AJ McCarron’s Chest is a Mess

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Stars-n-Skulls

AJ McCarron is about as big a fish as there is in the sea of NCAA Football, and now he’s got a tattoo that’s just as big…well at least it is now. The Alabama Crimson Tide Quarterback is one of the few people in the history of the sport to lead his team to back to back national titles, and he’s also one of the few quarterbacks in college football history to have a gigantic tattoo on his chest, and much like his legacy as a quarterback, his chest piece just keeps on getting larger and larger, and more and more impressive…okay, the ink isn’t that impressive, but the legacy is awesome. So now, about that tattoo…

When it was first revealed to the public, the piece was a simple crying Jesus with the words “Bama Boy”, “Ma”, and “Pops” surrounding it; simple, but pretty friggin’ huge. It looked an awful lot like the J-man was trying to burst out of his chest Alien style. The placement is a little crazy for what we think is his first tattoo, and the art style is a little two soft for such a serious figure. We’re not the religious types around here, but we tend to think that major figures of religion should be inked in a more sharp and serious style. Regardless of our opinions on the original ink, the piece has just kept on growing, and in recent months the world got another look at it. The new additions to the work include a hanging cross, a smattering of stars and stripes, cloud etchings, the words “Home Team”, “God’s In Control”, and some Sailor Jerry-style doves. The new additions make for a pretty cool overall aesthetic but the piece overall does not feature the best execution we’ve ever seen. It reminds us of some of the tats we got when we were younger…the one’ s we ended up being unhappy with as we got older. Not because we don’t like what the tattoos stand for anymore, but because we’re unhappy about how they turned out artistically.

AJ McCarron has a bright future ahead of him; one that should include a lot more ink, and probably a lot more bad tattoos, because if there’s one bad tattoo, there’s always going to be a second one coming down the pike. We’ll keep you posted on what he ends up with, and how long his “a cheap tattoo is a good tattoo” phase lasts.

Taylor Swift Inspires Body Art…To Mixed Results

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Stars-n-Skulls

Taylor Swift is…polarizing to say the least. If you ask her fans; she’s a strong young woman who oozes talent and who’s had her heart wrongfully broken time after time, and she’s persevered through these countless broken hearts by putting her feelings into song. However, if you ask the more… uhhhhh…logical of us out there, we’d say that she’s a petty young rich kid who doesn’t handle break-ups well, so instead of using her abundance of natural talent to produce true musical art, she writes barely passable songs that amount to nothing more than lyrically slashing the tires of her exes. So with that said, we really like that “Love Story” song, and we get a kick out of all the bad tattoo ideas that she’s inspired, so let’s take a look at some of them

First up, we have the ill advised ink on “The A Team” singer Ed Sheeran’s arm that Swift had to have been the catalyst for. While the two Grammy darlings collaborated on “Everything Has Changed”, they clearly hit it off, with an obviously strong friendship being formed and a rumored love affair (if rumors about Swift are true, this “Love Affair” was mostly hand holding and sharing of milk shakes) coming from their time together. Also from their time together, it seems that Sheeran was inspired to have some ink done, getting the title of her album “RED” placed on his left arm in the exact font as the album’s cover. It’s not a bad tattoo, but it’s also not a great idea to get someone else’s album inked on your arm.

Next up, we have One Direction’s Harry Styles, who recently dated the “Our Story” singer until he dumped her for being “prude”. During their time together, Styles appeared in the video for her song “I Knew You Were Trouble”; in that video he rocked a tattoo of a big ship, a tattoo that he ended with in real life shortly after shooting the clip. Swift apparently went with him to get the ink done, so we can only assume that she also took part in the brain storming that led to the body art. So we have another piece of ink on a guy who isn’t dating the young country star, but this one pales in comparison to our final subject.

We’re not really sure who this guy is, but he seems to be really into Taylor Swift, and also really into saving money on his tattoos. The piece looks like her…if she fell into a mud pit and sustained bruising during the incident. Having someone whom you’ve never met inked on your body is pretty out there; at least when it’s a real person. This isn’t a tattoo of Yoda, it’s a real person, and it’s real weird.

We can only hope that this epidemic of Taylor Swift tattoos stops before it’s too late; it’s like the zombie outbreak, but with teen pop idols and such.

Josh Hutcherson – Anchor’s Away!

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Stars-n-Skulls

That’s some anchor tattoo Josh! Wow…that’s just a whole lot of nautical themed ink on the body of “Hunger Games” star Josh Hutcherson, and we’re not quite sure why. The pictures that we have show him on the set of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, looking pretty ripped and doing some sort of scuba work or surfing…or just wearing a wet suit because he’s feeling frisky Whatever reason he’s dressed like a seal, he still rocking a very serious anchor piece of his side; even co-star Jennifer Lawrence seems to be surprised by the mass of his ink. The Academy Award nominated actress doesn’t have any known ink of her own, but she doesn’t seem like the type to give Josh any guff about his choice of body art. However, Hutcherson himself seems to have mixed feelings about his life in ink.

The “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” star currently has three tattoos on his body. He has the aforementioned giant anchor with red tips on his side, a Libra symbol on his wrist, and a ship on his back; he planned on getting more, but now it seems like that idea has been taken off the table. In May of 2012, Hutcherson did an interview in which he stated that he loved body art and that he was going to get a whole lot more of it put on his body. Being only 19 at the time and having gotten his first work done when he was just 16, it seemed like the sky was the limit for his body as a canvas. However, weeks later he went on record as saying that he was going to cut it out with the ink until he was a more established star. Citing mega-star Angelina Jolie as his prime example of a star who waited until she was established to get crazy with the needle (that doesn’t sound good, but you know what we’re talking about), the “Red Dawn” actor said that he wasn’t going to give casting directors an excuse to excuse him from considerations.

So with all of that said, we can’t tell you what the future holds for Josh Hutcherson’s body art, but we can speculate. He’s a pretty talented kid, and he’s making a fortune off his work in the “Hunger Games”, so we expect that he’ll find himself not too worried about his career within a few years, and he’ll start getting inked up again. Time will tell, and we’ll keep you posted!