Repost: Whole Lotta Rosary

This post originally appeared here, three years ago on March 6, 2008:

So it was another Saturday night in Bay Ridge and we had just got home from a friend's house. The kids were getting ready for bed. My youngest, Shayna, was having a birthday party the next day. We were pretty much set on the party planning, but needed gift bags for party favors.

I headed off to the 24-hour Duane Reade, six blocks away. By the time I arrived, there were already a half-dozen things added to my list. I grabbed a cart (although in Brooklyn they refer to it as a wagon) and was somewhere in the haircare section (shampoo for kids) when two young ladies walked by.

I had brought, as always, my Tattoosday folder with fliers in it, along with my camera, despite the fact that it was cold and in the thirties. But one can never be too prepared. These women were dressed for the clubs, coatless, bare-armed, and high-heeled. I spotted a tattoo on one of the women's feet.

I thought about asking her then and there about it, but I balked. These were two attractive young women in a drugstore late at night and I wasn't up for the challenge of being scrutinized as a creep.

Besides, I reasoned, it's only a rosary tattoo. Nothing extraordinary about that. Let me just leave them alone, I thought, they're obviously headed to some club.

But I ran into them/passed them a couple more times and, each time, I cursed myself more for being too cowardly to ask. So what if its just a rosary? Here at Tattoosday, it's not just about the ink, but about the story behind the ink.

I was at the front part of the store, trying to decide which individually-wrapped candies would be the least damaging to my children's teeth (for the party bags), when they headed my way, on their way out of the store. I figured, "what the heck?" and asked the young lady about her tattoo.



This was not the first tattoo I took a picture of. Before I knew it, woman said "Wanna see a sick tattoo?" And she turned around and lifted the back of her shirt up to reveal, indeed, this very sick tattoo:



Wow. Sweet. Which just goes to show, Tattoosday Rule #1: Don't dismiss the "ordinary" tattoo. There may be extraordinary ones just out of sight!

Her name is Layla and she was very cool. I snapped the above shot and then asked if I could take the rosary one as well, since that's what caused me to stop and talk to her.

Both were inked by her friend Vito at King's County Tattoo Co.. She got the rosary modeled after Nicole Richie's tattoo. The awesome lower back piece she inked when she was 19. She was young and rebelling against her parents, she said, and she didn't want a small lower back tattoo like everyone else had, she wanted something big and bold. Check out this detail:


It's beautiful work.

I noticed that she also had a cross on her left forearm and I gave my standard Tattoosday patter: check out the blog in a few days, and feel free, if you like what you see, to email me if she wants to share more of her ink with the world.

I turned to her friend, , and said, naively, and when you get a tattoo, let me know, and I'll put yours on too. She proudly replied, "I have seven already." Silly me, and then I noticed the rosary on her right foot.



Like Layla, Lisa's rosary tattoo is inspired by Nicole Richie's. In fact, Lisa said, hers is an exact replica of Nicole Richie's (below):


I extended the same offer: if you like what you see on the blog, let me know, we can always have you come back as a recurring tattoo feature.

I thanked both ladies and they headed out while I went back to searching for the elusive gift bags.

Thanks to Layla and Lisa for their willingness to put their night on hold, and sharing their tattoos!

Henna Tattoo Creative Art

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Examination of the Ariel as a suspect as a porn video makers are finished. The owner's full name Nazriel Irham it even had to sign the Minutes of the examination (BAP). The police investigation is now transferred to the Luna Maya and Dance Cut. Friday (2 / 7) Luna Maya undergo Criminal Investigation Police. Checking in from 10.00 pm and ended at 19.30 pm.
After review, the film Cinta Silver Stars came out through the Criminal Investigation escort through the front door with some members of the police and legal representatives. Journalists who tried to interview can only bite so. Let alone speak. Luna tried to escape by using a veil covering her face. As a result, not a word out of his mouth. Luna told reporters only a small smile before he left the headquarters with a silver Mercedes.
Alfrian Bondjol, one of the power law Luna explained that his client was very cooperative during the tests is quite tiring. "This proves that luna was never difficult, especially absent. Our clients are cooperative. " Said lawyers who familiarly called Boy's.
Examination of the luna includes examining anatomy, sempel voice and odontology. How did it go? "Identical 99.9 percent, according to research Roy Suryo," said Head of Police Headquarters Senior Commissioner Marwoto passenger told reporters on Friday (2 / 7) then. Although 99.9 percent identical, Luna's status is still as witnesses.

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Luna Maya has recorded a dolphin tattoo on left hip most public attention. Time to get out that Luna had to remove the tattoo. But the news is now broken. "Tattoos dolphins are still there. We already check to Singapore. The picture was still there ko, "said a police source.
Photos Dolphins - Dolphins had dragged the name of Kent, owner of Kent Studio Bandung that serve the manufacture of tattoo. Reportedly, the tattoo was made in Kent studio. But the newspaper argued that in Kent. "It only issue. I did not get a tattoo on the body luna Maya. "Decisive Kent when in contact recently. Kent admitted surprise when he heard his name called - called Luna tattoos on the body. "I'm so confused, ko disangkut pautkan," he said disappointed. Men who profilenya never published a special magazine issue Austaria tattoos were admitted, four years ago, Luna had come Kestudionya. He's there not to ask tattooed. "Just look at the work - I work alone. So I reiterate, I never tattooing Luna, "he said. Until now, Kent claimed not questioned by the authorities related tattoos Luna.

Tattoosday Weekend Recap, March 4, 2011

Mixing it up here on Tattoosday as I anxiously look toward spring and the third annual Tattooed Poets Project.

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One of the things I've taken to doing from time to time is googling "tattoo" and watching the "real time" feed, mostly tweets that appear and get swept up by the google logarithms.

How else would I have found about DMBTattoo.com, billed as "A Dave Matthews Band Tattoo Collection Site"? This reminds me, of course of Tattooed Everything, a site dedicated to Pearl Jam tattoos, which seems to have vanished.

Of course, this parlays into my Tattoosday scenario of a semi-regular feature, yet to be launched, called Garden Ink, which will be posts that stem from my close proximity, Monday through Friday, to Madison Square Garden.

Rather than spotting ink, the idea is to seek it out, on days that there are events at the Garden, the world's most famous arena. This means approaching people who are not necessarily visibly inked and asking them if they have tattoos specific to whoever is at the Garden that night. I did  this once, successfully, here, with a Green Day fan. The idea recently resurfaced when the 'hood was besieged by Little Monsters waiting to see Lady Gaga.

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And finally, just when I thought I'd seen it all with Ed Hardy lighters, earlier this week I found, wait for it, Ed Hardy Hand Sanitizer! It actually smells not half bad.

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Examples of Design Drawings Before Tattoo