Lana Del Rey's tattoos hold a personal meaning to her. They are subtly placed mostly on her hands, fingers and arms. Constantly in the spotlight, her fans quite frequently get confused which tattoos are permanent and which are temporary. When inspired, Lana Del Rey will draw potential tattoos on herself to see how she feels about them being permanent ...

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With more than 30 years of tattooing under his belt, Fip Buchanan is one of the most experienced artists in southern California—an old-style tattooer with no boundaries whose repertoire ranges from Japanese to realistic to traditional pieces.

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Drawing from literary heavyweights like Edgar Allan Poe, the Grimm Brothers, and Dante, The Inked Magazine Music Tour headliner, Alesana, creates an awesomely dark experience.

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The bad boy of Hollywood—whose credits include Sons of Anarchy and Outlaw Empires—opens up about ink, the SOA gang, and being married to Peggy Bundy.

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Sons of Anarchy kicks off its highly-anticipated fifth season tonight, and you can expect plenty of bikes, tattoos and drama. Fans can expect to see new faces within the coming weeks -- Joel McHale and Ashley Tisdale are only two of the new actors who will join the cast.

Multi-talented actor, producer, writer and director Kurt Sutter talks to us about ...

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Shepard Fairey's back again with a new collection, and this time he's brought Neil Young along for the ride. Well, kind of. Apparently Fairey's a big Neil Young fan, so his new collection, Americana, is purely based off of Young's work. The artwork is a combination of lyric-based art and Fairey's own visual interpretations of ...

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We all know name tattoos are a bad idea. Ana Stone disagrees. “The script above my knees says ‘Harley Baby.’ When I showed my mom she was like, ‘Isn’t it a bad omen to get someone’s name?’ I was like, ‘Mom, it’s my dog. I don’t think he’s going to leave me for someone younger ...

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Two hundred people gathered at the Place Émilie-Gamelin in Montreal last Thursday to protest a tuition increase, with half of the group getting tattoos to symbolize the movement.

The event, nicknamed "tattoo-a-thon", was organized by a blogger named Gabriel Roy via Facebook. His goal was to "send a clear message about the permanence of resistance." The protest group's icon ...

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Spanish company Ronink Films have put out another aesthetically pleasing short film about tattoos. This film features the ink shop Unity Tattoo in Granada, Spain. Unity Tattoo is the second installment of video's, their first film showcased True Love Tattoo Shop in Madrid.

This short offers us entry into the great city of Granada and an intimate view of ...

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Fitting in was never an option for Alesana, and they’ve gained all the more fans for it.

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    We sent one of our friends, Alexis, out to one of the first stops on the Inked Music Tour to give us the low down. She had a blast! She got pictures with Keith Buckley from The Damned Things and Dallas from Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. Both bands rocked it! Want to see the Inked Music Tour when ......

   

Leila Janah has leveled the playing field by making digital work available across the world. She got her first tattoo, her company name, with heidiminx in Dharamsala, India while they worked together to bring SamaSource to the local community.

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    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 ......

    Laura Satana was born badass. Growing up in the Paris suburbs (think projects, not picket fences) the 31-year-old picked up her first tattoo machine at 15. The setup, a homemade scratcher piece, was a gift from gypsies she often watched tattoo her young friends, sometimes using Satana's own drawings. With machine in hand, the teenage tattooist opened up shop ......

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    If you're in the market for a new smartphone this holiday season, forget the iPhone 5. Samsung is overshadowing Apple with its latest and, according to techies worldwide, greatest creation: the Galaxy Note 2. Samsung recently released the Note 2 to the eager public, and we have some exclusive insights as to why you Need. This. Phone. For starters ......

    For a hefty price, Indiana wrestler Eric Hartsburg auctioned off some face space to get Mitt Romney's logo tattooed on his temple. Fifteen thousand dollars, to be exact. Hartsburg admits that he was "totally disappointed" by the results of the election, but hopes that he can use his tattoo to encourage young people to vote. "I was trying to ......

    So I have been getting tattooed now for 14 years and have run the gamut on tattoo aftercare. Many factors influence conditions including the type of skin you have, location of the tattoo (whether it is covered), and the climate you live in. I used to keep it wrapped for 24 hours, wash with anti-bacterial soap, use some kind of ......

    One of our very own writers, Marisa Kakoulas, has teamed up with journalist Michael Kaplan for her latest book, "Tattoo World." The book showcases an impressive collection of 1,000 tattoo images from 125 artists; including such legends as Horiyoshi III and Guy Aitchison, as well as other up-and-coming artists in the industry. Kakoulas' has managed to capture some incredible ......

    Inked spent an amazing few days at the Full Moon Tattoo & Horror Festival in Nashville, TN May 13-15th. In its 10th year, the festival was the perfect mix of horror & tattoos. From those excited to meet their favorite horror film stars to those looking for some new ink, we had an awesome time meeting the crowd and checking out a ton of tattoos. There was NO shortage of tattoo talent; The crew from Lone Wolf Body Art, Eric Newby from Ink Expressions, Bodean from Bodean’s Tattoos and Body Piercing, Vince Villalvazo from All or Nothing Tattoo & Arts Studio and the crew from Truth & Triumph Tattoo…to just name a few. We also had a great time meeting and mixing with big film legends like Malcolm McDowell (The Clockwork Orange) Tyler Mane (Halloween) Sig Haig (House of a Thousand Corpses) and of course Gary Busey. In addition, there was a new element added to the show this year; an Independent Horror Film Festival, which had films screening all weekend, making it a truly interesting and unique show. A BIG thanks ......

    Next week, our Creative Director, along with a small staff will travel out to Vegas to look for the hottest girl they can find to feature in an upcoming issue of Inked Girls Magazine. Model Search, Marquee Dayclub: 1130am-4pm by the pool at the Inked Cabana Meet the Models, The Library at the Marquee Nightclub: 9-11pm Afterparty, The Library at ......

    Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson gained fame as the frontman for Icelandic post-rock act Sigur Rós, but his solo release sees him transposing his gift for orchestral explosions into a pop-friendly context (mostly because he’s singing in English). Jónsi’s voice is so distinctive that the songs sound similar to Sigur Rós’s in many ways, but sweetly syncopated tracks ......

    The career of Fucked Up has been, well, fucked up. The Canadian band blew up the formula for hardcore with the album Hidden World, played stunt gigs such as performing for 12 straight hours in NYC, then released The Chemistry of Common Life, a massive wall of noise complete with violins. Despite that, this two-CD collection of B-sides and alternate ......

    Which is wilder to consider: that it’s been 18 years since Nirvana released Nevermind or that Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters have released six albums since? While Nirvana was dragged kicking and screaming into playing arenas, Grohl built the Foos and their sound to fill them. Among the 16 tracks assembled on their first greatest hits collection are obvious ......

    Picking up a couple of years after Sony’s blockbuster title Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, this sequel finds Abercrombie & Fitch adventurer Nathan Drake searching for the treasures of Marco Polo’s lost fleet. When Drake recovers historical documents indicating that Polo was searching for the mythical city of Shangri-La, he retraces the famed merchant’s footsteps into a hail of ......

    Toronto is known for its welcoming attitude (49 percent of the city’s population was born outside of Canada), and that hospitality extends to the tattoo community when Northern Ink Xposure takes over the downtown Hilton June 13 through 15. For the Canadian expo’s 10th anniversary, there’s plenty going on: the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art will host ......

    In 1990, tattooer Oliver Peck made the decision to never again wear a pair of shoes that wasn't red. "It's sort of an LSD-induced pact I made with myself," Peck explains from the floor of Elm Street Tattoo, which he opened with partner Dean Williams in 1996. In the 12 years since Elm Street opened its doors, Peck ......

    Perfection Tattoo is definitely a custom shop. Located in Central Austin, and surrounded by an eclectic residential area, Perfection was opened in 1978 by Bob Moreau. Moreau passed the shop to his student Dave Lum, who then passed it to Chris Treviño, the current owner, in 1992. Treviño, known worldwide as Horimana, has garnered a well-deserved reputation for his amazing ......

    “First and foremost, we’re a neighborhood shop,” declares Cosmo, the owner of 13-year-old Kadillac Tattoo. “This ain’t no hipster hangout.” Located in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, this clean, bright shop prides itself on being a mainstay of a neighborhood that has struggled to stay true to its blue-collar history, despite the chic shops and restaurants that have ......

    “I would rather be here, than anywhere else,” says Chicago Tattoo Company’s shop manager and artist Nick Colella. “I don’t care what kind of shit goes down, as long as I am in a tattoo shop.” He adds, with a chuckle, “I’m lucky that I have a wife that understands that.” Originally opened in the ’60s by ......

    “People come by the store all the time just to play pool,” laughs Shamrock manager Cody McCarthy. “That’s why it’s called the ‘Social Club.’” While the shop has famously tattooed celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Bruce Willis, its real claim is being the place to go for black and gray work. “When you talk about black and gray ......

    Co-owned and operated by venerable artists Ed Hardy and Fip Buchanan, Tattoo City, in the heart of the historic North Beach area, is at the apex of the tattoo world. Hardy himself hand picks each of the store’s artists to carry on the tradition he began more than 40 years ago. “Everyone has an individual style, but they all ......

    Sebastien Grainger, one half of the now-defunct Canadian dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979, is many things, but a great parallel parker is not one of them. In fact, the 29-year-old doesn't have a driver's license. "I had a driving lesson this morning at 10 a.m.," Grainger says, laughing, via telephone from Toronto. "I always lived in ......

    Two years had passed since Brandan Schieppati got his last tattoo-a silhouette on his side of Rocky Balboa—and Bleeding through's acerbic singer didn't have any immediate plans to get more ink. then, in early June, a phone call with his manager about the band's upcoming European tour left him rankled. At the time, Bleeding through was ......

    Fifteen is a tough age to get anything right, let alone to handle the lifestyle and responsibilities associated with landing a major record deal. Christian "Yung Berg" Ward signed his first deal as a teenager and felt all was cool with his adolescent fame and fortune, though his parents didn't quite share the sentiment. "I was wild'n out ......

    Rachel Larratt, also known as Chica Loca, takes a hair-pin turn at 129 miles per hour in her 2006 Lotus Elise and finds that the preceding evening's rain has washed away a large chunk of the stretch of Mexican roadway where she's been racing. She pilots around it and continues on, just a streak of gunmetal in Mexico ......

    Q & A with Montel Williams He's a former Navy spy, a medicinal marijuana smoker, and a tattoo enthusiast. Meet the other side of the daytime television king. Take one look at the half-sleeves blanketing both of his upper arms and it's clear Montel Williams lives up to his talk show's slogan, "There's More to Montel." Who ......

    The other side of Miamy lurks right behind the sandy shores and sweaty nightclubs of South Beach. From the proud Cuban communities like Little Havana to the mean streets of Liberty City, the city has another side that isn’t all sunshine and martinis. Like his hometown, there’s another side to Pitbull. Somewhere behind the bling and club bangers ......

    Rashad McCants played possessed. In high school, he ripped through the competition, earning state MVP honors in New Hampshire while taking his team to the state championship. College was no different. At Air Jordan’s alma mater, University of North Carolina, McCants scorched opposing defenses with his silky smooth skills, earning All-Conference and second team All-American status as a sophomore ......

    Get out your friggin’ checkbook, because these guys are ready to take it and put it to good use. And when you’re 60 or something, you’re going to have a pile of cash to spend on stuff that the elderly need, like Viagra. But seriously, Thrasher Funds, which manages a mutual fund and a privately held, pooled investment ......

    “There’s a huge snow blizzard. Holy shit.” Michael Madsen is getting snowed in at his ranch in Montana. Married with six kids, I ask him if his entire family is with him. “Yes, except for my two older ones. They’re 16 and 18, back in L.A. pumping pussy. I don’t blame them.” With most actors, you ......

    Mike Jones is known for giving out his cell phone number, screen name, and e-mail address to fans, but, ironically, he can be a hard man to get in touch with. Some calls to him go straight to a busy signal, and once, while attempting to schedule this interview, his manager said he had just dropped his cell phone in ......

Minds Eye tattoo is currently seeking a new artist!!! We are a busy downtown area shop in Helena Mt. Any one interested must have a strong portfolio and min. two years shop exp. So if you wanna check out beautiful big sky country contacy us at mindseyetats@aol.com

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Okay, so I have 3 "small" tattoos, which all consisted of about 2 hours each, I have been 11 hours so far int he chair working on the back piece, any ideas of how I can sit for more than 2-3 hours without feeling mass amounts of pain? I tried taking 3 ibuprofen before the last sitting, but after 2 ......

i just got 3/4 jap tradtional sleeve - wind, storm, peony flowers, cherry blossoms and rocks. as i look to to do my other arm, i have been told i should stick w the same theme for balance/symmerty....if do trad jap on other arm, can i stil incorporate rock of agess, and other non japanese pieces into the ...

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Hey guys, Just wanted to announce that Full Circle Tattoo is up and running, its been open for only a week, but so far we're doing pretty good. It's a brand new street / custom shop located in Ocean Beach, San Diego. It's owned by Bill Canales, and we have 6 artist from all over the place. Come ......

so.. it appears as if inkednation is something we're supposed to be using.. it's a part of inked right? it has a forum.. are we supposed to be over there or over here? what is inkednation exactly.. how does it work? are the forums better? are they active? i'm just guessing if i ask tons of questions ......

im lily im 18 and im a freshman at CSULA im going to double major in art history and business managment my ultimate goal is to own my own tattoo shop and art gallery....

yeah i definitely do not contribute back to world via my job. im a office manager for a doctor. i do EVERYTHING for him. i guess im like his bitch. ha ha! anyways, i do plan on producing some charity shows that would give back to inner city schools.*details to be provided later :)*...

yeah thats kinda why i forced myself to get only one sleeve. other arm completely blank. had to permanantly un-balance myself hahaha! figured everything in my life was too symmetrical....

yo.. so my majour gripe is strangers wanting an explanation.. i'll be sat at the pub and some girl will always say "what do they mean?" like it's obvious that the heart that says mom means i love my mom.. but i also have a pinup chick playing a man's ruin themed pinball machine.. do i really ......

ah, all you lucky bastards out there who get to be awake and function during daylight hours... 00:00 start work 05:00 leave work 05:15 arrive home and promptly try to get to sleep 06:00 finally fall asleep 07:30 awake to my husband's alarm clock 08:30 fall back asleep (if its a good day ......

Update on the job situation...I think I managed to get myself sent back home! I should be flying back next week if everything goes well. I'm sure you'll see me swingin by the office soon. =)...

the article sited above is from the original run of Inked!!! nice! but hey, i agree. if i was a tattooer, i wouldnt even do kanji tattoos. refuse. its ridiculous. i LOVE tradidional japanese art, i dont have it tattooed on me but i think its beautiful. im just not asian, yakuza, nor does that particular type of art hold ......

wow! The colors, style, composition, it all blows me away! I've always liked the traditional Japanese tattoo style and I like the fusion of the Americana elements. ...

btw Bill Canales is leaving Flying Panther and is opening his own spot in Ocean Beach San Diego, its called Full Circle Tattoo, more details as I get them...

jersey boy... you dont want to find a gf on myspace.... ever heard that song from gym class heros.... Friend Request??? I remember when I first laid eyes on you My man Tom introduced us but I was too shy to say hi When I finally built up enough nerve to drop a line You made it clear you wasn ......

Bill Canales at the Flying Panther...that's the guy I've been having work on me....

yeah i was sticking to symmetry big time for a while, even got a mirror images on my back from one shoulder to another! i figured i was nuts though, so i made myself get one sleeve only and be permanantly off-balance....

thats exactly why i squeaked in one last appt with my boy, its a whole spot where some shading just kind of fades down around my wrist to end my sleeve and i wanted to extend my sleeve onto the back of my hand and i'm so anal i dont think i would have been ok with someone else ......