Moon, Star Tattoo Designs

Moon, Star Tattoo Designs

Moon, Star Tattoo Designs

Since the human ones could look at the sky above the night, they could see that the brilliant moon and stars sprinkled the skies everywhere. The skies were so better to look at the back then without contamination of all the lights in our modern society. Imagine how much IMPRESSIVE and how much the more luminous and moreover shining all stars, the planets and the moon seemed behind then!

The moon as we know it is the only normal satellite of our planet. The average distance from the ground is of 238.855 miles! Our moon is not the largest moon in our solar system but it is with us and has special significances for thousands of years for all the types of people -- warriors, priests, farmers, and much of other. And it seems reasonable perfect to obtain a moon star tattooing to symbolize our interstellar connections of the skies above.

Flower Hawaiian Tattoo

Flower Hawaiian Tattoo

Flower Hawaiian Tattoo

A tattooing hawa�en of flower and its originality mix together to make a sexy choice of design for a female. This beautiful drawing-model can seem large on your skin, but the conclusion of the design of quality on line can be almost impossible, as you could have noted. Some women go until arrangement for a certain generic design that they aren 't happy 100% with, that no reasonable person should never make. Well, here what you must really know this type of art on the Web, as well as the way of finding a way easy with the good substance.

You know probably already sexy a tattooing hawa�en of flower can look on a female. It is exactly why the generic drawing-model should not be arranged above. I subject to a constraint the word bench on file, because so many women seem to do it. Useless to say, this should not be made, because he carries out just to regret and destruction in the near future. Some women arrange on a particular design because they are attached to seek without end the perfect piece while others give up because they believe that they gained 't can find anything better. That which it case can be, a generic tattooing hawa�en of flower, or no generic design for this matter, should be arranged above.

small red cherry tattoo on the neck very sexy for girl cherry tattoo design

small red cherry tattoo on the neck very sexy for girl cherry tattoo design

red cherry tattoo design with letter nasty very cool for lower back tattoo for girl

red cherry tattoo design with letter nasty very cool for lower back tattoo for girl

image cherry tattoo with fire on the foot good design for sexy girls tattoo

image cherry tattoo with fire on the foot good design for sexy girls tattoo

Two Years Ago Today......

"So, there you have it. The inaugural tattoo on Tattoosday here at
BillyBlog. It should be interesting to see what else I can come up with
from strangers, or if I have to revert to friends to help me in this
project."

That's what I wrote two years ago today on my original site BillyBlog.

Little did I know how much this once weekly feature would turn into such a significant aspect of my life. In little over a month, I had spun Tattoosday off of BillyBlog, from a recurring character to a site of its own.

And we have grown! This month we will have our biggest visitor load of our short career here, reaching just under 30,000 hits. This month also marked a quarter of a million hits since Tattoosday stood alone in September 2007.

And we have our sights set even higher.

I once again want to thank everyone who has contributed to the success of the blog, from the occasional visitors, to the rabid fans, from the enthusiastic tourists and New Yorkers who have contributed their work, to the talented tattoo artists who created that work.

And most of all, I want to thank my friends and family, who have seen my passion for tattoo writing, and have supported me whole-heartedly. And to my beautiful wife Melanie, who is my biggest cheerleader, most avid supporter, and one of the most understanding women I know. Not may wives would be keen on their husbands taking pictures of tattoos of strange women
(and men) they've met on the street. But she is my number one fan. And I love her all the more for it.

A week from tomorrow my oldest daughter Jolee, who inspired this, my first tattoo, will be celebrating her bat mitzvah. The week ahead will be filled with planning and visits from family, so I am taking a week off in posting, so I can focus my energies on this landmark event.

Rest assured, I have two dozen tattoo posts in the queue and will likely be unable to restrain myself from collecting more photos and stories in the week to come.

I will resume posting on August 9th or 10th.

I thank everyone for their continued support and words of encouragement.

Bill Cohen

With a Cherry on Top and a Side of Morrissey

I met Jasen several weeks back outside of the Whole Foods in Chelsea.

Jasen's left right forearm has a variation of the torn flesh motif in tattooing where the artist creates an illusion that a person's flesh is ripping away under pressure from the matter below the skin.

I have seen people with biomechanical tattoos, showing steel below the skin. Or patriotic pieces reflecting red, white and blue deep below the surface.

But Jasen is different. He is a Vegan with not one, but many "sweet teeth". So, with the help of the tattoo artist, Nick Baxter, they devised the design that would reflect delicious desserts bursting out of his skin. Jasen agreed that he wanted something "colorful, fun, and kind of ridiculous".


Okay, I know, the quality of these photos is not great. Very sun-washed. So, I was fortunate enough to find the artist's photo on his website:


Nick's site is cool because he even comments on the pieces. For example:

"Why can't every tattoo be a ridiculous skin tear-out? I'm proud to add this to the collection I've done, along with the gay unicorn and the surfer kool-aid man. It's on an awesome vegan dude who wanted to pay homage to the sweeter side of our shared dietary choice. Thanks Jasen for giving me a good excuse to have some friends over for a dessert-making and reference-photographing party...this tattoo was fun before it even started."

Nick tattooed this at a shop in Branford, Connecticut called Transcend Tattoo & Art Gallery, but has relocated to Austin.


Jasen also has the autograph of the singer Morrissey tattooed on his outer right forearm:



He saw him in concert in Philadelphia two or three months back and had the opportunity to meet him.

We talked about people getting musician's autographs tattooed (see all that have appeared on Tattoosday here), and he told me that Morrissey was the only famous person he would do that for. The singer is a vegetarian and is very outspoken about vegetarianism and animal rights.

Thanks to Jasen for sharing his cool tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Nice Modern Tattoo

Nice Modern Tattoo

Nice Modern Tattoo

Nice Modern Tattoo

The history to tattoo is probably as old as humanity. It achieved various innumerable goals. Some of them were rites of passage, punishment, protection, and marks of fertility. It was also employed to mark outlaws such as slaves. The tattooing of word comes from the tatu of word of Tahitian, which means to mark something.

Sexy Urban Tattoos

Sexy Urban Tattoos

Tattooings are carried like manner of expressing your individual with others. Tattooing the 'size, form, model, color and placement of S are all the things which you must work with in your attempt expressing your single identity. All these factors depend on another, thus if you change one, it often means that you must change at least others as well. who often give to your tattooing a completely different significance and to feel.

Chip and Tom and Frank

Sometimes, the subject of a tattoo is unclear to the un-illuminated eye. Curiosity compels one to ask: what is that?

And the answer makes sense. And one marvels at the mind behind the man (or woman) who says,"Yeah, let's put that on me forever."

Such was the case during rush hour on the N train. An guy named Chip stood nearby and his right forearm intrigued me. I couldn't make out what his tattoos were. Can you?


When I asked, he explained. The top piece is a photograph from a Tom Waits album:

Despite ascertaining this is a Tom Waits photograph, I can't pinpoint where it came from. If anyone knows for certain, please let me know. The tattoo was done by C-Jay at Rising Dragon Tattoos in Manhattan. Work from Rising Dragon has appeared previously here.

Below the Waits tattoo is a Frank Zappa piece:


This is based on artwork that appeared on the back cover of Zappa's autobiography The Real Frank Zappa Book:


This piece was tattooed by an artist he only identified as Chris at Marco's Tattoo in Wakefield, Rhode Island.

Obviously, Chip is a huge fan of both Frank Zappa and Tom Waits. That's all there is to it.

Thanks to Chip for sharing his cool and unusual tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Chopper Tattoo Review and Sexy Chopper Tattoo

Sexy Chopper Tattoo

Sexy Chopper Tattoo

By having a doesn tattooing 't always made a good impression. Some can react negatively by seeing these designs in the body. However, when the tattooing artistically and in an ordered way is made, others can just change opinion. Such is the attraction which a very famous Web site, tattooing of carver, offers its range of customers.

A review of tattooing of carver would indicate the most positive feedback which cannot be �t�e pilot with other galleries in line of tattooing. The leadership team with the tattooing of carver seems to have thought deeply of what will satisfy enthusiasts of tattooing and will have worked hard to meet their needs specifically.

They realize well that the various individuals have various preferences like dictations by their age, kind, and the personality which they created a total of four thousand designs and this collection continues to increase daily. Moreover, a tattooing is for always and the catch of the good decision now can make all the difference for the individual for the remainder in his life.

To help its customers in this critical company, the Web site of tattooing of carver is arranged in such a way that it is easy for customers to finally choose what they want. The designs are correctly classified in categories. They were arranged based on key words, the size, and even the color.

Women Tatoos Ideas

Women Tatoos Ideas

Women Tatoos Ideas

Many women support tattooings which are smaller and prettier then those for types. To find the drawing-model original which will allow you to be held outside of crowd, it is difficult to beat the Internet. There is abundance of the sites on line offering of the ideas of free tattooing of body. However, the joint of a site of members only will shorten your research, and gives you much better results.

There are as well spots on a woman the 'body of S as a tattooing will seem good. The popular places are the wrist, ankle, the centre, the higher thigh and the shoulder. Other places include the back of the neck, and approach the button of belly. Among the most popular designs are the pinks surrounded with the vines or the barbed wire, other designs floral, hearts, stars, and wings of angle, and the creatures mythical.

Sexy Tattoos Design

Sexy Tattoos Design

Sexy Tattoos Design

Behind neck: This obtains me and my buddy 's wild. When the women will raise themselves to the top its hair for any reason and a tattooing are present ..... that it is large to see. For some reason, a tattooing and the bottom of the women �neck of S is simply sexy. Do not confuse the neck with a tattooing which is seen clear like the side of the neck. This to seem without value! The outlines prove that the majority of the men think that the neck is a very sexy part of the women � body. Enough known as!

Back top: Just a few inches inferior the back of the neck. A sexy design of tattooing here also lights many men. You want to pay attention of the placement however. I was with a marriage and the young lady of honor had a tattooing there and was not dissimulated. It was not also hot but the majority of the tats can be dissimulated cream of special skin for formal businesses. It is a great place if you want something a little larger.

Sexy Body Painting Tattoo

Sexy Body Painting Tattoo

The painting of body is a form of art of body, and probably was around since the beginning of civilization. In almost each culture of tribalist, the painting of body was carried out during the ceremonies or simply just for the beauty of it. Backs then they employed clay and others normal dyes.
The painting of body always survives in the areas of the world, and in particular �Mehndi �, the form of painting of body which employs dyes of henn�, is now very popular in the western world. The tattooing of henn� is semi-permanent.

Tattoo for Body Painting

Tattoo for Body Painting

Tattoo for Body Painting

Maintaining personally I do not have a tattooing although I thought of obtaining one. My wife just has a small heart above her right centre that you normally cannot see. I like it there and if you want to obtain a tattooing, there are many things to consider.

Initially you must be smart tattooing. By that I want to tell you the need to make a little of research on them. There are many resources through the Internet which can give you ideas about the placement, of colouring, the model, the design, and pro and the swindle. Personal observation, I noted that certain places on the body can be added to your aspect and the seductivity and other places can distract. According to if you are in the projector or right in the slides, you must know a tattooing will affect your day labourers activities.

The classic Guitar Hero

So what’s up my inked members? I am so glad I found old these old designs.Todays Design I made when I was in the UK about ten years ago I was in a black metal (Never realized) band called Sin playing some guitar and doing Vocals. So this was a design I did back then for my inner arm it is the meaning of Guitar infused violence through the (I) and being situated from the palm up taking the the place of lifeblood from the palms as to signify that the music is my life. Music still plays a mayour role in my life but not as much as back then so well here you go The classic guitar

Strings of Life 1999 Version

Looks good for something I did so long ago and back then I didn’t have a clue that I would be here where I am now well its good to look back at those memories

Strings of Life 2009 Version

Playing Life playing your heart strumming the chords to a altered reality insanity screams in my veins my influence others pains my own solace a gun to survive a needled threaded in my mind a divine structure for infiltration musical assimilation now is the time strum it wide and strum it good the solid morbidity drowning the wood

Who's Better Than Us: Chris Honors His Father

I met Chris in Brooklyn Heights one afternoon and asked him about his ink. He has seven tattoos in all, but offered up this section of his arm:


What seems at first like an odd juxtaposition of figures makes more sense when it is explained.

The piece is a memorial based on a photograph of his father, who had worked as an editor on the original film of Woodstock, as well as the book documenting the process who worked with the team that made Woodstock (Paradigm), developing and experimenting with new film technology which was eventually used in the process of making the movie.

After searching for a while, I emailed Chris and asked if he could send me the photo. He generously obliged:


Seeing the source material on which this piece is based makes it cooler. The photograph appears in the book, and was taken up at Woodstock when the documentary was in production years laterby one of the cinematographers of the Woodstock film, Chuck Levey somewhere in New Jersey.

And the back of the arm features a quote from Chris's dad, a statement he would often make, which seems genuinely appropriate from someone so deeply immersed in the culture of the 1960s:


Chris had his tattoos inked by Nick Caruso at Fly-Rite Studio in Brooklyn. Work from Fly-Rite has appeared previously on Tattoosday here.

Thanks to Chris for sharing his work here on Tattoosday!

Sexy Back Tattoo for Women Only

Sexy Back Tattoo for Women Only

Sexy Back Tattoo for Women Only

When the women want a sexy manner to show with far their femininity, they must not look at behind not others only their clean. The back is a large fabric awaiting your artistic inspiration to make to him something better. Sexy back tattooings for women come in all the forms, faces, and varieties. Carefully glance with all your options before you enter the studio of tattooing.

Lower Back Small Tattoos Design

Lower Back Small Tattoos Design

Lower Back Small Tattoos Design

The small designs on the sector postpones lower are very popular among candidates of tattooing. More and more people, particularly women, prefer this sector while it accentuates the sensuality. The lower back is the convergence point of the beautiful curves and of the female shapes of a woman of the 'body of S. And thus if a tattooing is placed here, that functions like beautiful ornament for any girl. Lower tattooings of sector behind are usually conceived and formed to accentuate the shape of sand glass of the women. Thus if you a woman or a girl thinking of having a butterfly, an angel or a design of dolphin, it is the best to make it make in this sector. You will never repent having a so beautiful tattooing in the perfect place to appreciate and allure boys and men for a life.

Sexy Lower Back Tattoo for Girls

Sexy Lower Back Tattoo for Girls

Sexy Lower Back Tattoo for Girls

Lower tattooings behind became the first popular time in the Nineties, when the tops of harvest and half of the shirts were in the model. The girls carried out that who were not only they improve to show with far their newer tats, but which to tattoo the lower back accentuated a curvy part and female body perfectly. Sexy lower back tattooings for girls are always infinitely in the model, and they are large to show with far with the beach or everywhere where you go!

Meredith Shares Two Inspirational Pieces for Tat-Twosday

Let's just say the third time's a charm.

It started with me getting off the subway in my neighborhood and noticing the woman walking several paces ahead of me. I saw that she had words inked around her wrists. As I generally shy away from tattoos that circle a limb (they don't translate well on a blog page, in my humble opinion), I made a mental note and we went our separate ways.

A few days later I was walking home, carrying dry cleaning (an activity that has delayed more than one Tattoosday post, for sure), when I ran into her again.

This time, we approached from opposite directions and I was able to introduce myself and maneuver my cleaning in order to give her Tattoosday info.

I was pleased to see, as well, two heretofore unnoticed pieces that she told me about and admired. Both were significantly original and very cool. We tentatively agreed to talk at a later date about featuring her work on the site.

A week later, our paths crossed again, and this time I was ready. So here are two of Meredith's tattoos, just in time for Tat-twosday!

We'll start with the wonderful piece dancing along the inside of her left forearm:


What we have here is the phrase "searching through the static" in an unusual font. With Photoshop, Meredith flipped the text to create a design with the phrase, base to base, almost zig-zagging across her arm.


Meredith is an artist (see her blog here) and she has lived in several places, trying to find her way through life. She did, here in New York City, and the phrase "searching through the static" resonates with her, as she has ventured through the chaos of life experiences to find her true path. She particularly loves this font because it resembles a cityscape, with some of the letters rising like skyscrapers over the street-like valleys between words.

The second tattoo she offered up is this stunning black and gray chest piece:


The center of the design is a broken snow globe, modeled after one that Meredith's grandmother gave her many years ago. Even though it is cracked, she has kept it as a treasure by which to remember her. She did change the snow globe design to contain a tree, not small people, like in the item on which this is based. The tree, she felt, was more appropriate for the tattoo.

The phrase that brackets the snow globe is "Keep going farther Beautiful Seeker." It is a mantra that she has adopted to keep her motivated and focused on a higher goal.

Both of these tattoos were inked by Alex Franklin at Brooklyn Ink. Work from Alex has appeared previously on Tattoosday here here and here. And clicking here will take you to all the posts from Brooklyn Ink that have appeared here on Tattoosday. As I've mentioned before, the proximity of the shop to my residence makes it the most frequently-featured purveyor on the site.

Thanks again to Meredith for sharing her wonderful tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

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Michael's Mythical Sleeves

I generally avoid featuring full sleeves here, because of the limitations that posting them has - it is difficult to fully capture the artistry in the work. But, on occasion, the tattoos are so amazing, I can't resist.

Such was the case with Michael, who shared portions of both sleeves with me. Here's a sliver of his right arm:


To fully capture the magic of this tattoo, here's a fresher, professional collage, courtesy of the artist Stacey Sharp:


Michael was proud of the fact that this tattoo took second place in the "Best Sleeve" category in the 2007 Philadelphia Tattoo Convention.

And although the top section of his left arm is still "under construction," the bottom half is no less spectacular:


The detail and shading is just absolutely phenomenal:


Michael, a professional make-up artist, explained that he embarked on these sleeves when he was going through a rough patch in his life and that, as a water sign, the creation and depiction of an aquatic dragon, helped mark a spiritual process that gave him strength while enduring life's trials and tribulations.

He estimated that the right, award-winning sleeve, took approximately 36 hours in total work and that his right sleeve is fifty hours in, and counting.

What's interesting about this post, aside from the brilliant tattoo work, is that I have a nice online friendship with the artist, Stacey Sharp, and that she provided me with her prospective of these sleeves. Generally we only hear from the host.

Stacey works out of Inkpulsive Custom Tattoos in Ronkonkoma, New York.

Stacey comments about her work on Michael:

Some interesting info about Michael's arms...

"The WaterDragon (right arm) was drawn on his arm at a moment's notice. He was only looking for 'a little something to add to his armband'. Took about an hour to draw on with a marker and another hour to outline. All of the blue background was done in one shot, 4 hours, including elbow and ditch (Michael advises to NEVER do those two areas at the same time). The lighter water swirls were added at a later date. The entire thing took 36 hours to complete. It's also the only tattoo I've done that has a 'Title'- A warm thing in a cold place. His species is WaterDragon. His proper name is Fathom... but sometimes we fondly refer to him by his nickname: The Sea Chicken!

The dragon on his left arm is Random. That's her name. Why? Because she is. :) Fur and feathers take much longer to detail. We didn't keep track of her time like we did with the WaterDragon. She's more of an Air/Fire combination... where the WaterDragon is more guarding, silent sentinel, she's the fun, spontaneous side. Whimsical."

So there you have it, an additional perspective, from the artist. It's interesting to get an additional point of view that expands on the notes I've scribbled down in the street.

Much thanks to Michael for enthusiastically sharing his work with us here on Tatoosday! And an additional thank you to Stacey Sharp for contributing her thoughts as well, in addition to granting permission to using the photo collage of the right sleeve.

Stacey's work has appeared on Tattoosday once previously, a much smaller, whimsical piece, here.