Despite great inkspotting weather earlier this week, I found myself walking in Chelsea at lunch, marveling at the absence of tattoos.
I like to remind myself from time to time that Tattoosday is 70% tattoos and 30% about finding them.
So, I had walked down to one of our vendor's offices at lunch (13 blocks away) to get some forms we needed. I was on the elevator heading back downstairs when I noticed the woman next to me (who worked for the company I had just visited) had this interesting set of tattoos:
On the street, I may not have stopped her, but in an elevator, it seemed foolish not to.
Danielle had these tattoos (one of three total) inked at a shop in Long Beach, New York. She didn't recall the name of the shop or the artist who did the work, but she did mention that her fiance has a matching set of the three colored stars on his left bicep.
These stars and signs, tattooed on Danielle's inner right wrist, are decorative and, the three symbols represent Danielle, her mother and her sister.
From left to right, the three insignia stand for Libra (her mother's astrological sign), Gemini (for her sister) and Aries (her own Zodiac affiliation).
What I have found interesting about astrological tattoos, is that each sign of the Zodiac has a simple line representation, but that these symbols can be modified artistically in so many different ways. The whole range of astrological signs as interpreted by subjects of this site can be seen here.
Thanks to Danielle for sharing this cool tattoo with us here at Tattoosday!
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(1158)
-
▼
June
(97)
- Celebrities Who Own Private Islands
- Porsche Museum
- Completely Healed Tattoo
- Jubail Celebrates the Midnight Mile
- Tattooing-Pleasant Satisfaction
- Edelweiss PC Casemod
- Pandaphants
- Where The Wild Thing Tattoo Is
- New Tattoo Ngelu
- Jared Shares His Vegan Tattoo
- Today's Tattoo Designs
- Tattoosday Boxcars: A Leonine Tattoo and Wearing O...
- WTF Were They Thinking Tattoos
- Gina's Mayan Design
- Mark's Gypsy Tattoo Pays Tribute to the Female Sin...
- Creative Soap Designs
- Best Music resources for bloggers collected on wik...
- Art From Vinyl Records
- Sarah Shoulders Her Slavic Heritage
- 2009 Aerography Festival in Moscow
- My Third Tattoo: A Hand Steeped in Faith
- Big D's Skin City Tattoos
- Tattoo-Complications of Tattooing
- Jake's Redd Foxx Tattoo Helps Us Celebrate Father'...
- Ashley's Trio of Tattoos
- Amy's Variation on a Sailor Jerry Classic
- World’s Famous Leaders In Youth
- La Tomatina - Biggest Tomato Fight Festival in Col...
- Nothing matters, except the mission.
- Smiley Happy Pinup
- A German Gypsy in New York City
- Channelling Jime
- Living Shadows
- Plane Gash (sorry)
- Not Ugly Bettie
- Hootthrob
- Perky Plumage
- Beautiful US Army Girls
- Mother Nature
- It's a mystery. Broken into a jigsaw puzzle. Wrapp...
- Hooty Wainthropp Investigates
- Hoot-Trick
- Something In My Rocket
- Two for Tattoosday: Some Traditional Work Imported...
- Street Dentists In Asia
- Get these notable Pop songs of BREAD from PostCard...
- Matt Wears His Heart (of Bacon) on His Sleeve
- Misfts Skull
- Mike's Tribute to His Thai Heritage
- A Dozen (or So) of Ed's Sixty-Eight (Approximately...
- Two Year Old Snake Charmers From India
- Batfan Tattoo Update
- John's Demon Sleeve
- Check Out My Post
- Bend Over and Cough
- It's such a waste when pretty things get broken
- Red Hoot Chili Peppers
- Giant Marionettes in France
- Real Street Fighter Wannabe
- Tattoos in the News - Friday Jones Fifth Avenue
- Audrey's Wrist Tattoos Keep Her Grounded
- Unusual and Creative Packaging Designs
- April sweet is coming in, let the feast of fools b...
- Under The SeaWeed
- Hello Sailor!
- Jason's Lucky Devil
- Snow Good
- Apple Birthday Cakes
- Photoshopped Eyes
- Brian's Amazing Angelic Ink
- Vince and a Word from John Keats
- Pepper's Apprentice
- Tattoo and silicone implants
- National Geographic's International Photography Co...
- Danielle's Stars and Signs Forever
- Sculptures On Buildings
- HootBeat
- Lucky Lady
- Your cheatin' hoots will tell on you
- Alex's East Indian Tribal Mask
- Tattoo Highway Contest #2
- Tattoos by Anita at Victim Tattoo
- Amazing Illustrations by Tiago Hoisel
- Mr Afghanistan Body Building Competition 2009
- Tattoorism: Josh Pays Tribute to the Verrazano Bridge
- Miaow!
- I'm crazy about... Well hey, I'm just crazy.
- Tire Shoes
- OctoMilf and The Bandit
- Alice and the Cheshire Cat in Manhattan
- Hootel California
- 35 Creative USB Flash Drives
- Michaela's Tattoo Illuminates a Life
- You have all these rules, and you think they'll sa...
- You didn't think I'd risk the battle for Gotham's ...
- Tikipedia
- Samantha Hoot
-
▼
June
(97)