Two traditional style colour tattoos on the inner wrists and forearms, one showing a glue bottle with a CONSTRUCT banner and one showing scissors with a CREATE banner, both with blue and red flowers.

Glue bottle and scissors wrist tattoos

Traditional · Forearm · Colour · Photo

Two tattoos sit side by side on the inner wrists. The left shows a glue bottle with a brush top, wrapped in a yellow banner reading CONSTRUCT, framed by blue flowers and green leaves. The right shows a pair of scissors with a yellow banner reading CREATE, surrounded by red and blue flowers and leaves. Bold black outlines, flat fills and bright colour define both designs against a dark background.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, the lot of you, and pass the bread along, because the bride's grandmother never let anyone leave a wedding without the story of the Pemberton sisters and the bottle of glue. Ada was the one who cut. Marion was the one who stuck. Between them they made the costumes for every pantomime in Wrexley for thirty years, and they fought the whole time, the way sisters do over who has the good shears.

Keep reading

Ada kept her scissors on a nail by the back door, where the cat could not reach them. Marion kept the glue, a brown bottle with a brush in its neck that she dipped and dabbed until the stuff went hard and stank of vinegar. Neither would touch the other's tools. One January the pantomime dame's bodice split in the middle of the church hall, the curtain was up in an hour, and Ada stood there with the scissors open and her mouth shut tight, while Marion came in from the cold with a bottle in each hand and no word for her at all.

So they worked it out with their hands. Ada cut the new lining from a bolt of old green silk, Marion brushed the seams flat so they would hold under the lights, and neither of them said sorry, which was how the pair of them always said it. The dame went on that night and got the biggest laugh of the season.

The bottle still sits on the Pembertons' shelf, and the scissors still hang on the nail. Ada's girls say the glue was never the important thing. Mind you, I would not say that to Marion.

More like this

Two traditional style colour tattoos on forearms, one showing a bottle with a CONSTRUCT banner and flowers, the other showing scissors with a CREATE banner and flowers.
Construct bottle and create scissors on forearms
Colour tattoo of an animal skull surrounded by purple and orange flowers and green leaves on a thigh, in a botanical neo-traditional style.
Animal skull and flowers on a thigh
Colourful watercolour-style tattoo of three arrows with feathers and dots on the upper arm.
Watercolour arrows on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a red heart padlock, a key with a pink ribbon bow and blue flowers on the inner upper arm.
Heart padlock, key and flowers on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a glass jar with three fireflies and red flowers with teal leaves on a forearm.
Firefly jar with red flowers on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a black teapot with orange flowers and teal leaves, with a red and orange moth below, on an upper arm.
Black teapot with flowers and a moth
Watercolour-style tattoo of a songbird with black linework, outlined stars and a small heart on the inner forearm.
Watercolour bird and stars on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a cat's face framed by filigree ornaments on a forearm.
Ornamental cat head on a forearm
Colour tattoo on a woman's shoulder and upper arm showing a pink hibiscus, a Roman numeral clock face with a gear, yellow plumeria and butterflies, in a realistic painted style.
Hibiscus and clock face on a shoulder
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a gold anchor with a jewelled heart, purple bow and pink cherry blossoms on a forearm.
Jewelled anchor with bow and blossoms on a forearm
Two traditional style tattoos on the tops of bare feet, a wrench with a DAD banner and a sewing machine with a MOM banner, both with red flowers.
Wrench and sewing machine tattoos on feet
Colour traditional tattoo of a red lipstick and a teal and pink flower with green leaves on the inner forearm, with a dotted circle above.
Lipstick and flower on a forearm

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.