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05-03-2016, 10:01 PM
Delicate botanical tattoos are perfect for people who forget to water real plants
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Unlike your poor, dead succulent, a botanical tattoo will never wilt.
Ukrainian illustrator and tattoo artist Rita Zolotukhina (https://www.instagram.com/rit.kit/)*bases many of her "botanical fingerprint" designs on actual plants — flowers, leaves, even little ferns. To create each tattoo, she presses the live plant, dipped in ink, on her customer's body, then tattoos the skin based on its imprint.
“We don’t k**w the definitive look when we start, just the colors, the mood and basic shape," she told Illusion (http://illusion.scene360.com/art/93736/live-leaf-tattoos-by-rit-kit/).*"It’s my favorite way to make tattoos, and I think the most natural."
SEE ALSO: 25 beautifully understated minimalist tattoos (http://mashable.com/2015/07/19/minimalist-tattoos/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/03/botanical-plant-tattoos/)
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Unlike your poor, dead succulent, a botanical tattoo will never wilt.
Ukrainian illustrator and tattoo artist Rita Zolotukhina (https://www.instagram.com/rit.kit/)*bases many of her "botanical fingerprint" designs on actual plants — flowers, leaves, even little ferns. To create each tattoo, she presses the live plant, dipped in ink, on her customer's body, then tattoos the skin based on its imprint.
“We don’t k**w the definitive look when we start, just the colors, the mood and basic shape," she told Illusion (http://illusion.scene360.com/art/93736/live-leaf-tattoos-by-rit-kit/).*"It’s my favorite way to make tattoos, and I think the most natural."
SEE ALSO: 25 beautifully understated minimalist tattoos (http://mashable.com/2015/07/19/minimalist-tattoos/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/03/botanical-plant-tattoos/)
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