Pin-up style drawing of a woman in a red polka dot headscarf flexing her bicep, with Girl Power script tattooed on her upper arm.

Pin-up woman flexing with Girl Power script

Neo-trad · Upper arm · Mixed · Flash

A drawn pin-up woman in a red polka dot headscarf flexes one arm, showing a bicep with the words Girl Power in script and a small heart beneath. The linework is bold and dark with soft grey shading on the skin and hair, while the scarf, lips and some accents are in red. The figure fills the frame against a plain light background.

Neo-trad Lettering Upper arm Pin-up Woman Bandana Polka dot Script Heart

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The sofa was already halfway up the ramp when the two lads from Carrow Removals stepped back and folded their arms. Marnie Pike knotted her mother's red headscarf tighter, the one with the white spots that had faded to the colour of weak tea, and put her shoulder under the settee anyway. "Gary's not coming," she said. "So you can help or you can hold the door."

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Nobody held the door. The settee slid, wobbled, and the far end caught on the lip of the van with a crack like a dropped tray. Marnie felt the wood give and the whole weight come down onto her palms, so she did what her dad had taught her in the yard on Saturdays: stop thinking about the weight and think about the next step. Two steps. Then a third. The taller lad grabbed the other end without a word, and the sofa went in.

Afterwards, in the cab with the heater roaring and the radio stuck on a phone-in about bin collections, she wrote the day's jobs on the back of a parking ticket. Two bedsits, one piano, do not let Gary near the piano. Her mother had painted PIKE AND DAUGHTER on the door in 1989, and nobody had ever asked Marnie whether she could do the job, only whether she was sure, which is not the same question at all.

At the lights on Stapleton Road a cyclist pulled up beside her, read the lettering, and grinned. Marnie pulled the scarf off, shook out her hair, and wrote GIRL POWER across the top of the ticket in capitals before the lights changed.