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This is a tattoo I saw on fuckyeahtattoo a while back.  Okay, so I like the handwriting style and the brushstrokes of this one.  I want it to say “Soleil” and I’d like to incorporate her birthday (March 19, 2010) in it somewhere.  I think it’d be cool if the date were a small part of one of the brushstrokes, so that it doesn’t really stand out.  I tend to like to do my dates like day/month/year (19 March 2010), but maybe it’d look better to just use numbers (3/19/2010).  I’d also like to keep the sunburst, since “soleil” means sun, but I think I’d like to maybe have the sunburst be incorporated into the letter “o.”  
Is it horrible to copy someone’s tattoo?  I don’t really feel like this is copying, but more like inspiration.

This is a tattoo I saw on fuckyeahtattoo a while back.  Okay, so I like the handwriting style and the brushstrokes of this one.  I want it to say “Soleil” and I’d like to incorporate her birthday (March 19, 2010) in it somewhere.  I think it’d be cool if the date were a small part of one of the brushstrokes, so that it doesn’t really stand out.  I tend to like to do my dates like day/month/year (19 March 2010), but maybe it’d look better to just use numbers (3/19/2010).  I’d also like to keep the sunburst, since “soleil” means sun, but I think I’d like to maybe have the sunburst be incorporated into the letter “o.”  

Is it horrible to copy someone’s tattoo?  I don’t really feel like this is copying, but more like inspiration.