SKULLS.

I'm not exactly sure when skulls became so trendy, but they are beginning to haunt me. They are everywhere... really everywhere... it's overwhelming.

Designboom wrote a pedantic post about the history of death's head symbol. I prefer the use of the skull when it has meaning over it just being a statement of "cool". 
Skulls in works of art...

... and 3-dimensional art...

... sculptural and made into jewelry...

... and straight up bejeweled...

... or totally decked out in diamonds...

... and studded for fashion apparel...

... printed on silks and carved into hardware...

... and cleverly interpreted differently everyday...

We've gone skull crazy—bedeviled head-cases infatuated with ourselves. It seems so narcissistic of us? wait... what ... we are.

sources:

skull graphic—All is Vanity—Dali's women skull—cassette tape skull—Ikea box skull—skull spoons—twine wrapped skulls—structural skull ring—Dior Joaillerie's "Coffret de Victoire"—Alexander McQueen skull ring—Antique Georgian Memorial rings—skull beads on ebay—Damien Hirst's ridiculous diamond skull Thomas Wylde leather pants, emblem & dress—skull heels—McQueen scarf and clutch—Noah Scalin's Skull a day projects