Nicko McBrain Asian Tattoos

Nicko McBrain is a great English musician, best recognized as the drummer of heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

Nicko McBrain has a pair of Asian themed tattoos, one on each arm. The designs appear to be a dragon and samurai warrior.

Misty May-Treanor Lower Back and Shoulder Tattoos

Misty May-Treanor American professional volleyball player, perhaps best known for winning the gold medal at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics alongside her teammate Kerri Walsh.

Misty May-Treanor has a pair of tattoos, including the Roman numeral 5 along with her grandmothers initials on her lower back.

The gold medalist also has her mothers initials along with a small angel, located on her left shoulder.

Maxwell Celtic Arm Tattoo

Maxwell is a fabulous American singer-songwriter and producer, perhaps best known for albums including Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite, Embrya, and BLACKsummers'night.

Maxwell is confirmed to have a single tattoo on his right shoulder, which is celtic in nature and appears to be an umbrella or perhaps a mushroom design.

Cat Tattoos

Choosing Cat Tattoos Designs

Cat Tattoos come in a number of popular varieties. One type of design is the "cartoon" style image. It usually will have some other kind of play or mischievous theme - which is often seen in the eyes, or facial expressions of a cat design.

Another design shows "snapshots" of types of pictures of cats, which usually will resemble a pencil drawing. Not many colors used, as an outline and shade are often black and gray. Although the eyes are often filled with bright colors, because this is a very peculiar aspect of cat tattoo.

A-line silhouette of a cat, often filled with black - and has a white space the eye - is also common to have tattoos cat. It can be placed on a knife-shoulder to find a tattoo seductive, feminine, and who can create a lot of mysterious intrigue. For sweet cat tattoo, you can choose to have a "hello kitty" type design, or possibly a small kitten image. This cute tattoos often set the scene of a cat chasing a butterfly, which creates opportunities for other graphics to be placed into your design.

Cherry Tattoos

Cherry Tattoo for Woman

Cherry Tattoos are very popular among women, especially as a symbol that can express femininity and sexuality. They usually can be seen in sections of the body such as the lower hips, lower back, shoulder blades, breast and even in the groin area.

Cherries seen as objects of lust, fertility and desire. The cherry, deep red-ripe is a woman's fertility and her feminine ways. It is a symbol of purity when it was still depending on the branch. Cherry is also a slang term for a virgin, which can be another symbolic meaning associated with tat. Type of cherry design you choose can also change the symbolism.

But how you choose to have it inked, both fantastic and sweet, old school or tense, there are design choices are countless to choose from. You are not limited to this variation is mentioned, they are only the most common style and what they represent. Women choose cherry tattoo not only because of their personal meaning, but also for their flexibility in size and capability that will occur almost anywhere on the body.

Masuimi Max Dragon Flower Tattoos

Masuimi Max is a mesmerizingly stunning American model and actress, known for appearing in numerous magazines and music videos, also featured in the movie XXX: State of the Union and The Devil's Muse.

Masuimi Max has a wealth of tattoos, including an extensive design on her back of a black dragon and several flowers.

She also has closely matching red dragon tattoos on each arm.

Amélie Mauresmo Angel Tattoo

Amélie Mauresmo is a fabulously talented former professional tennis player, with a career record of 544–226, she is best known for winning two Grand Slam singles titles and for once holding the number 1 ranking.

Amélie Mauresmo is known to have a single tattoo on her left shoulder, a small angel holding a olive branch.

Ana Matronic Computer Tattoo

Ana Matronic is a fantastic American singer-songwriter and musician, known as the lead singer of rock band Scissor Sisters, and for albums such as Ta-Dah and Night Work.

Ana Matronic has been spotted with a single tattoo located on her right shoulder, which appears to be bionic circuitry, including wires and other hardware.

from: Nick
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM
subject: unknown calf

Hi there,

My brother got this tattoo on his calf many years ago, has no idea what it means.

Can you help????

Thanks, Love the blog.

Nick



First of all, the character is not correct. It is either missing a stroke in the left radical or having one extra. The intended character could be:

枠 means "frame; spindle, spool, reel".

or,

粋 means "pure".

from: Nick
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM
subject: unknown calf

Hi there,

My brother got this tattoo on his calf many years ago, has no idea what it means.

Can you help????

Thanks, Love the blog.

Nick



First of all, the character is not correct. It is either missing a stroke in the left radical or having one extra. The intended character could be:

枠 means "frame; spindle, spool, reel".

or,

粋 means "pure".

This was posted in Checkoutmyink.com:


http://www.checkoutmyink.com/tattoos/inkdazfukaz/tattoo-3

Too bad 愛 is mirrored.

This was posted in Checkoutmyink.com:


http://www.checkoutmyink.com/tattoos/inkdazfukaz/tattoo-3

Too bad 愛 is mirrored.

from: Pat B.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:34 PM
subject: Brad the Art Guy : Business is steady.

I'm in Hong Kong now and in my class we're looking at Chinese folk religion at the moment, so I went looking for a picture of Laozi and found this ... thought you might enjoy it.

Blog: Brad the Art Guy
Post: Business is steady.
Link: http://bradtheartguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/business-is-steady.html

"There was a man in North Carolina who got me to draw a portrait of Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, which he had transferred to his arm by a talented tattoo artist."

Brad the Art Guy's rendition of 道德經 looks nothing like the real thing.

from: Pat B.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:34 PM
subject: Brad the Art Guy : Business is steady.

I'm in Hong Kong now and in my class we're looking at Chinese folk religion at the moment, so I went looking for a picture of Laozi and found this ... thought you might enjoy it.

Blog: Brad the Art Guy
Post: Business is steady.
Link: http://bradtheartguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/business-is-steady.html

"There was a man in North Carolina who got me to draw a portrait of Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, which he had transferred to his arm by a talented tattoo artist."

Brad the Art Guy's rendition of 道德經 looks nothing like the real thing.

from: P. McKown
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:32 PM
subject: Academic citation

Hi Tian, I'm an undergraduate at an American university and was so inspired by your website that I decided to write a research paper about Chinese textual tattoos. As I was combing through an article looking for additional sources for my paper I noticed that your website was mentioned. It's an article called "The Blood-Stained Text in Translation: Tattooing, Bodily Writing, and Performance of Chinese Virtue" by Daphne Lei, which I've included as an attachment. Your website is mentioned in the second entry in the end notes.

Keep up the great work!

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Daphne P. Lei, University of California, Irvine - The Blood-Stained Text in Translation: Tattooing, Bodily Writing, and Performance of Chinese Virtue (PDF) Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 99–128, ISSN 0003-549. © 2009 by the Institute for Ethnographic Research (IFER) a part of the George Washington University. All rights reserved.