Gallery: Tag 'Em Up: These Graffiti-Style Tattoos Are Fierce AF

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Tag 'Em Up: These Graffiti-Style Tattoos Are Fierce AF
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Haley Henschel
@embracethemarshian and @adrianlamingtattoo on Instagram

This kind of street art isn't illegal, but it is criminally cool. 

Graffiti-style tattoos are a spinoff of the "New School" tattoo style, which is characterized by bright colors, cartoony, exaggerated shapes, and heavy outlines. Though New School's been around for the last 45 years or so, graffiti-inspired tattoos have only recently started to take Instagram by storm. Here are 13 memorable street art-style tattoos that we're completely obsessed with, from a spot-on Banksy homage to funky portraits to grungy lettering that looks like it's dripping with fresh spray paint. 

Which one's gonna be your next ink?

About Haley Henschel

Haley is a writer, editor, and illustrator from Wisconsin, so please don't serve her an Old Fashioned unless it contains brandy. Outside of work, you'll find her aquascaping, getting bossed around by her bird, or planning another trip to Australia. She currently lives in Chicago, where she's having a hard time adjusting to the whole "no ketchup on hot dogs" thing. Feel free to send your pizza recs/Kardashian konspiracies her way. Currently reading: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.

Follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @haleyhenschel.

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