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All dogs go to heaven
The memorial tattoo gallery is one of the newer galleries on BME, however it’s quickly filling up with some fantastic pieces. Memorial tattoos always carry a strong emotional tie with the owner as...
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Rise Above
Tattoos can have intensely personal significance to those who get them. We all know this. This particular tattoo by Jackie Rabbit is one of those. The owner is a friend of Jackie’s who has led a...
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Movember Memorial
In addition to being a month dedicated to facial hair, Movember is also a month for testicular and prostate cancer awareness. Granted all cancers are bad, but like breast cancer, early screenings can...
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Rest in Peace Taylor
Memorial tattoos are always filled with emotions for the wearer, however a memorial tattoo of a child is just heartbreaking to everyone. Jackie Rabbit did this portrait for her friend Natasha. Here’s...
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Puppy Love
Pet memorial tattoos are becoming more common these days. Then again it could just be they’re being submitted more often than they were in the past. In any case, this memorial to someone’s best...
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Family Gathering
When it came time to honour their father’s memory, this family flew in from all corners of the globe to gather at Tattoo Temple. Joey Pang, before she was a tattoo artist, studied calligraphy, so when...
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Bavikhove Memorial Tattoo
Here’s a nice scratch-sketch-style tattoo (for lack of a better way of describing it) by Veronique Depuydt of Original Sin in Belgium. The tattoo memorializes the client’s grandfather, who was the town...
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Sleep well old man
Tattoo artist Jackie Rabbit is someone who is always up for sharing a good story. When it comes to her memorial tattoos she often takes the time to relay the story in the descriptions of the images in...
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Hand-Poked Cremation Ashes Tattoo
Former BME columnist Marisa Kakoulas at Needles and Sins just posted a fascinating article on a hand-poked cremation ashes tattoo done in a hand-poked dotwork style by Colin Dale of Skin & Bone in...
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A living memorial
When Lyell Cook passed away a number of his friends decided to get memorial tattoos. Since Lyell was tattooed by Keegan Lam one friend decided to fly from New Zealand to Halifax to get a memorial...
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