Black brush lettering reading Trust No Bitch across a woman's upper arm, shown in a bold lettering style.

Trust No Bitch lettering on upper arm

Lettering · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A woman in a black V-neck top is photographed from the shoulder down, with her face out of frame. The upper arm carries black brush lettering reading Trust No Bitch, with heavy strokes and tapered tails. The tattoo is in black ink only against pale skin and a plain white background, with soft even lighting.

Lettering Upper arm Word Phrase Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The rain had stopped by the time I got the shutter up on Cable Street, but the pavement still held the streetlamp like a dropped coin. I had two brushes in my jacket, a tin of gloss black and a rag, and a landlady who wanted a promise painted across the front of a pawnbroker's shop that had never once kept one.

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Dessa Okafor stood with her arms folded while I snapped the chalk line. "Three words," she said. "Make them look like they mean it." I told her brush lettering is a matter of pressure, not meaning. Press on the downstroke, lift early on the tail, and the letter does the rest. The first word went up easily. The second I did in two heavy strokes, the way you'd say a thing you'd already regretted.

The third word was the argument. She wanted it spelt out in full, and I wanted it softened, and we went round the block twice before she laughed and told me to just finish the thing. So I did. The loops dragged below the baseline and the tails flicked off to nowhere, and it looked like something a drunk deckhand might have scratched into a mast.

At dawn she counted my money out onto the windowsill and asked whether the paint would last. Gloss outlasts most promises, I said. She didn't laugh. Across the road the cab rank was filling up, and I watched the wet black letters catch the first grey light, each tail still shining, and thought a sign is only ever read by people who've already decided not to believe it.