Cultures worldwide associate the mighty dragon with mystical power and the unparalleled freedom to roam and do as they please. The dragon is an enduring phenomenon in traditional body art design and tattoos illustrating the modern pop culture of film, television, and video games, with distinctly different character traits and…
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“A semicolon is used when an author could’ve chosen to end their sentence but chose not to. The author is you, and the sentence is your life.” – Amy Bleuel The semicolon tattoo was popularized by Amy Bleuel, the founder of Project Semicolon who unfortunately lost her mental health battle…
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Succulent tattoos are some of the fastest growing plant and flower designs and are often linked to the concept of enduring love. At one stage there were only cactus tattoos, but the popularity and higher visibility of hardy succulents for plant growers and ink collectors means these plants are a…
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Alongside the words “smile now, cry later,” the smiling and weeping pair of theater masks are common design examples of the quintessentially Chicano tattoo. When Freddy Negrete first inked a “smile now, cry later” tattoo dedicated to the hard faces Mexican Americans had to wear in difficult circumstances, it is…
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“You know, if you’re lonely you feel you’ve been done down, it’s nice to have ‘And Still I Rise.'” – Maya Angelou Still I Rise script tattoos are extensions of the powerful 1978 poem by late African American poet Maya Angelou. While Angelou wrote of her harrowing personal background and…
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