Stalking the catalogue: No regrets

"Growing up I had always thought of tattoos as merely representing the idea itself. That having a tattoo simply said, "I'm the kind of person that would have a tattoo." That may have applied to the standard prison or military tattoo, but somewhere down the line tattoos stopped being the sole province of the badass and seamlessly slid over to he propriety of the soft, sensitive, malnourished hipster."

No regrets : the best, worst, and most #$%*ing ridiculous tattoos ever by by Aviva Yael and P. M. Chen
I'm fascinated by people's tattoos. I'm even more curious about the reasons behind them. They mostly come with quite good stories. (FYI: mine doesn't). For example, why would a guy get the Nike tick tattooed on his back? Why would another person choose to have theirs be two brightly coloured unicorns fornicating? Or the rapper ODB on their foot? Or 'WTF' on your finger? Or Frank Zappa picking his nose? See. Stories. This book doesn't provide the stories. It does, however, provide snark galore, and sometimes that's giggle-worthy, too.

Geeky tattoos for science lovers

If you are a maths and science geek, and have a predilication for ink, then this book just might be something to get excited about.

Science Ink : tattoos of the science obsessed features a wide variety of tattoos with a maths or science theme, from dodos to fungi, from mathematical formulas to DNA helices, from star constellations to chemical equations.

Some of my favourites include a beautiful basket starfish (on the arm of an educator at the National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration) and an astrarium on the back of a literary historian.