Unless you have been concerned with news of far greater import (in which case, you probably wouldn't be reading a tattoo blog now, would ya?) you are familiar with serious and potentially world-altering stories making their way across the front pages of the dishtowels we call newspapers:
Tiger Woods enjoys sex. Gays cannot marry in New York but in Houston they run this town. And Rihanna, Miley, and Carey Hart have new tattoos that garner more headlines than the Afghan buildup.
The real news is how people with money, handlers, and access still chose to getdumbass less-than-artful tattoos.
Miley Cyrus tattooed "Just Breathe" across her supple, beautiful, unspoiled, milky-white....whoa, Bobby, snap out of it...
The real news is how people with money, handlers, and access still chose to get
Miley Cyrus tattooed "Just Breathe" across her supple, beautiful, unspoiled, milky-white....whoa, Bobby, snap out of it...
Now, I don't mean to weigh in on the rights and wrongs of Miley's tattoo. Instead, I want to focus on how tattooing has become equal fodder for news as things as important as adultery and human rights or, in the case of celebrity gossip, as silly and unimportant as nip-slips and celebrity upskirts.
Consider just how many stories have discussed, in glorious detail, Miley's tattoo, its legality, placement, meaning, and other tattoo options she could've chosen.
Then, consider Rihanna making the news again for yet another piece of silly, slap-dash tattooing. Rih-Rih had her personal motto inked onto her neck backwards, so that she might read it in a mirror. Like an ambulance, these tattoos have a siren's blare to get out of the way of someone who gets tattooed at 2AM and lacks impulse control.
[Another accident: Jake Gyllenhaal who recently got a Steelers tattoo [Faux tattoo] on the small of his back. The fake is about as quality as the placement.]
Or Carey Hart (why is he famous again? oh yeah), who's married to Pink, immortalizing his wife as a Dia de los Muertos skull (shown right). Is he still pissed over the "So What" lyrics?
Then, consider Rihanna making the news again for yet another piece of silly, slap-dash tattooing. Rih-Rih had her personal motto inked onto her neck backwards, so that she might read it in a mirror. Like an ambulance, these tattoos have a siren's blare to get out of the way of someone who gets tattooed at 2AM and lacks impulse control.
[Another accident: Jake Gyllenhaal who recently got a Steelers tattoo [Faux tattoo] on the small of his back. The fake is about as quality as the placement.]Or Carey Hart (why is he famous again? oh yeah), who's married to Pink, immortalizing his wife as a Dia de los Muertos skull (shown right). Is he still pissed over the "So What" lyrics?
I wish newspapers, tabloids and gossip magazines would start rating this things they way they do the outfits celebrities wear. This is, of course, the appropriate destination for such news. It does not, however, belong in serious papers and news sources.
We have a new President, two old wars, a staggering economy and Predators to catch. Why waste our newspaper ink with made-up scandals about personal body art choices?
We have a new President, two old wars, a staggering economy and Predators to catch. Why waste our newspaper ink with made-up scandals about personal body art choices?
Way to go, tattoo world, you have become your own little scandal.
According to the article you linked, the Jake Gyllenhaal tattoo is fake, so the badness of it is probably a joke.
The one reason to watch celebrities is to pick up tips on how to look good and dress well. Then they fail us by going out and getting these shabby tattoos that even the ugliest people don't deserve.
Whats wrong with the muertos portrait exactly? Maybe its tacky to get a portrait of your wife, but the quality and workmanship of that tattoo is much higher than the other examples.
Yup, the Jak G is a fake -- and he couldnt even do that right!
i never thought id say it but, GO Miley Cyrus!
althought he down side is now tweens will be poring into the shops wanting ink and the less-then-ethical inkers out there will rake in the cash in buckets. enough to buy bling, guns and influence to drive our industry deeper into the cesspool.
Go Miley, but couldnt you have waited until you were 18?!?
Nicely written observation and very timely. I hope this article gets widely read...
I heard about Rihanna's tat. I...how do I say this, I like the idea of the backwards sentence, but her motto is lame.
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