Flower Tattoos for Girls

There are innumerable flower tattoos for girls designs and ideas, you can also let your imagination wild and incorporate the flower design with other images like a butterfly or cross. It is also important that you know about the flower tattoo meanings before you get yourself inked. Showcasing your beliefs and inclinations with the help of bodywork is a very appealing idea especially because the tattoo art is permane...

The Symbolism of a Butterfly Tattoo

Now, butterfly tattoo designs are symbolic of the freedom of a woman. Further, the transformation of a butterfly from a caterpillar to its original self represents the blossoming of a female, from a girl to a woman. One could also interpret the emergence of a butterfly from its cocoon as breaking free from all that was binding, and discovering newer avenues for oneself. Symbolic of the power of women, butterfly tattoos for girls may be placed on any body part, and in different designs that appeal to each of them individually. For some it may be a symbol of power, of transformation, of breaking free, of freedom, of diversity and variety, a symbol of their pleasant and bright personalities,...

Lori Shares Some Peonies, and a Fairy Mermaid

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A Rose for Emily (Laugh Now, Cry Later)

I ran into Emily at the beginning of the month on the 36th Street subway platform in Brooklyn.She shared this awesome tattoo on her left thigh:Emily credits Tazz at Aztlan Tattoo in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, with this cool ink."I just like roses," Emily told me, explaining that she had an idea and then Tazz expanded on the concept, which is a spin on the traditional "Laugh Now, Cry Later" theme.Thanks to Emily for sharing this great tattoo with us here on Tattoosday! Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:"";...

A Chance to Cover Up, Reality-Style

Considering that some of the best tattoos I have seen over the years (check some of them out here), the following casting call would seem to me certainly compelling for anyone looking to cover up an old, unwanted tattoo: Spike TV - Open Casting Call For Tattoo Competition Reality Series! Are you sick of your faded, old tattoo and ready to cover it up with something brand new?If so...try Spike TV! Our new tattoo show, “InkMaster," is looking for people who want to be a human canvas for the top-notch artists competing on our show...and we NEED PEOPLE WHO WANT COVER UPS! We are bringing together some of the BEST tattoo artists in the game for “InkMaster,” and we’re looking for people who...

Jenna Shares Two - A Lionfish and a Gustav Klimt

I met Jenna last month outside of Penn Station last month and took a few pictures of her tattoos, one of which is based on the work of the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt.As today is the anniversary of Klimt's birthday, 149 years ago in 1862, I felt it would be a good day to share Jenna's work.This tattoo is on her upper left arm:This is based on a work called "The Blood of Fish" (1898):Jenna explains: "...The print is a pen and ink done by Klimt called The Blood of Fish. I've always been a very big fan of Klimt's work but alot of it has all been done before in terms of tattoos. When I saw The Blood of Fish I just kind of knew that it was for me, there was something very beautiful and fluid...

Charles - Art and Science, Together in Ink

Last month, on a journey to the Fairway market in Red Hook, Brooklyn, my daughter Jolee was begging me for a couple of Snapples. "Only if you find me a cool tattoo," I teased her. She dashed off and, within seconds, it seemed, she was back, beckoning me to the next aisle.There, I met Charles, who shared this interesting tattoo on his left arm:I find this piece fascinating. I asked Charles to describe what went into its creation. He said it represents"that rare occurrence when art can meet science ... The dancers are the expressive artist part of it and then this is the anatomical heart at the bottom ... this kind of green foliage-looking stuff behind the dancers is a representation of a brain...

Musician Monday: A Trio of Tattoos from Justin Y. of Everyone Dies in Utah

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Matthew Shares Two Tattoo, from Thailand and French Polynesia (by way of Biarritz, France)

I generally do not ask people about tribal designs because they are not particularly interesting to me. That is not to say they are not good, just that thy are not my cup of tea. But occasionally, an exception will come along, and I will be more than pleasantly surprised.Take Matthew, for example. I spotted him sitting on Penn Plaza early last month, and something about his tribal piece on his left calf intrigued me:Matthew, who is French, explained:"I got it in Thailand in Ko Chang, which is an island at the frontier of Cambodia and Thailand ... it was done by a guy named 'Chung' - it was done in the old way of traditional Thai tattoo, which is with bamboo. So, basically, it lasts four hours...