The only thing UK singer Amy Winehouse seems to be collecting faster than awards lately is new tattoos. When her debut album was released in late 2003, she didn't have any visible tattoo. Now, just four years later, she's won an award as Best British Female Artist and her tattoo collection has grown to purported baker's dozen, aka thirteen.

Her music crossed the genres of soul, jazz and R&B. She has said of late that she's become more interested in the "girl band sound" of the late 1960s. Her look has also shifted, and takes a retro feeling from that same time, as does her body art.

Most of Amy's tattoo are down her arms, but there are some pieces on her torso as well. Much like her bouffant hairdo, her tattoo imagery and styles seem to draw from the 1950s-1960s period. Both the design choices and the manner of coloring falls into the tattoo category known as "old school" and which covers the predominant tattoo style seen in the US and England during the first half of the 20th century. Shading and coloring are somewhat flat and designs are stand-alone without background shading or connection.

She has several "pinup girl" tattoos, most notably on the upper portion of both arms. On her right arm is a standing pinup, wearing a red blouse, black shorts and pumps, with the name Cynthia next to it. At this woman's feet is tattooed a sitting model, wearing nothing but an open fan. The large outline of a pinup on her left arm is topless.

Other tattoos include a large horseshoe (left upper arm), a winged angel on her back, a feather (inner left forearm) and a lightning bolt (inner right forearm).

On her chest, over her heart, is the design of a button pocket placket above which is the word "Blake's." This is in reference to her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, whom she married in May of 2007. Symbolically it would seem to say her heart belongs to him. The British tabloids have been churning out stories lately reporting that she plans to get her husband's initials in an intimate body location. In addition, many of the articles refer to her body art as being like something a sailor would wear.

If you like rock star and celebrity tattoos, you might also like The Rock Star Tattoo Encyclopedia by Patricia Steur
or Tattoo Nation: Portraits of Celebrity Body Art by Rolling Stone Press