Well, as for your question about tattoo artists, I highly recommend you have your mom go check out Adorn Body Art in Beaverton (or Adorn East in Portland). All the artists there are amazing, but I personally recommend you go there and see Jesse. He does absolutely amazing work, it very easy to work with, and the whole studio is top-notch. Reasonable prices, everything is very clean, the people there rock - there's just nothing bad about it. I'd definitely recommend that place.