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Designed: Gold and Silver Foil Bee Tattoos

July 6, 2015
fashiontats-tattoofun-logo This post is sponsored by Fashion Tats. Shop, wholesale or create your own gold and silver foil temporary tattoos. The dreamcatcher and the roses are my favorite. What are yours? I've been aching to design foil temporary tattoos for a while, but I just couldn't think of a design! Designer's block got the best of me for a good portion of a year. melissaesplin-foil-gold-bee-tattoos-3-alix-adams

Image c/o Alix Adams (via IG) - I love that she put it on her cheek.

I was writing a gift card for a Melissa when I thought I should add a honeybee flourish, since our name means "honeybee". I couldn't find any exemplars to go from, so I designed my own. It dawned on me that was what I needed for my foil tattoo design.

melissaesplin-foil-gold-bee-tattoos-2 At Alt Summit this last June, I handed out my business cards (above) with silver and gold bees. Since my name is Melissa and I hail from the beehive state, it only seemed fitting. melissaesplin-foil-gold-bee-tattoos-1 Thanks to my awesomely tan neighbor for modeling these for me. I noticed that foil tattoos don't photograph particularly well on my pasty white skin. Perhaps I need to get out of the house more? Now that I've done one design, I'm ready to do more. I've got a few ideas. Mostly words that I want to design. What word(s) should I do next?