Saguaro Cactus tattoo girl from the High Line, Addie Stone
Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, occasionally corrupted as bobbed wire or bob wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. It is used to construct inexpensive fences and is used atop walls surrounding secured property.
The symbolism behind the barbed wire tattoo is endless.
The symbolism behind the barbed wire tattoo is endless. Most often, people that have this tattoo kind of put off a badass, outsider, vibe. It is a way of saying you are the unapproachable type, not very easily understood.
Others get this as a way of signifying there years spent in jail.
Body art or tattoos has entered the mainstream it is no longer considered a weird kind of subculture.
"According to a 2006 Pew survey, 40% of Americans between the ages of 26 and 40 have been tattooed".