Thursday, March 31, 2011

Girls, Girls, Girls!!! Pt 1

A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking jack and coke all morning. She can make you feel high, full of the single greatest commodity know to man; ...promise. Promise of a better day, promise of a greater hope, promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, and in her soul. In the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like its gonna be okay.
Girls are a huge part of tattoos and the tattoo culture. Something that was once taboo is now way more acceptable than anyone could have ever thought. Originally i intended on this just to be about girls in tattoos, and then i sat back and really thought about it and decided to do it in 3 segments. The 1st on girls in tattoos. The 2nd on girls with tattoos. And the 3rd, and my absolute favorite...girls who do tattoos.
Girls = sex appeal. Whether we want to admit it or not....a lot of people look at girls as objects. Sorry ladies....get over it. If your boobs or butt are showing....it will be looked at. Its the way things work. So its no surprise that getting sexy and beautiful girls tattooed on you would become oh so very popular. When someone sees a beautiful girl a primal instinct kind of awakens. Its the way we were built. But putting a girl on your skin is a whole different level of devotion....

So lets start with the well know Pin-up girl tattoo. Many pin-ups were photographs of celebrities who were considered sex symbols. One of the most popular early pin-up girls was Betty Grable. Pin-up girl tattoos really flourished within the old school style of tattooing that erupted with the "Sailor Jerry" style. Very basically then a pinup girl tattoo is any tattoo that falls ino the category of having a really beautiful women incorporated into the tattoo design. Traditonally the whole body of the women was displayed in the tattoo and they were typically lying down, bent over or even in a wine glass. Whatever the pose might be it typically was in a sexy come hither type of pose with the women's face looking directly at the viewer. Very often pinup girl tattoo will go along with other symbols also. Probably the most classic is the old sailor pinup girl tattoo with an anchor. Other common add ons are good luck tattoo like dice, cards, and horseshoe.

There is also the traditional Japanese style geisha girls that a lot of people are quite fond of. Geisha are traditional, female Japanese entertainers. Singing, dancing, playing music, knowledge of history and current events, the ability to make conversation and to create an atmosphere of relaxation and entertainment are the essential skills of the geisha. Skills specific to Japanese culture would include being able to perform the tea ceremony or perhaps even being skilled at flower arrangement or calligraphy. A geisha's appearance changes throughout her career, from the girlish, heavily made-up maiko, to the more somber appearance of an older established geisha. Different hairstyles and hairpins signify different stages of a young girl’s development and even a detail as minute as the length of one’s eyebrows is significant. Short eyebrows are for the young and long eyebrows display maturity. Today, the traditional makeup of the apprentice geisha is one of their most recognizable characteristics, though established geisha generally only wear full white face makeup characteristic of maiko during special performances. The traditional makeup of an apprentice geisha features a thick white base with red lipstick and red and black accents around the eyes and eyebrows.

Day of the Dead girls are also a very common theme. The Day of the Dead or "El Dia de los Muertos" conjures up images of skeletons and graveside vigils and may seem macabre to observers from outside the culture. For those inside the festivities, though, macabre, spooky, and Halloween all miss the mark -- by quite a bit.  The living and the dead were so much a part of each other's worlds that they conversed with one another, even celebrated with one another. The goddess Mictecacíhuatl, Queen of Mictlan, who presided over the celebrations in her role as the keeper of bones. Known sometimes as the Lady of the Dead or Santa Muerte, she still makes her appearance during modern festivities at altars or on banners, and sometimes plays the role of escort to the souls of returning family members. So it is very common to see beautiful women with sugar skull face-painting on in honor of the goddess as well as their deceased loved ones. The most common Day of the Dead girls and sugar skulls are normally adorned with bright and vibrant colours.