Nina's Phenomenal Pin-Up Chef

I met Nina earlier this month outside of Federal Hall in lower Manhattan. She was kind enough to share this really awesome tattoo:

Nina explained, "It's a pin-up chef girl, because I own a restaurant ... Johnny D's in Vero Beach, Florida ... I got the roses added on later."

She credited Isaac Serrano (@tattooartbyisaac), formerly of Scooter's Skin Art in Vero Beach, Florida. He has since moved on to Gypsie Soul Tattoo (@gypsie_soultattooslc) in Salt Lake City.

Thanks to Nina for sharing this great pin-up tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Natalie's Midwest Tiger

Back in September, I met Natalie, a Vegan baker, in lower Manhattan. She has over twenty sixty tattoos, and we decided to look at her hands. Check out this cool piece on her left hand:

Natalie credited Silje Røe Hagland from Scapegoat Tattoo in Portland, Oregon. Hagland has since moved to Invictus Tattoo in Norway.

Natalie also has these knuckle tattoos, in homage to her Midwest roots:

Natalie runs the Bake and Destroy website, so head on over and see all the cool stuff this vegan baker is doing.

Thanks to Natalie for sharing her cool hand and knuckle tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

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Laurel Cooks with a Celebrity Signature

I met Laurel last weekend while riding my bike down by the 69th Street Pier in Bay Ridge.

She has a bunch of tattoos and shared this combination on her arm:

At the bottom of the photo is a meat cleaver below what appears to be a red squiggle. Laurel is an avid baker (you can find her on Facebook under Little Laurel, Big Treats) and huge fan of the chef Anthony Bourdain.

She went to one of his book-signings and he autographed her arm, after which she headed to Hand of Glory Tattoo in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where she had the artist make the signature permanent, with a meat cleaver, to boot.

Thanks to Laurel for sharing her ink with us here on Tattoosday!

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Tines for the Memories

In what can only be described as a true New York City moment, the poor luck of a glitch on my tax refunds, which required me mailing amended returns, which precipitated me popping into the James Farley Post Office, led to my spotting the following tattoo:

Of course, I had to ask.

This ink is sported by Michael, an actor-chef who is in town performing, through the end of May, in the off-Broadway production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at the Public Theater. Michael is in the role of Calhoun.

The tattoo represents a three-tined fork which, Michael asserts, is "the best kind of fork because you get less metal in your mouth". He also indicated that it carried a second meaning, in that it also represented Neptune's trident, which is significant in that he is a Pisces, a water-based astrological sign.

Host of four tattoos, this one was obtained as part of a two-day bachelor party he threw for a friend. The main focus of day one was getting inked. Day two was for, well, more traditional bachelor party fare.The artist was "Eric the Sandman".

Thanks to Michael for sharing his fork with us here on Tattoosday. Be sure to catch him at the Public Theater before the show closes at the end of May!