Black ink hamsa hand tattoo with an eye and floral detail on the upper back of a person with dreadlocks tied in a bun.

Hamsa hand tattoo on upper back

Blackwork · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A person with dreadlocks tied up in a bun is photographed from behind, showing a hamsa hand tattoo centred on the upper back below the neck. The design uses fine black linework with solid areas and dotted shading, filling the palm with an eye and layered floral motifs. The tattoo is shown in black ink only, set against bare skin and a softly blurred indoor background with a teal and warm colour grade.

Blackwork Botanical Back Eye Flower Hand

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mairead Quill had counted the steps of the Skerrin light every night for thirty-one years, and on the night the Ardgour boat failed to come in, she counted them twice. The lamp room smelled of paraffin and brass polish. Below, the sea heaved against the rocks like something that had been told no.

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Her husband, Tam, had scratched a small hand into the sill of the north window the winter they arrived, a shape he'd seen painted on a Cypriot fishing smack, and he'd said it would keep the evil eye off the glass. She had laughed at him. Now she traced the five raised fingers with her thumb, the palm ringed with little flowers, and the eye at its heart that Tam had cut with a nail and a candle flame.

At two in the morning she saw a lantern bobbing among the skerries. She turned the lens a fraction, and the beam swung out over the water like a finger pointing. The lantern steadied, then came on slowly, past the teeth of the rocks, towards the slip where the lifeboat men stood waiting with their oilskins buttoned to the throat.

When the boat was tied up, the skipper, a boy called Lewis Ure, asked her whether the window was really cursed. She said no. She said it was only watching, which was what a good eye was for, and she climbed back up the stairs to keep the light lit until dawn.