Foot Tattoo

Foot Tattoo, originally uploaded by artnbody.

This is totally sweet. I have seen a lot of floral tattoos on feet, and usually they're just a band that goes around the ankle -- I like how this one snakes around. It's really delicate and nice.

Foot tattoos: Birdies!

blue bird / swallows tattoos
Originally uploaded by damselfly58

Lovely! Swallow tattoos traditionally mean that their wearer will always return home. So the fact that they're on feet is particularly poignant.

Foot Tattoos: Don't let your tattoo artist watch TV while he's tattooing you...

While not a video of a foot tattoo, this is a pretty important thing to keep in mind when you're going to go get a tattoo -- if the tattoo artist is actually watching television while he's tattooing people...you might want to find another tattoo artist. Yikes.

Foot Tattoos: Curlicues

Tattooed Feet, originally uploaded by rosefirerising.

Amazing! These are very lovely. It looks almost like a henna tattoo design, but permanent. I like these foot tattoos very much.

Foot Tattoos: Starry feet!

Stary Toes, originally uploaded by Gwen-Gwen.

While not technically a foot tattoo (this was drawn on with sharpie), it's awfully cute!

Foot Tattoos: Video of Carp Tattoo

This is a really lovely piece in progress. Watching this video also gives a good idea of the kind of work that goes into the first steps in a more complex piece.

Foot Tattoos: Regarding the Pain...

Found a great article on BMEink -- a fantastic resource for any tattoo information you could need -- on getting a foot tattoo.

She was told: "You know that's gonna hurt like a motherf*&er" -- which seems to be the accepted wisdom around foot tattoos. Any tattoo that doesn't have a lot of fat underneath it is, in fact, very likely to hurt like a motherf*&er. And there are a lot of nerves down there in the foot.