Mexican Tattoos

Mexican Tattoos posts cover designs rooted in Mexican and Mexican-American cultural symbols, plus the long Chicano black-and-grey style. Articles look at the Virgen de Guadalupe as one of the most common pieces, Day of the Dead sugar skull designs, Aztec calendar stones, eagle and serpent flag motifs, the lettering style developed in California in the 1970s, lowrider iconography and religious script across the chest. There are also notes on the difference between a respectful religious piece and a tourist appropriation and on the long lineage of artists like Mister Cartoon who shaped the look.