Clover Tattoos

Thinking about getting a tattoo that represents good fortune? Well your in luck my friend, because this picture gallery holds some of the best looking clover tattoos around.

Clover tattoos, often with four leafs and called shamrocks are perhaps the most internationally well known symbol of good luck and overall prosperity.

Probably the single most popular Celtic tattoo in the book, clover tattoos are sometimes combined with other lucky objects such as dice, horseshoes, playing cards and the number 13, which is also considered to be an unlucky number by many.

Not surprisingly, clover tattoos are almost always drawn using green ink, unless you're a rebel.

Clover tattoos look fabulous on any part of the body and blend nicely with other designs.

It seems like the majority of shamrock tattoos are very small in size, however some people like to make them a large centerpiece of a larger design.

Small World, Tattoosday-Style

I have a few days off and was buying some milk at the grocery store when an older gentleman in line behind me complimented me on the tiger tattoo on my calf, which has been well-documented here, in this initial post, and subsequent ones.

The gentleman asked who the artist was and mentioned his son was an artist as well. "Who?" I asked, and he told me, Mike Perfetto, aka Designs by Michael Angelo in Brooklyn. I gave him a flier and he introduced himself as Ralph Perfetto, our Democratic District Leader here in Bay Ridge.

I know you're likely thinking, "Nice story, Bill, but is it really that much of a small world coincidence?" Actually, yes, because my backlog had brought me to posting a couple of tattoos on Peter, who I had last seen at the Matty No Times benefit back on July 17. One of those tattoos, you guessed it, is by Mike Perfetto.

Let's take a look:

Pete also shared a tattoo on his leg by legendary Brooklyn artist Tony Polito. As you can see, Pete has quite a collection of ink, and he takes pride in the work he has from "old school" New York artists tattooing in the American Traditional style.

Pete explained that "Old Calcutta" was a nickname for Tony's shop from the early '80s to the mid '90s because of the high intensity atmosphere of the shop and the people who were there.

Thanks to Peter for sharing his tattoos with us here on Tattoosday (again and again). Peter has been working hard at New York Hardcore Tattoo on Stanton Street. They have recently remodeled the shop and are working hard on producing quality art on the denizens of New York City. Be sure to stop in and meet their crew.

Women's whole body tattoo. Not wearing underwear 4

Women's whole body tattoo. Not wearing underwear 4

 Women's whole body tattoo. Not wearing underwear 4

Flower tattoo designs

Flower tattoo designs

POPULAR TATTOO DESIGNS-FLOWER TATTOO DESIGNS

Flower tattoo designs are a hit amongst majority of the women. It is due to the fact, that there are various kinds of flowers that can be made as tattoo. Also, the flower tattoos are a great symbol of showing femininity. Particularly, if a female has strapping facial features and small hair for matching, flower tattoo designs would really look good and make individuals notice the softer side of a woman.

There is an assortment of flower design tattoos to pick from and few a times; selecting one becomes difficult and confusing. One high in demand flower design, which is inked, is rose. Along with its popularity, rose is the first flower to be utilized as tattoo. The best part about this flower is that it can be formed in any tattoo design shape or even, can be fusioned with any other symbol or pattern to make it more attractive. Cherry blossom, lily, lotus, are some other tattoo designs that are liked by many tattoo lovers, which stands for.

Flower tattoo designs

Flower tattoo designs

Apart from the choice of picking flower tattoo design, also you can choose the color of your tattoo. As tattoos are capable of including multitude of colors, individuals who want to have flower tattoo on their body can get inked preferred colors or simply go for the traditional colors.

While choosing the color of flower tattoo designs always keep in mind that every individual color denotes meaning. For instance red color signifies love and passion, pink means grace, admiration, and white depicts peace. Another worth noticing aspect about flower tattoo designs is that you can decide the stage of the flower. As all stages of flowers have distinctive symbolization, choosing the stage with care is important.

Flower tattoo designs

Flower tattoo designs

Lotus And Dragonfly Tattoo

Lotus And Dragonfly Tattoo

Letter Tattoo With Love Tattoo

Letter Tattoo With Love Tattoo

Under One Small Star - Two Tattoos from Anna

I met Anna earlier this month in Penn Station. I felt compelled to stop her when she walked by and I caught a glimpse of this amazing tattoo:

I love seeing ink that is new and original, and I had never seen a line of anything run up the length of a leg like this.

Anna explained that this was a line of poetry that reads "My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second" that she heard on a trip to Cambodia. Her group leader, Jan, had shared the poem, "Under One Small Star" by Polish Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska, and the verse meant a lot to her during her trip there. This one specific line really resounded with her, so she first "paid a Khmer translation site and then had a friend [she] made in Cambodia, Ponheary, check the translation just to make sure it was correct".

I love the international flavor of this tattoo - a poem originally in Polish, translated to English, then re-translated to Khmer, transcribed in flesh in America!

The line runs from top to bottom and was inked by Jason at Powerhouse Tattoo Company in Montclair, New Jersey.

The poem is reprinted in its entirety at the end of this post.

Since it is Tat-Tuesday, let's look at a second tattoo from Anna, this one on the back side of her right arm:

This is Joan of Arc, "a hero of mine," says Anna, who admires her from the feminist perspective and finds her an "unbelievably inspirational" historical figure.

This piece was tattooed by the wonderful Stephanie Tamez at New York Adorned. Stephanie's work has appeared previously on Tattoosday here.

Thanks again to Anna for sharing these two of her seven tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Under One Small Star

My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.
My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all.
Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due.
May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade.
My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.
My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first.
Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.
Forgive me, open wounds, for pricking my finger.
I apologize for my record of minuets to those who cry from the depths.
I apologize to those who wait in railway stations for being asleep
today at five a.m.
Pardon me, hounded hope, for laughing from time to time.
Pardon me, deserts, that I don't rush to you bearing a spoonful of water.
And you, falcon, unchanging year after year, always in the same cage,
your gaze always fixed on the same point in space,
forgive me, even if it turns out you were stuffed.
My apologies to the felled tree for the table's four legs.
My apologies to great questions for small answers.
Truth, please don't pay me much attention.
Dignity, please be magnanimous.
Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread
from your train.
Soul, don't take offense that I've only got you now and then.
My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once.
My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man.
I know I won't be justified as long as I live,
since I myself stand in my own way.
Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words,
then labor heavily so that they may seem light.

--Wislawa Szymborska