Possible Clues:

• Just picture the beauty of this that's only skin deep
• One's beaten, being rubbish as well
• It sometimes depicts a dragon or tiger
• Sailor's anchor, maybe
• Beating that leaves marks on the skin?
• Drum signal; skin mark
• Beat it pictorially into the hide
• Design that's permanent and vulgar as well
• Cheap and nasty as well as skinny and beaten
• Beat this to get it under your skin