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Eighties trauma, in living color

A tattoo of Rainbow Brite tattooing a terrified Care Bear. Somebody actually chose to have this permanently engraved on her body. More totally rad real-life 1980s tattoos here.  I have Maggie Thatcher on my thigh. Not really. I wish I had chosen her instead of that girl from the Thompson Twins. (Real life Ray Dreher Sr. […]

A tattoo of Rainbow Brite tattooing a terrified Care Bear. Somebody actually chose to have this permanently engraved on her body. More totally rad real-life 1980s tattoos here.  I have Maggie Thatcher on my thigh. Not really. I wish I had chosen her instead of that girl from the Thompson Twins. (Real life Ray Dreher Sr. quote from the Eighties: “That band you like, the Thompson Twins? There’s three of ’em! I bet not a one named Thompson, either. And what’s this Talking Heads crap? Heads that talk? What the hell?”)

 

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