Monster Tattoos Design

Today, tattoo is the latest fashion craze. Wherever you go you can't walk down the street without seeing people sporting a tattoo. People from different stages of life have tattoos. Recently, the average of age of getting a tattoo is as young as 8-year old which is something that mother out there should be alarmed. Why? Because when you stop and consider that throughout history tattoos symbolizes rebellion and deviancy. It is mostly associated with criminals, soldiers, prostitutes, sailors, and the lowliest people of the society. But whatever your belief liberal or conservative, regardless of how you perceive this tattoo things, the bottom line you cannot deny the influence it exhibit among the young people today.

Sam's Sleeve Revels in Her Heritage

Last month I had the pleasure of running into Sam on the subway platform at West 4th Street. She had this amazing work on her left arm:

Sam's half sleeve is autobiographical in that it celebrates her heritage and her family in the South.

Her ancestry is one-half Koren and one-half Scotch-Irish, which explains my favorite part of the tattoo, the pigs holding the fans emblazoned with the flag of South Korea:

Her home state is acknowledged by the pig with the gold necklace in the shape of Virginia:

And the one pig drinking from the distinctively-shaped bottle is a nod to her affinity for Jack Daniels.

Many may ask, why pigs? Sam explained that many of her family gatherings and reunions are lavish pig roasts. As a chef, Kim, who blogs here, embraces the cultural aspects of her upbringing through food and, as one can see, in this tattoo.

The work done is by Willie Kirby at Classic Tattoo in Richmond, Virginia.

Thanks to Sam for sharing her awesome tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

& (Melissa)

I love typographical tattoos.

You've read about them here before in this post, among others.

Last month I met Melissa, in Borders at 2 Penn Plaza, and she shared this tattoo, right below her left collar bone:

This was Melissa's first tattoo (she now has three) and she got it because it is her favorite punctuation mark.

She couldn't recall the exact font, but it resembles old English.

This tattoo was done in Babylon Tattoo & Body Piercing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Thanks to Melissa for sharing her ampersand with us here on Tattoosday!

Forearms.

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