Sugar Skull Women
Behold Mexican artist Jose Posada’s female avatar La Calvera Catrina. She has inspired a bevy of Day of the Dead tattoo ideas featuring a pretty woman with her face painted in the style of a sugar skull. Most of these begin and end as stylized glamour shots…
…but some integrate concepts like time and mortality…
…perhaps a Calvera holding a sugar skull-styled doll…
…or wearing a skull, smoking a cigarette and sporting a skull tattoo of her own…
…or being a ZOMBIE!
Some have even mixed in cultural figures into the “sugar skull woman” realm — most notably, famed early-20th-century Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, both as mystic avatar…
…or just face-painted in a simple, naturalized way…
