Death Metal Tattoos: part 2

I wish I knew what this was, I really do. It looks like a totem pole of demons? With some kind of weird scarred-out blob in the middle. Is it a tribal-mutant batman logo? AND DO YOU SEE THE SCRATCHED UP FETUS ON HIS ELBOW? I mean really, how could you miss that? I don't even know what the stuff on his forearm is. If anyone can help decipher this, please let me know! I was staring at this guy for ages trying to figure it out.



I wish I knew what was on his back, too. You can see a bit of it poking out. I bet it's incredible.

Death Metal Tattoos: part 1

I went to the Maryland Deathfest this past weekend and OH BOY did I see so many amazing metal tattoos! One million distorted zombies! Ten thousand blurry black and white messes of somethingorother! A good handful of band logos! I have a LOT to share with you guys, but let me start with this gem (perhaps the best of the bunch):



THAT GIRL IS TRUE. EVIL. I love the fancy flourishes added to each word, it really rubs in the brutality of her tattoo.

Tune in soon for more!

Tattoos Tribal - Fascinating Origin of Tribal Tattoo Designs

Nowadays, people become more expressive in their choices of tattooing. Any more it is not considered a taboo, and one often sees it like prolongation of the personality of an individual or representation of the people, events or ideologies which play a significant part in their lives.

Since many people embrace tattooings now, it is not any wonder then which the designs also went more various and experimental. However, this does not mean that the traditional favourites obtain on the left behind. The tribal designs of tattooing are remained popular throughout the ages, since they were employed the first time in ancient times.

Not much of people know that tribal designs of tattooing were really employed by several ancient tribes everywhere in the world. These symbols and emblems have various significances for the members of the tribe, and they take it not only as manner of decorating their body, but as manner of showing their power and virility.

For the ancient tribes, tattooings reach many objectives. Other members of the tribe encrent their body with tattooings to draw aside from the bad spirits and to ensure spiritual protection, or for exhiber of the curative powers above certain the diseases and evils.

Tattooings were also employed to represent the achievements of a warrior, and with each war they take part inside, their tattooings also increase of number and classify. The more tattooings mean more wars than they had fought and more they had demolishes rival. The use of men they as symbol of their courage and forces.

In other tribes, tattooings were carried like a manner of decorating their bodies and of ornamenting their skin to make the their more beautiful glance and calling upon the opposite sex.

But some objective tattooings could reach, it is not any question which the tribal designs of tattooing show with far with these force and simple beauty with its races �BOLD�, strong angles, and soft curves. Tribal tattooings show a combination of grace and courage and are interesting pieces which captivate simply those which see it.

This is why much of people want to today obtain attracting tribal designs of tattooing of their clean. If you are one of those which seek perfect tribal tattooing, but are naive with which design to choose, then you can try to seek about various tribal tattooings of various cultures. From this way, you can learn more about the significance and from the history behind multiple tattooings of tribal and indicate exactly tattooings of a certain culture which interest you more. Common tribal tattooings include those maori, of the Samoa, Philippines, of Borneo, the American Native and Celtic.

If you can already which design obtain, it does not mean you should not dig more in the significance of tattooing initially. Like respect signs towards the culture, should also take time to you to study the history of tattooing, so that you can best appreciate not only for his artistic value but also for his cultural origins and symbolismux.

The tribal designs of tattooing are great pieces of tattooing which show with far a rich cultural asset and show at the same time the force and the grace with its full and curved black edges soft.

It's a dog going through a divorce

This is another tattoo in my favorite category ever: friends convincing other friends to get ridiculous nonsensical tattoos. Hilarious and awesome. And awful.

This was the first tattoo for this poor/rad soul. Description from the friend whose idea and drawing it was is below.





"i dont really remember what led up to the idea of swift getting a 20 second drawing i did of 'a dog going through a divorce' as a tattoo, but it was certainly assisted by it being 3am and a fair amount of alcohol on his part.. he woke up that next day and said "you know what? fuck it. lets do it." so less than an hour later i was paying someone $60 to permanently put it on swifts arm. dudes got sad depressed moppy divorced hair, hes unshaven and mopey, and hes got a little suitcase and dufflebag. he just needs to crash on your couch for a week or two. you know what happens when you call a tattoo shop and tell them you "want to get a cartoon dog getting a divorce", they dont believe youre serious. like 3 places didnt believe us."

Now THIS is what a zombie should look like!

I got a spur-of-the-moment zombie tattoo last week from Alex at Three Kings in Brooklyn. If you've seen my millions of bad zombie tattoo posts, you know that a good, gory zombie is hard to come by. And I got one!!!!



Because it was a TOTAL impulse tattoo (I just dropped by the shop to hang out and watch my friend Myles tattoo my friend Josh for a couple minutes and ended up getting tattooed myself!) I didn't know where the image was from. It was just something AWESOME that Alex had drawn up (he had a bunch of drawings for their Friday the 13th Zombie day that were too involved for the $40 zombie deal they had going). Turns out it is from this obscure comic that not one, but TWO of my friends knew about!



In other new tattoo news, I also got my other crow filled in. They're by Myles, also at Three Kings.



I'm so stoked on them! They look great.

I'll post some legitimately bad tattoos soon, I promise. I just wanted to share these awesome ones because I am so excited about them.

Sexy Tattoo Tribal - Tribal Tattoo Art

By Sierra Moon

One of the most popular designs today that is requested to be tattooed is tribal tattoo art. Tribal tattoos consist of random patterns of lines, curves, spikes, knots, totems and swirls that blend together. When these patterns are combined together, they make very unique and beautiful designs. There is such diversity with tribal tattoos and therefore can be an unlimited number of variations.

Years ago many different tribes used tattoos for a number of reasons. They were used for rites of passage, religious reasons, to identify and group tribes or family members, for marriage, to gain strengths and abilities of a totem animal guardian and for love spells and charms.

Today tribal designs are popular because of the mystery and spiritual aura of ancient times. They are also very unique and fabulous works of art. Both men and women favor tribal tattoos and they compliment both sexes. Some favorite locations are the arms, chest and back for men and the lower back, abdomen and sides for women. These designs actually look good anywhere that you want to put them and they can be made small or as large as you'd like.

There are several online tattoo design galleries that have a huge assortment of tribal tattoo art. You can even print the designs from your computer and take it to the tattoo artist. This method is widely used because you can search from home and take your time when choosing a design. You may decide to combine two or more designs together to make one. You may also want to take a part of several designs and make that into a totally different design. The possibilities are endless with tribal tattoo designs as they are each as unique as the individual that chooses to have one.