Colour neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing a sugar skull girl with a blue bow, a sugar skull pony, angel wings, bats and a coffin against pink clouds.

Sugar skull girl with pony and bats on upper arm

Neo-trad · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A large colour tattoo shows a cartoon girl with sugar skull face paint and a blue bow with a skull motif, seated beside a green sugar skull pony with a mane and flower. Behind them are pale blue wings, pink clouds, a moon and a line of bats, with a purple coffin and small tombstone at the lower right. Bold outlines, smooth colour fills and soft shading are shown across three views of the same arm.

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The pony had got out again, and Nell found him at ten past two in the morning, standing in the dodgem queue with a rope of marigolds tangled in his mane and looking pleased with himself. Her uncle had painted him the year before the fair lost its money: sugar skull face, webbed lashes, one amber eye that stared at you as if it had already read your debts. Nobody had oiled his hinges since.

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She climbed on anyway, because the bats were already wheeling round the lamp above the helter-skelter and there was no sense going home to an empty flat. The pony trotted, then cantered, then simply left the boards, pale blue wings unfolding from his shoulders with a sound like wet laundry. They rose over the sleeping front, past the pink-lit sea mist, towards the little tombstone the council had put up for the old ghost train.

'You are not a horse,' she told him. He blew a puff of sugar into the air. 'Fine. Not a horse, not a dog, not a pet.' At the end of the pier stood the purple coffin that had been empty since 1987, and the pony landed beside it as neatly as a cat on a windowsill, folding his wings with a flourish that was entirely for her benefit.

At dawn the gulls found them back at the carousel. The pony settled onto his pole with a creak and went still, the way he always did for the public. Nell tucked a marigold back into his mane, then checked her own reflection in the ticket booth glass. The blue bow with the skull on it was still there, a little crooked, and the skull was grinning at her as though it knew exactly where they had been.

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