I have wanted this tattoo for a looooong time. I have been so fascinated by Marie Antoinette. I usually dont share my creative writing but ill let you in on this one. I got high one night and did some creative writing which lead to this, the unedited, raw ramblings of me:
“She represented a time of majesty. She lived in a time of silk, patterns & brocades. She defines class, nobility, n affluence. It was a time of gold and filigree and patterns of antiquity. It was blush and rogue and pink lips lined with the feathers and flowers scented of couture and high fashion. It was fold out fans and masquerade balls of masks with the elegance of France. It was baroque and magnificence with grandiose and elegance. Sugar tipped fingers and cheeks stained behind a facade of virginity. It was embossed in gold and silver and sprinkled with diamonds and wrapped in silks. Fresher than milk and sweeter and marzipan. It was layers of lace and cream colored pastel flowered dipped in refinement. Women playing the harpsichord and opera within its limits of old lace curtains and the smell of theaters with rows of people in powdered wigs and low hushed voices fans drawn out demurely covering those soft pink lips and provocative hushed whispers that if one dared to lean and fein the collars of décolletage softly exposed to tight corsets and scandal. It was parties and dinners and balls. It was silk stockings and garters waiting for the touch of a promiscuous affair hoping to shed the roccoco exterior of fine threads and clever strings of a wound up corset and leaving the jewels for a chance for them to jingle and swing while entangled in a thrusting dance for two in the privacy of a budoir and a four poster bed shielding the lovers in only a thin gossamer curtain falling from the bed posts. It was history. It is romance in the form of a misty glittered covered dream. What can I say about the time of Marie Antoinette? despite all those adjective she still has that jen ai se quoi…
this is me signing off to read a book on another of my fascinations…Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia. more on that later
