Renee Phoenix
Renee Phoenix chose unnatural colors for her shark tattoo: orange eyes, a green tongue, and red waves
Renee Phoenix chose unnatural colors for her shark tattoo: orange eyes, a green tongue, and red waves
Renee Phoenix has this tattoo on her left forearm of a snail made up of yellow geometric print in front of a purple galaxy print background
Renee Phoenix’s left arm sleeve
Jacqui Sandell has a tattoo on her left forearm of three tree branches tied into a triangle with bright colors in the center. The artwork comes from a card in The Wild Unknown tarot deck drawn by Kim Krans. Tattoo artist Joseph Michael at Hole in the Sky Tattoo Parlor did the inking in July 2014. (more…)
Maria Brink’s full sleeve tattoo has butterfly-shaped outlines where it transitions from a pink and blue butterfly scene into a starry night sky. Further down her arm the tattoo transitions again. The sky gets darker and it switches from a colored background with stars in the negative space to black stars on uncolored skin.
R&B singer K. Michelle has a large heartbreak-themed comic book tattoo on her upper left arm. The top panel features a figure holding a torn-out heart and proclaiming “I don’t want it anymore.” The bottom panel shows a male cartoon holding up two pieces of a broken heart while a female character kneels down in tears. The speech bubble says “Umm…you can have your heart back. Sorry I broke it.” Off to the left side of the tattoo is cupid shooting an arrow while a person points a gun at him saying “Do not touch me.”
The tattoo started out as just an outline each comic–first the top, then the bottom, and lastly the left side. Later on she had the tattoo colored in and added a background of colorful clouds and red broken hearts.
Though the general theme of the tattoo is depressing, K. Michelle wrote a positive message when she shared a picture of the ink. “After every heartbreak there will be sunshine. Where there is hurt there is HEALING!” she says.
In March 2014, Sherri DuPree-Bemis got a tattoo on her right forearm of a girl with pink hair and a Día de Muertos sugar skull face. The design was drawn by Mab Graves and tattooed by Joshua Whitten in Sherri’s hometown of Tyler, TX. There is an obvious resemblance between the tattooed character and Sherri herself — she has had her hair every color of the rainbow, but pink is one of her favorites. (more…)
Artist Shaun Kama covered Ash Costello’s old ohm tattoo with a colorful orange jack-o-lantern pumpkin in October 2013. Halloween in her favorite holiday and she likes dressing up like it’s Halloween everyday.
Singer-songwriter Mary Lambert has a half-sleeve tattoo on her upper left arm with colorful flowers and leaves. She had the tattoo done in July 2013 to cover up two smaller tattoos. It represents a garden for her grandmother and the rhododendrons are the state flower of Washington.
On the inside of Alexis Krauss’ right upper arm is a detailed blue sugar skull tattoo surrounded by orange flowers