My friend Fuzzy wrote recently about two reality shows that feature body art and artists (a.k.a. tatoos). I finally got around to watching Inked last night, after seeing that SuicideGirls’ Amina was going to be on. She put up a stunning photoset on SG recently, so I couldn’t resist, even though Fuzzy thought it was the worse of the two shows. I have to agree, it’s a bit overdone. And, unfortunately, Amina got precious little screen time - far less than her prosthetic leg (she’s been an amputee since she was around 17 months old).
The pitifully tragicoment moment, however, came when two drunk young pseudo-lesbians came in to the tattoo shop and one of them had the artist do “The Asian Symbol for Happiness” on her forearm. Perhaps the fact that the glyph may well translate in some sense to “happiness” is sufficient to overcome the sad idea that someone permanently modded their body under the impression that an entire continent shares a set of symbols. I guess that’s what happens when you get a tattoo in the heat of the moment
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