Tattoosday Boxcars: A Leonine Tattoo and Wearing One's Heart on One's Sleeve

I met Jeff and Jeanie in Penn Station as they were about to board an Amtrak train out of the city.I've been trying to come up with clever terms for different inkspotting phenomenon, basically creating my own lexicon.I'll call Jeff and Jeanie "boxcars". Meaning, I approached the two of them and gambled, asking them both to participate, and they came through. Like rolling two sixes on the dice (

Two Tattoos from Lara

Last Friday evening, on the steps of Penn Plaza, I spotted this simple tattoo on the right side of Lara's neck. It is the sign for someone born under the sign of Leo.Even though it was a simple astrological squiggle, I said hello anyway and, as often is the case, she had another tattoo to show me:Actually, she has five altogether, but this one, the word "heart" inscribed on the inside of her left

Mercedes Honors Family Members with her Ink

Mercedes doesn't remember the specific shops where she got her ink, but each piece honors members of her family, both living and gone.Mercedes is a make-up artist that has very close ties to her family, and these relationships have manifested themselves on her tattoos.The piece I first noticed, on her right arm, was this one:This is actually comprised of two parts, the rose and the ankh. The rose

Two of Tawni's Tattoos

It seemed appropriate to take pictures of two of Tawni's tattoos on Two-for-Tattoosday, and she was accommodating.The first piece was the one that caught my eye initially, a snake on her left bicep that actually represents an "astrology marriage," in her words between Eastern and Western astrology.The tattoo represents that she was born in the Year of the Snake and, it is positioned to mimic the