Two Seaworthy Tattoos for Tuesday

Last week on Broad Street in lower Manhattan, I met Barbara and Natalia, two tourists from Brazil, sporting a couple of awesome tattoos.

It was Barbara's mermaid tattoo that first caught my eye:

Barbara told me she likes mermaids, the sea, and the old-school style of tattooing. She credited the work to an artist named Nahu (@nahu.nah) at Casamata Tattoo in Florian�polis, the capital of Santa Catarina, in Brazil.

Barbara's friend Natalia, also shared an awesome tattoo:

Natalia works on a cruise ship and she told me she loves lighthouses and the sea. This was also tattooed at Casamata, but by a different artist named Otto.

Thanks to Barbara and Natalia for kindly sharing their cool nautical tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

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Brianna's Mermaid, at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2016

I was in tattoo heaven at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (@mermaidparade) yesterday. I could literally fill this site for a year with all the body art bared on the boardwalk. This year followed the same pattern as the last, however. I hung back and enjoyed the spectacle, talking to a few people, and only really started wearing the Tattoosday hat later in the day. When people are parading, they're not as likely to take the time to share as they are afterwards. The end result is perhaps a half dozen tattoos to share, but ones that I really like from cool people.

The last photo I took was of this mermaid, on Brianna:

Briana explained that the mermaid illustration upon which this tattoo is based came from an old alchemical text and that it is, historically, one of the first recorded mermaid drawings. Check out this reference for further detail.

Briana also pointed out that the mermaid is lactating and, in essence, feeding the world.

I particularly love this tattoo because of its linework and that it is not typical of your normal color mermaid tattoos.

Brianna credited the work to Kat Fedora (@katfedora) from Bang Bang Body Arts (@bangbangbodyarts) in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Thanks to Brianna (and all the other cool people) for sharing this awesome tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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