Sarah and her Snow White Sleeve

I met Sarah on the F train, last month, en route from Manhattan to Brooklyn. When we both got off at Borough Hall to transfer to our respective trains, we chatted a bit and she consented to me snapping a few photos. Check out her sleeve:

That's Snow White, of course, "the first story I was obsessed with," Sarah told me, noting that her first Halloween costume, hand-sewn by her mother, was also that of the fairy tale character.

The details in the sleeve are really amazing. I particularly love the raven:

Sarah credited the work to artist Matt Buck (@he_draws), who started the line work when he was still at Sacred Tattoo (@sacredtattoonyc), in Manhattan. He finished it up at his current shop, No Idols Tattoo (@noidolsnyc).

Thanks to Sarah for sharing her cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Julianna, Snow White, and Temptation

One of the last tattoos I spotted in 2015 was this Snow White piece on Julianna, who I met on the steps of Federal Hall:

Julianna explained what compelled her to get this Snow White tattoo:

"It’s the story behind it, about how it’s the story of temptation,  how ... Snow White’s known as the most beautiful [and]  how eating the poison apple [represents] temptation; it’s like Yin and Yang but like a different kind of story towards it.”

She credited Jay at Lucky Van's Tattoo in San Francisco with tattooing this work.

Thanks to Juliana for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Ashlee Channels Snow White

This work in progress is on Ashlee's arm:

The tattoo features Snow White at the top of the arm, with the witch's hand proffering an apple, wrapping around the arm:

Ashlee explained that the tattoo is commenting on how superficial the world is and how the idea of Beauty was the downfall of the title character, at least until she was rescued from her poison-induced slumber.

The tattoo is the work of Eric at King Pin Tattoos in Harker Heights, Texas. Work from Kingpin appeared previously in August 2008 on Tattoosday here.

Thanks to Ashlee for sharing her work with us here on Tattoosday!