Laura Brooks Shares Her Parents Names and Her Toe Knuckles

<div class="tr_bq">I met Laura Brooks outside of Macy*s on 34th Street last month. She has a lot of tattoos (she estimates 60% of her canvas is covered), so I deferred to her, asking which she wanted to share with us here on Tattoosday.</div><br />She offered up her wrists:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMWvEd8Gs-TcI0-UmVpZjmAkveSNBYF0TvZaPEMmkemSxu6EK_-l6OngCPJTFb-jGVjbwtd_LdFT0NBSUa0_ojTTsld6w0pSwkHdPtgciwdIgjveXW-fPRE6YdeLouz7866brqPLeZfO8/s615/IMG_0291.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMWvEd8Gs-TcI0-UmVpZjmAkveSNBYF0TvZaPEMmkemSxu6EK_-l6OngCPJTFb-jGVjbwtd_LdFT0NBSUa0_ojTTsld6w0pSwkHdPtgciwdIgjveXW-fPRE6YdeLouz7866brqPLeZfO8/s640/IMG_0291.JPG" width="440" /></a></div><br />These are her parents names, Davis and Blythe, and they were designed by a friend of hers whose graffiti moniker is "Gamble". She credited the actual tattooing to an artist named Joe from <a href="http://www.beelistic.com/home.php">Beelistic's Blood Money Tattoo</a> in Cincinnati, Ohio. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix39rM7_ipS7nTYIDUGrfRt2lhqSD0kWDib7YxT8kMoSTZcCRqpe1QaDxA14UH_4ONdMPXOTPRh61liw4ntR34BjLMM7EGKjV8esL6ynkdRZKQIujED0OXbWpTYiQnLLqC03WjWUCohgM/s749/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix39rM7_ipS7nTYIDUGrfRt2lhqSD0kWDib7YxT8kMoSTZcCRqpe1QaDxA14UH_4ONdMPXOTPRh61liw4ntR34BjLMM7EGKjV8esL6ynkdRZKQIujED0OXbWpTYiQnLLqC03WjWUCohgM/s400/photo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Laura Brooks also informed me that she had tattoos on her toes, but she was wearing shoes when I met her. Later that day, she held to her word and sent me a photo of her toe knuckle tattoos which read "Dirty South":<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAYqKNu5Ko3p6Oaj8uFsX3-K2mI-gkS_AJATDHpGCaKINqXi3g3q2jXGoB5tOwYg2W2q-GvyS8_RxF1uqWVlKV3vwPk6h237-tKMdsHqysKRQ5gCBYyqRE54iDkuROpNT15GE3k1sN2zQ/s750/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAYqKNu5Ko3p6Oaj8uFsX3-K2mI-gkS_AJATDHpGCaKINqXi3g3q2jXGoB5tOwYg2W2q-GvyS8_RxF1uqWVlKV3vwPk6h237-tKMdsHqysKRQ5gCBYyqRE54iDkuROpNT15GE3k1sN2zQ/s400/photo.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />She added:<br /><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"The artist was <a href="http://www.noregretstattooemporium.com/brent.html">Brent Hale</a> at <a href="http://www.noregretstattooemporium.com/home.html">No Regrets Tattoo Emporium</a> in Memphis, TN. It was actually his idea. I wanted to get toe knuckle tattoos & couldn't decide what I wanted it to say. He came up with it while we were working on a different piece ... The significance is kind of obvious. Hometown pride. (:</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">One thing about toe tattoos: by far the most painful spot. And you have to get them touched up about half a dozen times before they look right. I should probably go get them done one more time but I'm procrastinating because of the pain."</span></blockquote>Thanks to Laura Brooks for sharing her tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.7055282751098275" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. 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Laura Brooks Shares Her Parents Names and Her Toe Knuckles

I met Laura Brooks outside of Macy*s on 34th Street last month. She has a lot of tattoos (she estimates 60% of her canvas is covered), so I ...

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