Body Images

TATTOOS!

God I love them. I love the way they look on everybody’s skin. It doesn’t matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, Asian, or a mix, a tattoo will look awesome on you.

I have 5 tattoos on various parts of my body, and all but one of my tattoos has a meaning.

This was my first tattoo. I got it for my 20^th birthday. It’s kind of hard to explain what it is, but the best way to explain is: it is the symbol from the books Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Count Olaf, the bad guy, is described with a tattoo of what looks like an eye on his left ankle. From afar, it looks like an eye. If you look closely, it is actually the letters V.F.D. and those letters come up throughout the entire series of books.

The reason I got this tattoo is because I love books, and I liked the idea of getting something that was important in a book series.  I would also love to get something from the Harry Potter series, like the Deathly Hallows symbol!

 

 

 

This tattoo I got randomly the same day I got my tongue pierced ( I can talk about my piercings in my next blog post). This is the only tattoo that doesn’t have a real meaning. After I got it I decided to add a meaning to it, but it wasn’t the initial reason I got it. The meaning I put behind it was the bond I sort of have with one of my sisters. She can be the biggest bitch and the most selfish person, but we’re sisters no matter what.

 

 

 

This tattoo is the biggest I have so far. It took almost three hours to complete, and by the end I was in tears from the overworking of my skin, but it was well worth it. I got it during Spring Break when I was in Florida. I had planned out this tattoo for a while, and it wasn’t what I wanted originally, but it came out wonderfully.

The flag is the Costa Rican flag. It is half of my heritage, and I am so proud of where I came from. I got that flag over the other flags of my ethnicities because I wanted to honor my dad. We don’t have the best relationship, but he is my dad. The other big part of the tattoo is the roses under the flag, which is the part that honors my mom.

 

This is my math tattoo. I have a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. If you were to graph this equation with a graphing calculator or a computer, it would graph a heart; that’s why there is a heart underneath it. If you look closely, there is an infinity symbol in the middle of the heart. That’s another tribute to math.

I love math, there is no other way of putting it. i want to learn everything about it, even though I know that is impossible. I don’t have the mastery of anything, and I really wish I did, but I will continue to learn all I can.

 

 

 

This tattoo is my most recent tattoo. I am a very superstitious person unfortunately. A few things I believe in are karma, the zodiac (to an extent) and fate/destiny. I was randomly reading on the website StumbleUpon about palm lines. Apparently one of my lines shows that I am unhappy. So the website gave a suggestion.

It suggested putting a Chinese symbol, the double happiness symbol, in as many places in my life as possible. So I figured what better way to have the symbol around me all the time than to put it on me permanently? The symbol is usually used for Chinese New Year and Chinese weddings. (As a side note, I am not actually Chinese).

 

 

 

Now that we have seen all of the tattoos I already have, I want to briefly talk about the tattoos I still want.

Here is a quick list, but I can always explain why I want each one if anyone cares:

1)    Pocket watch with a chain

2)    Cat/kitten

3)    Lyrics to a song (Creep by Radiohead, Don’t You by Simple Minds, etc)

4)    Something from the Harry Potter series

5)    Fairy/Tinkerbell

This is probably the longest post I’m ever going to write, but thank you for bearing with me and reading to the end. I hope you enjoyed the pictures, and if you have any questions, please leave a comment and I will answer them!

That’s it for this post. Until next time- I’m Charlotte Carmichael and thanks for reading.