Ghostface

This one's on D'Laina, Eden's senior content lead and a serious horror fan. Sam puts a Ghostface mask on her outer arm, and the move that makes it work is what sits inside the hood: where the mask's blank face should be there's a woman mid-scream instead, blood across her forehead, painted warm against the cold grey rubber around her so the two temperatures do different jobs inside the same shape. The mask edge stays soft and slightly out of focus, which sends your eye to the face first and lets it work outward. Most mask tattoos are built the other way around. It runs into the rest of her horror sleeve further down the arm. By Sam McAleese.

By Sam McAleese at Eden Body Art Studios.

Styles: Realism.