Josh's polonesian sleeve

the mad chef from Daydream Island. slowly adding bit by bit. love this tattoo.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• daydream island
• aaron prosser
• whitsunday tattooing
• airlie beach
• polopneian tattoo
• tattoo
• greywash

[Herc2770]

If i see your ass around im gonna put a whoopin on you Boy. I hope you got our blood in your veins.

[yellowman808]

@danieladik I am 1/4 hawaiian and I understand, but you honestly never know if the person is hawaiian. I am incredibly pale but 1/4 hawaiian and hawaiian culture is incredibly important in my life. I hate when people look down on me because i am pale, and have a hawaiian tattoo.

[redlin728]

@bigjakedogg11 why do you have to be so racist? and what the hell is a southern cross? Im white and i have no idea.Don't get it twisted, this guy needs to figure out how to spell proper when he is talking about something as culturally important as TATAU. I myself am covered in Polynesian done by Hawaiian and Samoans, I have great respect for tatau and have a deep knowledge of it from all the islands that make up polynesia.My work has been chosen by the artist and is appropriate for me to wear.

[WhatAndWhy11]

@bigjakedogg11 So im a palagi and on deployment my Samoan friend died out there with me. I got half a sleeve for him. he died honorably to save everyone else's ass. but you think we are all concerned for our image. Understand that there are few of us out there who respect your culture, just as much as I honor his sacrafice.

[bigjakedogg11]

wtf im sick of seeing these palagis rocking our tats, go get a fuckin southern cross and leave the pe'as to the samoans...

[danieladik]

when i saw a white guy get this tattoo i kinda got upset...... My father is samoan and my mother is pure hawaiian and seeing that someone getting a tattoo like this just so that they look cool is so wack. In samoa the tatao means something in your life, its like a resume about what youve done and also represents protection.

[jlsamoa]

@hampussamuelsson Well I'm glad for you that you got yours. See other dummies should be like you and GO to Samoa to get their real ones! I'm glad you got yours, really! And I hope you go out there to represent the Samoan culture! :)

[hampussamuelsson]

@jlsamoa Totally agree. reading some tattoo forums the same thing keeps coming up:"I want a Samoan tattoo like the Rock". totally bums me out. Not only are they stealing a design, they are so eager to do it they don't even realize it's not Samoan in the first place, even worse, they don't care...

I have two miniature pe'as, both done in Samoa, for the third one I'll travel half around the world once more. Because getting one without the Au's in it's home country wouldn't feel right.



[jlsamoa]

@hampussamuelsson NO, you're right! But what I mean is how people see designs and they want it! That is taking the other person's birthright, ancestry and characteristics belonging to THAT person. Anyone can get a Samoan tattoo is what I am saying, but they should get their OWN kind, one with THEIR own chracteristics...not some stolen design that somebody likes so they use it and get the cultures mixed up! Ya know?

[hampussamuelsson]

@jlsamoa

I think that depends on WHY you take a samoan tattoo imo. Also how and where. I got nothing but kind words from Samoans when I got mine, both in 2001 and 2007. The Samoans who dislike it I've found are usually Samoans abroad, who have rarely or never been to their on home country.

Samoans on Tutuila and Upolu really like seeing ink on palagis. I had my two done by respect to these people and the countries. That said, I don't care much for machine made tatoos done outside their origin