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05.24.12 | BLOG
More New Ink From Trace Cyrus

Following a successful weekend at Bamboozle, Trace Cyrus returned home to L.A. where he added to his ... more>

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05.22.12 | BLOG
Travis Barker's Third Tattoo in Three Weeks

Barker is at it again this time putting finishing touches on his Jesus piece by Franco Vescovi.

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05.22.12 | BLOG
Convention Recap; Hell City.

The flames were high, as always, at this year’s Hell City. This summer marks “a decade of ... more>




 
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Long before Tara Dakides was an X Games champ and leading lady of snowboarding, she was another 18-year-old having doubts about her next tattoo. "He had a twitchy eye," Dakides remembers of the tattooer who took a turntable in payment for a tattoo. "I should've known from that point that he probably wouldn't have done good work." She took the plunge anyway, and ...  



 



Ask pro BMX freestyle rider Nigel Sylvester which hurts more-getting a chest piece shaded or taking a header into the ground after missing a toothpick grind-and he'll say neither: It's all about mind over matter. "Riding bikes is physical-you're gonna fall down and get hurt," says Sylvester. "Same with tattoos. Yeah, some of 'em hurt, but I think if you brainwash yourself ...  



 



When tattoo veterans Brad Fink and Mark Andrews decided to open Iron Age Tattoo in 1994, they modeled the new shop after a place most people hate—the dentist. “When we opened, there were only nine shops in the St. Louis area, and they were all older and dingier,” Andrews explains over the sound of music and buzzing needles. “We wanted something clean and modern ...  



 



Chances are you're already friends with Metal Sanaz. Since launching her MySpace page in 2003, Sanaz has become a fixture on the friend lists of over 700,000 fans around the world who have helped her rack up more than two million video views for her online metal show. That fan base helped earn Sanaz a spot as the official host of MySpace: A ...  



 



Pro skateboarder Erik Ellington’s first-ever tattoo was nearly a casualty of his INKED photo shoot. “I went bombing down a hill and slammed,” the 31-year-old skater recounts. “I rolled down the hill like a rag doll, scraping up my whole right side.” The fall slashed up the word “Balance” on his upper arm—the name of the skate company he and a pal started ...  



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