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As far as we know, David doesn't have any tattoos but Angel does has a gorgeous one located on his right shoulder blade. It's a large Celtic gryphon that's holding the letter "A" (for Angel?) between it's legs. Lydia let me know that the "gryphon" is actually the god Phoenix who's story told that the bird Phoenix rose up from the ashes. Meaning: That when you die, you'll eventually come back some day if you are strong enough. Like Angel as a vampire, so it may be thought that Angel got this done when he became a vampire. It was probably done when he was in Ireland with Darla but nothing is really known about it.

Interesting fact: Joss Whedon had asked for a tattoo to be created for Angel and Todd MacIntosh created a bunch of them and selected the gryphon. Later, during the episode Angel, after the tattoo had been applied to David, Joss was a little shocked and said he'd only wanted a very small tattoo like a shamrock or something of that size. But they decided to stick with the tattoo because they felt it suited Angel.

Well, everyone's curious about those pictures of David with his entire body painted and here's the story, that I know, behind it. These pictures were done before Buffy had ever aired. Some photographer in Australia asked David if she could paint his body and take some pictures for some project of hers. David agreed and the photographer painted David's body with all sorts of designs and then took some pictures. When the photographer was asked to reminisce about the pictures she said that David's hair had been much longer at the time and that he hadn't been into very much acting.

After David's marriage to Jamie Bergmen, the two of them got matching tattoos inked onto their inside wrists. The tattoos are solid black Chinese characters which represent soul and fate. Jaime has matching ones. This is so that when they hold hands, their souls and their fates are joined together.