The NES is one of the most recognizable objects of the eighties (Source).
The retro tattoos nostalgic are a excellent choice for those of us who are already of an age and fondly remember our childhood in the eighties and nineties. Undoubtedly, these two eras have been very intense and have provided a large number of icons both in many fields such as music or entertainment.
Read this post to walk through one selection of the retro tattoos coolest of these two decades. Cowabunga!
TV series: those Saturday mornings in front of the TV
Asuka, from Evangelion, one of the most intense TV series of the nineties (Source).
Some of the happier times we spent our childhood in front of the tv. Those of us who were born and raised in the eighties and nineties have an almost endless source of mythical TV series to represent in a retro tattoo to catapult us to those afternoons or saturday mornings having breakfast in front of the television.
Who does not remember Ninja Turtles bingeing on pizza? To the Simpson in its most acidic and dysfunctional version ... To the warriors of Sailor Moon finishing off his enemies with a clean tiara ... Goku gathering the dragon balls ... To the boys of Evangelion towering, imposing, over Neo Tokyo with their EVAs ...
Mythical movies that we have seen again hundreds of times
Disney movies marked us deeply.
Another option to design a retro tattoo very cool is to be inspired by movies from the eighties and nineties. You've surely seen some of the most mythical hundreds and hundreds of times, either in the cinema (where in the old days there were queues all weekend and not just on the day of the movie party) or in VHS (o Beta, if you were more hipster than anyone).
The times we played the fool by imitating Jack and Rose hugging at the end of the ill-fated Titanic. The hoaxes we've swallowed about the exact date Doc and Marty began their adventure after the premiere of Back to the future II. The songs on the radio Dirty Dancing… We can relive all these memories with a retro tattoo.
Let's dance to the sound of nostalgia
Music tattoo with the musical notes of the Michael Jackson song The Man in the Mirror (Source).
Another thing more iconic of the eighties and the nineties are the Songs, and this was a golden age for music. People like Justin Bieber were still far away. In our times, we danced to the sound of firecrackers like the Spice Girls and icons like Michael Jackson, Prince, Jamiroquai, George Michael… What better way to remember them forever than with a tattoo?
And, related to music, we have a series of their fetish that, after his lamented disappearance, have returned with force. Yes, we talk about the cassettes, radio cassettes, CDs, vinyl ... which can also be a spectacular tattoo for music fans.
We the pioneers: console games we won't forget
An extreme place to get a tattoo: Mrs. Pac Man haunted by ghosts (Source).
Another great idea for a retro tattoo, of which we have already spoken other times, is to tattoo a piece based on the Console games of that time.
There is a infinity of designs in which to inspire us, from the first Nintendo titles (Duck Hunt, Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda...) to typical titles of the recreational (the "little Martians", Pac Man, Asteroids...) or to PlayStation, which had a tree impressive during its first appearance in the nineties.
Toys with which we had the best times
Hot Wheels were miniature cars for racing down extreme ramps (Source).
Finally, let's not forget the physical toys with whom we spent the best times, especially at Christmas.
Playmobils, Barbies, Polly Pockets, Rubik's cubes, Simon, miniature cars, remote control cars, scalextrics ... We might have a childhood marked by excess and consumerism, but we had the best toys of the world. All of them can be a wonderful idea to get a retro tattoo of the most colorful and original.
Retro tattoo with Pac Man, Rubik's cube… (Source).
As you can see, the eighties and nineties are a almost inexhaustible source to inspire us and get a retro tattoo original and inimitable that transports us to the best moments of our childhood. And you do you have or want a tattoo based on these two spectacular decades?