›› Temporary Tattoo Designs
It is strange how
big temporary tattoo designs have become. When I was a kid, I used to
get all of my temporary tattoos from vending machines in the front of
laundromats, restaurants, or grocery stores for a couple of quarters,
but now they are every where. My kid sister orders temporary tattoo
designs online all of the time, and frequently has her whole body
pasted with the stickers. I guess I understand why. There is no denying
that temporary tattoos are cool. I'd have some myself if I hadn't
already graduated to the real kind.
Temporary tattoo designs are available in an almost unlimited number of
shapes, colors, and subject matters. Of course, there are the ever
popular, classic tattoo ones; there are hearts with knives through
them, flaming skulls, dragons, eagles, Harley Davidson logos, and all
that sort of thing. Than there are the ones with cute phrases. These
always irritate me, but my little sister seems to like them as much as
any other temporary tattoo designs. She's not picky.
They have things like “Too Cute”, or
“Princess” written on them – stuff that,
for some strange reason, middle school girls think is just precious. In
fact, just the other day my sis had one that said precious, except that
it was spelled “prrrrecccious” and had a cat on it,
playing with a ball of yarn. There are even some temporary tattoo
designs in plain black ink that look remarkably real. They are designed
like stencils so that you can put different words on your arm. Others
have pictures of hearts, ships, or women, and look just like sailor
tattoos.
There are also the “tribal” temporary tattoo
designs. These are things like naval stars, spirals, iron and Celtic
crosses, and various mandalas which you can inscribe all over your
body. I feel the same way about these temporary tattoo designs as I do
about real “tribal” tattoos; if you can't come up
with a tattoo design which has personal significance and is not just
something that you got because everyone is getting them, then maybe you
should give up.
The coolest, in my opinion, are the temporary tattoo designs which let
you build your own. There are kits available with a few stock letters
and shapes, and then a whole sheet of that temporary tattoo paper that
you can fashion into whatever you want, and then rub on to your arm.
The first time I played with one of these kits, I realized that one day
I would get a real tattoo. I wonder if my little sister feels the same
way.
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