Tattoos I Know: Mary’s Marilyn

<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a> is a pretty popular figure to see tattooed on people. Clicking <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Marilyn%20Monroe?max-results=20">here</a> will show you this, as well as every other post on Tattoosday that features a Marilyn Monroe tattoo. In the popularity contest, she wins by a mile.</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was with great pleasure that, a couple weeks back, one of my co-workers, Mary, got on the elevator at the end of the day, and the first thing I noticed was this fresh Marilyn Monroe tattoo, peering up at me from her right foot:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioWOX7UMFXPyI3Tve7FylN1TSjhw1PBEqkWosB6loDW54w3Noxg8wU_DlClj63IBRWu7NsWeLWxvdcHiflsaDX5ko5RfcPSWO9tcjXi4lQEGlQRCowB5bppfLKZuJlo929jiAez15TMAk/s1600/marilyn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioWOX7UMFXPyI3Tve7FylN1TSjhw1PBEqkWosB6loDW54w3Noxg8wU_DlClj63IBRWu7NsWeLWxvdcHiflsaDX5ko5RfcPSWO9tcjXi4lQEGlQRCowB5bppfLKZuJlo929jiAez15TMAk/s400/marilyn.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course, I had to ask Mary about this tattoo. Our exchange follows:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Tattoosday:</i> Why’d you get Marilyn on your foot?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Mary:</i> Anybody who knows me can answer that question. I love Marilyn and I wanted to put it in a spot that can showcase it without being on my forearm or my face or my neck and it seems to be a hit where it is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Tattoosday:</i> This is your first Marilyn tattoo?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Mary:</i> Well, if you don’t count the mole I have. A tattoo of a mole.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Tattoosday:</i> Oh, so that’s not a real mole?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Mary</i>: Yes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Tattoosday:</i> So who is the artist?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Mary:</i> It’s a shop that everyone in my neighborhood goes to, it’s called <a href="http://eddiesinktattoo.com/">Eddie's Ink</a> on Myrtle Avenue in Queens…I guess he has a following because he just moved from Brooklyn to Queens and everybody recommended him . . . it’s not like it’s in a spot that I can cover up, unless it’s winter, so I wanted to make sure it was  a good job and he went online and I told him exactly what I wanted and he found a couple of pictures and we ended up settling on this one.  I didn’t want color, I just wanted black…”.</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I alluded to the popularity of the Marilyn tattoo at the beginning of the post. That said, I have to commend Mary on her originality, as I hadn’t seen one like this before. Thanks go to her for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="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. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div></div>

Tattoos I Know: Mary’s Marilyn

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