She’s cute. She’s memorable. She should be permanently inked on your body. It is her birthday after all, and we couldn’t think of a more fitting tribute.
Hello Kitty is turning 35 on October 21, and in honor of the occasion, Last Chance Tattoo is celebrating with $35 Hello Kitty tattoos. “Everyone does different things for different holidays,” says Last Chance Tattoo artist Rachael Snyder, aka Rachael Scumbag. “People do Shark Week tattoos and $13 tattoos on Friday the 13th,” she says.
A Las Vegas native, Snyder has been tattooing for two-and-a-half years. She did her apprenticeship at Last Chance and has been there since. Her area of expertise lies in more traditional style tattoo work as well as color.
So what’s the deal with the Hello Kitty phenomenon anyway? Besides being friggin’ adorable to some and obnoxious to others, the cartoon cat’s impact on pop culture is undeniable. From her beginnings in Japan on a plastic change purse, merchandise with Hello Kitty and her friends has grown to a billion-dollar industry. There are Hello Kitty lunchboxes, dolls, school supplies, clothes, bedding, toasters and Hello Kitty contact lenses.
It's that time of year, my friends. A time when the tacky take over, when once demure women play dress up in slutty outfits of our fave fairy tales, and grown men think it's ok to wear a penis hat on their heads. Yes, Halloween costume planning is upon us.
And along with 2009's top trends like the Octomom or racy Devil Grrl get-up for your 8-year-old, this year's top costumes are all about ... us.
While I should be thankful that I don't need to fork over a fifty for dirty cop duds, there's something that really scares me about Halloween ensembles like these:
* The Tattoo Freak -- for your kid too!* Miami Ink Hell Raiser & Low Rider horrors
* Creepy Tattoo Man mask* Prison Play Tattoo Convict* And Lydia the Tattooed Lady (right) [Inspired by Brian Grosz's Marx remake?]* Hell, you can even dress your doggie up.
But I figured out what's really bugging me here, and it's not that companies are making a buck mocking our art. What it comes down to is this: the tattoos in these costumes suck.
Now, I'm all for stickin some faux tattoo sleeves on my unadorned sis to freak out my father, but they gotta have decent designs. Here are alternatives if you decide to go as me for Halloween
About a month ago, Ed Westwick went to his tattoo artist and got two new tats, one of which is this large feather on his left arm. (Photo of the other tatto below.) At the premiere of Penn Badgley's latest horror flick, The Stepfather, on October 13, Just Jared caught up with the Gossip Girl star and asked where the inspiration for the feather came from.
What significance does the new ink have for the 22-year-old British actor? "My mate and I got it together," Ed exclusively tells JustJared.com. "He got an American eagle feather from a Native American and it means a lot to us. This is a world exclusive, Jared!" (He then proceeded to pat my shoulder in his charming Ed way.) What does the eagle feather symbolize to Ed? "America has been good to me!"
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She’s cute. She’s memorable. She should be permanently inked on your body. It is her birthday after all, and we couldn’t think of a more fitting tribute.
It's that time of year, my friends. A time when the tacky take over, when once demure women play dress up in slutty outfits of our fave fairy tales, and grown men think it's ok to wear a penis hat on their heads. Yes, Halloween costume planning is upon us.
