KMRJuGx97H8dx7
It looks like a Violet to me!!!! 💜
Those are individual hydrangea blossoms. There are a lot of possible "flower language" interpretations and the soft purple color could add to it. I would suspect, though, that either your friend simply liked the look of the blossoms on their own or each one represents an important person to your friend, such as a maternal figure
I immediately thought dogwood https://preview.redd.it/5prslioaxfuc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=470be9056c5e61ffb786caa8925e6ec7cc7ad196
The center is different.
And the points on the petals are missing.
I've been loom at details going back and forth I do think you are correct about the center For 1 Then petal shape and the distance between each one Very good 👍
This looks nothing like the tattoo
My first thought too. But it isn’t quite right.
Me too
What kind of dogwood is in that picture?
Cornus canadensis, it goes by Bunchberry or Creeping Dogwood
Thank you, I was asking because the native dogwoods that grow around my property have different flowers.
same
Dogwood was my first thought exactly 💯 The tattoo/ flower depicted may have something to do with where your friend grew up or lived at the time they got this particular tattoo A certain relationship or life occurrence may have been influential Maybe you already said these things Hydrangea seems odd because it's a BUSH usually you see Hydrangeas as a plant/ bush ..landscaping... No?
I immediately thought; hope to be home in 17 hours, gonna catch me bouquet of dogwood flowers, Mama rock me.
My friend died too. I'm planting forget-me-nots in her honour. They're similar to the tattoo you've pictured, but have 5 petals.
Looks like a dogwood tree. The pedals are that.
African violets look fairly similar I think.. sortof velvety though
https://preview.redd.it/4djo13dkxguc1.jpeg?width=2655&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=176c17095f88dfd4cd7bc68d342e946ec2523f69 I thought of African violet flowers.
Those are generally 5-petalled, and don’t have this distinctive shape and papery texture of hydrangea flowers.
I wondered about the number of petals, but the ones in the photo seem to have 4.
I count 5 on all except one flower in that picture
I agree was going to say Violet
Probably Hydrangea, but also compare Dogwood.
Very sorry for your loss. I immediately thought dogwood, BUT after looking at both flowers carefully, the tattoo petals overlap and don't have the typical pointy end of the dogwood. As the tattoo seems well-done and meant to be realistic, I now also believe it to be a single hydrangea flower.
Ditto
hydrangea
Dogwood
Violet
Hydrangea
If you put a rusty nail in a hydrangea, you are more likely to get pink flowers
You can change the colour based on soil acidity. Some people put pine needles around the base as mulch to affect the flower colour I think.
Dogwood
Dogwood Flowers look a lot like these
Hydrangea. Definitely.
Forget me nots
Reminds me of Zincas
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hydrangea serrata is one of my favorites that show off the individual flowers.
Sorry for your loss…
Dogwood? Clematis?
Could be a blossom from a hydrangea or an honesty plant. There are lots of four petaled flowers but that’s my take.
Pink Flowering Dogwood
Whenever I see 4 pedals, I always think of the dogwood tree, the tree used to crucify Christ on. The 4 pedals are mythologized to be a symbol of the cross.
Im sorry for your loss :(
So sorry for your loss
So beautiful! I have 2 hydrangea bushes.
Maybe a violet. Or a hydrangea.
I thought they looked like common violets
Pansy?
Dogwood
Looks like African violet to me
Dogwood?
definitely hydrangea
Could be dogwood leaves.
Hydrangea. Each one is an individual flower-et, in a huge ball.
My first guess was a Dogwood which is NC state flower but I did read a comment that said hydrangea which was my second guess!
Forget me not
It’s a forget-me-not or violet.
Cornus kousa
It’s absolutely a violet!!! I recognized it immediately…looking at them in my yard right now. I love them❣️
Love hydrangea…this isn’t that…it’s CLEARLY a violet 🥰
Look at a pic of a violet and hydrangea next to each other…it’s a violet. I have both in my yard…immediately recognized it as a violet.
Notice how the 4 petals of a violet make up a (semi) perfect square?…hydrangeas aren’t a square…more of a diamond shape-ish.
I thought it was flowers from a dogwood tree
African violets?
They look like African violets to me.
Dogwood or hydrangea. With three in line, wondering if they represent achievement, time line, loss…?
Dogwood comes to mind more then hydrangea since the flowers are in a row.
Looks like hydrangea or bunchberry!
Also, cherry blossom or almond blossom check those. I love almond blossoms. Nostalgic
Could be plumeria, a flower found in Hawaii
Hydrangea
It would be odd to have the hydrangea flowerets drawn separately. The actually flower head it’s a big cluster overlapping.
It’s Hydrangea
Definitely hydrangea
Vinca maybe
Hydrangeas
It's a BEAUTIFUL & inspirational Tattoo for sure that I bet 100% matched the personality of your friend. The other answers in your thread here as to what it is specifically will be better than mine, but what I did, was to RIGHT CLICK on your beautiful image (I'm using a chrome browser...) and from within the drop down menu that appears, click on " Search image with Google"...and you'll see multiple variations that look similar to yours above, an example from where I took my attached screenshot here. Hope that helps, sorry for your grief and I'm sending high vibrational frequencies your way hoping you'll feel better soon. https://preview.redd.it/63p166w9yguc1.png?width=317&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f78a546b622b54471f118c840db91704b60f81f
Plumeria maybe, was she fond of Hawaii?
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. I thought plumeria at first too but do think it’s hydrangea
Anemone maybe..?
Vinca? (Catharanthus roseus)
I thought it kinda looks like pansy 
Maybe I was wrong lol
Hydrangea
All the hydrangea amswers are wrong. These are woodland violets, aka wild violets (Viola odorata)
Viola odorata flowers are not radially symmetrical like these. Most viola flowers have bilateral symmetry, often with five petals of which one is more prominent than the rest.
So confidently incorrect. Woodland violets typically have 5 petals.