Sarah's Romance Owl

Sarah passed me as I was leaving from work one afternoon back in March, at the corner of 31st Street and Seventh Avenue. Of course I had to stop her and she kindly let me take a photo of this colorful owl tattoo on her left arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkkYQ4HFC-Bfco4GAWOgSFBTtW0CgqboCoT0jSDRB4m6VLdp2JmbmaTt66jn-jJ5uPvyPdxf9vwwgAB47KkwNSyANQ6vTwWHbYFyDhJ4lDNeX1GIGHp2JZR_5D1GZ0qFi46KSX7VBXq6Y/s615/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkkYQ4HFC-Bfco4GAWOgSFBTtW0CgqboCoT0jSDRB4m6VLdp2JmbmaTt66jn-jJ5uPvyPdxf9vwwgAB47KkwNSyANQ6vTwWHbYFyDhJ4lDNeX1GIGHp2JZR_5D1GZ0qFi46KSX7VBXq6Y/s640/photo.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br />Sarah explained how she went to <a href="http://www.chunksaah.com/sanitaryelectric/index.html">Robert Ryan</a> at <a href="http://electrictattoonj.com/">Electric Tattoo</a> in Bradley Beach, New Jersey:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"<b id="internal-source-marker_0.6114361444488168" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I kinda told him I wanted a romance owl. I’m very unlucky in love. I wanted something to bring me some luck."</span></b></blockquote>She sang Rob's praises ("he's awesome") and also credited him for creating the "cosmic flower" on which the owl is perched.<br /><br />Sarah is in charge of sales at <a href="http://www.parlor-gallery.com/">Parlor Gallery</a> in Asbury Park, New Jersey.<br /><br />Thanks to Sarah for sharing this awesome owl with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.5365179611835629" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><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. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></b>

Sarah's Romance Owl

Sarah passed me as I was leaving from work one afternoon back in March, at the corner of 31st Street and Seventh Avenue. Of course I had to ...

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Madison Shares a Coming-of-Age Tattoo

I posted Friday about meeting Lex in Penn Station <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2012/06/lex-and-little-prince.html">here</a>. Her friend Madison was sitting nearby, and she shared a tattoo, as well:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrwzcAVAwRzFOwgXJ6YHj7w86TEcAWZWcGcJd-OxJVDuE-QIJ4RZoio8NOB1WDc3c8x6IcC9dc-d5_fd0LHoDKp4Zg1txQTX_r6fKV-cDUyNIvaoalT5tNtC0zetlaZxtB8Z0Ni-9ImpU/s0-d/IMG_0194.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrwzcAVAwRzFOwgXJ6YHj7w86TEcAWZWcGcJd-OxJVDuE-QIJ4RZoio8NOB1WDc3c8x6IcC9dc-d5_fd0LHoDKp4Zg1txQTX_r6fKV-cDUyNIvaoalT5tNtC0zetlaZxtB8Z0Ni-9ImpU/s0-d/IMG_0194.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />This tattoo is located on the side of Madison's left thigh. For those who may not be familiar with the word <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman">bildungsroman</a>, Madison explained, "it means ‘a coming of age story’ … and my best friend and I got it ‘cause we were in Europe together traveling...”.<br /><br />I think it's pretty cool to get a tattoo that alludes to a coming-of-age story when getting inked, for many, is part of that growing process.<br /><br />She credited an artist named "Joe" (or Giuseppe) at Hardcore Tattoo in Rome, Italy.<br /><br />Thanks to Madison for sharing this tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.47185118473134935" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><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. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></b><br /><br /><br />

Madison Shares a Coming-of-Age Tattoo

I posted Friday about meeting Lex in Penn Station here . Her friend Madison was sitting nearby, and she shared a tattoo, as well: This tatto...

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Lex and The Little Prince

I met Lex in Penn Station a couple months back and started talking to her about her tattoos. She has five and offered up this piece, which was her first:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnb7-hmHo1sqmCXWOqRTsiYduHjHiuLps3mDg-e6P8I4XdaoJhpPlnpQ8-5RcRYgqysoKB1HGp9avdcRrH3q0Ca4l_rvR3c6hyivzp6y8wIwBLKXuDEXSW9VAeGw1lGF0isyVWP5H5Dfw/s0-d/IMG_0193.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnb7-hmHo1sqmCXWOqRTsiYduHjHiuLps3mDg-e6P8I4XdaoJhpPlnpQ8-5RcRYgqysoKB1HGp9avdcRrH3q0Ca4l_rvR3c6hyivzp6y8wIwBLKXuDEXSW9VAeGw1lGF0isyVWP5H5Dfw/s0-d/IMG_0193.JPG" width="382" /></a></div><br />“It’s from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0156012197/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0156012197">The Little Prince</a> [by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry">Antoine de Saint-Exupéry</a>]<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bill03-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0156012197" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />," Lex explained, "I read it when I was a kid, it’s one of my favorite books. It means a lot to me.”<br /><br />She had this done on her left arm in Seattle, by a visiting artist whose name she could not recall, at <a href="http://www.deeprootstattoo.com/">Deep Roots Tattoo</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Lex for sharing her tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.542185690253973" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><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. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></b><br /><br />

Lex and The Little Prince

I met Lex in Penn Station a couple months back and started talking to her about her tattoos. She has five and offered up this piece, which w...

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Kenevin's Vikings Honor His Heritage

I met Kenevin outside of Strabucks on the corner of 31st Street and Seventh Avenue a couple months ago.<br /><br />He estimates he has had about seventy hours of work done on his body and he shared an amazing tattoo anchored by this hammer of Thor in the middle of his calf:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBro2kINY3syaDExbZelrHj9ErBKumuyB0Ct2xwd-SiN2Z-T9nlesn9mA73ZuQx72L_c-GhVdP6yCxWgx4FhyyllhDkKssWvkq2gbdCyTOGWKGJVlCF0WjyvwfkmQF1JYW1MUk8B5vJc/s0-d/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBro2kINY3syaDExbZelrHj9ErBKumuyB0Ct2xwd-SiN2Z-T9nlesn9mA73ZuQx72L_c-GhVdP6yCxWgx4FhyyllhDkKssWvkq2gbdCyTOGWKGJVlCF0WjyvwfkmQF1JYW1MUk8B5vJc/s0-d/photo.jpg" /></a></div><br />But it was the whole piece that was truly impressive:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX3UhnOMlU0jl2AScO-jgBSlGqHS819hBTJmcBPeB34Ln1t1a-QNQNRo_rcJnkwH-kUnqQG-oxDH2n3PGLWsl4EwKa2Jvp3oyxmu_frNo9KaxjWrdwHSB6Hg1xdkWlJ-ZNauACI5HJY-o/s1600/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX3UhnOMlU0jl2AScO-jgBSlGqHS819hBTJmcBPeB34Ln1t1a-QNQNRo_rcJnkwH-kUnqQG-oxDH2n3PGLWsl4EwKa2Jvp3oyxmu_frNo9KaxjWrdwHSB6Hg1xdkWlJ-ZNauACI5HJY-o/s640/photo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Kenevin, who was visiting from his home in Montreal, explained, "I was born in Norway … so these are my Vikings … they just go back to my origins in Scandinavia …". He has been in North America for about twenty years and had this done by Gil Crocker at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jolly-Rogers-Tattoo-Piercing/197464430268757">Jolly Rogers Tattoo</a> in Montreal.<br /><br />Thanks to Kenevin for sharing this amazing work with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.33727232832461596" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><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. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></b>

Kenevin's Vikings Honor His Heritage

I met Kenevin outside of Strabucks on the corner of 31st Street and Seventh Avenue a couple months ago. He estimates he has had about sevent...

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Avery's Spider-Man View of the City

Yesterday we met Cat and her tattoos (<a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2012/06/cats-eyes-and-more.html">here</a>, in case you missed it). But you may recall I mentioned that she was not alone. Her friend Avery was standing by and she, too, had ink to share. Of the eight tattoos she possessed at the time, she offered up this piece, from the inside of her upper left arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRs0xuAaaLB8QDJs4djiJ78vnqEYRVheTTKDWJodjLA4O0MiEZ3lWM8xdIubzIM2So0b6-rjEk8_d3dlor3GSKJu0jlLhmE_TagLemp8va_uJnsL683YnebEry2rfnZgQA6SjFp0wvx1M/s0-d/IMG_0177.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRs0xuAaaLB8QDJs4djiJ78vnqEYRVheTTKDWJodjLA4O0MiEZ3lWM8xdIubzIM2So0b6-rjEk8_d3dlor3GSKJu0jlLhmE_TagLemp8va_uJnsL683YnebEry2rfnZgQA6SjFp0wvx1M/s0-d/IMG_0177.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />Avery explained that the panels of the tattoo depict "different parts of the city from <a href="http://superherosquadcity.com/characters/bio/1009610/spider-man?nav=1">Spider-Man</a> comics."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrJJr5H6jyEfr08MPzZbm_MOSpKVXBM1peNRY0JekFllU2f3IwiqRaMIR74G4lqS5W4y7qCeG5Wc2wcpQuPO1wScS4d6eXpuh20649gK9iDn0hJM9YaLDFakK2Aomtkc55Tw6r2FtDJhc/s0-d/IMG_0179.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrJJr5H6jyEfr08MPzZbm_MOSpKVXBM1peNRY0JekFllU2f3IwiqRaMIR74G4lqS5W4y7qCeG5Wc2wcpQuPO1wScS4d6eXpuh20649gK9iDn0hJM9YaLDFakK2Aomtkc55Tw6r2FtDJhc/s0-d/IMG_0179.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />She got this tattoo as an 18th birthday present and it was inked by Joey at <a href="http://asylumtattoostudios.com/welcome.php">Asylum Tattoo Studio</a> in Brooklyn.<br /><br />Thanks to Avery for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.6717641728464514" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><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. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></b>

Avery's Spider-Man View of the City

Yesterday we met Cat and her tattoos ( here , in case you missed it). But you may recall I mentioned that she was not alone. Her friend Aver...

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Cat's Eyes and More!

Back in March, on a particularly warm end-of-winter day, I ran into two young ladies in Penn Station, one of whom was named Cat. I spotted three of her tattoos almost immediately, and we had a nice discussion about her ink.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNw5FEQx0QLE790P6QfqIb6WJ1Zkl5I5zH9WRll9IY74NuPXiTfNZ4Xk0UW73VFZLuUrr7OTOboht2_mSYiKRmW5begaYlF4zllk8L_khEMom8tt5BnnAGbEGU98-oWCThw7wdtFj3s8/s716/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNw5FEQx0QLE790P6QfqIb6WJ1Zkl5I5zH9WRll9IY74NuPXiTfNZ4Xk0UW73VFZLuUrr7OTOboht2_mSYiKRmW5begaYlF4zllk8L_khEMom8tt5BnnAGbEGU98-oWCThw7wdtFj3s8/s400/photo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Cat explains:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"the eyes were my first [tattoos] ... on my eighteenth birthday ... I thought it would be cool to base it on my best friend's cat ... I got it just because, I'm Cat ... get cat eyes on my back, why not? It was a birthday present..."</blockquote><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNM_fkGhFr0wCdxQXoys_vk2_D2GxA9ko7efTKiDsMu1MuxtHRYtvUnvoKYHq_aqo-ckxs7Nlv4Z3KfdB1-rqpszguuAKow4xRQA335YltVFttqoqL97k4bmQo3M7J0omQnjnKNdF_7p8/s687/IMG_0170.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNM_fkGhFr0wCdxQXoys_vk2_D2GxA9ko7efTKiDsMu1MuxtHRYtvUnvoKYHq_aqo-ckxs7Nlv4Z3KfdB1-rqpszguuAKow4xRQA335YltVFttqoqL97k4bmQo3M7J0omQnjnKNdF_7p8/s400/IMG_0170.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />And the name of her friend's cat? Sushi. You know I just had to ask.<br /><br />The next tattoo she got was this piece on her left arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVcUH3l-DW22muPMk9ftRakmoYQq7TDEOmn4Lnxlo66p9PTNXOlGvHxP7-FQ4i2OV0AtyXh3l8YAUY1Y01n_t_QVbaQbBXUD5xtrpfiu0pXzhLy_5Xrj9OeqxVFlnhnlvZUtN1WAH-lhE/s615/IMG_0174.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVcUH3l-DW22muPMk9ftRakmoYQq7TDEOmn4Lnxlo66p9PTNXOlGvHxP7-FQ4i2OV0AtyXh3l8YAUY1Y01n_t_QVbaQbBXUD5xtrpfiu0pXzhLy_5Xrj9OeqxVFlnhnlvZUtN1WAH-lhE/s640/IMG_0174.JPG" width="478" /></a></div><br />This is based on the art by <a href="http://www.kurthalsey.com/">Kurt Halsey</a>. Cat elaborates:<br /><br />"It's just always been a favorite of mine. I saw [Halsey] down in Philly and that one was my favorite print." Of course, it helps that the girl in the illustration is holding a cat.<br /><br />On her opposite arm is this tattoo:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQtgGOTQWnErQxJw9oKdTjekoOjRjXWfL7e1Yd47SA02y7xK73dFuhz_72nji1wFaiAJq3liU30aMF8UALg0xBHXgJZpFeIBsUY34hqk6fkxNYiN6v5l9_U1bFWF6SHuHFqJWQ7iPrObo/s614/IMG_0176.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQtgGOTQWnErQxJw9oKdTjekoOjRjXWfL7e1Yd47SA02y7xK73dFuhz_72nji1wFaiAJq3liU30aMF8UALg0xBHXgJZpFeIBsUY34hqk6fkxNYiN6v5l9_U1bFWF6SHuHFqJWQ7iPrObo/s640/IMG_0176.JPG" width="364" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is based on the work of <span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.garancedore.fr/en/">Garance Doré</a>, a fashion photographer. She's just a huige fan and loves this illustration in particular.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">All of the tattoos were done by <a href="http://www.transcendtattoo.com/Tattoos/Nick_Trammel/">Nick Trammel</a> at <a href="http://www.transcendtattoo.com/index.html">Transcend Tattoo</a> in Branford, Connecticut</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Of course, when I was looking back at the photos I took of Cat's tattoos, I noticed in the Kurt Halsey-illustrated piece that the word "saying" was inked on her ribs. It was peeking out from under her top. Of course, I had to ask and Cat obliged by sending me a photo of the whole tattoo:</span></span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVexPxgZAvOB0A_6Llgc1sjtXkTfyfSP-j_K974o-jPC35jMCdnNRr1X2iL7-dcfKpgp_EuHUkxf26z3USIFpr4H_2Lzkd8B7yJPTJV7NWG9AsJAtQU-b5rEXEBhyvlRfEdTMzXYaJPBY/s640/photo+%281%29.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVexPxgZAvOB0A_6Llgc1sjtXkTfyfSP-j_K974o-jPC35jMCdnNRr1X2iL7-dcfKpgp_EuHUkxf26z3USIFpr4H_2Lzkd8B7yJPTJV7NWG9AsJAtQU-b5rEXEBhyvlRfEdTMzXYaJPBY/s400/photo+%281%29.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />I'll let Cat explain in her own words:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"T<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222;">he one on my ribs is from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Isherwood">Christopher Isherwood</a> book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Single_Man_%28novel%29">A Single Man</a>. The quote is 'waking up begins with saying am and now.' It's my favorite book and for me it's just a reminder to live in the moment and not get caught up with the little things. It sounds cheesy but when I got the tattoo I was in a weird place so I like having the reminder close to me."</span></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks to Cat for sharing all of these tattoos with us on Tattoosday!</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.755811650538817" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><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. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></b><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>

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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. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></b></span>

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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