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Friday  Jul 01, 2005

Permanent Portraits

What better way to express your adoration for someone than getting their face permanently emblazoned across your arm? Bmezine has an excellent gallery of portrait tattoos – some of which are as beautiful as they are bizarre. The series of ‘The Late Show’ tattoos are pretty funny. We’re curious to know why someone would get Paul Schaffer tattooed on themselves, but maybe we’re just not in on the joke. But we’re definitely laughing at the caricature of Dave Letterman -- how big are his eyes? There are some pretty ace interpretations of the Virgin Mary, although I think she’s definitely a little more sexed up than many staunch Catholics would like to see. The variety of this gallery is pretty surprising, it couldn’t get more antipodean – they’ve got everyone from Jesus to Scarface (although maybe some of you might think there’s a connection). There are loads of tattoos of kids faces, which we have to admit are pretty damn cute -- it’s the modern day version of carrying your kids picture in your wallet.

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