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TATTOO DESIGNS & SYMBOLS - RAZOR BLADE
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Razor Blades
 Razor Blade Tattoo Designs
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Razor blades, as a tattoo design can symbolize several things, all
of them a little "edgy". A razor blade is sharp, it cuts things,
sometimes dubious things, and it has often been used as an
instrument of suicide, as in "cutting ones wrists". As a
tattoo design, the razor blade speaks to a history of risk taking,
operating outside the bounds of law, and drug use. It may also
symbolize a history of dealing with depression, addiction, and
self-abuse or mutilation.
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The Razor Blade, in particular the straight-edge style that were
designed to be used as replaceable blades, are a tattoo design that
harkens back to a time in the seventies and eighties when such
razors were regularly used as drug paraphernalia. A razor blade was
used to cut up drugs ranging from marijuana to shaving cocaine
crystals into a powder fine enough that it could be smoked or
snorted into a nostril. In fact, when cocaine use was in vogue,
razor blades charms often hung from the gold chains of those who
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