Tattoo Doocuments: 2009-11-15

Shom's Chakra

I met Shom very briefly as he was about to board a train at Penn Station.

Aside from shoulder pieces and Sanskrit text circling his upper left arm, he has a couple of other tattoos, including this one on his inner left forearm:

This piece represents one of the many chakra for meditation.

It was inked at Jinx Proof Tattoo in Washington, D.C. Work from that shop has appeared previously here.

Shom had to board his train before I could get more information, but I express sincere thanks for his brief participation here on Tattoosday!

The get up !! check out the NY tattoo shop and the waiting area , we set up shop out here on the east coast and customized our hotel suite. I am always blessed when repeat customers come back in to get more work done and this time two of my favorite clients came through and I got to add on and extend previous work that I had started.

I did a press day hitting up the big dogs then i knocked out 2 canvases for for the NY tattoo sutie. I grabbed a bite at bar pitti, headed over to the famous NY artwalk hosted by Alec balwin and Richard Gere. The homie futura was celebrating his birthday so I rolled through to hang out with the man himself, it was good to catch up with stay high 149 and Lee, just another day in the City.

Drew's Samoan Circle

I met Drew in Penn Station and he shared this, one of his two tattoos:

It's a cool design that he saw in an encyclopedia and took to an artist at State of the Art Tattooing in Southampton, New Jersey.

Drew ascribed his own meanings to the piece, creating his own interpretation of the designs.

The main circles he regards as two pinwheels, spinning in different directions. These two, as a whole, represent progression, as life moves forward.

Also, along the edges, in addition to some traditional design aspects, Drew pointed out two half-circles and four quarter-circles. These fragmented wholes represent the realms of dreams and realities.

By ascribing his own meaning and understanding of the tattoo and its elements, Drew makes the impersonal design (out of a book) more personal and special.

Thanks to Drew for sharing his tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Here are a couple of fliks and videos from the Press event we had the other night for the G Shock release. Thanks to JaeBueno and Karmaloop..

Rihanna Tattoos

Now we will feature the various tattoos of young talented Barbados born singer, Rihanna.

Rihanna has a tremendous passion for tattoo artwork, some might even say its an addiction, so lets take a look at her 13 tattoos.

Some of Rihanna's tattoos include:

Small musical note on left ankle.
Pisces zodiac tattoo behind her right ear.
A star inside her left ear.
The roman numerals XI IV LXXXVI on her left shoulder.
Sanskrit prayer going down her hip.
Small skull and crossbones with pink bow on her lower leg.
Shhh... on her right index finger.
Love on her let middle finger.
Arabic phrase on her ribcage area, which read Freedom is God.

Rihanna Tattoos

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Rebecca's Reiki Symbols of Healing

Last week I met Rebecca, who was waiting for an Amtrak train in Penn Station.

She had these tattoos on her inner wrists:

I recognized that they were kanji, but I didn't know that they were reiki symbols.

Reiki is a Japanese healing art, and Rebecca is a certified reiki practitioner.

As part of her certification and training, she studied enough to know that these symbols are accurate and refer to graphic representations of healing. Her right wrist speaks to long distance healing, and her left wrist refers to balance and healing.

Since reiki practitioners work with their hands, it seemed fitting that she had these symbols on her wrists.

She noted, as my wife has told me about her wrist tattoo, that the pain was very intense on this part of her body and that she passed out not once, but twice, in the course of having these tattoos inked over two sittings.

The tattoos were done at Gothic Tattoo & Body Piercing in New Hampshire.

Thanks to Rebecca for sharing her healing tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Hayden Panettiere Tattoos

Here we have the beautifully talented Hollywood actress of both the small and big screens, Hayden Panettiere.

Hayden Panettiere has two tattoos which we know of, including her much publicized misspelled tattoo that reads "Vivere senza rimipianti" in Italian, which translates "to live without regrets".

Unfortunately for Hayden, her tattoo reads "rimipianti" instead of "rimpianti," adding an extra "i."

She also has a tiny tattoo on her right ankle, of the zodiac sign of Leo.

Checkout these photos of her tattoos below.