SN Ink & Piercing Glossary

Tattoos:

Ryan Richards

Both arms/shoulders: Twin fire extinguishers on his collar bones throwing fire. The flames and swirls of smoke make up Ryan’s sleeve tattoos all the way to his fingertips
Right hipbone: a cartoonish pack of French fries with a sad face (lost bet, chapter 5)

Liam Novitzky

Under the collar bones: ‘You will be surfed’, written in an elegant font
Inner side of lower lip: ‘FUCKER’
Pecs: a biomechanical tattoo (covering the name of his ex)
Left sleeve: tribalish waves and sharks
Right sleeve: A luscious female mouth blowing out smoke and ‘Cancer Resistant’ written on the inner side of the forearm
Right side: portrait of Liam’s pet labrador retriever, along with the date of his death (10/12/1995), and a creepy ventriloquist’s dummy
Left side: grim stairs leading to an open door on top, with guts and blood splattered all around
Lower belly: ‘Sex Feet Under’, the name of a music band he likes (dare)
Back: a huge tattoo of a grim city and a flight of birds swarming in the sky
Left thigh: a realistic hog’s head (lost bet)
Right thigh: a bloodied cleaver
Above the base of his cock: ‘BOSS’
Left calf: a kanji character, meaning ‘love’ (made by a tattoo artist in training)
Left hipbone: a Chinese take away box containing worms instead of noodles (lost bet)
Outer side of left foot: ‘You’re heavy’ (dare)

Piercings

Ryan Richards

Bottom lip: snake bites (little balls or spikes), ring in the middle (circular barbell)
Nose: septum (circular barbell)
Cheeks: dimples (labret studs)
Left ear: tragus (small labret stud, chapter 16), lobe (small flesh tunnel), helix (ball closure ring, labret stud, ring)
Right ear: industrial (purple, glow in the dark barbell), snug (curved barbell with spikes)
Tongue: venom (barbells – clear flat balls on top and neon blue-green koosh balls under the tongue)

Liam Novitzky