4 posts tagged “tattoo”

I've always been a hat person, but it wasn't until recently that I had the opportunity to steal my friend Jeremy's baseball cap to wear around town.  In the proccess of looking into hot caps for my hiiz-ead, I rediscovered the baseball caps designed by tattoo artist Ed Hardy. 

I'm the type that is usually a little behind the times in trends.  I remember hearing about Ed Hardy about a year ago when I was applying to work at small fashion boutique.  Now that everyone knows about him and he's exploded in all the hot shops, all the coolest Ed Hardy lids are sold out.  I'm totally digging the Japanese Tattoo hats like the Koi and the Tiger.  Maybe I'll snab one when I manage to fix up my account money after denting it deeply following the iPhone business. 

I myself do not sport any tattoo's on my body, but do consider getting one sometime in the future.  Recently, I determined that my favorite idea was to get a tattoo based on one of Katsushika Hokusai's woodblock prints.  I really love traditional Asian art, and Hokusai's landscapes are really beautiful. 

Plus, after reading Snakes and Earrings for my Japanese popular culture and literature class, I was really enchanted and interested with the motives behind body modification.  If I had to get a tattoo tomorrow, I'd get a reiteration of these cherry blossoms, starting midway on the left side of my torso and climbing up right underneath my bust.  I'm positive it would be elaborate and painful, which is why I have to think about it some more.

Additionally, someone who I really look up to and love has a small tattoo that she designed herself.  She is an artist that has inspired me and supported me throughout my artistic endeavors, which makes me consider that I should design the tattoo I choose to put on my body as she did.  That will take some more thinking, as I do not know what I would design.  My boyfriend at one point considered getting a tattoo of a drawing I did long ago, but his policy is to get a tattoo everytime he goes to a different country (He has three from Italy, the UK, and Jamaica).  Plus, I'd like to be with him if he ever chooses to do it, and I have yet to be with him on a traveling extravaganza.