Black and grey photo of two wrists turned towards the camera, with black script lettering reading No Lies on the left wrist and Just Love on the right.

No Lies and Just Love wrist tattoos

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The photograph shows two inner wrists and the tops of two hands, with the palms facing the camera. Each wrist carries a line of black, flowing script lettering: No Lies on the left and Just Love on the right. The image is monochrome, with soft lighting and a plain dark background that keeps focus on the lettering.

Lettering Forearm Word

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

Dad painted the words on the cabin side of the Mabel Jean the summer the canal froze, and when the paint blistered in the sun he painted them again. Nobody on the towpath ever asked what they meant. My brother Tom said it was a rule of the boat, something you had to say before the lock keeper let you through. He was ten and I was twelve, and we believed him for most of a year.

Keep reading

The truth came out at Hatherton Lock, where the water stank of weed and Tom got the gate pole stuck in the mud. He asked me straight whether Mum had gone off with the milkman. I said no, which was a lie, because I had seen her bag packed under the bunk and kept quiet for three weeks. Tom looked at me the way Dad looked at a bad weld, and I understood that the words on the boat were not a rule at all. They were a wager.

We settled it that night, lying in the fore-cabin with the stove ticking. No lies, we agreed, and then, because it sounded like a promise that might hold, Just love. Mum came back in October with oranges in a string bag, and we never found out whether she had meant to stay away. The paint still says what it says. I have stopped trying to decide which half was the rule and which was the gift.