LOVELESS AND THE BIRTHDAY POST, UNDER THE DIRECT EFFECTS OF ADHD

Today is my birthday. I woke up to an apology, an offer for breakfast in  bed.

Albeit, I wasn't invited to the family get together in Vegas, the trip is affordable enough for me to do it my damn self. Whoo hoo.

My FB has been going off in a great way with birthday love all morning.

Cee-Lo has a new video that I absolutely love. I love group dance sequences (one in a million video, friends with benefits flash mob, dancing mascots), and Melvin Todd of City of Ink is taking walk ins this week.

Today is starting off to be a great day.


I'm going on The Great American Road Trip, East Coast Edition and will be stopping by to see Melvin. YAY!!! NEW INK!!!! We've been talking about integrating his Loveless Society pieces into the piece I have on my back.


I have been wanting a cutie, but awesome devilish angel girl for YEARS! When I saw Melvin's Loveless Cupid's, what could be more appropriate for this moment in my life right now? I love love. I really do, but I hate that I love love. Love is overrated. Tattoos are so underrated. SALTS. It's like Melvin brings together my love for Boondocks and awesomeness into this cute rebellion bad ass cupid.

I waited til the last minute, like always, to make an appointment, knowing I was only driving to ATL to get a piece done, and found out that he was booked. I was so pissed at myself UNTIL I found out that he's taking walk ins this week. WOOO HOOOO!!! Happy Birthday to me!

I'm thinking of a devilish angel with a ginormous 'fro singing into an old school mic sitting on a river of music notes in a staff with lotus flowers that have speakers in them. My Loveless cupid will sit on the piece on my back that I already have and the music will go up my back towards my shoulder. i keep envisioning random shit in the piece like a pawn from a chess set and gun earrings like the ones i was supposed to order frome2you. That'll be super hot! I can't wait to see what he can do.

(side bar, i want a SOS tattoo! i liked SOS better than tic tac toe)





Can't wait to get to ATL. I'm really excited for this trip. I've been needing to escape Houston all summer. Just got a new addition on my arm, but it's my birthday, and I've begun a tradition of getting a piece for the occasion.



RANDOM HAPPINESS!


I WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT IF THAT MAN WOULD KNOW I LOVE HIS MUSIC SO. A BIRTHDAY RETWEET OR SHOUT OUT WOULD BE SO AMAZING I MIGHT HYPERVENTILATE AND PASS OUT. I'M WILLING TO TAKE THE RISK FOR CEE LO. I LOVE THAT MAN (and he doesn't even know who I am. SALTSSMH).


Anyway, at this point, it's time for me to get off the 'puter, and enjoy my birthday. Post later, prob pix along the way during the road trip. Pray for me cause i'm going it alone and probably with the puppy. 

Tat Tat Tatted Up

The Phoenix is a mythical bird with a ridiculously long life-cycle in which, close to the end it builds itself a nest of frankincense and myrrh, cinnamon, and other deliciously tantalizing olfactory stimulating agents that ultimately catches afire, both nest and bird, burning fiercely and reduced to ashes. From the ashes, a new phoenix arises, reborn to complete the cycle again. All accounts indicate that the bird had a most beautiful song. The mythology alludes to immortality as the phoenix arises anew, and in some accounts, the beautiful songbird is able to change into people.

Originating stories came from Egypt, Greece, Arabian countries, and as far east as China and even Japan, each origin encapsulating an appropriate variation of the bird. In Egypt, Phoenix represented a majestic being over time, and order, and creation. It was reported that the golden red bird would travel from Arabia to a sanctuary in Egypt. It would travel every 500 years in a rite of renewal and resurrection. The alluring bird would sing songs that would make even the gods stop. It was graceful, beautiful, magical, majestic, representing power and prosperity, and virtue. In China, only an Empress could be adorned with the bird.

Not knowing anything too deeply about the phoenix, in my craving for a new tattoo, I came across a picture of a phoenix.

It stuck with me. The thought of me always coming from some type of failure, some type of loss, from the ashes of being burned, on top, anew, unscathed and just as beautiful as ever, stuck with me.

SOOOOOOOOOOOO... When I saw that Miya Bailey was coming to Houston, I couldn't miss my chance to get him to put himself in me. Seriously. What better person than to embody myself in art form? I scraped together some fundage, and ran straight to him. In typical fashion, relatively reserved, and slightly shy, I sat in the appointment, slightly artist struck... then, he asked, "So what can I do for you today?" I said, "I want a phoenix." It was really quite simple, my desire. All I required is that it was him, that he put his spin on it, that the piece had him creatively all in it.

With the position I'm in right now in life, and my song's cry arising, this piece couldn't be more appropriate for this exact moment in my life.

We sat and shot the shit for a few, as he was filling color tubes with hues of greens, and yellow, and pinks (my favorite), and various shades of blues, and then it was down to business of creating art. He stepped in from the Houston evening, looked at me so pleasantly pleased, said, "I have something perfect for you," told me to stand, took out his markers, and began creating distinctly indistinct lines on my arm. Occasionally stepping back to admire the look and gage his next move, he marked and outlined and smiled and repeated until finally she was created. As I looked down my arm, all I saw were black and red lines and swirls and smudges and stuff. He saw: hell, I don't know what he saw, but eventually, he took out his needle, and began the process of creation.

Over the next few hours, somewhat painlessly, she arose.

Everything is not for everybody. But, this, this right here. This right here tattoo is for me. Still feels like I'm dreaming. 

thank you Miya Bailey, sir! *big smile*

Natural Hair and Tats Pt II

@MiyaBailey

when i saw this, i didn't even realize it was the same artist that did the piece above... what i would love to have that artist in my skin. wow. this is the inspiration that i sooo needed.

now, i'm just needing to find this artist...


and i did!!!!!!! I DID I DID I DID!!! I TINK I FOUND THE PUDDY TAT!

Now, just need pricing, and details about location, and i'm there in MAY!!!!!!!!! whoooo hoooo!!!!


and more works that make me drool:

this went from a gathering of various sources to spotlighting Miya Bailey! I will be contacting him tomorrow to get an appointment for Houston!

Afros and Tats!

It's past time to get another piece of work done. Inspiration much.

a sleeve may be in the works. hmmm... there goes my no visible tattoos in my wedding dress thing... chea right... no wedding in sight, tattoos seem to be growing.

i'm thinking i want more peach and nectarine flowers going over my shoulder.

here are my pride and joys: