More morbidly I’ve seen this ---------- sort of sign with the little scizzors that used to be on cartons of juice etc. around someone’s neck. Not only do I think that is a bit too eerie to be funny, it has also rather unexpectedly dated as most juice cartons now have the flip open thingy.
I’ve heard of but not seen a fox’s tail tattoed on someone’s arse so that it looked like the fox was disappearing up the person’s arsehole.
I’m a nurse, I work at a large birthing hospital in CA. I see lots and lots of tattoos on a daily basis and one still haunts me. I see cute and silly: Pikachu, Daffy, Yosemite Sam tatted on hips and butts and bellies. I see countless names of significant others and mothers. I see gang signs. I see flowers, tribal, flames. Tatts on necks, faces and legs and lower backs, breasts and hands and arms and labia. Let’s not even go there with the piercings.
But one tattoo sticks in my mind. On the outward aspect of her right lower leg, about 18 inches in total length, a pretty young woman had a tattoo. From ankle to knee, very finely wrought and in excrutiating detail, was a long-haired woman. Naked. Bent over and looking at you from between her own legs.
And she looked nothing like the woman on who’s leg she resided.
I still haven’t figured that one out.
I really find irezumi tattoos amazing (I have a small number of books detailing them, actually), but I don’t know that those are bizarre, so I’m going to put two up in particular.
The first I only saw in a photo. A girl had herself tattooed, hairline to toes and out to her fingertips, in puzzle-piece outlines. It was a very neat effect, almost hypnotic, because she had this very clear, white skin, and the light blue she used stood out distinctly without being loud, as such.
The next I saw a couple months ago; a very toned guy (not bodybuilder huge, but with very good muscle definition) had his left arm tattooed like an anatomy diagram out of Gray’s, in very bright color. The skin hadn’t shifted, so all the tattoos actually fitted right over the muscles they depicted, so it looked scarily like he’d been peeled there.
All I could think of with the brain-zipper tat was that it’s going to terrify the other residents at the old people’s home when that guy eventually gets old and bald.
I know people get tats there because they reckon that if they grow their hair it’ll be covered, however nature isn’t kind to many men in their later years, and your hidden tattoo could become a permanently visible fixture.
The other scalp tattoo I’ll always remember was a guy who had a little snake curving down towards his eye, complete with a naked Eve (the biblical one, not the Doper) holding an apple on the back of his head. Looked good now, not so good when he’s older and balding and rude bits of Eve start to appear.
Exboyfriend of a friend of mine had a large octopus tattooed on his head. He was very careful to have it all fit in his hairline so he could grow his hair back and hide it… The guy was dumb as a post…and is now balding at 25
Like Hal Briston, I used to see a girl working in my university’s library who had an extremely detailed, almost photorealistic tattoo of a toaster. One of those 1950’s chrome types. Never could work up the nerve to ask her if she had a thing for classic kitchen appliances; too afraid that maybe she’d pull up her skirt to reveal a deep fat fryer inked on an unmentionable place…
She was probably lesbian or bisexual. My ex-girlfriend had a very detailed, probably 6-inch long tattoo of a cat woman on the inside of her left leg. As a dyke, she appreciated the beauty of it.
Steve-O from Jackass and Wild Boyz fame has Your Name tattooed on his ass.
He says it’s so he can make bar bets betting people “Hey, I’ll bet you $50 I have your name tattooed on my ass.”