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Best Tattoo Designs: Death Before Decaf
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This has to be one of the best tattoo designs ever for the “gotta have my cuppa” set. Okay, I have heard that I am a tad grumpy before I get my shot of morning Joe, but this guy has me all beat to heck! I mean, you have to be one of those died in the wool coffee fanatics to get a tattoo about your love of the drug of choice.
But then again, when the tat looks this good, I might even consider it. Hey – don’t get me wrong. I do think this is one of the best tattoo designs I have seen for coffee lovers of all stripes. What about you folks out there? Anyone got a tat about your love of….(fill in the blank). I bet there are all kinds of ‘em out there.
Share folks – what is your tattoo or the best tattoo design you have seen that is all about a personal passion. Seems to me most tattoos touch on this in one way or another, but I am talking about some really creative ones, here.
Craziest Tattoos: California Carrot Lady
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“A 35-carrot nut! Woman so obsessed with vegetable she’s covered her body in tattoos of it!” – so says this online newspaper article.
I must admit that when I see articles like this I cringe, because they make both California and tattooing look bad. While I no longer live in California, I know how much I have always hated those “look at what those crazy folks in California are doing now” kind of articles. As for the tattoo connection, I guess I should be used to the assumption people make about tattoos, but I never really like to let the type-cast of tattoo wearers being “fringe folk” bother me. Either that, or I tend to wear that flag proudly!
So when I saw this article online in the British Globe and Mail about a gal who is obsessed with carrots and have more than a few carrot-themed tattoos, it really stopped me in mid-click. I guess there could be worse things to have an obsession about, and the tattoos are really pretty nice looking. Still, when anyone decides to have the tattoos be one topic only, I tend to think “obsession”, and I don’t mean the perfume!
But I had to share the cool looking carrot tattoos with all of you because – well they are really pretty nicely done. She hasn’t got any that look shabby and the ones she has are all nicely drawn, from what I can see of the pics. And they make me think of spring and growing things, which in my neck of the woods where it still snowed this week (at the end of March, no less!) is something we could all use a reminder about. So enjoy these carrot-themed spring tattoos!
Lana Del Rey Cover Art Tattoo
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As if this gal doesn’t have enough problems after her not so stellar performance on Saturday Night Live, it seems that the cover to her latest album is causing plenty of folks to get all stirred up. It seems that the picture on the cover art can be interpreted several ways, and some of them are not pretty.
The tattooed hand is what is causing all the controversy. It is obviously not her hand, and it appears to be a man’s hand. The tattoos are pretty awesome in and of themselves, although the one that is causing so much grief are the letters tattooed across his fingers. It seems to me that this gang tattoo style has become all the rage lately – with words of violence written across the knuckles or fingers of a hand. This particular tattooed word is only violent if you think the hand is threatening her. She says it is “feeling her pulse” but most folks think it could be putting a choke hold on her.
It can be hard to tell and she isn’t exactly someone who inspires confidence in her ability to choose a symbol that is at all promoting women, but I think some people are jumping to conclusions on this particular tattoo. The picture of the hand is above here, the whole album cover is below – let me know what you think.
A Pair of Honeymoon Celebrity Tattoos
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They may not be the best tattoo designs, but they sure are sweet! I feel like I should be standing on a red carpet with microphone in hand instead of clanking on this keyboard. These two are just about the absolute cutest Hollywood couple – and guess what? They have a set of matching tattoos to celebrate surviving their calamity-prone honeymoon. I guess they just were feeling sentimental about them, because here it is two years later and Channing is still telling the story.
Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan revealed that back in 2009 the couple had gotten matching tattoos that read as “side by side” in the native language. It was while the pair was having their too brief “mini-moon” back in 2009 that they both came down with food poisoning, one after the other. The best tattoo designs were chosen and it was decided on a few days after they recovered. Dewan’s tattoo is on her foot and Channing shows off his when displaying his ribcage for all to admire.
Zombie Boy is the Sexy Rick Genest
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If you saw Lady Gaga’s video “Born This Way” you couldn’t miss the amazing body and tattoo of Rick Genest, better known as “Zombie Boy” in the video world. It is kinda funny that someone could be so well known for his tattoos that it is hard to even imagine him without the facial tattoos that have made him so famous.
There have always been tattoo boys throughout history, often they got work in a circus or place like a circus to show off their tattoos. In many ways, it is almost a tradition to have someone in every era that is considered “the tattoo boy” of 
his time. I guess we could say that Rick is The Tattooed Man for our time. And instead of a circus, it’s the world of music video that has become the platform to show that off. But then, there are some that say that rock videos are like a circus, so it may just be the perfect place for the 21st Century Tattooed Man.
Personally, I could sit all day and check out the gorgeous tats that this man has covering every inch of his lovely body. I 
mean, when you do for a living what this guy does, you have to be in great shape. Because when the tattoos are out in all their glory there is nowhere to hide the body. You know they would not look as good if he wasn’t in such obviously great shape.
And for those who always kinda wondered what the guy looks like without the tattoos on his face, German style magazine Schon has done us the favor of using makeup to show us. I always thought he probably had to have great bones to pull off this amazing look, but who knew?
So enjoy my friends – because Zombie Boy or Rick Genest is still hot!
Cool Skull Tattoos
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We all know that the symbol of the skull has long been used to show that a place is dangerous or deadly. It is a symbol that can send shivers down your spine and have you looking over your shoulder. But we also have a long standing fascination with the symbol because the skull is us, truly us, stripped down to our essence.
Anyone who looks at a skull, a real skull, is both repelled and drawn to it at the same time. Who was the person that had this skull? Why is this skull here in the first place? There are always so many questions, even if it is a really old skull in a museum we want to know more because in this skull, at one time, resided everything that made that person who they are.
So it is no wonder that the skull has become the one symbol that you see everywhere in tattoo art. There are grinning skulls and flaming skulls and ones with flowers in the places where they should have eyes.
Skulls show up on tattoos from across the ages, on old sailors and on young girls. Who hasn’t at some time considered that classic skull and crossbones for their own tattoo? But no matter what kind of tattoo you are thinking about getting, a skull is bound to be one of the considerations.
Here are some really great skull tattoos that we think show off just what the potential could be for this classic tattoo symbol.
So if you have a skull tattoo – share. If you are thinking of getting a skull tattoo, do you know what you want? I would love to see a ton of really great skull tattoos here, shared amongst the tattoo community on this website.