Nicole Takes Us to Candyland

At the beginning of the month, I had the pleasure of encountering a young lady named Nicole in Herald Square (34th Street and 6th Avenue, for you out-of-towners).<br /><br />Nicole is heavily inked, estimating that "about 45%" of her body is tattooed.<br /><br />So with so much work, where to begin? She offered up her lower left leg, which is fully-sleeved.<br /><br />I always find photographing sleeves challenging, because it is so hard to capture all of the details accurately and perfectly in a photograph. So here's a collage of Nicole's <a href="http://www.hasbro.com/games/en_US/candyland/">Candyland</a> sleeve:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh775Bs9TyHP25ZOhXTYTkq2Fiugt2nRvthzeLdBUCnAaxFStv40LFBZqUgv1OSDuF9zYiq2kJgKnzGFpBzctrf9CgBH8qX0OJ3IbNRJG_LpJ1sTea53FScRyDn6CIRcRhE1P6ix67BIXQ/s1600/candyland+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh775Bs9TyHP25ZOhXTYTkq2Fiugt2nRvthzeLdBUCnAaxFStv40LFBZqUgv1OSDuF9zYiq2kJgKnzGFpBzctrf9CgBH8qX0OJ3IbNRJG_LpJ1sTea53FScRyDn6CIRcRhE1P6ix67BIXQ/s400/candyland+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Why a Candylamd-themed sleeve? Nicole explained, </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Growing up, that was my favorite game in the whole world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGSYaVXpoXxfM0hLp70iEQCbPs6mq5mDfjSYFRwW16DOOv289b5etbWT8fQk8cpWPg7qJWzsAJ4ohm5SqesR2aM-qYZBz6oEPN17aBBpP4-ecaogsxwmjlb2oC5by3WRXR_iIH64uhyU4/s1600/Candyland+Back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGSYaVXpoXxfM0hLp70iEQCbPs6mq5mDfjSYFRwW16DOOv289b5etbWT8fQk8cpWPg7qJWzsAJ4ohm5SqesR2aM-qYZBz6oEPN17aBBpP4-ecaogsxwmjlb2oC5by3WRXR_iIH64uhyU4/s640/Candyland+Back.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><br />Getting my tattoos never really <i>meant</i> anything, so that was kinda the one, like, childhood thing . . . I feel like if you're a girl, you should have pretty, colorful tattoos ... otherwise, you don't look 'girly' anymore.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Mq6EqekGH6iyiNMeJ6K8ft6H8dTVMBq5P2zLd9fJYUHRjzN29wPud5ldf4RVVhRguCW7z1r2vzCQWY0dQ-bhADDR1MRu6zoG7D1nCo1StmRUZb9Rt8-IAuiQtSjm67tKc9JPqRGNJgI/s1600/Princess+Candyland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Mq6EqekGH6iyiNMeJ6K8ft6H8dTVMBq5P2zLd9fJYUHRjzN29wPud5ldf4RVVhRguCW7z1r2vzCQWY0dQ-bhADDR1MRu6zoG7D1nCo1StmRUZb9Rt8-IAuiQtSjm67tKc9JPqRGNJgI/s640/Princess+Candyland.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><br />So that's why I did that."</blockquote>Nicole credited <a href="http://www.bryanrandolphtattoo.com/">Brian Randolph</a>, formerly of <a href="http://nyadorned.com/">New York Adorned</a>, with this work <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7HJLkjlS5Wyvlb0Pb4NlSGQaKq3hw7YyA8eOnAURK1K9XHh6-ZgUPlcgaIRjpysIgp4eOGBQlTO7-_pgjNbw7wLigH9p3dwt3Y9etaE6YvQi3OrM09Y_BPvke9_VZ_TzUnsVi3WqxYlA/s1600/Ice+King+Cone+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7HJLkjlS5Wyvlb0Pb4NlSGQaKq3hw7YyA8eOnAURK1K9XHh6-ZgUPlcgaIRjpysIgp4eOGBQlTO7-_pgjNbw7wLigH9p3dwt3Y9etaE6YvQi3OrM09Y_BPvke9_VZ_TzUnsVi3WqxYlA/s640/Ice+King+Cone+detail.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br />Nicole informed me that Brian had moved to California, but he comes back and forth every six months.  She did say that, although this work is solely from Brian, she also gets tattooed by <a href="http://www.kingsavenuetattoo.com/artist_bio.asp?id=4">Justin Weatherholtz</a> at <a href="http://www.kingsavenuetattoo.com/">Kings Avenue Tattoo</a> in Massapequa, New York.<br /><br />Thanks to Nicole for sharing her incredibly colorful leg sleeve with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. 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Nicole Takes Us to Candyland

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