U.S. NAVY client gets a custom lettering of the song “footprints in the sand”, done in morbid tattoo parlor in cash and carry mall makati manila.

arabic font tattoo design of his daughter’s name “gabrielle”, done in morbid tattoo parlor in cash and carry mall makati manila.

 Feathers are usually associated with birds or wings or Native American imagery in most tattoo designs. A single feather as a tattoo design may represent or symbolize the ability to take flight, either spiritually, emotionally or creatively.

Some feathers are so distinctive in their shape and size that they are easily identified with a specific species of bird, such as the feathers of the Eagle, Peacock, Ostrich Plume, and Egret, just to name a few. Such a feather would represent the characteristics attributed to that bird.

The Peacock is known as ‘the bird of 100 eyes’, due to the patterning in its tail feathers. The ‘eyes’ became a favourite mythic metaphor as all-seeing witnesses to hidden transgressions. The concept found its way into religious belief as the symbol of beatific vision. In the ancient myths of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the Peacock feather was a symbol of the ‘evil eye’, and even today the Peacock feather is viewed with suspicion and kept out of the house in some parts of Europe.

In Greek mythology, Psyche was represented in art with butterfly wings. It’s all about the airborne soul -and the caterpillar emerging from its cocoon, transformed from an earth-bound to an aerial entity, is the classic metaphor. To the Greeks, a human soul emerged each time a butterfly emerged from its cocoon. Diverse cultures looked upon the Butterfly as a symbol of transformation, regeneration and flight. Souls were carried by the Butterfly from earth to heaven, or in some cases were believed to be the souls themselves returning to earth.

Penguins don’t have much experience with humans, so it’s not surprising that we don’t have much experience with them. The Antarctic, was after all, except for penguins, seals and a few other sea birds, a bitterly cold, utterly inhospitable environment for human habitation. But underneath the ice shelf of the Antarctic is an incredibly rich sea environment teaming with life and extraordinary bio-diversity and a magnet for whales and other marine creatures who are drawn to the rich feeding grounds for krill and other food sources. For this reason, penguins aren’t well established in folklore or in the international lexicon of symbols. Other than a few isolated outposts on the extreme end of South Americas and New Zealand, you have to go to all the way to the Antarctic to find penguins. Whatever the penguin means to you, well, that’s what it means to you. The penguin is a symbol more open than most to a very personal interpretation.

For some, the penguin may represent a ‘nun’. Or it means ‘keeping your cool’. It’s a bird in a tuxedo, a ‘stuffed-shirt’, a waiter, the Maitre ‘D. It appears to have impeccable good manners to go along with its dapper good looks. Who doesn’t look dashing and debonair in a dinner jacket? The penguin is the James Bond of the bird world. The penguin has been co-opted by Hollywood, recruiting the bird as the hero of animated and highly anthropomorphic films in which the Emperor Penguin has featured in the the starring role.

cleint gets a fallen angel tattoo on his back and a detailed celtic tattoo design on his arms, all done in morbid tattoo parlor in cash and carry mall manila.

urcc athlete gets a kanji character tattoo of his name done in morbid tattoo parlor in cash and carry mall makati manila.

avon model “alex” and her partner get their first ink in morbid tattoo parlor in cash and carry mall makati manila.