If you think Arkham's scary as a doctor, you should try it as a patient.

a random Harley Quinn, plain and simple.

Tasty

Nice whoppers by Johanna Bluebird again.

Red Hoot Dutch

Mark Harada

Moon Pentacle

I'm just loving this tattoo! This belongs to a fella named Bob and comes from Rate My Ink.

Today is the Roman festival honoring Luna!

Nice Pair

Hart & Huntington's Robert Jarrett did this leggy pair.

I want you to tell all your friends about me.

Timmy B

I want you to hoot me as hard as you can

Timmy B

Unique Tree

This unique tree comes from Jennifer and was created at North Texas Tattoo. Jennifer is the 22nd person to submit art to NeoPagan Ink! Yay! I really like this tree, it looks wild and natural unlike some tree tattoos that come out looking unnaturally symmetrical.

Thanks to Jennifer for her submission!

More stick-n-poke radness

Do you remember the post I did about the young man with the butterflies on his feet and the ridiculous home tattoos? Well, he showed me some photos of his friend's tattoos. And boy, are they ridiculous!

First up- booyah! arm!

This poor person has "booyah!" on their arm not once, but at least SEVEN TIMES! I can also see a pterodactyl, a ghost, and "USA GOES UNDEFEATED".


I wish I knew the story behind this one. "Saves Latin"??? ... maybe I don't really want to know.


And this. What is this? An alien-insect with patriotic wings riding a scooter with hello kitty with a mustache in the back? WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?

Seriously, the more I see tattoos like this, the more I shake my head and start to wonder if they are really works of genius instead of being the worst tattoos in the world.

Ma'at

This beautiful Ma'at tattoo comes from Rate My Ink.

Freya Back Piece

This very nice Freya comes from Rate My Ink and was created by Thad Rickey at Marks of Art, San Jose, California. I know the photo quality isn't very good but I just had to post this; it's so nice! Be sure to click the image to see the larger version.

Citrine Fairy

This lovely tattooed and pierced fairy was created by avi-of-scott. Be sure to check out her gallery, she's got a lot of really neat fairies!

Cats with no ears

I just took in two of the cutest cats ever, and so I have had cats on the brain lately. Because of this, I thought I'd do some searching for bad cat tattoos. I am SURE there are worse ones out here, but this is what I found- three cat tattoos without any ears. Why would you ever draw a cat without ears? It just makes them look like weird aliens!


This looks like a Lisa Frank drawing without the pizazz.


This is the most half-assed tattoo I have possibly ever seen. Why are the eyes sideways? Why are the whiskers blue? Where are the ears? So many unanswered questions!


This is a mix of the lady's five cats and some human (the right eye). Why the human has a lazy eye, I don't know. I also think the cat is actually the bark of a tree.


And finally, while not technically terrible, this butterfly-cat holding a flower and inexplicably wearing pants makes me laugh.

Tattooing in Vegas

Going to be up there this week tattooing with
Aisea Toetuu from www.soulsignaturetattoo.com

HIt me up and let me know , if your interested please let us know.
thanks orly

olocquiao@gmail.com

Dragon and Phoenix

This gorgeous tattoo of a dragon and phoenix comes from JB Welchel's Flickrstream and was created by Loki at Holy Mother Tattoo out of Atlanta, Georgia.

Ostara Bunny

This pretty bunny comes from Leslie Levings' Flickrstream. And, even though it looks like it could be a cutting it is indeed a tattoo. Very cool.

Have a blessed spring equinox!

Sparrow

This pretty little sparrow comes The Curateur. The sparrow has a rich history in tattoos but is here because of its mythological association with the Norse goddess Iduna. She is the bearer of the apples of life who personifies the lighter half of the year and appears on this day as a sparrow.

Most Finished

Join us for some drinks and music.
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A Hoot-iful Mind

And finally, a reader submission from Betty, this was done by Werner Businger

Hoot-chcock

An excellent tattooist submission, done by Shawn Willmorth at Hive Tattoo.

Dog In Hoot

Brian Corley

Athena

This vibrant Athena comes About.com's Pagan Tattoo Gallery.

Today is the celebration of the birth of Athena (Roman Minerva) called Quinquatrus.

Bad chest tattoos

I think there is a trend of getting bad chest tattoos with bloody writing. Please tell me this isn't so, and it's just these three unfortunate dudes.


"All Hope Is Gone" -- not a very good thing to get when you're young (I cropped his face out of the photo, he looks like he is 17). Also what's the logo on the right? I assume these are bad lyrics of some sort.


"Blood Is Forever" -- I guess this is a way of celebrating family, but there is surely a much better way to do it. Also the bloody cracked Batman logo is an a+ addition there, buddy.


"Pull The Trigger Bitch" -- sdkjfhsdk I can seriously not think of a worse thing to get tattooed on your chest for all time. Do you think he will ever have sex with anyone ever again? I guess he'll just have to keep his shirt on indefinitely!

Hoot Stitched Me Up?

Another reader submission, from Julie, done at Transition Tattoo in Huntington Beach.

God Bless Ya, Ma'am!

I certainly salute the awesomeness of this Valerie Vargas pinup.

The Dark Hoot

Steve Byrne

Bricking it!

Random unknown LEGO! Batman

Hit Me!

Birdsong (?!)

The Magic of Colour!

Returning to colour tattoos, the uninspiringly named James Tattoo with a particularly inspired motorsport piece

Hoot Watches The Watchmen?

Holy Owl-verload, Ashley Love! Another excellent tattooist submission!

Shamrock

This groovy Celtic knot work shamrock comes from The Mental Nomad Podcast.

Today is the national Irish celebration of Trefuilnid Treochair which is the festival of the "the triple bearer of the triple key" (who later became Saint Patrick), associated with the sacred plant of the shamrock.

And just in time I found a five-leaf clover and both I and my young cousin found four-leaf clovers. Yay!

A PSA against home tattooing

I've posted some awesomely ridiculously terrible and rad stick-n-poke tattoos here in the past, and I will again. I have a soft spot for bad tattoos that friends do to each other. This one, however, is pretty inexcusable, and shows how home tattooing is generally a really really really really bad idea.



ow ow ow ow ow ow ow. This makes me hurt all over just looking at it. So scratchy!!!! I can't even imagine what it must look like healed. I think my favorite part is that he only has one eyeball.

More Zombies

Please excuse me for posting about my own tattoos so much this week, but I can't help myself! I'll post some legitimately terrible tattoos soon, don't worry!

You guys should all know by now that I am fascinated by flash tattoos and tattoos that come from the same drawing but look different. The tattoo I got on Friday was part of a Friday the 13th special, where you could get any flash zombie on a sheet for $40. I chose the classic coming-out-of-the-grave-zombie, and it turns out three of my friends went for the same thing. One of my friends and I got sxe zombies, my other two friends got the zombie as he was on the sheet. Here are all four zombies for comparison (done by three different artists, see if you can spot the two that were done by the same person).