First quick question – my sister next year is having a large operation on her spine. She’ll have a scar down the length of her spine when it’s over, which she’s already expressed worry about. She had been wondering about this and I’m asking on her behalf – do tattoos over scars work, if she leaves it a year or two to settle down and go white? Or is it a no go? She doesn’t know what exactly she would want… it’s a long way into the future anyway by the time she’d actually get the tattoo done so she has plenty of time to think, but just asking in advance if a tattoo would cover or at least partially disguise the scar (or alternatively work with the scar… anything to stop it being ‘just a big scar’ if you get me) – and if anybody had any idea of the sort of design that would work if anything would (she’s not into anything hardcore… my image of what she’d have is of a vine/plant/floral thing going up, but I may be wrong).

NUMBER TWO (my question!)
My back is now in my avator and I’m getting a tattoo around the top one, or I intend to, of pure text, in a perfect circle, the diameter of which would be approx the width of an A4 sheet of paper.
I have two designs…
http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=quotekb6.jpg
and
http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=quote2vl9.jpg
I haven’t taken either to my artist yet so I’m not 100% certain that either will work. But in your informed opinion… which do you think would be best on my back? The second is virtually illedgible on the screen but I don’t know if when englarged on my back it would be readable. I am probably slightly leaning towards the first design as my preference, however my worry is that the small text will become blurred over the years and illedgible – I already have one tat with very small writing which I know is going to go blurry, so I want to keep that to a minimum! (as an afterthought… does anybody know if I’ll be able to get the writing on the one I already have redone when it does go blurry, or will that just look messy? It’s mostly single line writing)

Anyway, rambling enough, thanks for any help anyone can offer!