Piercings & Tattoos

From looking into piercings, their placements and styles (and also having a few myself) besides the ring or bar they dont really tend to distort the body overly unless they are streched, such as ears and lips, this is where a gauge (thickness) of bar is increased over time to strech the piercing.

Tattoos:

Styles:

Tattoos are a very personal thing, most are completely unique and either drawn by the customer or are designed by an experienced tattoo artist, the one to the left is a baby koi fish i designed and had tattooed on my left shoulderblade, this photo was taken just as it was being finished (hence the blood), this tattoo is not 2 and a half years old and has not really changed in its design or colours, its standing up pretty well, its difficult to actually research tattoos untill i had an idea what i wanted my characters personalities to be like, there tattoos had to fit their personalities and style choices.

one of the things i knew was that they were going to be a couple that had been together through some ammount of hardship and would probably commemorate that with a tattoo of some kind so a match ing tattoo would obviously play a part with these two.

with the woman i wanted her tattoos to still show a certain ammont of femmininity and she may not be covered in them, this lack of tattoo coverage may also play part with the male he may only have a sleeve on one arm, it has yet to really be looked at.

tattoos bleed outwards after about ten years and so slightly blurry, or at least they used to, inks have come such a way that extremely desne thick inks exist that take longer to heal admittedly but done actually tend to face and bleed out all that much.

so many diffrent styles of tattoos exist nowadays, from the popular japanese styles and old school roses and daggers to tribal symbols, black and white, colour, lettering and names. instead of trying to explain all these diffrent styles i desided to create some mood boards and use sites such as tumblur and pintrest to have a look for interesting designs. none of the following photos belong to me.

Link to my pinterest:  http://pinterest.com/hevencide/tattoos/

Links to tublurs/pintrest boards i have looked through: http://fuckyeahgirlswithtattoos.tumblr.com/

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/tattoos
http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=tattoo
http://pinterest.com/jillymkev/tattoo/
http://pinterest.com/calla199/tattoo-s/
http://pinterest.com/silvichan/tattoo/
http://pinterest.com/tonewalk/tattoo-s/
http://pinterest.com/paegonzales/tattoo/