'My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.' -Johnny Depp. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.' -Michelle Delio. The Game had a butterfly on his face, one of the first face tattoos I was aware of, and then he changed it into an LA thing, after getting clowned for having a butterfly. 'Tattoos have a power and magic all their own. But I think they’ll end up getting it removed. Each state is different, so its important to be familiar with the guidelines in your area. The father tells his little son the story behind each of his. On SoundCloud rappers’ face tattoosI think it’s funny that they’ve got balls enough to get stuff on their face. A bestselling author-illustrator duo join forces to create a modern father-son love story. So here I am 20 years later still wondering what it’s about. Usually people tell me why they are getting something and what it’s about but he never ended up telling me. He wanted a big apple tree on his stomach, with one red apple and the other apples black and white. On the tattoo he still thinks aboutOne 70-year-old Southern gentleman came in 20 years ago, and he looked like a skinny Colonel Sanders, with white hair and a white goatee. He’d been ashamed of these scars for years, and now he was proud of them. But years later he told me he felt like he didn’t have to prove anything else and I somehow knew he had needed it.Ī real good friend of mine had loads of white splodges on his arms after years of shooting drugs, so I turned them into roses. It doesn’t really matter if no one understands why you got something in particular inked on yourself as long as you know what’s behind it. I wasn’t sure so about it, and his wife was crying the whole time I was doing it. Tattoos tell a story and it’s no one else’s but your story. There was a guy who had just got out of prison for whom I drew "Fuck the world" in big, black bold letters. First you should get your arm, then you get another one and eventually you get your neck or your hands done. Kids will want to get their first tattoo on their hand, neck or face and that’s not really how it works. I want to do tattoos that make your life better, not more complicated.