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If got this tattoo in Bilbao, Spain. In a small shop of Santutxu called “Clandestine”.

Audrey Kawasaki’s “Annabelle”

Done by Jessica Ann White or JAW Tattoos at Reclamare Gallery and Custom Tattoo in Sacramento, CA

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Lyrics from a Kimya Dawson song, says “broken hearts hurt but they make you strong” Done by James Haun at Fatty’s Tattoo in DC.

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Artist: Paul Acker

My Gadsden Flag snake.
Done at Brookside Tattoo and Piercing.

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Dotwork backpiece | Brian Gomes

My very first tattoo. Dallas, Texas @ the House of Talent by Cece. I chose this, well because Odd Future is a very influential force in my life, their music inspires, it motivates me, I feel I have something in common with each of the members.

For the love of literature! :)

Done at Addicted to Ink in White Plains, NY by Joe. Awesome people there and he did such a great job! Pleased I am ;D

My cobweb bats tattoo on my left foot done and designed by the lovely Jack Hollow at Pelican Tattoo & Body Piercing in Hartford CT

This was my first tattoo, I got it 3 years ago, a few months after my mother passed away from breast cancer. I was 16 and her passing essentially broke me.

The flowers I chose were Anemones. Purple and pinks were her favourite colours and the pink also for breast cancer.

There’s this greek myth about the goddess Aphrodite and her mortal lover Adonis. Basically Ares, filled with jealousy kills the mortal. Heartbroken, Aphrodite carries her late lover’s body through the forest on her chariot, weeping.

When drops of his blood fell from the chariot to the earth, they mixed with the Goddess’ tears and upon hitting the earth, anemones grew.

Anemone means wind flower because the wind blows these flowers apart, spreading its seed throughout the land where they grow anew. The wind ends one life only to bring life to another through its actions. Death and rebirth. Beauty from pain. Happiness from sorrow.

I don’t mourn the death of my mother, my best friend. I celebrate how she persevered through 12 years of battle with the disease, rose from Barrister to Senior Council to a Judge of the Circuit Court in Ireland.

It was a terrible thing to happen to anyone, but I live to see the flowers grow from these tears and these wounds.

Done by Rob Mulligan of Colour Works Tattoo Studio, Dublin.

my first tattoo. It means “faith in God” in kriolu, a language spoken in the tropical island of Cape Verde where all my family is from. I wanted something that was dedicated to my culture, so everyone knows where I came from. I am moving to D.C. next week and really wanted a tattoo bad. This quote is something my grandmothers and my mom always says. It is a dedication to them mostly. I have been to several tattoo places and have always chickened out, one day I just decided to go. It was done by a man named Doug in a small tattoo place in New York City! it means the world to me

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Artist: Alvaro Flores

Frustra - “En vano” (in vein)

Frustra - “En Vano” (In vain)

Done by Dave @ Dragonfly Studio and Gallery in Reading, PA.

Design copied from one of my watercolor paintings.

“He’ll be coming and going” he had said. “One day you’ll see him and another you won’t. He doesn’t like being tied down—and of course he has other countries to attend to. It’s quite all right. He’ll often drop in. Only you mustn’t press him. He’s wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”