Monday, August 17, 2009

Red or Dead


A nastier Little Red Riding Hood than I remember from the story, thanks to Jo Harrison.

Stans To Reason





Tattoist submission from Chris Stans, working at Kapala tattoo in Winnipeg, Canada.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Female Tattoo Pictures - A Variety of Ways to Look Beautiful


The number of women trying out tattoos is growing tremendously and it is no longer a taboo to see women with tattoos. As women are being a lot more courageous like their male counterparts, tattoos have also become more of a fashion statement rather than a ordinary so called design and is also considered a newer style statement. Female tattoo pictures are great to get inspiration for your own tattoo.

The areas for women to have their tattoos inked is the lower back region, the belly button area, calves, arms, shoulders, back, lips and wrists.The latest designs used by women for tattoos are usually their own photograph which are either black or colored and are placed near the heart. Designs include: a mushroom on the ankle, a phoenix rising from the lower back, a merman on the arm, or designs with a lady with a scarf on her face, a mermaid covering her upper body with her tail, a barren tree on the right side of the stomach, a butterfly taking flight, roses and black stars near the naval, the statue of liberty on the thigh and weird ones like star war creatures, the barbed wire, Garfield or even pets on the back. Mysterious designs like an ancient map of the world, the Chinese symbols on the neck, and Kanji writings on the back are gaining popularity all over the globe. Tattoos with anything floral, tribal designs, Japanese and old traditional ones are often the type of designs that women like.

Women are more style conscious than men and make a decision for the tattoos thinking from all the different angles. A word of advice to women is to first have a temporary tattoo done to make sure you are comfortable in that tattoo and if you decide to change your mind then the design can always be changed. Women are now embracing the designs that are creating a whole new culture and a growth within tattoos and their tastes.

Tattoos are fun to have and easy to maintain, which gives a perfect solution to all women who have fast and busy lives. Tattoos are now hip and cool and are the best way to keep up with the coming generation. These tattoos are sexy and very enticing to look at.

Star Tattoo Pictures - Getting the Designs You Want


Looking for good star tattoo pictures online should a fun and rewarding experience. While it can be, there are still way to many people getting frustrated and even settling on designs that they only "sort of" like. The main cause of this is search engines, which pull up a lot of low end galleries that have tons of generic tattoos. Here are some quick tips which can help you find the tons of great star tattoo picture you're probably missing out on.

Let's get straight to the point. Search engines are great or finding a wide variety of things on the internet. We all know that. They just aren't as good when it comes to locating great tattoos. All that seems to pop up are these bland galleries that have tons of nine year old artwork, even when it comes to star tattoo pictures. On top of that, most of these galleries have the same exact design as about one hundred other places.

They don't really care about the kind of artwork they post on their pages. The more the merrier. They will even go as far as to put up artwork that wasn't even meant to be used as real tattoos! It's sad, because people will end up picking star tattoo pictures they find there, thinking that they will make a good tat. Then they go to get it inked and it comes out looking far less crisp as it did on the paper they printed it on. Why does that happen? Because tattoos need to be drawn a certain way when sketched and a lot of the designs at these galleries are just random images that they've found.

Ok, that's enough of that mess. Let's see how you can find some great star tattoo pictures on the web...

The fist thing I want to say is that you are always going to have to watch out for "less than" artwork when looking for star tattoo pictures. This following way to search for them is included, but it gives you a far better chance of finding the truly great artwork, unlike search engines.

I am talking about internet forums and they are fantastic places for seeing where other folks are finding great tattoos. If you use a forum's "search" function, you can pull up every single past topics on tattoos. Once you have this list, the rest is pretty straight forward. You just scan through the posts and see where other people are getting good artwork for their tattoos. Most of the time you will come away with tons of galleries that you have never seen before and the quality will be much better than you are used to when looking for star tattoo pictures.

It's just an alternative way of finding some truly superb star tattoo pictures when you are tired of the struggle with finding them the traditional way.

Sinner #5

Sinner #5 - XVI -


Friday, August 14, 2009

Flare Rib


Marilyn sent in this excellent submission, a Gil Elvgren piece by Jose Lopez at Lowrider Tattoo in Fountain Valley.

Wonderous!


You can't beat a bit of Lynda Carter! Done by the brilliant Nikko Hurtado.