Friday, July 24, 2009

Inked 1 of 14

People often ask me what my tattoos mean. Most of the time people don't even know I have any unless I'm in a bikini, so a lot of them go unnoticed. Shit, sometimes I forget I have them. Since I love body art and the stories behind them, I thought I'd share mine 1 tat at a time. I get tats that represent things important to me, or symbolize and important moment or time of my life. I implore u to share urs as well, I'd love to hear about it!

Tattoo: Sampaguita flower w/ 3 stars
Location: Back of neck
Arist: Shit I forget his name, Mike maybe? From Everlasting on Divisadero
Story: Being a Philippine Queen, it was inevitable that I'd pay homage to my homeland with a tat. But I didn't want it to be something I had already seen before so I came up with this idea of a sampaguita flower which is the countries national flower. However, it looked too simple so I added the stars from the Filipino flag which represent the major geographical divisions of the country: Luzon, Mindanao, and Visayas.

(And p.s. I miss my purple hair wah)

2 comments:

The12thLetter said...

yo. just wanted to let you know that my girl posted one of your old posts on facebook (with a shout out to what the hellz) and it got hella thumbs up.

i'm not one to leave long comments or even really comment at all but i gotta say, i'm hella loving what you put out there.

STRONG. BEAUTIFUL. INDEPENDANT. LOVING. BROWN WOMAN.

14 tats, too? holla.

Mouf.Peace said...

aw thank u for sharing my blog with ur girl, and thank ur girl for the love as well. fyi though i don't write for hellz (however, my girl rach does and she's awesome too!) but my girl lawn is the hbic of that bitch so thanks anyway lol!

and lastly, thank u for the kind words. i feed off of my readers like a singer feeds off of their audience so as long as people continue to read i'll continue to write. good lookin!