bettie page blog

Check out this cool tattoo from Massachusetts mama, Elizabeth.

Glamorous alt model Bettie Butcher not only walks in Bettie Page's shoes... she walks with Bettie inked on her entire outer left thigh! This tat is no joke... but it is a sexy image fit for this vampy Aussie.

"She is from a comic book i found in my brother wardrobe - Steve Worons' "Betty Page the 50s Rage", issue #1a.

Got her in about 2004... the tattoo artist was Josh Charelton from Rudys Tattoo in Sandgate, Brisbane, Australia."

This "fun loving, friendly 25 year old gal from Brisbane" is an enthusiast of vintage fashion, corsetry, role playing, vehicle mechanics, reading, and is devoted to her cats.

Although she doesn't want to be locked into alt-modeling or pin-ups, she is serious about her body mods:

"I have streched ears, as well as a septum piercing" ...and at least ten major tattoos, which, in addition to Bettie Page, includes a cool red angel wings back piece, a panther on her upper arm, a geisha, a wicked chest piece and LIVE and LOVE on her knuckles.

See more of Bettie Butcher (and her Bettie Page tattoo) on MYSPACE and MODEL MAYHEM.

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Fan site PLANET BETTIE has a whole gallery of Bettie tattoos -- here's a few, go HERE to see the rest:

Talk about standing behind your work! Gavin Hignight, the creator and writer of the superantural/rockabilly graphic novel MOTOR CITY now sports a fresh tattoo of the book's comely character, "SAM"... in a Bettie Page-inspired pin-up originally drawn by the book's illustrator, Jetilla Lewis.

Gavin tells us, "I got that Tattoo from Hanah Aitchison, on the TV show LA Ink, but I'm not sure if the episode will air or not this season. Her work is freaking incredible though."

For more info on MOTOR CITY:
www.gavinhignight.com
www.motorcitycomic.com

Check out INKED for a great Sailor Jerry article. (There's also an article on MySpace phenom METAL SANAZ.)

The COLUMBUS DISPATCH printed a funny article positing what tattoos would "toughen up" cubicle dwellers:

If young women with vague tribal designs on their lower backs and guys with the image of Chief Wahoo's face on their calves prove anything, it's this: Tattoos are no longer just for prisoners, the Russian Mafia, outlaw bikers, pro basketball players, rockabilly bassists and millionaire rappers.

But one subculture has yet to fully embrace illustrated skin: the gang of the white-collar office workers...

READ THE REST -- IT'S FUNNY!