The Thousands

Homemade Tattoo Flash may be pretty short and equally sweet, but that’s only because the designs it displays are rather small themselves. These simple illustrations of household objects are so tiny that getting tattoos of them would look like you’d superglued Monopoly pieces to yourself. And, considering how little time they’d take to apply, you wouldn’t appear particularly tough either – imagine how weak it’d seem walking out of the parlour, all pale and sweaty and shaking like a shitting dog because a muffin the size of a five cent piece had just been inked onto your wrist.

The admirable thing about the actual subjects of these designs, though, is their unfussiness and honesty. Many people who want body art that “says who they are” get tribal armbands, angel wings or Chinese symbols they haven’t a hope in hell of translating, none of which end up saying much about them at all (other than they steal tatt ideas off the Beckhams). Whereas getting a tattoo of cheese, coffee and booze quite plainly states to the world: “I like cheese, coffee and booze”. I might get them done under my eyelids to save writing out a shopping list each week.