Explaining Love in Tattoos

From BME’s love themed tattoo gallery, here’s two ways of talking about love. On the left we’ll start with a simple love letter, on Lil Miss Strange by Lucas in Beerse, Belgium. On the right is a tattoo by Mark at On Edge in The Netherlands, with a slightly more indepth explanation — “love is the reunification of the two halves of a split soul”.

Braille Tattoos

Te amo, ya vas lyublyu, ja cie kocham, eg elskar deg, kimi o ai shiteru, ani ohev at, ich liebe dich, je t’aime, ana behibak, ek is lief vir jou. You can say it so many ways, why not take on the curse of the paired tattoo?

By Jim Couey at Ink Fiend in San Jose, CA (the text is love and “one-four-three” I think).

SLUT tattoo

My feeling is that if you’re able to see the tattoo, you are either aware of the fact, or you’d rather not know if you don’t already. In any case, this one is by Josh at East Looe Tattoo in the UK. I realize it’s not the forehead, but I wonder how people feel about this in relation to the largely denounced STUPID tattoo — this is certainly visible in, for example, a bathing suit.

PS. This is not the first time I’ve posted tattooed sluts.