Matryoshka madness

I have this this stat-thingie that tells me how many people visit the blog and what country they're from and stuff like that.
Pretty cool, huh?
It does not tell me your name or home address anything like that, so anonymous stalkers can carry on stalking, you haven't been outed.

The stat-thingie has this interesting feature called "Recent Keyword Activity".
This lets me know what word people googled to get to the blog.
There are some really funny ones, and sometimes some disturbing ones too.
Most of them are pretty predictable, like my name or the name of the blog, or the shop.
Stuff like that.

But recently i've had a lot of hits from people who've googled "Russian Doll Tattoo".
I don't think i've ever used those exact words on the blog, but they may have been used in the comments.
Well, i decided to google "Russian Doll Tattoo", and i gotta say, not a lot of relevant things come up.
It's almost worse if you do a picture search, that's just gives you a random mix of tattoos and nesting dolls, but no nesting doll tattoos!

As you probably know, this is not a tattoo blog.
This is a... a whatever blog, a me blog.
But tattoos are a pretty huge part of my life, tattoos are my job and my hobby too.
So thought, hey, maybe i can help!
I've actually seen a lot of Matryoshka, or Russian doll, tattoos lately (i won't go so far as to say they're the new owls or anything, but lets just say they're pretty damn popular).
And i even have one myself!

So i decided to do a post with some nice examples of Russian doll tattoos and save everybody a couple of hours of googling.
So yeah, that's what i decided to do.
And if people like it, maybe i'll do a post like this once in a while, with different subjects.
Or maybe it'll suck and i'll go back to blogging about my plants and what i had for breakfast.

Now, if you just tuned in and you know nothing about the world of custom tattoos, here's some info for you:
The tattoos posted here are not for you to copy.
Someone else already had these tattoos and they'll be sad if you steal them, so don't.
These are meant to inspire only.
If you want a tattoo like any of these, you're gonna have to find yourself a great artist, possible one of the artists mentioned here, who can draw something pretty for you.
It's not that hard, there are great tattooers all over the planet, you just have to do a little research.

Tattoo by Valerie Vargas, Frith Street Street Tattoo, UK

Tattoo by Nikkiballs, Top Shelf Tattooing, NY, US

Tattoo by Steve Byrne, In Name and Blood, UK

Not exactly a nesting doll, but close enough!

Tattoo by Steve Byrne, In Name and Blood, UK

Tattoo by Annie, Phoenix Tattoo, US

Tattoo by Deno, Tattoo Paradise, Washington, US

Tattoo by Kate, Chapel Tattoo, Melbourne, Aus

She actually has a whole album with nothing but doll tattoos, i just liked this one best

And of course there's my own Matryoshka.
I got this, like, a year and a half ago or something like that, and for about 5 minutes it was a really cool and original idea.
Then, of course, they started popping up everywhere.
But that's how it goes, and i still love it, probably always will.

Tattoo by Uncle Allan, Conspiracy Inc., Denmark

She still needs some touchup, but you get the idea.

So that was todays selection.
If you've been looking for inspiration, i hope you found it.
If not, i hope you at least enjoyed looking at some pretty pictures!


NB: None of these images belong to me*, and i did not take any of the pictures (*except the one of my hand, obviously).
If you are the artist behind any of these tattoos, and you for any reason don't want your work published on this blog, just send me and email (it's in the sidebar on the right) and i'll take it down right away.
All images have been found on the artist's Myspace pages and if you're looking for a good tattoo studio in your area, Myspace is a good place to start.