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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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inked-people/dancing-dark-dev
   

 

You may recognize 22-year-old recording artist Dev from some of her hits "Like a G6" and "In The Dark" but do you really know Dev?

 

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blog/cyrus-family-gets-more-ink
   

 The Cyrus family seems to love getting inked. Trace Cyrus, who is already heavily adorned,  recently posted a picture of the latest addition to his collection on Twitter. Although Cyrus already had a dove, two feathers and a diamond ring on his head he has decided to add a Native American Indian Chief to the collection.  What are your thoughts ...

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blog/mister-cartoon-featured-new-jagermeister-televisio
   

This week Jägermeister unveiled their "Stronger Bond"advertising campaign. Best known for their Jägerettes, tap machines and ice cold shots,  the brand enlisted critically acclaimed film producer Albert Hughes and Emmy Award winning Director Alastair McKevitt to capture top talent including Keyshawn Johnson, Kerry King, Freddie Roach, Mike Lingerfelt, Mister Cartoon, Nathan Fletcher and Rob Smets to create ...

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blog/mother-and-son-escorted-out-legoland-because-offen
   

Shortly after arriving to The Legoland Discovery Center at Grapevine Mills Mall, TX for a surprise visit Lana Massey and her son were asked to leave due to Massey's "offensive body art"(seen above).  Massey posted details of the incident on the Church of Body Modification forum where she describes the embarrassment of being escorted through the crowd and ...

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inked-people/dominic-chambrone-shoe-surgeon
   

Custom shoe designer, Dominic Chambrone, is better known to his fans and his clients as The Shoe Surgeon for his unique ability to deconstruct and reconstruct a shoe, giving it new life.

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article/hardest-working-man-show-business-danny-trejo
   

 

When Hollywood is looking for a hard guy, the kind you wouldn’t want to meet in even a well-lit alley, they call Danny Trejo. You’ve seen his tough persona, you’ve seen his prison tattoos, and you’ve seen the distinctive lines on his face blown up on a big screen, but have you ever seen Trejo melt ...

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blog/freshen-your-top-drawer-new-ad-campaign-br4ss-unde
   

BR4SS Underwear's new ad campaign features none other than Chicago Bears wide receiver Earl Bennett. Bennett is known for his sense of style both on and off the field regardless of the price. If you are looking to purchase your own BR4SS underwear they are now available in the Inked Shop.

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blog/man-currently-holding-tattoo-record-calls-it-quits
   

Covered in 305 country flags, 185 maps, 165 miniature flags and 2,985 characters, Guinness Rishi holds the current Guinness World Record for most tattoos. After enduring years of her husbands obsession with world records Bimla, Guinness' wife, has convinced him that no one will break his world record. Not to mention she also threatened to leave him if he ...

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blog/amazing-spiderman
   

From the hard-core comic book fan to the casual Tony Hawk gamer, video game developers Beenox and Activision have released something that is sure to excite all gamers. The Amazing Spiderman captures the web-swinging action seen in the comics and movies, which will surely make you dizzy with excitement as you swing through the free roaming landscape of Manhattan, just ...

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blog/jaguar-xk-collaborates-kaves-new-york-motor-show
   

Graffiti artist and tattoo shop owner Michael McLeer, better known as Kaves, left his mark on a Jaguar XK at the New York Motor Show. Kaves took two days to spray paint a Jaguar XK with his unique artistic style giving a nod to XK designer Ian Callum on the bonnet. The one-off design will be on display at the ...

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blog/inked-suicidegirl-year
    Think you have what it takes to be the Inked SuicideGirl of the year? Enter the Inked SuicideGirl contest for a chance to win $10,000, a 5 photo shoot contract with SuicideGirls, your picture on the cover of Inked Girls magazine, an all expense paid trip to NYC and an opportunity to travel around the world, all expenses paid ......

video-games/mlb-12-show
   

Sony’s PlayStation exclusive baseball game has 10-run ruled the competition for years now, but like the New York Yankees, that isn’t stopping the developers from upgrading its evil empire. 

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blog/joe-capobianco-write-evolution-tattoo-art-huffingt
   

Joe Capobianco, previously featured on the cover of Freshly Inked Magazine, has been writing for a number of media outlets to promote the premier of Oxygen Networks "Best Ink," where he is set to be head judge. This week he wrote "The Evolution of Tattoo Art" for the Huffington Post, where he details the history of the tattoo culture.
"While ...

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article/portfolio-ink-master-shane-oneill
   

Proficient at black-and-grey, photorealism, and anything else thrown his way, O’Neill was named Spike TV’s first Ink Master on the show of the same name. 

 

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blog/shane-oneil-ink-master
   

We'd like to take some time to congratulate the winner of Spike's Ink Master, Shane O'Neil. Take a look at some clips of Shane throughout this season and stay tuned for his feature in the April issue of Inked on stands everywhere March 27th.

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blog/woman-scorned-hannya-mask-project
   

The devastating 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that swept over the cities and farmland in North East Japan a year ago led to people from all over the globe pitching in to either donate independently or run massive fundraising drives. Ant Iannucci is just one of the compassionate people who organized a massive fundraiser to benefit Japan. Along with renowned ...

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blog/exclusive-free-download-pk-chase-sky
    One of our friends sent me over some information about this great band, PK, and a link to download their latest single, "Chase The Sky," and we wanted you to check it out! They're working on a west coast tour with Red Bull Records band Twin Atlantic! Click here to check it out now and let us know what ......

blog/new-nike-air-jordans-more-meets-eye
   

At first look, Jordan Brand’s new release, the AIR JORDAN (AJ) 2012, is like Crystal Pepsi: a complete mistake and will be forgotten as quickly as it was created. The press photos, however, for the 27th shoe from Air Jordan didn’t do them any justice. With the shoe out of the box and on your feet it’s ...

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blog/need-get-your-inked-magazine-fix-now-theres-app
   

Inked, Inked Girls and Freshly Inked Magazine are now available for purchase in the itunes App Store. For $19.99 you can get a one year subscription to one of your favorite tattoo magazines. The subscription will include the current issue, if you do not already own it, and subsequently published future issues. We also have individual magazines available for ...

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blog/supra-presents-society-heartbreaker-il
   

The second installment of the Heartbreaker line will be released on February 11 as a Society style shoe with a red waxed suede and red Express TUF upper on a black sole with white foxing and red pinstripes. Some other features of the new kicks are white stripes screen-printed on the back of the collar, broken heart footbeds and a ...

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blog/opena-brings-us-first-bottle-opener-iphone4-case
   

We've all been there, trying to open a bottle of beer after forgetting to ask if anyone had a bottle opener. With the Opena iPhone case you will be rid of this problem forever, or until you lose your iPhone. The Opena Case is a PC/ABS hard case with a slide out bottle opener. The case retails for ...

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blog/crying-game
   

Hello my name is Christine Guadagno. I was on the first episode of Ink Master, I was Jeremy Miller's "human canvas" ...yes that was me crying.

            I have had a terrible experience with my back and I ended up with a mess. I went on Ink Master hoping to get it covered up and I was given the opportunity ...

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article/sex-panther
   

Sixty percent of the time, Steel Panther glam-rocks the house every time.

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blog/exclusive-twin-atlantic-play-free-live-o2-academy
    Check out Scotland’s Twin Atlantic performing the title track from their new album “Free” LIVE from the SOLD OUT O2 Academy in Glasgow. See them as they tour across the US this month- head to www.twinatlantic.com for more info and dates....

blog/friday-13th-tattoo-sales
    As seems to be tradition in many NYC tattoo shops Friday the 13 is celebrated with $13.00 Friday the 13th tattoos and of course the lucky seven $7.00 tip. The first Friday the 13th of the year is this Friday and we know of a few quality shops holding sales. Tattoo Seen in the Bronx, the flash seen ......

inked-girls/katherine-hartley-girls-with-tattoos
   

Katherine Hartley is lightning in a tattooed bottle—so much so that Monster Energy Drink picked her to add some electricity to their concert circuit as an effervescent Monster Music Ambassador.

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blog/high-tech-ink-random-tattoo
    With tattoos and technology becoming more in sync everyday, it's only natural that we're starting to see high-tech tattoos. One of the most recent, fascinations is the QR code tattoo. Fred Bosch uploaded a video of his tattoo in action, displaying a dancing gif, a random phrase, and his most recent tweet. See the video below!...

article/who-ink-master
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blog/katy-perry-and-russell-brand-couple-tattoos-togeth
   

With divorce rumors in the air, Katy Perry and Russell Brand permanently marked their happily married love last week by both getting tattoos after her concert in L.A. Katy got a smiling peppermint on her ankle, while Russell marked his arm with the badge of his favorite soccer team, West Ham United. Katy even proceeded to try her hand ...

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inked-people/knux
   

"It’s about all free mind, man, not being bound by the matrix. That’s what all my tattoos mean.” —Alvin “Joey” Lindsey, The Knux

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blog/light-truth-book-signing-dan-smith
   

Saturday, Nov. 26th, tattoo artist and musician Dan Smith will be having a book signing of his new book "With the Light of Truth" at Sacred Gallery in SoHo, NYC.  The former LA Ink star brings a collection of straight-edge related tattoos, art and profiles from artists who have dedicated their straight-edge lifestyle to their artwork.

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blog/meet-2012-sailor-jerry-inked-calendar-girls-episod
    We're getting closer and closer to the drop date on the 2012 Sailor Jerry + Inked Calendar. So we figured it was about damn time we introduced the ladies who will be gracing the walls of your tattoo shops, office, kitchen or workshop. To get this started say hello to Miss January Vee & Miss December Alyse. The 2012 Calendar will ......

blog/13th-annual-bikers-bash-hosted-bon-jovis-richie-sa
   

Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora and songwriter Richie Supa will be hosting the 13th Annual "Bikers Bash" of The Boys & Girls club of Broward County. From Dec. 8 -11, the weekend will be filled with non-stop days of police-escorted rides and a special performance from Sambora and Supa on Dec. 9th at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino presented by ...

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blog/exclusive-behind-scenes-zombie-boy-inked-magazine
    A behind the scenes look at the fashion editorial we shot for the November issue of Inked Magazine featuring Rick Genest (AKA ZOMBIE BOY). He was gracious enough to spend some time talking a little bit about what it's like to be him and what he's been up to lately. Directed, Filmed and Edited by Michael Hurley for ......

blog/last-stop-search-2012-sailor-jerry-inked-magazine-
   

L.A. was the last stop on the search for the 2012 Sailor Jerry Inked Magazine calendar girls.  The Sailor Jerry website posted a video of some of the girls that came out to the L.A. casting and it's hard to imagine how they got it down to just 12.

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blog/supra-presents-camouflage-skytop-shoe
    Supra has released a limited edition Skytop that's everything you've been looking for in a pair of kicks. According to the shoe company: "The design is a subtle reflection of the themes of Samhain and Fall, yet is wearable at any time of year." Only 413 pairs of these sick camo high-tops were created. So if you want ......

blog/road-sailor-jerry-rum-and-inked-magazine-las-vegas
   

The second stop on our calendar girl casting call tour was Royal House in Vegas and man, did they pull out all the stops. There were some really delicious cupcakes from Pick Your Poison bake shop and even a sword swallower because what's a casting call without some circus worthy action? We left Vegas with a ton of potential ...

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blog/road-sailor-jerry-rum-and-inked-magazine-philadelp
    Our first stop for the 2012 Calendar Girls search this year was Tattooed Mom in Philly and the inked beauties turned out for the occasion. All three stops were a success and we were left with the tough job of choosing 12 for the final calendar. The calendar will be released in November with the December issue of Inked Magazine. ...

article/tattoo-artists-drawn-together
   

Our favorite fine artists have something very important in common: ink. Here, they display their studies of the tattooed and take artistic license with the INKED logo.

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fashion/day-dead
   

John Lawrence Sullivan jacket; Hanes tank top.

Zombie Boy, muse to Thierry Mugler and Lady Gaga, marries extreme ink and high fashion.

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blog/tatman-ryan-roberts-arizona-diamondbacks-talks-tat
    Ryan Roberts of the Arizona Diamondbacks said he appreciates when people ask him about his many, many tattoos. Roberts told Big League Stew, "When I first started getting tattoos, I never expected to get a lot. Over the course of my life, everything started happening for a reason. If people want to know why, I'll definitely explain the reasons ......

blog/2012-sailor-jerry-calendar-cover-girl
    This year’s search for the next calendar girl for the 2012 Sailor Jerry Calendar with Inked Magazine brought in hundreds of entries from all over the states making for a damn hard selection process. After taking a month to pour over all the beauties who entered our judges somehow managed to pick a winner. We are pleased to present ......

article/we-own-air
    Look up at the X Games and you’ll miss the awesome ink in the crowd. Look down and you’ll miss greatest exhibition in modern sports....

blog/teen-moms-gary-shirley-gets-amber-tattoo-then-brea
    The extremely dysfunctional relationship of Teen Mom stars Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley continues! Star reports that while partying in Nashville on September 3rd, Gary decided to visit a tattoo parlor to get Amber’s name tattooed on his right shoulder. Over the weekend, Gary revealed he was once again done with Amber while also accusing her of cheating on ......

blog/snooki-tanning-bed-tattoo-chair
    Looks like Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is showing off more than her famous "pouf" these days. The wild reality star of MTV's 'Jersey Shore' tweeted this picture of her new ink yesterday; a crown with a cross and a Hello Kitty inspired bow. The full-color tattoo, placed on her upper arm, is sure to get plenty of attention on this ......

blog/back-school-tattoos-classroom
    Classroom etiquette hasn’t changed much in the past years, the all-to-familiar restrictions on students still exist; no talking, no hats, no short skirts, no chewing gum, and – the one most insulting to our nation’s facebook crazed, tweet happy youths – no cell phones. But here’s a new one … no tattoos. Students everywhere are expected to follow specific dress ......

blog/grandmother-six-gets-do-not-resuscitate-tattoo
    A mother of two, and grandmother, Joy Tomkins decided that she did not want to be brought back to life in a medical emergency following the slow death of her husband Malcom. She had 'Do Not Resuscitate' tattooes across her chest - and 'PTO' on her back. The grandmother-of-six, who suffers from arthritis, Reynard's disease and diabetes, said today that ......

blog/hitting-road-inked-anaheim
    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 ......

blog/exclusive-black-tide-behind-scenes
    Miami based hard-rock outfit Black Tide discusses their tattoos (the good, the bad, and the ugly) behind-the-scenes from their recent music video shoot for the song, "That Fire." The song comes from the band's upcoming sophomore release Post Mortem which is due out August 23rd on Interscope Records...

blog/were-hitting-deck-sunday
    This Sunday, Inked will host its third pool party in Las Vegas this pool season in partnership with the Aliante Station Casino & Hotel. The first two events was packed with girls and guys enjoying the amazing. This time, the crew from Living Dead Tattoo will be hanging out with us. Music will be provided by DJ Crime and The Rock ......

blog/inked-magazine-music-tour
    House of Blues Entertainment, Inked magazine, Crush Entertainment and TKO have joined forces for the inaugural “The Inked Music Tour" Featuring The Damned Things. With members of Anthrax (Scott Ian, Rob Caggiano), Every Time I Die (Keith Buckley) and Fall Out Boy (Joe Trohman, Andy Hurley), The Damned Things debut album, Ironiclast, was released through Island Records in December 2010 ......

article/hottest-tattooed-women-rock
   

These women rock out with their tattoos out!

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blog/remember-man
    Last night, Sailor Jerry Rum invited us to a little BBQ in Brooklyn to celebrate 100 years of Sailor Jerry and the launch of their Northeastern 1973 airstream trailer. It definitely inspired us to do a little blog post just making sure that you remember Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins this Sunday. This Sunday, raise a glass to remember the man ......

music/damned-things
    The Damned Things hit the road for the Inked Music Tour...

blog/inked-gets-wet-deck
    This Saturday, May 21st, Inked will host its first of many pool parties in Las Vegas this pool season in partnership with the Aliante Station Casino & Hotel. The first event will be hosted by the gorgeous Sabina Kelley and Bombshell Tattoo Parlor. Music will be provided by DJ Crime and The Clydesdales. There will be giveaways from SkullCandy and drink ......

fashion/comeback-kid
   

Tess Taylor is out to prove that there are second acts in American lives.

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blog/rejoice-plunder
    Inked Magazine is teaming up with PLNDR.com to bring you an amazing deal on a really sweet clothing brand. REBEL8 is a San Francisco clothing company with deep roots in skateboard, graffiti, and tattoo cultures. Check it out now at PLNDR.com. To see more of REBEL8, click here....

blog/good-bad-ugly
    This week's issue of NME Magazine, a weekly music magazine based out of London, features the lead singer of a scottish rock band, Glasvegas, with a quote from Blade Runner scrolled across his body. Despite the fact that it is not actually a tattoo, they decided to cover some of the most recent rock star tattoos. They'll be ......

article/inked-2011-sex-survey
    To capture the zeitgeist of carnal knowledge in our culture for the first time ever we surveyed tattooed Americans about sex. Following are the definitive actions and attitudes of our sexuality....

blog/screening-shoemaker
    Coming up on Wednesday, January 12 in New York City... The Hudson Hotel, on West 58th street, will do the honors of screening “The Shoemaker,” a short film written, directed, and starring Mr. Kaves. Kaves is renowned for having a plethora of talents, most notably as a graffiti artist, front man, and tattooist. As an artist, his accomplishments are extensive ......

article/inside-dark-carnival
   

Even crazier than being a Juggalo—a diehard fan of Insane Clown Posse—is not being one but going to the Gathering of the Juggalos. Our reporter spends four days inside the dark carnival.

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inked-people/bring-me-horizon
    Bring Me the Horizon’s frontman, Oliver Sykes, is metalcore’s screaming answer to Justin Bieber... ...

blog/ask-mary-not-looking-all-right-places
    I've had a LOT of short relationships and I am ready for a long term relationship how do I find one? (Sammy, 26, Dayton, FL) Feel like you’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places? Well that’s because there are no right places to look. Rule #57 of the dating universe if you are in ......

fashion/kids-clothes
   

Kid Cudi has a new album and a fresh-old look. We go vintage shopping with the rap and style impresario.

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fashion/hoods-woods
   

Alabama Rapper Yelawolf takes street wear a little bit country.

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article/against-world
   

Punk’s leading troubadours Against Me! are back with a new album, a new sound, a new drummer, and a new message. Are you with them or against them?

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article/inked-industry
    Every week or so, we hear about a celebrity getting a brand-new tattoo. But it’s not just the stars who love their ink; those behind the camera—the ones responsible for making great films come together—have also been busy getting tattooed. From an up-and-coming producer and Shakespearean-trained stunt guy to a choreographer and an actor (who also happens ......

fashion/remix
   

Your gym clothes look a lot better on her.

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blog/get-inked-go
    Thinking about what that new tattoo would like on you? Or just day dreaming of sexy tattooed girls and need a visual. Then download Inked Magazine’s very own iPhone application. Use Temptu Pro’s design to see what you next tattoo would like before you make the commitment or design your own, using edgy fonts or your own image ......

games/mlb-10-show
   

Can you rattle off the lineup of the 1951 New York Yankees at a moment’s notice? If so, MLB 10: The Show is your game. The deepest baseball simulation in the majors returns with its signature game play, plus a few additions. The new Catcher Mode in The Show lets any wannabe Joe Mauer call games from behind the ...

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music/dillinger-escape-plan
   

Boy, have we missed The Dillinger Escape Plan. While some of the time since the prog-metal band released 2007’s Ire Works was certainly spent practicing guitar scales, it seems much of it was dedicated to songwriting, as Option Paralysis sees the band finally realizing their Faith No More obsession without abandoning their own schizophrenic sound. That doesn’t mean ...

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blog/if-you-cant-beat-them-buy-them
    The popular online fashion blog, FashionIndie.com, has just announced that it has been purchased by none other than famed French designer Christian Audigier. The same Christian Audigier who is responsible for the ever so chic Ed Hardy and Smet brands. Audigier made this decision after deciding he wanted to stop fashion blogs from making fun of his trademark designs ......

inked-people/daniel-merriweather
   

Even before he’d released an album in the States, Australian singer Daniel Merriweather was selling out venues like Los Angeles’s Troubadour and having big-name acts like...

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blog/ankh-symbol
    What do Dennis Rodman, Erykah Badu, Shaquille O'Neil and Amy Winehouse have in common? They all have the Egyptian Ankh symbol adorned on their bodies in the form of a tattoo. The Ankh represents virtues craved by many and these celebrities are no exception.  The Egyptian Hieroglyphic commonly found in tomb paintings represents Eternal Life. It was also considered ......

blog/inked-oscars
    From the red carpet to the stage, tattoos were the talk of tinsel town at Sunday night's Academy Awards. Miley Cyrus commented on her mom's "nice choice in tattoos," to Ryan Seacrest. Nominated for Best Actress Helen Mirren's hand tattoo made her "even hotter," according to presenter Michael Sheen.  Although Mirren told Good Morning America that it ......

blog/name-her-man
    Kelly Ripa showed off the last name of her man as a new tattoo during last Wednesdays episode of "Live! with Regis and Kelly". Although Ripa decided to go against taking husband Mark Consuelos’ last name legally, she was willing to use her wrist to adorn their name "forever". Ripa got inked at Saved Tattoo in Brooklyn, NY, and lets ......

music/ted-leo-and-pharmacists
    Ted Leo may be the hardest-working man in punk. Although his sixth full-length with the Pharmacists may not have any songs as infectious as “Me and Mia,” from his incendiary 2004 effort Shake the Sheets, it is probably his most consistent effort to date. While the album is teeming with plenty of politically motivated rock songs, The Brutalist Bricks also ......

drinks/clear-choice
   

Don’t treat vodka like the invisible spirit in your liquor cabinet. It’s the most important booze in your bar.

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music/story-year
    Those who accuse Story of the Year of identity confusion have the story only half right. While the St. Louis band is a Warped Tour regular and releases albums on punk label Epitaph, the truth is that SOTY has more in common with radio rock bands such as Hoobastank and Chevelle. That doesn’t change on their fourth album as ......

inked-people/dear-departed
    Dan Smith is living two dreams at once. When he’s not fronting the New Wave–inspired rock act The Dear & Departed, he’s busy at his other gig as a tattooer at High Voltage Tattoo in Los Angeles......

games/army-two-40th-day
   

Here’s the setup: Two steroid-shooting, joke-spewing mercenaries are in Shanghai for a routine mission. When the city comes under siege from a rival private military contractor, the cocky duo ditch the bravado and prepare for the worst. Escaping the chaotic disaster zone won’t be easy, with buildings collapsing around them, panicked civilians running for their lives, and a ...

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blog/queen-disgusted
    Bet you never thought the queen would get a tattoo. Academy Award winner Helen Mirren, who won for her role in "The Queen", drunkenly got tattooed many years ago "when only sailors and Hell's Angels were tattooed." "I decided to get a tattoo because it was the most shocking thing I could think of doing," the 64-year-old British actress ......

blog/inked-girl-gets-wild-city
    Recently, we experienced one of our most promising finds right in our own offices. One of our interns, Emily, is now the cover model of our Inked Girl special edition issue of Inked Magazine. She's been getting a lot of attention her wonderful body art, risque clothing choices, and the contrast between the savage fashions with the urban environment ......

article/home-brave
   

There are eight million ways to die on the streets of Compton, CA. Deputy Fire Chief Marcel Melanson lives to stop them.

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blog/smile-seen-round-world
    Tattooed photographer, Matthew McDermott, captured a photograph of a young Haitian boy named Kiki. McDermott is known for taking iconic images of world events such as the September 11th attacks in New York City. This image of Kiki with his arms outstretched and a huge smile is sure to become an iconic representation of the rescue efforts after this devastating ......

fashion/wild
   

Outdoor fashion spread featuring model, Tony Ward.

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article/welcome-future
   

Tattoos are designed for permanence, and the technology behind them is in no hurry to change either. For more than a century, the basic setup used to put ink in the skin of sailors, soldiers, and other skin art fans has been tweaked and fine-tuned while never deviating too far from the original design. After all, tattoo artists aren’t ...

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blog/lets-get-these-clarafied
    Ask your everyday person how to clean a piercing and i can majically guess their answer. Alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, neosporin, or bactine. This is one thing that STILL makes me feel like smacking their head and saying they need a V8. In a time of the information super highway, cloning and A chanel on TV about EVERYTHIng under the sun ......

games/saboteur
    Part Sin City, part Casablanca, The Saboteur stands out from the overcrowded collection of WWII games by going black and white. After the Germans invade France, the only color left is the bold red of Nazi banners hanging over Paris. To restore color to the City of Lights, street-smart Irish race car driver turned French Resistance supporter Sean Devlin must ......

inked-people/clipse
   

Strip any given Clipse song of references to drugs, exotic cars, lavish locales, and, of course, money—what’s left? Still enough lyric-driven hip-hop...

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drinks/spirit-season
   

The best way to stay warm when it gets cold outside: drink 'til you're numb. Bartender Brittlynn Stites offers tips on keeping warm. We listen.

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music/wolfmother
   

If you’re going to cop your sound from bands that were around 30 years ago, you’d better be damn good at it or make it obvious that you’re just taking the piss. Wolfmother never quite did either, leaving the listeners of their debut album wondering, Are they for real? Don’t count on Cosmic Egg to clear ...

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music/flaming-lips
    What a long, strange, really weird trip it’s been for the Flaming Lips. The beloved band has survived more than 20 years of musical upheaval while becoming the elder statesmen of experimental rock whose “Do You Realize??” was named the Oklahoma state rock song. The Lips sound stranger than ever thanks to a formula of less guitar, more drums ......

drive/max
    You couldn't have fit more muscle on the original Yamaha V-MAX. With its massive V4 engine crammed into the frame, the V-MAX was one of the most muscular bikes on the streets back in 1985. And with the exception of a few tweaks and cosmetic touches along the way, the model remained largely unchanged until it was pulled from ......

drive/rolllin-green
    The Toyota Prius hybrid might do it for Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz in Hollywood, but it's not going to fly with the wide array of Americans, from NFL players to PTA members, looking for something bigger and badder. And that's the riddle of the alternative-fuel auto marketplace: we are not a one-size-fits-all culture—as the tattoo community ......

article/flip-switch
    Metalcore kings Killswitch Engage blow up the formula with their latest album...

article/sound-revolution
    Green Day is interviewed as the August 2009 cover story....

article/king-road-mike-vallely
    Inked covers skateboarder, Mike Vallely....

article/notorious-dita-von-teese
    The queen of burlesque bares all about Bettie Page, Marilyn Mansion, her first bra, and her secret tattoo....

article/mastondon-reach-skye
    Tattoos, acid trips, two near-death experiences. The story behind Mastodon's latest metal masterpiece....

article/hail-king
    Inked sits down and interviews model and actress, Jaime King....

article/apprentice
    Tips from top tattoo artists on landing - and surviving - your apprenticeship....

article/pink-welcome-funhouse
    For the record, Pink Doesn't hate her former husband Carey Hart. But that doesn't mean she plays nice on her new album....

article/blood-tracks
    Bikes, guns, tattoos, broken bones, best friends, and feuds. The uncensored history of the Metal Mulisha, the most badass unit in freestyle motocross. ...

inked-spots/purple-panther-tattoo
    You won’t find any heavy metal music blaring or stereotypical “tough guys” (read: assholes) with needles at this unpretentious shop. Specializing in high-quality, custom work and cover-ups, owner M. Alder stresses that it’s not about attitude at the Purple Panther. “The goal is to create an environment where people feel comfortable coming in with their own ideas,” says ......

inked-people/loved-ones
    The title of The Loved Ones' latest full-length, Build & Burn, has a special meaning for the band's frontman, Dave Hause. "I'm a partner in a small contracting company, and I try to maintain that while playing music," Hause explains while taking a break from a house-remodeling project near his home base of Philadelphia. "It's a lot of work, but it's also really rewarding; both aspects of my life have their challenges, but they also have their rewards." Amazon.com WidgetsHause knows a thing or two about paying his dues. He got his start as a roadie for New Jersey punk legends The Bouncing Souls and started The Loved Ones in ... ...

inked-people/heather-gabel
    When Heather Gabel created Alkaline Trio's iconic skull and heart logo through a happy accident with a photocopier, she had no idea the countless tattoos it would inspire. "I was at Kinko's making a flyer and was like, 'I'm just going to throw this in here,'" she remembers. "I was 19 and pretty heavily into skulls at ......

inked-people/bronx
    The Bronx have a new album out—but you might not realize it. That’s because the Los Angeles band’s third album, like the two that came before it, is titled simply The Bronx. It’s part of the band’s plan to keep things simple—a plan that also includes recording at the group’s own studio and ......

inked-people/rule-justin-miller
    THE RULE: “No pitcher shall have markings on his body that are potentially distracting to the umpire or batter. Markings that are potentially distracting include tattoo(s) or other marking(s) which, in the opinion of the umpire, could interfere with the umpires' ability to make calls, endanger the health or safety of a batter, or otherwise interfere with the ......

inked-people/xx-factor
    Tattooing wouldn't be where it is today without females, both as inspiration and as artists. INKED looks at a few of the American women who spend every day wrist-deep in ink and blood. Stephanie Tamez AGE: 45 SHOP: New York Adorned, New York City and Brooklyn “I'm not exaggerating when I say that every day is an unusual ......

inked-people/game
    To say Jayceon “The Game” Taylor is a man of many contradictions is an understatement. An example: He grew up in Compton, CA, gangbanging with the Bloods even though his own mom was once affiliated with the Crips. He’s a cocky son-of-a-bitch who’s never been afraid to publicly champion himself as the greatest rapper alive. At the same ......

inked-people/night-marchers
    Jonathan Reis knows reinvention. As the frantic singer / guitarist / commander in chief for beloved acts Rocket From the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, and Hot Snakes, Reis has sweated his way across stages under a series of monikers, from Speedo to the Swami. With his new band, The Night Marchers, Reis has another chance at reinvention. This time, he wants to ......

inked-people/theo-kogan
    “I decided I wanted to be a clown when I was 7 years old,” says Theo Kogan, lead singer of Theo and the Skyscrapers. The whole clown thing didn’t quite work out, but, she says, “I think in a way I sorta became a clown on my own, especially with Lunachicks [Kogan’s first band]. That was taking clown ......

fashion/up-the-beach
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fashion/into-the-night
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ask-mary/ask-mary
   

If you've got relationship questions, Mary has got your answers. Submit your questions to askmary@inkedmag.com for a chance for your questions to be answered.

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music/walter-schreifels
    Walter Schreifels is probably best known as a member of acts such as Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand, and Rival Schools, but his first release under his own name shows that when the distortion is stripped away, Schreifels truly shines. An Open Letter to the Scene features everything from folk-inspired rockers (“She Is to Me”) and jangly tracks reminiscent of Teenage Fanclub ......

music/matt-pond-pa
    Matt Pond PA may not have the same hype surrounding them that peers like Vampire Weekend do, but when it comes to sweetly satisfying indie rock, it’s hard to top Pond’s unique brand of heartbreak. Their eighth album doesn’t disappoint; from orchestral-tinged ballads such as “Running Wild” to ambient excursions like “Winter Fawn,” the album sees Pond ......

music/titus-andronicus
    When you’re named after a Shakespeare play and you have a song that’s named after a Civil War–era naval battle (“The Battle Of Hampton Roads”), chances are someone in your band went to grad school. However, instead of being plodding and pretentious, Titus Andronicus’s second album sounds like a collaboration between The Hold Steady and Conor ......

music/frightened-rabbit
    Scotland is known for a lot of things, like its whiskey and … some other stuff we can’t recall. We do know that the country’s second most satisfying export is the indie rock act Frightened Rabbit, whose third album, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, proves they can transcend their own hype. From expertly crafted ballad “Swim Until You Can ......

music/drive-truckers
   

We’ll be the first to admit that the Drive-By Truckers’ last proper full-length (and first since the departure of songwriter Jason Isbell), Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, left a lot to be desired. However, The Big To-Do is proof that the band have their Southern-fried mojo back. Spanning everything from the hard rocking opener “Daddy Learned to Fly” to ...

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music/ok-go
   

Most people know OK Go more for the choreographed treadmill work of their YouTube sensation video than their actual music. For the uninitiated: The L.A.-via-Chicago band build wild disco-jam pop songs that sound as if The Strokes were crammed through a Prince filter. On their latest, the drums are big, the bass slinky, and the vocals soaring. Start ...

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music/dashboard-confessional
   

As Dashboard Confessional’s fan base grew, so did their sound. What started as Chris Carrabba wrestling out heartache alone on a stage with an acoustic guitar has grown into a full-size band with a big sound designed to back the singer’s growing songwriting skills. The center of that sound will always be Carrabba’s voice diving from a ...

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music/q-tip
    Legendary MC Q-Tip can do whatever the hell he wants. After revolutionizing hip-hop with A Tribe Called Quest and paving the way for Kanye, Tip is more experimental than ever these days. On this album, delayed since 2001 and remixed for release, the lyrical master sounds more like Curtis Mayfield than a mic-rockin’ MC. He weaves his trademark flow through ......

inked-for-a-cause/noah-levine
    Noah Levine has spent his living Against the Stream!...

drinks/barely-legal
    With the ban lifted, we peel back the myths about absinthe, the world’s most mysterious spirit, and give you the truth about the Green Fairy. ...

article/made-britain
    Inked's June/July 2009 Cover Story featuring Frank Carter of Gallows....

article/shifting-gears
    Give your ride a makeover with these wizards of the whip. ...

inked-people/devon-blood
    She didn't want to sleep alone. It was July 2006 and almost midnight, closing time at Sacred Tattoo in downtown Oakland, and 26-year old tattooist Devon Blood was working on a back piece for another artist at the shop when his cell phone rang. His girlfriend Tanya [not her real name] wanted him to sleep at her East Oakland ......

inked-people/tweet
    It started with a song that might be about masturbation. It was 2002 and R&B singer Tweet [born Charlene Keys] had spent time behind the scenes as a backing/guest vocalist on a few Missy Elliot tracks before pairing with Elliot producer Timbaland. The resulting track, “Oops (Oh My),” found sultry Tweet moaning lines such as “I was looking ......

inked-people/built-last
    New York City hardcore could never have been born anywhere else. The music was built in the city, for the city. It came stripped-down, muscled-up, and overloaded with all of the frantic energy and violence of the streets. It was designed to intimidate. The musicians were homeless, AWOL, and just plain crazy street kids who felt fed up with the ......

article/too-fast-brand-q
    Part Owner and designer of Too Fast Brand Maureen Keough sits with Inked Magazine and chats about the evolution of the brand......

blog/nice-kicks-x-new-balance-1500-gas-mask
    Freehand Profit's latest creation is a gas mask made out of one of the most highly anticipated sneaker collaborations of 2011 the Nice Kicks x New Balance 1500's. Believe it or not the mask can actually be worn, not that it is a functioning gas mask but the idea of wearing a Nice Kicks x New Balance gas ......

blog/2012-sailor-jerry-inked-magazine-calendar-girls-ep
    Another glimpse into the 2012 Sailor Jerry + Inked Calendar for you. Meet Miss February Acey and Miss October. Justine; two more of the girls you'll find gracing the pages of our new calendar. The calendar will be packaged with the December edition of Inked Magazine so be sure to pick yourself up a copy. ...

blog/bel-ray-oil-announces-upgraded-v-twin-line-2012
    Yesterday, Bel-Ray Oil announced the release of a technically upgraded line of V-Twin products for 2012. The complete line features innovative new packaging and enhanced technology, which offers the discriminating user the ultimate in performance and quality for any V-Twin machine. Bel?Ray Big Twin Transmission Oil is formulated for maximum protection of the heavily loaded transmissions found on V-Twin ......

blog/love-letters-kat-von-d
    Changing her artistic lens from tattoo artist to fashion designer, Kat Von D launches her new clothing line entitled 'Love Letters'. Creating styles that are reminiscent of goth fashion with a modern chic touch, the former LA Ink star gives fans something to look forward to. Check out the Fall Collection at: KatVonDLosAngeles.com...

blog/american-beauties-benefit-event-pinup-pitbulls
    On November 19th, Bombs Over Betty Studios and Feldmans Tattoo Machine will be hosting a benefit event: American Beauties for Pinups for Pitbulls, Inc., a non-profit organization to stop illegal dog fighting. Tickets go on sale online for $15, $20 at the door. Ticket prices and entry include: Yazoo Beer, Food from Walsh Catering and Co., Cowgirl Cupcakes & General Store ......

blog/jeremiah-weed-tattoos-nascar-fans
    A group of lucky NASCAR fans received a very permanent reminder of their trip to Talladega Superspeedway this weekend – in the form of badass, free tattoos from Jeremiah Weed. NASCAR Championship contender Matt Kenseth, who now sits in 2nd place in the Chase standings, and the flavored malt beverage maker teamed up to offer free permanent tattoos to race fans ......

blog/beckham-boys-get-tattooed-temporarily
    Their father is covered in body art so it's no surprise that the Beckham boys are fans of tattoos too. David and Victoria Beckham's boys have been spotted wearing temporary transfers before and it seems they had another inking session this weekend. Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, nine, and six year-odld Cruz, were once again enjoying some soccer practice in ......

blog/jeremiah-weed-dares-fans-get-tattoos
    Coming off of a big win in Charlotte, Matt Kenseth and his Talladega sponsor Jeremiah Weed f are daring NASCAR fans to get inked for a good cause throughout the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race weekend at Talladega Superspeedway. For every tattoo inked, the malt beverage maker will donate $100 to The Air Force Enlisted Village, which assists surviving spouses ......

blog/dan-wheldon-and-his-wife-got-matching-tattoos-hour
    Dan Wheldon and his wife had their initials - DW and SQ - tattooed on their wrists the night before he was killed in a horrific crash at the Las Vegas Indy 300. Wheldon, 33, and his wife Susie, who was his long-time personal assistant until they married in 2008, got inked to show their love for each other. Mark Waters, who ......

article/amber-rose
    Model, video vixen, and girlfriend of Wiz Khalifa, Amber Rose is a stunner. And with more than 800,000 followers on Twitter, she has more going on than being the callipygian ideal. We asked followers of @InkedMag and @DaRealAmberRose—whom she affectionately calls “Rosebuds”—to ask Amber anything....

blog/boston-celtics-guard-rajon-rondos-new-tattoo
    Athletes are known for getting tattoos in tribute to something that is meaningful in their life. Boston Celtics Guard Rajon Rondo recently got a tattoo of two interlocked R's on his back. Is it a coincidence that his RR happens to be his initials? Until we hear otherwise, we're just glad he didn't get an ice cream ......

blog/ink-fast
    The current Guinness World Record for the most tattoos done by a single artist in a 24-hour period is 801. That record was set on Nov. 16, 2008, by Hollis Cantrell of Artistic Tattoo in Phoenix, Arizona Jason Freeman of Triumph Tattoo in Reno is aiming for 804 tattoos in his upcoming attempt to break that world record, starting at ......

blog/tattoo-aftercare
    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 ......

article/q-dave-navarro
    The guitar god rolls up his sleeves and gets to work with a new Jane’s Addiction album, The Great Escape Artist, and a gig hosting Inkmasters, TV’s first-ever tattoo competition show....

blog/soccer-player-arrested-saudi-arabia-baring-jesus-t
    A Colombian soccer player was arrested there for not covering up his tattoos, as is dictated by Saudi law. What most concerned the Saudi moral police was that Juan Pablo Pino bared a tattoo of Jesus while at a Riyadh shopping mall with his wife. Pino was taken into custody Friday but released later after expressing "deep sorrow."...

blog/tipping-your-tattoo-artist
    Tipping etiquette is always a big question when talking about any industry. Just like when you tip your hair dresser, nail tech, or waiter, 20% is great. If your artist is doing custom work for you and including the design in the cost of the piece always take that time into consideration as well. It's always nice to make ......

icons/troy-denning
    Troy Denning isn’t afraid to speak his mind; in fact, he makes no apologies. Tattooing since 1992, Denning has strong opinions about the craft in its current state... ...

blog/david-beckhams-new-tattoo-tweeted-victoria-beckham
    David Beckham has got himself another inking and this time wife Victoria Beckham has debuted the tattoo, by tweeting a picture with baby Harper holding his hand. The photo was posted of the tattoo which spells the word 'Love' on his left hand, and shows the little girl holding her father's finger in the same snap. As we all ......

blog/steve-jobs-tribute-tattoo
    With the recent passing of the iconic and beloved former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, we thought it would be great to pay tribute to him in a way that only we can. Former Apple employee and music group Stella Revival band member, Dan Uricoli Jr., had a permanent tattoo of Steve Jobs inked on his arm.Uricoli, a die-hard Apple ......

article/true-love-never-dies
    It’s been more than two years since freestyle motocross racer Jeremy Lusk died as a result of a trick gone wrong, but he lives on in the heart of his wife, Lauren, and in the spirit of anyone who rocks In God’s Hands. ...

blog/tattoo-artist-and-former-la-ink-star-kat-von-d-rec
    Recently single Kat Von D is currently recording her first album. After success within the tattoo industry and LA Ink, we have no doubts that she will make some headway in the music industry as well. "I've been passionate about music all my life," Von D told E! News this weekend at the Rage video game launch in Los ......

article/mxpx
    The seminal skate punk band is still thrashing away....

blog/barbie-gets-inked-makeover
    Tokidoki, a Japanese inspired lifestyle brand, who's previous clientele includes Skull Candy, Hello Kitty, and Marvel; has now collaborated with Mattel to create this edgy, new Barbie. After 52 years of Barbie, it's about time this girl got some ink! Tokidoki Barbie shows off her chest piece, half sleeve and neck tattoos in a black skull heart and ......

inked-people/laurieann-gibson
    Laurieann Gibson is your typical warrior. Well, except for that directorial Emmy nomination, choreographing everything Lady Gaga (including the “Bad Romance” video), those reality TV shows, and her position as creative director of Interscope Records......

blog/ny-islanders-fans-get-inked
    Coming in the next issue of ESPN Magazine, they report on the NY Islanders bold move to generate fan appreciation by opening up a tattoo shop in the arena. Although there are rumors that the Islanders will leave after their four year lease is up, die hard fans have no problem getting their permanent team memorabilia. Islanders' official tattoo shop ......

blog/inked-hits-jersey
    Inked spent the weekend at Inked Out NJ presented by the world renowned tattoo artist Mario Barth & Starlight Tattoo. In case you're not familiar, Mario Barth is also the owner of popular tattoo ink, Intenze and has tattooed a bevy of celebrities including Lenny Kravitz, Sylvester Stallone, Tommy Lee and Usher. With over 100 artists, including huge names like ......

blog/inked-girl-alesandra-nicole-video-vixen
    Our September Inked Girl, Alesandra Nicole, appears in a music video for Anthony Cruz's song "Waiting on Nibiru." She's looking pretty good in the video, and her cover of Inked even makes a very special appearance!...

fashion/inked-girl-betty-lipstick
    Don’t judge Betty Lipstick based on these pictures; she insists she doesn’t like being the center of attention....

blog/384-pages-awesome-tattoos
    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 ......

blog/tattoo-legend-rick-walters-appear-art-center-galle
    Legendary tattoo artist Rick Walters will be making a very special guest appearace at Art Center Gallery the weekend of October 7th. We thought we'd show them a little love since they're kind enough to throw us a mention! For more, check out the video after the jump!...

blog/kat-von-d-tattoos-lady-gaga
    LA Ink's big finale was last night, and we want to wish Kat and the rest of the crew farewell for now. In these vintage clips from 2008, Kat Von D tattoos a not-so-well-known Lady Gaga. This just proves one thing to us, before all the fame and the glory The Lady had it going on. She talks about ......

blog/saying-goodbye-summer-vegas-style
    This Sunday, Inked will host its last pool party in Las Vegas this pool season in partnership with the Aliante Station Casino & Hotel. This time, the crew from Pair-A-Dice Tattoo will be hanging out with us. Music will be provided by DJ Rodney and The Pleasures. The Yacht Rockettes will be hosting poolside all day. Keep an eye out for ......

inked-people/nadia-g
    You’re flicking through the late-night television options in the haze of half sleep when you pause on the Cooking Channel because of the incongruity of what you’re hearing and what you’re seeing. From behind a kitchen counter on a cooking-show set that’s art-directed within a half inch of its life, a woman with the stage presence ......

blog/keith-urbans-eagle-tattoo-revealed
    When Keith Urban was 24 and had just moved state-side, he got a tattoo for himself as a present. The cool gift of the eagle tattoo on his should blade seemed “perfect” for the singer, since the bird is iconic and symbolic of American freedom and would accompany the singer on all of his journeys for the rest of this ......

article/we-never-forget
    We all remember where we were on September 11, 2001. These brave men were at the World Trade Center....

blog/kevin-durants-maryland-tattoo-tribute
    NBA players have always had some of the most inked-up sports figures around. Kevin Durant, of the Oklahoma Thunder, has recently gotten more impressive work done, thanks to Tattoos by Randy. This large back piece highlights Durant's loyalty and respect for where he came from and for one of his childhood mentors. The hands in the tattoo are used ......

blog/lindsay-lohan-gets-billy-joels-words-tattooed
    Earlier this week, Lindsay Lohan visited Mark Mahoney's famed Shamrock Social Club in LA to add to her growing collection of tattoos. She got these lyrics from Billy Joel's song "I Go To Extremes" tattooed on her ribcage: "Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife I feel like I'm in the prime of my life." TMZ ......

blog/jager-gets-some-ink
    For our latest issue release, we teamed up with one of our favorite liquor brands. Jägermeister is known for inspiring crazy nights out, and last night at GunBar was no different. To fit the bill for the Inked party, Jägermeister teamed up with tattoo artist artist Joseph Aloi, who adorned the tap machine as he saw fit. When we asked ......

article/who-kreayshawn
    This girl came out of nowhere, via Oakland, to dominate the earbuds of the hip this summer with the single “Gucci Gucci.” And off the back of just that song, she signed a record deal with Sony (reportedly worth $1 million) to put out her first album. Now she’s famous, yet still an enigma, so we asked her to ......

blog/kreayshawn-talks-food-tattoos-and-more
    Hip-hop sensation Kreayshawn is popping up everywhere, like in the new issue of INKED on stands now! You can also catch her on the MTV VMAs live on the red carpet this Sunday. Kreayshawn recently sat down backstage at KMEL Summer Jam to discuss her food tattoos and more. Check out the video below, and keep a look out for ......

icons/lyle-tuttle
    Before Ami James, Kat Von D, and reality TV, there was tattoo superstar Lyle Tuttle. Tattooing since 1949......

blog/new-york-earthquake-inspires-tattoo
    If you live in the northeastern part of the United States, you definitely remember the earthquake that hit on Tuesday afternoon. "My whole shop [Citizen Ink Studios in Sheepshead Bay] was swaying back and forth," said Joe Khay to the NY Daily News. "We thought we were hung over or something." "So then we check Facebook to find out what ......

blog/no-tattoos-nfl-star-cam-newton
    In a recent interview with Charlie Rose of PBS, No. 1 draft pick Cam Newton said that Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson asked him to stay clear of tattoos and piercings. Newton, who does not currently have any ink, had no problem with the request; however, we can't help but wonder if his $22 million contract calmed woes about ......

blog/megan-foxs-marilyn-obsession
    Reasoning behind Megan Fox's mysteriously disappearing Marilyn Monroe tattoo is revealed. The inked-up actress who was a huge fan of the hollywood legend has decided to get the legend's face removed from her arm. "It's a negative character, as [Marilyn Monroe] suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar," Fox told Amica Magazine. "I do not want to ......

inked-people/porcelain-black
    A spontaneous badass with a seductive smile, Alaina Beaton is an industrial pop songwriter who goes by the name Porcelain Black. Citing her biggest musical influences as Marilyn Manson and Britney Spears, Black makes music that’s both sneeringly edgy and frivolously infectious... ...

blog/older-inked-ladies
    If you caught The Today Show this morning, you may have seen a story that is not all that surprising. According to the National Tattoo Association, there's been an increase in the number of women of advanced age coming in to tattooed. This particular story focused on 78-year old Helen Lambin, who got her first tattoo just three years ......

blog/first-ever-tattoo-competition-series
    Spike TV has tapped Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro to host InkMaster, the first-ever tattoo competition series, TVGuide.com has learned. The show — executive-produced by Charlie Corwin and Jay Peterson, the team behind LA Ink, Miami Ink and NY Ink — will feature the nation's top tattoo artists competing in challenges to win a $100,000 grand prize and ......

fashion/inked-girl-alesandra-nicole
    Alesandra Nicole is a gun-toting badass. Okay, so her gun collection doesn’t go past the tattoos on her hips, but the fact that you’re going to fall in love with her is a sure shot. ...

blog/get-lucky-vegas
    This Monday, Inked is teaming up with Lucky 13 to celebrate the week of MAGIC in Las Vegas. Doors to our party at Beauty Bar open at 8:30 pm and entertainment includes live bands, burlesque and even some karaoke. Drink specials by our good friends at Sailor Jerry Rum. Come out and say you're friends of Inked and ......

icons/mike-rubendall
    Mike Rubendall is the tattoo artist’s tattooer. More than half of his clientele are fellow artists from all over the world who come to “Rube” for his contemporary approach to traditional Japanese tattoo style. ...

blog/inked-girls-summer-sullen-angel-search
    This Sunday, August 21st, Inked is teaming up with Sullen Angels to host one of the steamiest pool parties in Las Vegas in partnership with the Aliante Station Casino & Hotel. This time, we're searching for the next hot Sullen Angel. There will be an open casting call from 1-3pm, followed by a live show at 5pm. The winner will ......

blog/looking-las-vegas-ladies
    Think you got what it takes to be a calendar girl? INKED is looking for gorgeous tattooed women who embody the taste and spice of Sailor Jerry for their 2012 calendar. You don’t need to have any professional modeling experience, but you do need to be at least 25 years of age by September 7, 2011, have some beautiful ......

blog/twice-nice-california
    Think you got what it takes to be a calendar girl? INKED is looking for gorgeous tattooed women who embody the taste and spice of Sailor Jerry for their 2012 calendar. You don’t need to have any professional modeling experience, but you do need to be at least 25 years of age by September 7, 2011, have some beautiful ......

inked-people/sonia-sanchez
    Rocket scientists are supposed to be dull. Male. Nerdy. That is not the case with the brilliant Sonia Sanchez, a heavily tattooed systems engineer who works on research and development for satellites at a powerful aerospace firm. ...

blog/calling-all-philly-girls
    Think you got what it takes to be a calendar girl? INKED is looking for gorgeous tattooed women who embody the taste and spice of Sailor Jerry for their 2012 calendar. You don’t need to have any professional modeling experience, but you do need to be at least 25 years of age by September 7, 2011, have some beautiful ......

article/q-jason-momoa
    Is he ready to fill Schwarzenegger’s sandals in Conan the Barbarian?...

blog/ny-ink-renewed-season-2
    You may recognize our current cover, Megan Massacre, from TLC's NY Ink! Today it was announced that TLC has picked up the show for a second season. We just wanted to congratulate the whole cast and crew of Ami James' Wooster St. Social Club, and we'll be waiting to see what happens next season. Season 2 of NY ......

fashion/inked-girl-ginger-andersen
    Ginger Andersen is a nerd … just not the suspender-wearing, protractor-carrying sort. Still, this month’s Inked Girl sees no incongruity between her exterior appearance and her self-proclaimed nerdy personality......

blog/sick-kicks
    Where there's a will, there's a way. If you ever wondered what would happen if the shoes you got at bowling alley could ever be stylish, look no further to the recent Lucky Strike and Puma collaboration (featuring the classic Puma stripe). They'll be hitting lanes all of the country soon. So get ready to slide your ......

inked-people/steve-meade
    The subject of the e-mail was: “Dude’s system shreds a phone book!” The body of the e-mail was a YouTube link that played a video of a goateed guy in a flat-brimmed ball cap and sleeves taking you through the sound system he built in a Chevy Tahoe. His name is Steve Meade......

inked-people/ludo-lefebvre
    You wouldn’t expect the occasional burn to faze a chef as seasoned as Ludo Lefebvre. He’s the Frenchman behind Los Angeles pop-up restaurant LudoBites whom reality television fans grew to love (or loved to hate) on Bravo’s Top Chef: Masters......

inked-people/jamie-bestwick
    For BMX vert rider Jamie Bestwick, an eight-time X Games gold medalist, ink runs in the family. The 39-year-old says after seeing tattoos on older members of his family, he always thought images came out better on skin than on canvas......

article/inked-girl-leah-jung
    Oh, the illustrated life of Inked Girl Leah Jung. When we called on her for this photographic showcase, she said she’d come to us......

blog/all-hands-deck
    This Saturday, June 18th, Inked will host its second pool party in Las Vegas this pool season in partnership with the Aliante Station Casino & Hotel. The first event was packed with girls and guys enjoying the first days of pool season. This time, we've brought in the gorgeous ladies of The Yacht Rockettes to host along with Iron Horse ......

blog/nashville-gets-inked
    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 ......

blog/inked-city-guides
    Have an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad? Check out our City Guide App! Download our app to look for shops near you, and be in-the-know by using our built-in geo-location tool to search nearby listings. Now live in 10 cities: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and Portland. In the future, we are ......

blog/inked-girls-takeover
    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 ......

blog/sailor-jerry-gets-lucky
    Local Dallas resident, legendary tattoo artist and worlds record holder, Oliver Peck, will hold a tattoo marathon at Elm Street Tattoo in Dallas on Friday the 13th. Peck, who holds the World's Guinness Book record for ‘Most Tattoos’ in a 24 hour period, will be giving $13 #13 tattoos, along with his staff, from midnight Thursday to midnight Friday ......

blog/look-whos-laughing-now
    Kings Ave Tattoo NYC and Inked Magazine are proud to welcome SoCal punk rockers Face to Face and tattoo artist, Corey Miller of LA Ink fame for an exclusive in-store event. The band will be signing copies of their new album Laugh Now, Laugh Later with Corey Miller, who designed the album artwork. Come by to pick up copies of ......

inked-people/natasha-kai
    Soccer players blur together on the pitch. Forget trying to read their numbers; they are reduced to a trail of their kit’s color. Maybe this is why soccer stars of renown (at least in the American consciousness) have had distinctive haircuts: Cobi Jones had dreadlocks; Alexi Lalas has a plume of red hair. Natasha Kai doesn’t go wild ......

blog/sailor-jerry-spends-sxsw-style
    The folks at Sailor Jerry Rum have bought" 5" 1973 Vintage Airtreams. They will be cruising around NY, IL, CAL, COL, TEXAS, all summer long. Austin hosted the first airstream activity of the spring for SXSW. Bands Dum Dum Girls, The Black Lips, Data Rock, The Vaccines all hung out and escaped the sun and drank some Perfect Storms. Oliver ......

article/day-remember
    Three things stand out about A Day to Remember, the biggest band you (probably) never heard of: They have sets on the main stages at The Bamboozle and the Vans Warped Tour, they won’t pick a genre, and they won’t sit still....

blog/half-half
    Though Lady Gaga may have an artisticly rebellious side to her, she's still her father's little girl at heart. "All of my tattoos are on one side of my body, per my father's request," she explained. "He asked that I remain, on one side, slightly normal, so I only have tattoos on my life side." She added ......

inked-people/michael-symon
    Cleveland has had a tough run. From time to time its river would catch on fire, and more recently, favored son Lebron James publicly dissed it by televising his “decision” to leave for Miami. But what Cleveland does have going for it is hope that this will be the Indians’ year (one can always hope) and one of the culinary ......

inked-people/tricky
    If you think you’re old-school, meet Tricky. The 43-year-old musician and actor grew up in Bristol, England, surrounded by inked family members, and he got his first tattoo—a vampire on his leg—done by a friend when he was just 14......

fashion/second-glance
    Another look at our favorite Inked Girls....

blog/room-view
    Thank you Philly! You guys hosted yet another amazing convention – arguably the best we've been to yet! The Inked booth was the place to be! There was no shortage of cute tattooed ladies coming by to have their photos taken. We partied with tattooers young and old from LiL Joe CEO., Jon Jon and Anthony to Bowery Stan, Crooked ......

fashion/inked-girl-meredith-devine
    Now, here’s an argument against the Atkins diet: Nothing makes this Meredith Devine happier than a carb-loaded breakfast......

blog/face
    Mike Tyson is not impressed by Gucci Mane's face tattoo. Mike Tyson was recently "dethroned" as the predominant celebrity with a ridiculous face tattoo, and he's biting back. "I like going to war, he like being licked on," said Tyson of Gucci's recent tattoo. ...

blog/sailor-jerry-gets-x
    Sailor Jerry Rum took on the X Games this year; presenting one of the most preeminent hardcore punk bands of the late 70's. "The Circle Jerks" live at Belly Up is Aspen, CO . With over 1000 people waiting in line around the venue this was the most anticipated buzzed event during XGames . The Circle Jerks , are an American punk ......

inked-people/tre-wilcox
    A person’s first job is never supposed to become their career—if that were the case, the number one profession in America would be grocery bagger. So when a 16-year-old Tre Wilcox took his work permit to a kitchen, he certainly didn’t expect......

blog/winning-short-head
    A 39-year-old German man wanted a new car so bad that he got the logo tattooed... on his penis. The man, Andreas Muller, was a contestant on a radio show in Austria that awarded the car to the person that pulled off the craziest stunt. The tattoo was done by Matthew Seebo from Bernburg, who operates from Pehoinix Tattoo. Radio ......

blog/uk-wine-gets-tattooed
    After 50 years on the market, The Cornish Mead Company is redesigning its branding and packaging for the first time.The new look, which will debut on its wine bottles features designs inspired by tattoos. Why tattoos? They're trying to attract a hip and young consumer, and tattoos will do just that. Cornish Mead Wines are not available in ......

blog/luxurious-tribute
    When people think of tattoos, they may not think of brands such as Louis Vuitton. However, a collaboration with famed tattoo artist Scott Campbell and large tribute on a man's arm tell a different story. With a full sleeve of the Louis Vuitton monogram print, this man will not be forgetting this luxury brand anytime soon. Want to see ......

inked-people/steven-s-deknight
    Writer, director, and producer Steven S. DeKnight had three simple goals: shave his head, learn to ride a motorcycle, and get tattooed. He’s done all three, and while they might seem like minor ambitions compared to his immensely successful career, it appears they were just as high on his to-do list. ...

fashion/inked-girl-justine-konik
    We’re in geek love. This Brooklynite, Justine Konik, may not look like the typical Trekkie......

inked-people/matt-kim
    If you happened to be roaming the streets of Brooklyn late in the summer, you might have heard Matt & Kim......

blog/guys-who-guys-who-tattoos
    If you happen to be in Washington, D.C. this weekend, we invite you to check out an event for guys who like guys who like tattoos. We've teamed up with Spunk-E Productions and Leather Rack to bring you Inked & Skin. It's all happening at Cobalt in the Dupont Circle area of D.C. this Saturday. Celebrity tattoo ......

article/shes-ruthless
    Meet Ruth “Ruthless” Pineda, the new firecracker on LA Ink. Look out Kat Von D: this one has claws. ...

blog/nyc-get-happy-inked
    If you're going to be in New York this week for the CMJ (College Music Journal) Music Marathon, you'll definitely want to check out the CMJ Happy Hour that we're cosponsoring with Fat Wreck Chords at Home Sweet Home. It's gonna be a good time with DJs Dead To Me and Smoke on Fire and cocktails ......

fashion/inked-girl-ira-chernova
    Stepping in front of the lens as this month’s Inked girl is ira Chernova, who’s normally on the other end of the shutter... ...

article/femme-metale
    With few bastions of actual music television left, Mistress Juliya Chernetsky still carries the flag—and ink—for rock programming on the tube with Fuse’s Top 20 Countdown. And she’s pretty cute to boot....

blog/motor-ink
    Every great artist knows that truly special ink requires a precise blend of planning, design, aesthetics and character. In the world of custom motorcycle fabricators, those characteristics are also of paramount importance to create powerful machines with enough attitude and edge to satisfy the riders who mount them. Dave Perewitz understands both of these dynamics as one of the most ......

blog/inked-goes-vegas-btsoe
    Last year, we met some awesome people at Mario Barth's Biggest Tattoo Show on Earth. We're so excited to be going back; we'll be there for the whole three day convention. The show will take place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center October 1st thru the 3rd. You may even get to see Mario Barth! Special guest ......

blog/gaga-gets-horny-tattoo
    Just hours after winning a record breaking 8 VMAs and announcing to the world that her upcoming release will be called Born This Way, the singer was spotted at JFK Airport in New York on Monday sporting a tattoo of a unicorn on her left thigh with the words, yep, "Born This Way" wrapping around the horn......

blog/lee-gets-clean
    Rocker Tommy Lee has changed his hard partying habits to raise his kids and make music. He's made it to the 90-day mark, and we at Inked support him. Check out his interview with Extra (link below)!...

blog/special-oops
    Fact checking may be one thing, but nobody is perfect. We all make the occasional response. We'd like to give a shoutout to our friends at American Rebel PR. In the last issue, we said that you could get this product at MetroPark.COM... The actual website for Metropark is MetroParkUSA.COM. See link below if you'd like ......

blog/institutional-correction
    All types of people like to read Inked. Some of them may be in correctional institutions, but it occasionally gets sent back to us. Just thought we'd share this with you as the reasons seem to be completely absurd and some of them bear no relation to the actual content of the magazine (i.e. gang related activities). So ......

blog/red-red-wine
    A couple weeks ago, our friends at Hunter PR brought over a couple bottles of wine from one of their new clients, Apothic Red. Apothic Red is a blended wine that we all seemed to enjoy. It's easy to drink and it's easy on the wallet. We're also digging the label. Thanks to Marieke and friends at ......

blog/good-shave
    We wanted to send a shout out to our friends over at the Crown Shaving Co. for sending us over a sweet shaving kit. All of their products use only natural ingredients and are free of irritating additives, so they feel great on your skin. i almost felt guilty tearing into their luxe old-school packaging, but we couldn't wait ......

blog/inked-asbury
    "Three days of world renowned tattooing, live painting, music, burlesque & performance art right on the beach. Come join Inked Magazine at Visionary Tattoo Arts Festival in Asbury Park, NJ this weekend; it kicks off at 2pm Friday. Stop by the Inked Magazine booth for a look at the hot August issue, the latest from TYKU, free samples of High Octane Energy Chews and Safe4Hours tattoo after-care product. See you at the beach!...

blog/secret-society-bingo
    The rules here are simple: there are no rules. Actually, these are the rules: “No boring people. No old people. No wankers.” What this all actually means for you is that after buying advance tickets, you’ll receive an email directing you to a secret warehouse, where you’ll be handed a bingo card, skepticism fully intact. Introducing The Underground ......

blog/tattoo-tribute
    One mother has decided to literally carry the memory of her son on her body forever.  Kim Mordue has had her son's ashes made into tattoo ink and used it for a series of back tattoos. Her husband, David Mordue did the tattoo in memory of their son and to serve as a warning to kids. Their son Lloyd ......

inked-people/maria-tash
    Maria Tash has come a long way from piercing her friends’ ears in college. Nearly two decades later, the raven-haired designer behind Venus by Maria Tash designs......

blog/obrigado
    Moshi Moshi has come out with a new way to reduce neck cramps and using speaker phone to send a text during a call. Its their new handset that lets you take call from an actual hand set while your phone is free to text and surf the web. This is extremely handy for our busy creative director Todd Weinberger ......

inked-for-a-cause/guchusum
    heidiminx interviews a member of the Tibetan ex-political prisoners association, GuChuSum. While there are numerous sites and TV shows dedicated to the meanings of tattoos, the tattoos of Tibet's ex-political prisoners have not been well documented. Their experiences are crucial to understand the human rights violations China commits on a daily basis....

blog/boston-gets-inked
    McGreevy’s Industry Sundays and Inked Magazine have partnered for the official Boston launch party of Inked Magazine’s June issue on Sunday, June 6, 2010 from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. The event is free and open to the public ages 21+. The Inked Magazine June Launch Party is the first event in a series of the ......

blog/more-ink-fox
    Transformers hottie Megan Fox showed off her new ink on the beaches of Maui with boyfriend Brian Austin Green. Inspired by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Fox got, "Those who danced were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music," tattooed on her right side. This would be tattoo number 9 for the actress. We'll be anxiously ......

blog/you-50
    Tattooed bad boy has been working hard for his role as the cancer stricken football player in Mario Van Peebles' up coming film, "Things Fall Apart." The Queens rapper lost an amazing 50 pounds for the role, leaving him almost unrecognizable. He also has had his arm tattoos removed for this and other upcoming roles. 50 told People.com, "It ......

blog/illegal-tattoos
    The right to tattoo is being fought in Hermosa Beach, California by John Anderson, owner of the Yer Cheat'n Heart tattoo shop. Anderson has been denied the request to relocate his shop from Gardenia to Hermosa Beach, based on the zoning laws that do not allow tattooing anywhere in the city. Officials claim its a danger to public health ......

blog/tattooed-dating
    Need some dating advice and only trust fellow inked up peeps? Nerve.com has got some solid advice from Anthony a 28 year old that proudly sports a sleeve. He gives advice from trimming the hedges to going back to the ex. Summertime is upon which means less clothes and more skin, enjoy the ink!...

blog/hot-sauce-extravaganza
    The other day, our friends at Tabasco, made us a tailgating style lunch with all the fixings. Macaroni and cheese, baked chicken, ice cream sandwiches, and more. Everything they brought was made with Tabasco hot sauce, and I have to say that it reminded me of living in the south. All of us at Inked definitely appreciated the lesson on ......

blog/f-love
    Inked's own June cover girl just got some fresh ink that unfortunately was too late to use in our photo shoot. Avril and reality TV star Brody Jenner walked in to Mark Mahoney’s Shamrock Social Club tattoo parlor in Hollywood to get their matching ink done. The tattoo they shared together? The word "FUCK" tattooed on their ribs ......

music/trans-am
    Trans Am have always had a relatively esoteric identity, so it’s hard to know if the band are being sincere when they claim that Thing was originally commissioned as a “sci-fi horror adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.” Regardless of its inspiration, the album is evidence that this electro-inflected rock band haven’t lost any of their spark since their ......

blog/no-sleep-till
    Brooklyn Bridge celebrates its 127th anniversary May 23, 2010. To commemorate the occasion Brooklyn Tattoo is offering a tattoo of the bridge for only $27 bucks!!! A much welcome deal in a time of skinny jeans, pockets and wallets. It on a first come first serve basis. So if you love Brooklyn and are in the area stop in. The ......

blog/free-burritos-life
    What?! Free burritos for life? How? San Francisco's Casa Sanchez offers free burritos for life if you get the company's logo tattooed on you. The logo isn't offensive and kind of cute, and well who couldn't use lunch for free for the rest of their life. Times are hard but wouldn't a taco or burrito ......

inked-people/seamus-mullen
    It takes serious chops to duke it out with the country’s best chefs in Iron Chef’s Kitchen Stadium, a challenge Seamus Mullen......

blog/tattoo-stories
    We have all heard them the stories behind the tattoos, but now you read them and get some good Karma points too. Smart Imagination has released Tattoo Stories a book with beautiful pictures and great stories to match with the foreword done by Chester Bennington from Linkin Park. From the Executive VP going through a divorce to the Hairstylist trying ......

music/jonsi
    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 ......

music/foxy-shazam
    In an increasingly homogenized musical landscape, acts like Foxy Shazam are a rarity, which is what makes the band’s major-label debut, Foxy Shazam, all that more impressive. Combining elements of glam rock, classic rock, and soul, this 15-song collection effortlessly switches from huge pop anthems like “Count Me Out” to orchestrally driven show-tune-esque numbers like “Evil Thoughts” without a ......

blog/tattoos-idols
    Siobhan Magnus was joined by fellow Idol contestants Michael Lynche,Lee DeWyze and Crystal Bowersox in a group ink session. Magnus got the roman numerals IX marking her appearance on the 9th season ofAmerican Idol and it is also the age when she first started to watch the show. Lynche got 3 stars on his left arm with the word ......

inked-people/biffy-clyro
    Stateside audiences may not be intimately acquainted with Biffy Clyro yet, but over the course of 15 years and five albums the Scottish trio have......

drinks/roky-erickson
    Roky Erickson is an American treasure, and his first album in 14 years is a not-so-subtle reminder that his relevance hasn’t waned. Produced by Will Sheff and featuring his band, Okkervil River, True Love Cast Out All Evil is a heady mix of psychedelia, pop, and ambient experimentation. On tracks such as Crazy Horse–inflected “Goodbye Sweet Dreams” it ......

blog/giant-pride
    From a needle, a camera to a spray can Mike Giant is a master of artist tools. Now he can add bicycle designer to his ever impressive repertoire. Cannondale has donated their expertly engineered X Bicycle to be designed by Giant with all the proceeds donated to the Bahati Foundation which is a cycling outreach program that benefits inner city ......

blog/juice-your-iphone
    Are you often out of the office with 10% battery life and you need to be on location 15 minutes ago? This happens to our Creative Director Todd Weinberger at least once an issue. His Mophie Juice Pack has given him the freedom of a longer battery life and a sleek case. The Mophie Juice Pack giving Iphone users more ......

blog/inked-coachella
    This past weekend it was all about Coachella, and you know that Inked had to have a piece of the action. Thanks to our collaboration earlier this year with our good friends at Sailor Jerry Rum, the Sailor Jerry Rum 2010 Pin-Ip Calendar was caught in one of the party photos taken at Anthem Magazine's party, Lagoon....

blog/tattooed-shoes
    Get some new kicks and show off your support for the arts with C1RCA Footwear's Black Tear Project. C1RCA is teaming up with LA based artist Jun Cha to bring a limited edition sneaker designed by the artist. Cha is known for his amazing black and white tattoos with elegant lines, amazing definition and attention to detail his design ......

blog/who-doesnt-love-t-shirts
    Now your love for t-shirts can help Skateboarder Kenny Brime battle Leukemia. Bad Brains and ROIR Records have come together on one t-shirt to aid Kenny in battle. To support the cause click below and get the t-shirt you can never have too many....

blog/missinkamericacom-2010
    Ms. Priscilla Noel, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, was crowned MissInkAmerica.com 2010 on Friday, February 19, during the first ever MissInkAmerica.com Pageant at The Pool inside Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City, NJ. Noel earned her crown, sash and scepter by rockin’ out her routine in a number of different categories including overall beauty, body art, personal platform ......

inked-people/michael-fairall
    There’s something about Hawaii that makes leaders of the men who are drawn to its islands (Sailor Jerry and Barack Obama being two of the more famous examples)......

blog/philadelphia-tattoo-convention-2010
    Tattoos were blazing last weekend at Philadelphia's Tattoo Art Convention. There's no better place to stare at a person endlessly without it being creepy or awkward. Both new school, and old school tattooers showed of their style and skills on convention goers. As if you could get bored staring at amazing and awful tattoos alike there were burlesque ......

music/goldfrapp
    Whatever Goldfrapp do—from thumping electronica to glammed up romps—they do it for the dance floor. The British electronic music duo’s fifth full-length, Head First, is loaded with pulsating pop gems, such as “Alive,” that are a step away from the baroque pop of their previous album—and tailor-made for getting down. While Head First does occasionally get ......

music/dropkick-murphys
    The Dropkick Murphys’ St. Patrick’s Day shows in their hometown of Boston have become the stuff of legends—and hangovers. Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA captures this annual event so accurately that you can almost taste the Guinness. The 20-song compilation spans the band’s decade-plus career and showcases their Celtic-inspired punk, from upbeat traditionals like “Johnny, I Hardly ......

music/dr-dog
    Dr. Dog have always prided themselves on their lo-fi aesthetic, so it’s slightly odd that they worked with producer Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, The Vines) on their latest. Thankfully, the improved production enhances the band’s sound on harmony-rich songs like “Shadow People.” While Shame, Shame still teems with the band’s brand of psychedelia, confessional songs like “I ......

blog/remembering-dj-am
    Blink 182's drummer Travis Barker unveiled his new ink a tribute to his fallen friend DJ AM on his twitter page. Barker and AM survived a plane crash that claimed the lives of 4 others in 2008. Barker now survives his long time friend Adam Goldstein after last year's overdose in his NYC apartment. The tattoo was done ......

music/xiu-xiu
    As you can tell by the title, the latest effort from experimental indie rock act Xiu Xiu isn’t going be 2010’s most uplifting album, but it may be one of the most sonically satisfying. Produced by Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier, Dear God, I Hate Myself sees Xiu Xiu mastermind Jamie Stewart fully realizing his band’s sound on ......

inked-for-a-cause/amy-balsam
    Heidi Minx interviews the founder and President of In 2 It Media, which produces celebrity charity events....

blog/tea-party-tattoos
    With the release of the new "Alice in Wonderland" this weekend, I can only imagine the tattoo ideas this movie will provide. With an array of rich characters and vibrant colors, its a tattoo dreamscape waiting to happen. Whether you are into the Mad Hatter, The Caterpillar, The Queen or the Cheshire Cat, I am sure Tim Burton will provide ......

inked-people/mason-aguirre
    At the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy, Minnesota native and Burton Snowboard team member Mason Aguirre missed the podium in the halfpipe competition by less than a point......

games/dantes-inferno
    Talk about a loose adaptation. In the classic poem The Divine Comedy, a timid poet reluctantly journeys through the nine circles of hell, while the video game version features Dante, a revenge-driven mercenary more interested in killing monsters than chronicling their suffering. Armed with a scythe he stole from Death and a holy cross, Dante fights his way through each ......

music/past-lives
    Past Lives may feature three members of the defunct act the Blood Brothers, but if you’re expecting fractured post-screamo you’re in for a surprise. On the band’s debut full-length, Tapestry of Webs, the four-piece transpose their sound into a more pop context without forsaking their avant-garde edge. The result is an album that’s teeming with ambitious ......

blog/get-inked-charity
    What better reason to get that new piece you've been itching for than to donate to children. This is the idea behind the successful event that has raised over $95, 000 in past 8 years for a local Children's Hospital. With help from visiting artists Wild Bill's tattoo shop in Roseville, CA puts on a 16 hour ......

blog/boondock-saints-gone-bad
    The sequel to the bad ass cult film, Boondock Saints, has finally released its sequel this month; I’m shocked it made it to theaters. All of the components that made this movie memorable have been replaced with bad acting, terrible writing, and random wind tunnels. Willem Dafoe has been replaced with Julie Benz, "Rita" from Dexter. Instead of Dafoe ......

blog/no-swift-ink
    Convinced her success would soar, 20 year-old country music star, Taylor Swift, planned on getting her lucky number tattooed on her arm. "I was born on the 13th. I turned 13 on Friday the 13th. My first album went gold in 13 weeks. My first number 1 song had a 13-second intro," she has previously said. "Every time I've ......

blog/tattoo-tuesday
    News giant USA Today is has a new online, pop culture feature, "Tattoo Tuesday". Every Tuesday, they'll show some of the best submissions of pop culture related tattoos. Now that tattoos have taken prominence in pop culture, it is nice to finally see major media outlets, such as USA Today recognizing their importance....

blog/remembering-alexander-mcqueen
    With his shaved head and tattoos, Alexander McQueen didn't appear like your typical fashion designer. Much less one who, until 2001, was chief designer for Givenchy. Known for his wacky catwalk shows, McQueen was one of the fashion world's brightest stars. Today the fashion world was hit with a big blow with the news that McQueen took his ......

blog/get-virtually-inked
    Have you ever wondered what a tattoo or multiple tattoos might look like on you? Why not try it out virtually before you really get it done! You can use pre-loaded pictures and body art or upload your own. Another way to try it before you buy it, and it's all for under $10 for a whole year....

blog/little-monsters
    Riding high on the success of her last album as well as her chart-topping follow up album, Lady Gaga, decided to pay homage to her fans. On Twitter, Gaga wrote, "ook what i did last night. little monsters forever, on the arm that holds my mic. xx." ...

inked-people/skratch
    Southern California custom car guru Skratch laughs cautiously about the flowing script across the front of his Skratch’s Garage T-shirt that reads, “I ain’t the best but I’m better than you......

blog/extreme-mistakes
    Some people get tattoos as a way to express themselves, other people get them to make extreme statements. A spelling error can take away all of the effect that the tattoo was meant to have in the first place. The Huffington post has compiled some hilarious misspelled tattoos. Make sure you check your spelling the next time you get tattooed....

music/crime-stereo
    We’re counting on the writer who coined grunge and emo to come up with a word for the new breed of bands like Muse, Dredg, Brand New, and Crime in Stereo that fuse everything from hardcore riffs to indie rock melodies. Regardless of the genre’s yet-to-be-determined name, Crime in Stereo does it well. “Not Dead” marches forward on ......

music/fucked
    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 ......

blog/we-love-tits
    Do you like tits? I know we do. We're talking about the street clothing brand, T.I.T.S. (Two In The Shirt). We've collaborated with T.I.T.S. on a series of graphic t-shirts. Every month, they will feature a different Inked Girl. Check out there shop online and order yours' today!...

inked-people/tara-levitin
    Old keys and tiny faucet handles. A pocketknife and a wolf tooth. Where others see antique oddities, Tara Levitin sees jewelry.......

blog/making-start
    Here at Inked Magazine, we have a unique voice within the tattoo industry. Sometimes people may think that we've gone too comercial with our style, but our Inked Girls special edition tells a different story. Though certain shoots were done specifically for this issue, many of the shoots came from submissions that we recieved from up and coming photographers ......

blog/your-ticket-tattoo-freedom
    In celebration of Kat Von D gracing the cover of Inked for a third time, we're letting you in on Kat's secret for covering up tattoos when the occasion calls for it. Kat says, "If you wanna hide a tattoo just for one day, the proper concealer can make that happen! No one has to see what you ......

blog/get-noticed
    This past Monday, we celebrated two years of Inked. The bash was held at one of New York's hottest nightclubs, Avenue. The liquor, provided by Jack Daniels, was flowing freely all night. Guests partied as only the Inked crowd could party. Guests included actor Adrien Brody, Logan Neitzel and Stella Zotis of Project Runway, as well as other models ......

inked-people/strike-anywhere
    Twenty-six hundred miles from his Virginia home and it’s all the same deal to Strike Anywhere singer Thomas Barnett. Signs of urban conflict and ghosts of the subverted and forgotten......

blog/where-we-come
    Ever wonder how some of your artists and piercers got into this industry.... We watch these tattoo and piercing shows and yet they never ask this one main question.... I find their roads to this industry are as diverse and interesting as the artist themselves.... For me i envied these artists for their talent and their knowledge but never had ......

music/foo-fighters
    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 ......

games/forza-motorsport-3
    Spend more time with your cars than with your girlfriend? Look into counseling and clear your schedule. With 400 road burners from 50 manufacturers, Forza 3’s garage makes Jay Leno’s car collection look like a used car lot. The second Forza title in three years delivers even more grease monkey realism with a new physics system that includes ......

games/dj-hero
    With gamers suffering from a Guitar Hero overdose, it’s time for turntables to take center stage. With consulting help from legendary artists Jay-Z and Eminem, this hip-hop take on Guitar Hero’s addictive gameplay wins over wannabe mix masters with its turntable controller that features a sample button, cross-fader, and a record platform for scratching. Playing as characters such ......

inked-people/aaron-sanchez
    The story behind the start of chef Aarón Sánchez’s career is not all that unfamiliar: “I started cooking because......

music/polar-bear-club
    Polar Bear Club’s debut album made best-of lists everywhere, but it takes until nearly the end of this follow-up for them to prove why. Not that Chasing Hamburg isn’t brilliant—it’s just that “One Hit Back,” a post-hardcore punch to haters everywhere, is so fist-pumping good that its shadow looms over the rest of the songs. “Living ......

music/paramore
    When a young band like Paramore explodes out of nowhere (Franklin, TN?) there are always repercussions. On their third album, the group’s pint-sized singer with the giant voice, Hayley Williams, outlines the trail of mistrust and broken relationships. Fame has taught her that you “can’t be too careful anymore” (“Careful”), and later, on “Feeling Sorry,” she looks back ......

music/converge
    Writers hate reviewing a new Converge album. The kings of underground hardcore metal deliver so consistently that it becomes an exercise in finding new ways to say, “They still shred.” Enter Axe to Fall, the most straightforward Converge album yet. It’s apparent from the opening blast of “Dark Horse,” a galloping shot of guitars and throat-searing screams, that Converge ......

games/uncharted-2-among-thieves
    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 ......

music/reverend-horton-heat
    Hot damn if the Reverend Horton Heat didn’t lay down some wide-open guitar licks in his day. The good Rev has slowed with age, and on his first new album in five years it’s obvious that he’s more content observing from his La-Z-Boy than a bar stool—a fact he addresses on “Beer Holder,” an ode to ......

drive/sleeper-cells
    Fun and sporty, these under-the-radar-rides are worth checking out....

games/nhl-10
    With record TV ratings, raucous fistfights, and the dazzling skill of young stars Patrick Kane and Sidney Crosby, hockey is back. The NHL’s newfound success injects new life into this award-winning series. Players now scrum along the boards while fighting for possession, score from their knees, and bat pucks out of the air for goals worthy of the highlight ......

games/halo-3-odst
    With Master Chief elsewhere in the universe, ODST follows an elite group of soldiers known as Orbital Shock Drop Troopers. As the team descends into New Mombasa amidst the heavy Covenant onslaught, they get separated, and a new recruit known as The Rookie must traverse the war zone and piece together what happened. As The Rookie uncovers information, players are ......

article/q-jerry-cantrell
    The grunge guitar icon resurrects Alice in Chains and tells us why the loss of his lead singer will never be okay....

games/brutal-legend
    Roadies spend the majority of their time hauling equipment and tuning instruments. Not Eddie Riggs. After he spills blood on his badass belt buckle in a backstage mishap, the world’s best roadie is transported to an alternate universe ripped straight from a heavy metal album cover. Under the reign of evil Lord Doviculus and his glam rockin’ minion General ......

article/hart-luck
    Motocross racer and tattoo reality-TV entrepreneur Carey Hart broke everything—relationships, records, his own body—and built an empire from the pieces....

music/afi
    AFI made their transformation from hardcore kids to goth-punk pioneers look as easy as applying eyeliner. The truth is, they've been tweaking their formula, and Crash Love might be the closest they’ve come to perfecting it. “Beautiful Thieves” explodes into huge guitars and operatic backing vocals while “Veronica Sawyer Smokes” races around a punked-up Cure riff. On “Medicate ......

article/q-chris-ludacris-bridges
    The rapper-turned-actor-turned-Gamer is out to conquer the world and—what the hell—set the record straight about Jeremy Piven’s mercury poisoning while he’s at it....

article/q-jeffree-star
    Inked interviews internet sensation, Jeffree Star, upon the release of his new album "Beauty Killer"....

blog/site-redesign-launch-version-30
    Welcome to our newly redesigned web site. Please take some time to look around at our new video channels, put yourself on the cover of Inked or if you’re up to it, submit your photo to become an Inked Girl. ? We’ve taken some time to create a design that makes it easy to find Inked Magazine content, peruse ......

blog/hart-huntington-grand-opening
    Be sure to check out all the insane events going on for the grand opening of Hart and Huntington at the Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino next weekend. Free tattoo give-a-ways for a lucky few, H & H after-party at Wasted Space featuring Steel Panther, Avenge Sevenfold at Wasted Space the following night and Snoop Dogg by the pool on Sunday ......

drinks/euro-trashed
    Austin bartender Heidi Smith shares her favorite beers from across the pond. ...

travel/switzerland
    Throughout the ages, Switzerland has bubbled with productivity: It’s where psychologist Carl Jung articulated the collective unconscious, the Dada antiart movement began in 1916, and 450 varieties of cheese are currently produced. It’s also where macabre surrealist H.R. Giger acquired the Château St. Germain and opened a museum to showcase his art on a permanent basis. ...

travel/honduras
    Ten years ago, the only tattoos in Honduras belonged to gang members. These days, you’re more likely to see them on expats who work in the country’s burgeoning adventure travel industry. One of them is Myles Bean, a rafting guide living in La Ceiba who has the words “I’m Alive” and “Me Too” on top of his ......

travel/columus-ohio
    Every 60 seconds a tattoo convention takes place somewhere around the world, and while there are only so many times you can watch people in strategically hand-cut outfits discuss the meaning behind their fairy flash and tragic tribals, the Hell City show stands out as one of the mustattend events among the tattoorati. ...

travel/budapest
    Many of the world's historical treasures have been sanitized and Starbucksified until there's little personality left: Moscow's Red Square has tchotchke-hawking souvenir carts, the leaning tower of Pisa has more handrails than a nursing home, and the Great Pyramids have a freakin' laser light show. But somehow Hungary's magical capital city of Budapest has retained its ......

travel/singapore
    You wouldn't think a tattoo convention would be welcome in a strict city-state that has been criticized for its disregard of individual freedoms-it banned chewing gum for 12 years (1992-2004) and still imposes hefty fines for things like forgetting to flush a public toilet or spitting in public. But Singapore's government hasn't found a way to stop ......

travel/cape-town
    If the unbelievable geography, waterfront restaurants, and nearby vineyards aren't reason enough to visit Cape Town, South Africa, consider this news from Damian McGrath, the founder of tattoos.com: “Tattooing down there is sort of what tattooing was like 15 to 20 years ago in North America. There are lots of emerging artists, and the scene isn't as ......

travel/hong-kong
    For all the feng shui and tai chi, Hong Kong isn't just about traditional pastimes. The massive city is awash in cool bars, amazing attractions, and an all around progressive flair. Often referred to as “the melting pot of Asia,” Hong Kong is a hybrid of Chinese and Western cultures (the city was under British rule until 1997), so ......

travel/spanish-coast
    A drive down Spain’s eastern coast is a winding road trip through a bit of everything, from historical castles and wildflower fields to chic hotels and nude beaches. Plan a September road trip along the coast from Valencia to Peñíscola and you’ll get to experience it all, including the Castellón Tattoo Convention, which takes place September 5 – 7 ......

travel/sturgis
    Dump 500,000 bikers, an endless supply of booze, and an army of barely clothed women anywhere and you’ll have a good time—even in the middle of nowhere. That’s just what the founders of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally did. Now in its 68th year, the legendary event takes place August 4 – 10 in the Black Hills of ......

travel/toronto
    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 ......

travel/milan
    There are thousands of reason to visit Milan (the food, the art, the women, to name just a few), but the reason to visit now is the Milan Tattoo Convention, which takes place February 8 through 10. For the 13th annual convention, planners are expecting some of the world’s best artists. So check in with your favorites, but definitely ......

travel/st-lucia
    On your next visit to the Caribbean, skip Aruba and the Bahamas and stay in Saint Lucia. The difference? Instead of flat sandy shores, the 27-mile-long island is a teardrop-shaped mass of rainforest-covered peaks so perfectly triangular and green they look painted on. ...

travel/austin
    "Keep Austin Weird." That's the mantra that has maintained this bastion of free thinking in a state that's home to "thinkers" like President Bush. And this month, as musicians, movie makers, and techno-geeks descend upon Austin for the South By Southwest Conferences and Festival (March 7 through 16), the weirdness continues. If you plan on checking out SXSW ......

drive/hatch-made-heaven
    Elsewhere in the world, hatchbacks are ubiquitous. From Tokyo to Wolfsburg, they gamely fulfill their utilitarian purposes as people, uh, do whatever it is people do in other countries. Here in America, however, drivers have typically shunned small, fuel-efficient cars. That, of course, is quickly changing—but it doesn’t mean we’ve lost the very American need for speed ......

drive/hip-be-square
    As the SUV craze sputters to a halt, automotive designers are learning to provide space and ? exibility in cool box-shaped vehicles, all without, um, cutting corners. Honda led the way with the Element (said to be fashioned after a Malibu Beach lifeguard station), and Toyota followed with the hugely successful Scion xB. Now the Ford Flex and the Kia Soul ......

drive/crossover-time
    The immense changes in the economy (we're all broke!) and the environment (we're all doomed!) have shifted what we want in a car. Translation: It's time to get over our passion for large, spacious SUVs and embrace the more practical Crossover Utility Vehicle (CUV). Here are a few of the most promising new crossover vehicles. ...

drive/little-brutes
    We're all starting to do the right thing by dumping gas-chugging SUV s, but is it for all the wrong reasons? Sure, making the switch helps the environment, but these days, driving an overpowered little monster is as fashionable as it is noble. And to make sure we never forsake them again, carmakers are serving up a lineup of ......

drive/magic-bullitt
    Steve McQueen nailed the concept of cool in the 1968 film Bullitt with his portrayal of Frank Bullitt, a San Francisco police lieutenant who floors a souped-up Ford Mustang through one of the most exciting cinematic chase scenes in history (and makes turtlenecks with sport coats cool in the process)....

drive/muscle-flow
    The most prolific era of the American muscle car started in 1970, when growling engines, screeching tires, and acrid blue smoke were lit in the night by the glow of a thousand red taillights. 1970 was also the year the original Dodge Challenger was introduced. And while its place in muscle car history could be argued ad nauseam over a ......

drive/going-topless
    One surefire way to start a fight: tell a gearhead that the newest generation of Chevrolet Corvette might challenge the sports car supremacy of the Porsche. It’s the type of argument that will probably end with a tire iron to the head. It’s also true. The new generation of Chevrolet Corvettes have ushered in a whole new approach ......

drive/corner-culture
    The Corvette Sting Ray and the Aston Martin DB5 were unquestionably cool. Over the years, Toyotas were affordable and reliable, but never quite cool. Then, at the 2002 New York Auto Show, the auto giant introduced the Scion, a vehicle so boxy and weird it had to be cool. ...

drive/hello-moto
    In 1926, when the Ducati family formed its company with a group of investors in Bologna, Italy, they were seeking to cash in on the burgeoning radio transmissions industry. Less than a hundred years later, Ducati has revolutionized motorcycle design and made sexy sport bikes the ride of choice for a new generation of bikers. ...

drive/back-black
    No brand is more American nor, over the long haul, more successful than Harley-Davidson. So it's not surprising that the massive passion for big noisy bikes and wild open spaces has been translated into a prolific all-American palette of tattoo art. And while the most popular Harley ink incorporates traditional themes like swooping eagles and shields of stars and ......

article/diablo-cody-says-no
    When she was an unknown, tattooed stripper she inked the word "Yes" on her wrist. Then she published a book, wrote a movie called Juno, won an Oscar, and created a hit TV show with Steven Spielberg. Now she's back with the horror movie Jennifer's Body and a middle finger for her critics. Is "the most open-minded person ......

article/q-rob-zombie
    The rock icon turned horror maestro sheds the ghost of John Carpenter in his Halloween sequel and discusses why you’d better make it quick if you have any plans to get him back in the tattoo chair....

article/bright-lights-inked-city
    A LOOK AT THE FACES - AND TATTOOED BODIES - THAT ARE RESHAPING THE LOOK OF HOLLYWOOD....

article/bombs-away-saber
    Inked covers the iconic Los Angeles based graffiti artist known as Saber....

article/new-friend-request-gym-class-heroes
    Hip-hop? Punk? R&B? No one can categorize this group of outcasts from upstate New York - and that's just the way they like it....

article/q-tom-gabel-against-me
    Inked interviews Tom Gabel from the band Against Me!...

article/my-work-speaks-itself-sailor-jerry
    A new documentary explores the life of tattoo legend Sailor Jerry, and he hates you for liking it....

article/q-janeane-garofalo
    The outspoken actress talks tattoos and politics, tells us why she doesn’t like Dane Cook, and explains that she isn’t quite comfortable with her new role on 24....

article/inked-girls-new-york-city
    Inked hangs out with some of the hottest tattooed girls in NYC. Photos by Warwick Saint, styled by Risa Knight and Ariane Dallal...

article/damage-case-lemmy-kilmister
    Forty years of hard liquor and harder drugs, wild women, and life on the road haven't killed Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister. Can anything?...

article/balls-out
    While painting your face and holding up a sign might have passed for fan obsession in years past, there's a new level of fan in the stands today. Face paint comes off after the last whistle blows, but the ink on these fans is going to be there long after the season goes down the tubes. ...

article/amanda-beard
    Amanda Beard has swam in the Olympics four times, dissed Michael Phelps, and been tattooed on LA Ink. Now back from Beijing, she's ready to dive in to life outside of the pool. ...

article/inked-girls-new-york-city
    Even on the crowded subways and streets, the tattooed women of the Big Apple stand out. We threw open our doors and invited them to show off their ink, and they arrived with tattoos of everything from killer zombies to My Little Pony. Here is a look at just some of the ladies who dropped by. Watch for the Inked ......

article/tracy-morgan
    Tracy Morgan isn't shy. Anyone who's caught him on a talk show knows he's as quick to strip down as he is to declare his intentions to impregnate half of the audience. (A quick YouTube search will yield plenty of results, especially with the keywords "Tracy Morgan is wasted"). This rep is bolstered by Tracy Jordan, the ......

article/2008-inked-all-stars
    Every athlete has a story. Most of them tell it on the field or on the court or on the ice. Others tell it on their skin....

article/bam-margera
    Pit bull attacks, rumored pornos, Uncle Vito’s arrest, Steve-O’s rehab, wild lawsuits, dick tattoos, and Jessica Simpson. Even secured in his Pennsylvania compound, the Jackass general isn’t safe from his own wild world. ...

article/intelligent-design
    Tattoos and couture collide in the work of these fashion designers. Some are upand- coming and some have already come up, but they all stay true to their art with designs that are irreverent, witty, and anything but ordinary. ...

article/pharrell-williams
    If there's one man the entire music world wants a piece of, it's Pharrell Williams. From Jay-Z and Kanye West to Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake, the Virginia Beach, VA native is a Top 40 kingmaker, a sonic architect who has built career-making hits for some of music's most elite players. His own project, N.E.R ......

article/pinstripe-wizards
    The history of pinstriping stretches back in one long, straight, hand-painted line all the way to horse-drawn carriages and further back in time to cave walls. What’s certain is this: you can’t talk about pinstriping without hearing the name Kenny Howard, best known as Von Dutch. Thought to be the granddaddy of the art, Von Dutch was an ......

article/mad-dogs
    Three days had passed since Clara, a three-year-old English bulldog, was stolen outside a grocery store in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. The NYPD followed a few leads but in a city with nearly 500 homicides a year, a missing dog was not exactly at the top of the local police blotter. Then a crew of intimidating-as-hell, tattoo-clad equalizers ......

article/180-proof
    While you're reading this, Tila Tequila is taking over the world. Since rocketing into the libidos of men and women everywhere with her saucy MySpace photos, the pintsized model has created an entire industry based on her sex-icon status. She still maintains her MySpace page (with over three million friends and counting), her MTV show A Shot at Love ......

article/seven-wonders
    Seven Wonders: From the once-in-a-lifetime to the taking-your-life-in-your-hands. ...

article/lucky-13
    Nothing makes a strange town feel more like home than a great bar. It gives you a sense of the city, a feel for the locals, and—perhaps, most importantly—it can supply a nice buzz. The problem in many cases is picking the right spot. So many cities are overrun with mainstream, cookie-cutter places that it can be tough ......

article/ink-film
    "Warriors," says makeup artist Naomi Donne, who has created temporary tattoo art for numerous movies. That film was a revolutionary concept for makeup, it turned all of us in the industry around," says Donne. "And it set that whole fashion trend of very linear work in tattoos."...

inked-spots/club-tattoo
    Battle your way through the swirling mosh pit at one of Linkin Park’s sold- out arena shows and there’s a good chance you’ll find at least a few die- hard fans sporting forearm flame tattoos as a tribute to the band’s frontman, Chester Bennington. Just don’t bet that those fans had their derivative ink laid ......

inked-spots/city-ink
    When City of Ink cofounders Miya Bailey and Tuki Carter moved their tattoo shop Prophet Art from Asheville, NC, to Atlanta in 2000, they wanted a new start, both for the shop and their art. According to Bailey, the plan was "to break that boundary of what black people and Hispanic people should be getting as tattoos and reflect more ......

inked-spots/smith-street-tattoo-parlour
    Fifty years ago, the tattoo game in Brooklyn was a strictly blue-collar business dominated by hard men with names like one-eyed Max Pelz, Tony the Pirate, Jack Red Cloud, and Brooklyn Blackie. They were tattooers, not tattoo artists. They worked out of parlors, not art studios. They needled strong black lines and bold colors. They had a code of conduct ......

inked-spots/elm-street-tattoo
    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 ......

inked-spots/iron-age-tattoo
    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 ......

inked-spots/firth-street-tattoo
    Long gone are the sex shops and beatniks of London's Soho neighborhood. Over the years, the notorious district has undergone a serious image overhaul, and between the office buildings and trendy restaurants sits Frith Street Tattoo and Piercing, the tattoo shop of owner Dante Di Massa's dreams. "When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was ......

inked-spots/red-letter-1
    If you're into neon signs and lots of flash on the walls, then there are plenty of tattoo shops to choose from on the streets of Florida. But when Phil Holt opened RedLetter1 in 2003, he wanted something different for both his customers and himself. "When I first opened, I had just gotten back from Mick's shop in ......

inked-spots/think-tank
    When Th’ink Tank Tattoo Studio and Art Gallery opened in Denver it gave the ink-loving folks in the Mile-High City a quality place for tattoos and a stellar gallery space. It almost didn’t last. “When we first started, we opened up in a neighborhood that was just too pricey,” says artist Jef Kopp. “Luckily, we figured that out ......

inked-spots/keone-nunes
    Don’t even think about asking Keone Nunes to tattoo a dagger or dolphin on you. “All I do is Hawaiian tattoos, designs inked for various cultural reasons,” says Nunes. These designs (bold, geometric shapes) have names, meanings, prayers and can reflect the genealogy of the individual. Nunes, who has been tattooing since 1990, works nontraditionally—he has no shop ......

inked-spots/south-pacific-tattoo-co
    You might get a little claustrophobic in the small space of South Pacific, but it’s worth it. Owner Thomas “Wondo” Wondoloski, a Hawaii resident for 15 years, has been tattooing for 22 years and knows tattoos well. After all, his inspiration was the late tattoo legend Asa Lee Crow III. “He was like a carnival strolling down the road ......

inked-spots/tnt-tattoo
    “We worked hard to get to where we’re at,” says tattooist Kevin Mokuahi. “It’s the quality of our work that has given us our reputation.” And it’s true. Located off a major road between Waikiki and North Shore, the TNT shop is not in the most tourist-driven area, but its steady client base (primarily military and surfers ......

inked-spots/mike-ledger-tattoo
    “No one knew who I was when I moved to Hawaii,” says Mike Ledger. “I really had to work my way up from nothing again.” Originally from Farmingdale, New York, Ledger went from having a three-year waiting list to starting from scratch. “I had to prove myself and get accepted by the locals in Hawaii,” he remembers. Now he’s ......

inked-spots/tiki-tattoo
    When owner Robert Hackney opened A Tiki Tattoo, it effortlessly blended right in with colorful Waikiki. Unlike many of the tattoo parlors on the island, A Tiki embraces island lifestyle with its laid-back, open atmosphere and friendly staff. The shop feels like a tropical oasis complete with bamboo light decor and paneling. With more than 30 years experience, Hackney plans ......

inked-spots/perfection-tattoo
    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 ......

inked-spots/true-blue-tattoo
    Smack in the middle of the Red River District, glows the cool neon of True Blue Tattoo. Founded by the late Vanessa Alvarez, this two-fl oor ex-carriage house (the first floor is for tattooing; the second fl oor, known as “Glory Hole,” is strictly for piercings) is home to nine full-time tattoo artists and three piercers. The shop can get ......

inked-spots/rock-ages
    Producing high-quality, specialized work is paramount to Jason Brooks, Tony Hundahl, and Hector Fong—the three diverse artists who make up Rock of Ages in South Austin. Opened in October of 2005, Rock of Ages is a pure custom shop specializing in traditional American and Japanese tattooing. Hailing from an artistic family (his father was a professional illustrator), Brooks began ......

inked-spots/diablo-rojo
    At 26th and Guadalupe Streets, right across from the University of Texas campus, Diablo Rojo has “probably one of the best locations in town, ” according to owner Doug Curtis. Though it’s within earshot of the school, the shop is for the most part custom, according to Curtis. But the weekends do have a tendency toward a “street shop atmosphere ......

inked-spots/kadillac-tattoo
    “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 ......

inked-spots/chinatown-tattoo
    Walk around the streets of Philadelphia and you’ll quickly notice it’s a city that takes tattooing seri ously. “In the summer you’ll see ink all over everyone,” says Chinatown Tattoo co-owner Braden Kendall. “It crosses all genres; I’ve sleeved out two doctors recently.” The shop sees a lot of action from walk-in clients—“We do names ......

inked-spots/philadelphia-eddies-tattoo-haven
    Yes, you read it correctly; this shop is also called Philadelphia Eddie’s. “This was the first shop that Eddie Funk opened on Fourth Street,” explains Troy Timpel, who has owned the business along with Furry since 2002. “When he retired he offered ownership of the different locations to the guys who helped run them. We’re keeping his legacy ......

inked-spots/philly-ink
    Philly Ink may be off the beaten path, but it’s well worth the trip into the Port Richmond section of the city. The shop, another former Philadelphia Eddie’s, is now run by Danny Emery, who grew up just six blocks away. “I used to get chased out as a kid because I was always coming around wanting to ......

inked-spots/philadelphia-eddies
    For those who appreciate a walk down memory lane, there’s only one shop in town to visit: Philadelphia Eddie’s. Opened 13 years ago by (you guessed it) “Philadelphia Eddie” Funk, it was passed down five years ago to two of his longtime colleagues, Jerry Donohoe and Tom Napp. These guys are the real deal for both authentic traditional ......

inked-spots/olde-city-tattoo
    Sure, Olde City Tattoo has a street-shop vibe, but they’re really the city’s go-to guys for quality custom pieces. The shop has a staff of six artists, so you can be sure that someone will give you what you’re look ing for, whether it’s a portrait or black-and-gray piece from owner Jason Goldberg or Japanese stylings ......

inked-spots/chicago-tattoo-company
    “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 ......

inked-spots/taylor-street-tattoo
    Opening up a shop in Chicago’s Little Italy wasn’t easy for Keith Underwood. In fact, the Taylor Street owner has become almost as famous for the battle he faced trying to get his business open as he has for his art. “You can’t just rent and open here,” says Underwood of his difficulties. Strict laws about property ......

inked-spots/tomato-tattoo
    When Tomato Tattoo owner Robert Hixon set out to name his shop, he jokingly suggested an unusual moniker to his girlfriend. “In our history, tomato is symbolic of love,” he says. “So I threw it out there and the more we thought about it, the more it seemed to make sense.” The name does seem perfect for the little shop ......

inked-spots/cherry-bomb-tattoo
    “Please note that I am a one-man operation so I am not always able to get back to people as quickly as I would like.” This is the apologetic ending to the voice mail greeting of Cherry Bomb’s sole artist and operator, Patrick Cornolo, who has had to deal with a lot of big changes this year. Located on ......

inked-spots/zulu-tattoo
    Spirituality rules at this famed establishment, whose client list includes Montel Williams and Dennis Rodman. “Western tattooing, unfortunately, is about money,” says owner Roni Zulu. “But the art of tattooing is a very ancient, very sacred art form.” Concerned with learning and preserving the primordial cultural aspects of the craft, Zulu frequently travels to places like the Tahitian islands and ......

inked-spots/mark-mahoneys-shamrock-social-slub
    “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 ......

inked-spots/mister-cartoon
    “Everybody thinks I came into the tattoo world with a red carpet at my feet,” says venerated artist Mister Cartoon. It’s easy to understand why this misconception exists: Cartoon was already well known in as a muralist and illustrator before becoming interested in tattooing. “Being a professional artist was a handicap,” he says. “I would have had an easier ......

inked-spots/spotlight-tattoos
    The difference between Spotlight and a lot of the other shops out there is evident as soon as you walk in. “Most shops in LA, or the world even, just have Xeroxed shit on the walls,” gripes artist Charlie Roberts. But at Spotlight, Roberts points out, “We’ve got original flash.” Much of that flash, it’s important to note ......

inked-spots/seventh-son-tattoo
    Seventh Son might be the best amalgamation of all San Francisco’s tattoo scene has to offer. Co-owned by Jason Kundell (former coowner of Artwork Rebels), Erik Rieth (formerly of Everlasting Tattoo), and Luke Stewart (who was a regular guest artist at Artwork Rebel), the studio may be on the new side, but its artists have certainly been around long ......

inked-spots/tattoo-city
    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 ......

inked-spots/primal-urge
    Grime talks fast, but his work takes time; his website, grimemonster.com, informs visitors that the wait to get inked is currently a whopping three years. Opening the store just over a year ago (after, Grime says, he grew tired of the “speed freaks” and “shitty landlord” he was dealing with at the now-defunct Artwork Rebels), Grime and his staff ......

inked-spots/everlasting-tattoo
    “We are more or less the anti-shop shop,” says Everlasting Tattoo’s Henry Lewis about this staple on the San Francisco tattoo scene. “We’re more like a fine arts tattoo gallery.” Why? To begin, there is no flash of any kind in the store. Instead the walls are decorated with paintings by the artists, many of who have had ......

inked-spots/diamond-club
    Run by Bill Salmon with Juni, his wife of 20 years, Diamond Club is anything but your average mom-and-pop shop. Both Salmons have spent their whole lives tattooing, mostly as a team. “Working with my wife everyday is fun stuff,” says Bill. “It’s a good time everyday.” Before opening its doors to the public just a few years ago ......

inked-spots/blackheart-tattoo
    When you ask Blackheart owner Scott Sylvia what sets his studio apart from the sea of shops in the Bay Area, you are likely to hear words like “established” and “tradition” somewhere in his response. And, “We don’t suck,” he says seriously. “There are only a handful of good shops left in the area,” Sylvia says with a combination ......

inked-people/natalia-fabia
    “I have a weird thing with voyeurism,” says artist Natalia Fabia, whose paintings depict “rad, talented chicks” in private, doing things like hugging a stuffed bunny or eating an ice-cream cone, often while wearing little more than their undies. Fabia’s colorful paintings, which have made her one of the Los Angeles art scene’s fastest-rising stars, reflect a constellation ......

inked-people/set-your-goals
    Check the walls of your local music venue and there’s a good chance you’ll find a Set Your Goals sticker plastered somewhere. It’s a visual reminder of how much things have changed since the band joined the Epitaph Records roster. “On our old label, we would get, like, 100 stickers and they would be in black and ......

inked-people/jose-mangin
    The new host of MTV’s Headbangers Ball, José Mangin, got his first tat- too at 16 (Pantera’s famous Cowboys From Hell logo) and was hooked. But it was his encounter with the band’s late, great guitarist, Dimebag Darrell, that got him addicted. “I walked up to him and said, ‘Scarred for life, man,’ and he totally tripped ......

inked-people/zoo-york
    From the outside, the offices of skateboard and clothing company Zoo York look like any other dull, gray building in midtown Manhattan. The inside is another story. Up the elevator and through a conference room decorated with skateboard decks, down a hallway lined with clothing racks and a few used and abused skateboards is a stairwell covered top to bottom ......

inked-people/nate-appleman
    Nate Appleman, executive chef at San Francisco’s acclaimed A16 and SPQR restaurants, didn’t inherit his culinary chops from his parents. “They don’t cook,” says the chef. However, Appleman’s father did pass on another lifelong passion. When Mr. Appleman, a physician, returned from a business trip with a small spider inked on his leg, the future chef ......

inked-people/burn-halo
    When Orange County hardcore band Eighteen Visions ended their 11-year run in 2007, frontman James Hart had mixed feelings. He was disappointed but excited by the prospect of starting anew. Since the 2004 album Obsession, Hart had been pushing the band in a more hard rock direction, and some members had pushed back. Now that he was on his own ......

inked-people/rich-sandomeno
    "The thing about fads is that they'll come and go," says L.A.-via-Brooklyn jewelry maker Rich Sandomeno. "But I'm into shit that's gonna last forever. Even the work boots I own have lasted me 15 years." Whether it's footwear, the engines he rebuilt during his former career as an industrial diesel mechanic, his handmade Spragwerks ......

inked-people/bangladesh
    Music producer Shondrae Crawford, a.k.a. Bangladesh, is known for creating beats so original that they sometimes cause a problem—no one can rhyme to them. "I never thought of my sound as that unique," admits the 30-year-old music producer. "But people kept telling me it was like nothing they'd ever heard before. It's foreign to their ......

inked-people/chase-kusero
    Imagine you're a Hollywood hairstylist working on a movie with Colin Farrell, whose hair you've been shampooing, blow-drying, and keeping reasonably coiffed for weeks. When the time comes that Farrell needs a cut, would you go near the boozy bigmouth with a pair of scissors? No, you'd probably call in reinforcements. And that's how Los Angeles ......

inked-people/ben-baller
    Ben Baller, the man behind Icee Fresh & Co., a high-end jewelry outfit that specializes in classy bling, may have been raised in the Koreatown section of south central Los Angeles, but he was born in hip-hop. “I’ve been around hip-hop since the late ’70s,” Baller explains. “I got to see it in every single aspect. I was a b-boy ......

inked-people/nichole-east
    Nichole East's business card reads "Kid Robot, Toy Baroness." That says enough. As one of the first employees at quirky-cool adult toy company Kid Robot, she remembers when the team was so tiny that they were excited just to have business cards. "There were only maybe six or seven of us total," she recalls. "We had so many tasks ......

inked-people/new-found-glory
    Believe it: The Bible is better fodder for tattoo inspiration than it might seem. In fact, New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert probably wouldn't have gotten his first tattoo if it weren't for the good book. "When I was really little, my mom gave me this Bible. On the spine, there was a shield with a cross in ......

inked-people/tara-dakides
    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 ......

inked-people/nigel-sylvester
    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 ......

inked-people/metal-sanaz
    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 ......

inked-people/erik-ellington
    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 ......

inked-people/shirly-brener
    "I've gotten to play a lot of drug addicts and hookers this year," muses actress Shirly Brener. The Bardot-esque blonde, who possesses a paradoxical mix of girl-next-door charm and femme fatale-worthy dark sensuality, revels in her distinctiveness. She's as comfortable portraying the bubbly love interest in a romantic comedy as a depraved addict in an indie flick. "Once ......

inked-people/sebastien-grainger
    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 ......

inked-people/carolyn-spence
    Hollywood hideaway Chateau Marmont, with its cadre of celebutantes, fringed lanterns, and butterfly-festooned decor, has always been known more for its trysts and tragedies than its food. But with the installation of executive chef Carolyn Spence, former chef de cuisine at New York City's Spotted Pig, both Chateau and Bar Marmont are finally building some culinary cred. “It's ......

inked-people/ted-nemeth
    "Shit, where am I?" furniture designer Ted Nemeth mumbles into the phone before asking to reschedule our interview, blaming his confusion on a booze-fueled night out. Apparently, a pre-noon phone interview on a Saturday is a ridiculous request for this Brooklyn-based designer. You see, Ted Nemeth Designs is no Ethan Allen. Both make ottomans and end tables, but only one ......

inked-people/laura-santana
    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 ......

inked-people/missy-suicide
    The explosion of tattooed, pierced, and otherwise modified models can be traced back to one Portland, Oregon, woman who was fed up with "siliconeenhanced Barbie dolls." Using her prior experience on the Web and the camera skills she learned in art school, Selena Moody (now known as Missy Suicide) snapped photos of her friends in pinup-style poses and worked with ......

inked-people/bleeding-through
    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 ......

inked-people/topout
    Born in the spit and blood of the mixed-marital-arts world, Tapout clothing is the uniform for guys who are (or at least want to look) tough. The MMA world was still in its relative infancy in the United States when Tapout was launched in 1997 as the brainchild of Charles Lewis Jr., better known as Mask for his trademark face ......

inked-people/jk5
    Joseph Ari Aloi has been known in the tattooing world for 14 years as JK5, although few stop to ask what's behind the initials, instead focusing on his trippy custom work that rocks the collars, hands, and bellies of Williamsburg, Brooklyn— home to Saved Tattoo, where he's been tattooing for the past two years. When an artist marries ......

inked-people/jason-mewes
    Q & A with Jason Mewes Silent Bob's better half talks Kevin Smith, comic books, tattoos, and kicking his drug habit. Actor Jason Mewes is standing in the living room of his Los Angeles home, taking off his shirt. Positioned in front of his laptop's webcam, he shows off the "15 or 16" tattoos he's acquired during his ......

inked-people/nina-sky
    When music wonder twins Nina Sky took over dance floors with their 2004 hit, "Move Ya Body," even they weren't sure what they were doing. "Our first album was written about things we hadn't yet experienced in our lives," says Nicole Albino, one half of the duo. "We were 18, straight out of high school." After an exhaustive ......

inked-people/jim-koch
    Long before he worked with everyone from Mötley Crüe to Marilyn Manson and designed skate decks and high-end toys, graphic designer Jim Koch (pronounced cook) worked with his hands in another way—as a lumberjack. "I was buckin' and haulin' logs and I said, Fuck that! I want to draw," he remembers of his teen logging years. Koch traded in ......

inked-people/lea-vendetta
    "I don't like to do nice, clean tattoos or realistic stuff. A tattoo should look like a tattoo," says Lea Vendetta, the Paris-born 37-year-old tattoo artist whose journey has taken her from the City of Lights to Key West, FL . Vendetta started in tattooing in 1989, when, at the age of 18, she got her first ink—a Celtic ......

inked-people/yung-berg
    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 ......

inked-people/rachel-larratt
    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 ......

inked-people/civet
    Most artists are inspired by art they love, but it was a particularly bad backyard show by a Los Angeles punk group that spurred singer Liza Graves to form a band. "I went home and started my own band because I was so disappointed," Graves remembers. She teamed with her sister, guitarist Suzi Homewrecker, bassist Jacqui Valentine, and drummer Danni ......

inked-people/bradley-farrell
    "It's scary." That's how Bradley Farrell, filmmaker, tattoo artist, and CEO of the social networking site eCirkit, describes what it's like to drive his matte black Ferrari 360 Modena on the track. "Even if you drive really well on the road, it's a totally different feel on the track, especially when you're throwing around a ......

inked-people/horitaka
    Ten years ago, when tattooer Horitaka traveled to Japan and sought out tattoo master Horiyoshi II with hopes of starting a back piece, he had no idea what he was truly beginning. "I wanted him to do my back piece, which is now finally completed, and we just hit it off," Horitaka explains. "If you had told me at that ......

inked-people/montel-williams
    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 ......

inked-people/scott-shriner
    ROCK OF LOVE We hang out at home with Scott Shriner—the only tattooed member of Weezer—to talk marriage, ink, and the band’s shocking sixth album. In a quiet neighborhood east of Hollywood, down winding tree-lined streets, sit homes belonging to Luke Wilson, Terry Gilliam, Barack Obama, and Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, who is standing in his living ......

inked-people/vivica-fox
    INKED: How does your new VH1 show Glam God with Vivica A. Fox work? FOX: We moved 15 stylists into a home. They are from the different worlds of fashion, from hair to makeup to wardrobe. We divided them into teams and put them through tests of styling for either a photo shoot, red carpet for MTV, red carpet for ......

inked-people/wild-things
    Denise Richards returns with a new television show and a new tattoo, courtesy of Kat Von D. Here’s what happens when two reality TV queens collide. Check out behind the scenes photos of the shoot at Moli.com! When something sureal goes down in Hollywood, it ’s safe to assume reality TV is involved. How else would Denise Richards ......

inked-people/jereme-rogers
    Pro skateboarder Jereme Rogers can reel off a list of broken bones including numerous fingers, his left foot (twice), his right foot, his hand (several times), and a cut that nearly severed the tendon in his hand. “If it would have cut the tendon all the way in half it would have wound up into my wrist,” he remembers. “They ......

inked-people/h2o
    Reading off the tattoos from H20 front man Toby Morse’s skin is a lot like flipping through the artists on his iPod. “I probably have like 30 different band tattoos, man,” he says from his California home, scouring his legs for examples. “I’ve got 7 Seconds, Murphy’s Law, Madball, Kill Your Idols, Dag Nasty, Minor Threat. I ......

inked-people/jules-kim
    Jewelry designer Jules Kim doesn’t like to be ripped off, so the fact that her studio is in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown, the home of knockoffs, is a bit ironic. Not long after launching her high-end jewelry line Bijules in 2004 and seeing her work worn by everyone Gwen Stefani to Rihanna, Kim started a ......

inked-people/scott-campbell
    Tattooers’ names are tossed around in casual conversation all the time. But unless they’re starring in a popular TV series or have a multimillion-dollar clothing line named after them, most artists aren’t exactly recognizable to millions. Except maybe Scott Campbell. Whether you know his name or not, chances are you’ve seen his work, and not just the ......

inked-people/vinnie-jones
    VINNIE JONES IS A PSYCHO. It’s the nickname he earned himself as a pro soccer player, and if you had to pick just one word to describe the roles he’s pursued in his second career as a Hollywood bad-ass, “psycho” would fit the bill quite snugly. The 43-year-old British expat first came to notoriety in the ’80s. Though ......

inked-people/dr-dave
    The Lower East Side was once the exclusive domain of New York City’s poorest immigrants and most brazen drug dealers. Over the years, the neighborhood has been co-opted by million dollar condos, but Dr. Dave Ores (or Dr. Dave as locals have known him for 13 years), isn’t beating the anti-gentrification drum. Instead, in his street-front medical office ......

inked-people/keril
    Five years ago, just before Estonian pop singer Kerli turned 16, she asked her conservative mother to let her get a tattoo of a “little Chinese hieroglyph” on the back of her neck for a birthday present and reward for her academic prowess. “She said, “No fucking way’” Kerli remembers. Instead, her mom challenged er to find every book in ......

inked-people/twinkie-chan
    There’s something different about San Francisco scarf designer Twinkie Chan. Several things actually. First, there’s the way she talks. Twinkie doesn’t say things like “Look at that” and “My parents said.” Instead, she says, “Take a gander” and “The parental response was.” The speech pattern is most likely the result of her San Francisco day job. She ......

inked-people/maria-brink
    In This Moment singer Maria Brink rocks, spits, screams, and sweats. Meet the new face of metal. A couple of years after moving from Albany, New York, to Los Angeles, In This Moment frontwoman Maria Brink almost gave up on her dream. It was mid-2004 and she was living alone, had no friends, hated her day job, and none of ......

inked-people/seth-wood
    Landing an appointment with famed New York City tattooer Seth Wood is tough. Finding him is the really hard part. Although he works a booked-solid schedule at Daredevil Tattoo and his own home studio, Wood spends more time traveling to conventions and guest spots at shops around the world, such as Invictus Custom Tattooing in Oslo and LTW in Barcelona ......

inked-people/johnny-iuzzini
    The desserts at New York City’s Jean Georges are some of the most sought-after sweets in the world. Tasty dishes, such as a citrus quartet featuring delicious innovations like halvah powder and a gelled Meyer lemon curd with lemon poppy cake, are the work of pastry whiz Johnny Iuzzini, who honed his sweet craft at a list of the ......

inked-people/margaret-cho
    Nothing about Margaret Cho made it look like she had a chance in hell in Hollywood. Chubby, Korean, and bisexual (she admits to all three) in a business that typically has a hard time swallowing that list, Cho’s rank as one of the biggest female comedians on the planet is the result of a one-woman battle, built from her ......

inked-people/shawn-barber
    “My art has become a history lesson for me,” reflects San Francisco artist Shawn Barber. “I’m constantly learning about the tattoo industry, the people that have defi ned it, and those who have changed it.” The 37-year-old painter has devoted the past three years to creating Tattooed Portraits, a bold collection of paintings of artists with tattoos, tattoo artists ......

inked-people/pitbull
    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 ......

inked-people/allison-burns
    “When I shop at Nordstrom, the store employees follow me around,” says Los Angeles makeup artist and handbag designer Allison Burns. If only those department store employees, on the look for shoplifters, knew they were tailing the head of a handbag line coveted by celebrities and now sold at Bergdorf Goodman and more than 250 boutiques worldwide. Burns started her ......

inked-people/ultimate-fighting-championship
    Mixed martial arts has become the defining sport of the 21st century, and with it comes a new style of fighter—smart, athletic, and more often than not, covered in ink. Here, a look behind the scenes of the sports’ largest promotion, the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Punching someone in the face just doesn’t cut it anymore. Where boxers only ......

inked-people/eddie-steeples
    Actor Eddie Steeples’ tattoos tell his life story— and as far as we can tell, it’s going to be a comedy. Writers’ strike or not, a hit comedy on NBC is doing Eddie Steeples pretty well. Or so it would seem for the My Name Is Earl star, who is nearly impossible to track down. When I finally get ......

inked-people/rashad-mccants
    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 ......

inked-people/sandy-poirier
    It’s freezing in Boston, but Sandy Poirier pays the cold weather no mind—he’s sporting his typical uniform. “If I die, I want to be buried in a rock and roll T-shirt, tight jeans, Chrome Hearts jewelry, and sneakas,” he says, with a voice that sounds like a scratched-up recording of John F. Ken­nedy. At first glance ......

inked-people/todd-burnes-and-olivia-miner
    As different industries continue to embrace tattoos, the importance of pre serving the integrity of the culture has never been more important. That’s where Todd Burnes and Olivia Miner, of Canvas Los Angeles, come in. Originally conceived as a modest boutique, Canvas Los Angeles quickly expanded into a 4,000-square-foot store and gallery showcasing the cloth ing designs and ......

inked-people/jonathon-davis
    Web exclusive: Check out our gallery of Korn tattoos here. Upload yours. Jonathan Davis is the last guy in America you’d expect to be well adjusted. Think about it: The guy’s whole career has been built on being a fuck-up. For the last 15 years, Davis has battled and exploited his inner demons as the lead singer of ......

inked-people/mitchell-binder
    There is a balance to accessorizing: You want to look like you’re not about to take shit from anyone, but you don’t want to over do it and end up more Prince than punk. For some, this balance is an inherent trait. If you’re not one of these people, meet Mitchell Binder. Binder started his accessories company ......

inked-people/cast-la-ink
    The Learning Channel's reality show L.A. Ink is a phenomenon. It's come on the scene and pummeled the ratings of every tattoo television show that came before, and its star, Kat Von D, is the hottest thing in heels right now. Known for her lifelike black-and-gray portraits for more than ten years, the 25-year-old vixen has put ......

inked-people/dyslexic-speedreaders
    What does it take to be a flash in the pan? Apparently, a combo of the right drugs, locker room references to genitals, and blatant pride about things that common sense would tell you to keep quiet. And Paris Hilton never hurts. Right now, I’m on the phone with Dirt Nasty and Andre Legacy, two thirds of the Los ......

inked-people/tara-mcpherson
    Sitting down with artist Tara McPherson you’re likely to get a lesson in physics these days: “When you take a super bright object, like a quasar, and place it in front of a massive object, it creates the illusion of four identical objects surrounding the original. That’s called Einstein’s Cross gravitational lens.” To hear this pouring so ......

inked-people/siri-garber
    Siri Garber, founder of Platform Public Relations in Los Angeles, has a groovy voice—a raspy, powerful one that probably makes some of her male clients think about pleasure, rather than business, when she picks up the phone. But this celebrity publicist’s throaty purr isn’t a result of barking orders. “I think some of us [in the public ......

inked-people/chris-santos
    By 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon in Stanton Social’s kitchen on New York City’s Lower East Side, there’s a muted roar of polyglot jabber punctuated with the staccato clang of pots and pans. The restaurant’s team of chefs and line cooks are readying themselves for the onslaught ahead: 3,000 plates will be passed through ......

inked-people/kat-von-d
    You read about Kat and the other artists of L.A. Ink in our Winter issue. Now read Chris Nieratko’s full, unedited, absurd interview with Kat here....

inked-people/dillinger-escape-plan
    Some say the best writing descends from despair, longing, elation, love; the same old drill. But, as Liam Wilson, bassist of Dillinger Escape Plan, will tell you, the only reason to write an album is out of revenge—sweet, sweet revenge. “If someone were to show me a crystal ball years ago and say we would make our best album ......

inked-people/nikki-sixx
    More than six years sober, former Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx has long emerged from rock-star rock bottom. Still working the over-processed, jet-black hair, complete with black-on-black threads and requisite metal rocker accoutrement, he looks young and refreshed, unlike most of his over-50-and haggard contemporaries. He’s in control. In fact, his most recent tattoo barks directions to the dude ......

inked-people/thrasher-funds
    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 ......

inked-people/michael-madsen
    “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 ......

inked-people/eve-salvail
    “Getting the name of a loved one tattooed on you jinxes the relationship,” says Eve Salvail. She should know. She had the name of a girlfriend tattooed three separate times—and each time they broke up, she had to get the name covered up again. Lucky in love, it seems she’s not. But she has had some luck as ......

inked-people/mario-barth
    Mario Barth grew up in Austria, immigrating to the states in 1995 to set up his tattoo shop in New Jersey. “I started tattooing a long time ago. It chose me to do it,” he says. “There was no scene at the time, it was all very underground. I had no financial interest in it, but then I realized I ......

inked-people/misfit-dior
    It’s true a British accent makes anyone sound more interesting, but that’s only part of what makes people want to listen to rapper Misfit Dior. She first got attention for starring on VH1’s White Rapper Show (she was the only contestant good enough not to have to audition), but she’s been rhyming since she was 12 ......

inked-people/eagles-death-metal
    Considering most, if not all, of the songs from Eagles of Death Metal’s first two albums are about screwing almost anything with a vagina, it’s funny that lead singer Jesse Holmes never got laid until he met his wife. “Girls didn’t want to have sex with me, and they had no problem letting me know. The song ......

inked-people/caridee-english
    Stuck in a house for months without television, music, or a phone is like solitary confinement. Add in flamenco-dancing Tyra Banks, vicious fashionista boys, and a gaggle of neurotic women and it becomes a surrealist nightmare. If you survive, you have what it takes to be America’s Next Top Model. 22-year-old CariDee English calmly climbed to the top of ......

inked-people/mike-jones
    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 ......

fashion/peep-show-20
   

The hottest webcam girls—the ones with tattoos, obviously—invite you into their bedrooms.

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blog/inked-photographer-warwick-saints-show-body-work
    Until the end of December, Inked photographer Warwick Saint will be showing a collection of his work New York. His gallery show, entitled Body of Work features a collection of images that include some the vibrant and beautiful pictures of tattooed women that we've ever seen. This is a must-see exhibition. Warwick's show Body of Work is at ......

blog/hennya-mask-art-show-benefit-show-japan
   

On Nov. 19th, FX Artist Nix Herrera and tattoo artist Ant Iannauci of Ascnension Tattoo have combined their artistic efforts with Orlando's Twelve21 Gallery to create a Japanese themed art show, Hannya Mask Art Show, to benefit the Red Cross relief of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami victims in Japan. The gallery exhibition will feature 50 hand-painted Hannya ...

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Tattoo Gallery Images (460 found)

brothers - flames, geisha, lotus, anime, arm
brothers
thejoker..byrich - rib shot of the heath ledger
thejoker..byrich
Heathersphone154 - pokemon, anime, , anime, arm
Heathersphone154
TheSabbatical - sabbatical, skeleton, dog, colorful, bicep
TheSabbatical
TheSabbatical - sabbatical, skeleton, dog, colorful, bicep
TheSabbatical
heatherheart.1 - arm, shoulder, back, hearts, flowers, black & grey, arm
heatherheart.1
heatherflower.1 - flowers, hearts, black & grey, upper back
heatherflower.1
theriverportraittattoosteveoke - leg, the river, portrait tattoo , photo-realistic, leg
theriverportraittattoosteveo
thejokesonyou - joker, fineline, shoulder
thejokesonyou
Othello - friesian horse, othello, horse, friesians of majesty, animals, photo-realistic, lower back
Othello
Othello - friesian horse, othello, horse, friesians of majesty, animals, photo-realistic, lower back
Othello
Othello - friesian horse, othello, horse, friesians of majesty, animals, photo-realistic, lower back
Othello
Othello - friesian horse, othello, horse, friesians of majesty, animals, photo-realistic, lower back
Othello
picassothecock - ribs, picasso, , colorful, stomach
picassothecock
ChestHelmetTurned - chest, ripped, motorcycle, harley davidson, biomechanical, chest
ChestHelmetTurned
ChestHelmetTurned - chest, ripped, motorcycle, harley davidson, biomechanical, chest
ChestHelmetTurned
ChestHelmetTurned - chest, ripped, motorcycle, harley davidson, biomechanical, chest
ChestHelmetTurned
Heathers-claw-marks-tattoo-by- - back, shoulder, claw, scratch, scrape, tiger, blood, cat, tattoo, tear, gore, colorful, upper back
Heathers-claw-marks-tattoo-b
glowinthedarkbiotatt - biohazard, black light, flames, black light & uv, arm
glowinthedarkbiotatt
theone211 - colorful, upper back
theone211
theone211 - colorful, upper back
theone211
pinheadandleatherface - forearms, traditional, arm
pinheadandleatherface
dayofthedeadgirl - day of the dead, old school, thigh
dayofthedeadgirl
panther - panther, realistic, cover up, photo-realistic
panther
thegoodone - chest, ribs, stomach, love, skull, black & grey, chest
thegoodone
dayofthedead - day of the dead girl, photo-realistic, arm
dayofthedead
dayofthedead - day of the dead, photo-realistic, arm
dayofthedead
Thebitch - the bitch, colorful, chest
Thebitch
dayofthedead - colorful, shoulder
dayofthedead
inksthepinkmask - whipe shaded, old school, plague mask, horror, traditional, arm
inksthepinkmask
inbksthepink-skeleton - skeleton, cemetary, halloween, fun, color,, new school, arm
inbksthepink-skeleton
wherethewildthingscombined - stomach, where the wild things are, , black & grey, stomach
wherethewildthingscombined
pantherdager - panther , new york style, arm
pantherdager
BlessesMotherReligio - photo-realistic, flash
BlessesMotherReligio
ChristHeadReligiousM - photo-realistic, flash
ChristHeadReligiousM
BlessesMotherReligio - photo-realistic, flash
BlessesMotherReligio
ChristHeadReligiousM - photo-realistic, flash
ChristHeadReligiousM
matthew_fragner_7 - upper back, r.i.p, traditional, traditional, upper back
matthew_fragner_7
matthew_fragner_6 - arm, zombie hand, colorful, colorful, arm
matthew_fragner_6
matthew_fragner_5 - foot, rose, dolphin , traditional, foot
matthew_fragner_5
matthew_fragner_4 - upper back, skeletons, good and evil, colorful, upper back
matthew_fragner_4
matthew_fragner_3 - arm, new school, grumpy, new school, arm
matthew_fragner_3
matthew_fragner_2 - leg, eye, photo-realistic, photo-realistic, leg
matthew_fragner_2
matthew_fragner_1 - stomach, heart locket, colorful, colorful, stomach
matthew_fragner_1
TheresaBarnhillFlyer_Page000 - theresa arnhill, colorful, upper back
TheresaBarnhillFlyer_Page000
TheresaBarnhillFlyer_Page000 - theresa barnhill, colorful
TheresaBarnhillFlyer_Page000
JamesAndTheresaBarnhill.. - james barnhill,theresa barnhill , colorful, arm
JamesAndTheresaBarnhill..
matthewsgoat - satan, black & grey, chest
matthewsgoat
1.PORTRAITOFHISDECEASEDFATHERb - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink, beto munoz, tattoo, artist,art, skin art, rising phoenix tattoo, monkeyproink, artisitic tattoo, rising phoenix tattoo, photo-realistic, arm
1.PORTRAITOFHISDECEASEDFATHE
1.THENATURESOFSINbyBetoMunozOf - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink, beto munoz, tattoo, artist,art, skin art, rising phoenix tattoo, monkeyproink, artisitic tattoo, photo-realistic, chest
1.THENATURESOFSINbyBetoMunoz
1.THESPIRITOFCHRISTbyBetoMunoz - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink, beto munoz, tattoo, artist,art, skin art, rising phoenix tattoo, monkeyproink, artisitic tattoo, photo-realistic, upper back
1.THESPIRITOFCHRISTbyBetoMun
dayofthedaed - day of the dead girl, black & grey, bicep
dayofthedaed
leather - photo-realistic, arm
leather
James and Theresa Barnhill - photo-realistic, arm
James and Theresa Barnhill
1.HISBROTHERANDSISTERINTHEIRHA - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink, beto munoz, tattoo, artist,art, skin art, rising phoenix tattoo, monkeyproink, artisitic tattoo, new school, leg
1.HISBROTHERANDSISTERINTHEIR
1.PORTRAITOFHISDECEASEDFATHERb - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink, beto munoz, tattoo, artist,art, skin art, rising phoenix tattoo, monkeyproink, artisitic tattoo, photo-realistic, arm
1.PORTRAITOFHISDECEASEDFATHE
1.THENATURESOFSINbyBetoMunozOf - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink, beto munoz, tattoo, artist,art, skin art, rising phoenix tattoo, monkeyproink, artisitic tattoo, photo-realistic, chest
1.THENATURESOFSINbyBetoMunoz
1.THESPIRITOFCHRISTbyBetoMunoz - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink, beto munoz, tattoo, artist,art, skin art, rising phoenix tattoo, monkeyproink, artisitic tattoo, photo-realistic, upper back
1.THESPIRITOFCHRISTbyBetoMun
1.THEINFLUENCEOFTHECHURCHbyBet - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink, beto munoz, tattoo, artist,art, skin art, rising phoenix tattoo, monkeyproink, artisitic tattoo, new school, arm
1.THEINFLUENCEOFTHECHURCHbyB
Miser Brothers - snow miser, heat miser, miser brothers, christmas tattoo, scott does tattoos, scottdoestattoos, colorful, upper back
Miser Brothers
2.FACEOFMOTHERNATURE.....tulip - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink.com, tattoo, art, artist, tattoo art, color tattoo,monkeyproink, beto munoz, photo-realistic, arm
2.FACEOFMOTHERNATURE.....tul
2.FUCKTHEWORLDByBetoMunozOfMon - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink.com, tattoo, art, artist, tattoo art, color tattoo,monkeyproink, beto munoz, photo-realistic, thigh
2.FUCKTHEWORLDByBetoMunozOfM
man on the moon - photo-realistic, leg
man on the moon
2.THEBEATYOFLIFEANDDEATHbyBeto - tattoos by beto munoz of monkeyproink.com. please feel free to log on to monkeyproink.com and checkout all the artwork by beto munoz, new school, arm
2.THEBEATYOFLIFEANDDEATHbyBe
2.THEBEATYOFLIFEANDDEATHbyBeto - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink.com, tattoo, art, artist, tattoo art, color tattoo,monkeyproink, beto munoz, new school, arm
2.THEBEATYOFLIFEANDDEATHbyBe
2.THESTRENGTHOFHISFAITHbyBetoM - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink.com, tattoo, art, artist, tattoo art, color tattoo,monkeyproink, beto munoz, photo-realistic, arm
2.THESTRENGTHOFHISFAITHbyBet
3.KINGOFTHEJUNGLEbyBetoMunozOf - tattoo by beto munoz of monkeyproink.com, tattoo, art, artist, tattoo art, color tattoo,monkeyproink, beto munoz, new school, arm
3.KINGOFTHEJUNGLEbyBetoMunoz
Peacock Feather - fineline, stomach
Peacock Feather
SpankingtheMonkey-ScottSheene - monkey, spanking the monkey, funny, colorful, arm
SpankingtheMonkey-ScottSheen
sweets for the sweet - crowz eye,cupcakes,, colorful, leg
sweets for the sweet
Sweets for the sweet - crowz eye, cupcakes, colorful, leg
Sweets for the sweet
Ichi the Killer - photo-realistic, leg
Ichi the Killer
Creature from the Black Lagoon - colorful, leg
Creature from the Black Lago
Day of the dead memorial  - beto munoz, best, skull, religious, monkeyproink.com, monkey pro ink, tattoo, color, art, artist, , colorful, arm
Day of the dead memorial
TheIceman1 - skulls, colorful, shoulder
TheIceman1
TheIceman1 - skull,, colorful, shoulder
TheIceman1
sexpanther - panther, jaguar, , photo-realistic, chest
sexpanther
The Temptress Maria - maria, virgin mary, gothic, evil, black & grey, arm
The Temptress Maria
27cjokerfacethemanwholaughsweb - joker, the man who laughs, carlos ortiz, aztek ink, embeded ink, blue island illinois, black and grey, portrait, , photo-realistic, arm
27cjokerfacethemanwholaughsw
mikethefreak5 - eye ball killer , new school, hand
mikethefreak5
The Undertaker  - photo-realistic, arm
The Undertaker
The Scream - art nouveau, arm
The Scream
day of the dead party  - black & grey, arm
day of the dead party
the kiss - butterfly , colorful, thigh
the kiss
man on the moon - tattoo,space, photo-realistic, calf
man on the moon
Leatherface Portrait - ,
Leatherface Portrait
work_in_progress_Against_the_G - skull, colorful, butt
work_in_progress_Against_the
downwiththethickness - colorful, thigh
downwiththethickness
SouthernDread - ace tattoo co., colorful, arm
SouthernDread
Thor the viking KING - thor, b&w, viking, black & grey, arm
Thor the viking KING
Day of the Dead Joker - dotd, joker, batman, villain, leg, tattoo, heath, super,, new school, leg
Day of the Dead Joker
The Ring - black & grey, arm
The Ring
deshawnwiththefreshp - tribal, arm
deshawnwiththefreshp
the fight - black & grey, entire back
the fight
Bill the Butcher by Rhys - photo-realistic, calf
Bill the Butcher by Rhys
Bill the Butcher by Rhys - photo-realistic, calf
Bill the Butcher by Rhys
tattooandotherpics014 - music notes and heartagram, black & grey, arm
tattooandotherpics014
leatherface - photo-realistic, calf
leatherface
leatherface - photo-realistic, calf
leatherface
The Savagery of Passion - demon, warrior, blood, sacrifice, black & grey, entire back
The Savagery of Passion
He Died for Thee - jesus, messiah, savior, risen, black & grey, shoulder
He Died for Thee
blessed mother by Mike Pastore - blessed mother by mike pastore, black & grey, arm
blessed mother by Mike Pasto
Boris Karloff as The Mummy - photo-realistic, arm
Boris Karloff as The Mummy
day of the daed face - by isidro, black & grey, neck
day of the daed face
TheFloorScrapers1 - fine art, photo realism, photo-realistic, lower back
TheFloorScrapers1
christhead By Mike Pastore - christheadbymikepastore.jpg, photo-realistic, arm
christhead By Mike Pastore
christhead - christhead.jpg, photo-realistic, arm
christhead
roxytheboxer_1255989266.jpg - colorful, leg
roxytheboxer_1255989266.jpg
mother Teresa - cleveland tattoo,ross lloyd,color portrait, photo-realistic, flash
mother Teresa
Father Portrait - photo-realistic, arm
Father Portrait
dawn of the dead zombie - photo-realistic, arm
dawn of the dead zombie
oscar the grouch - colorful, arm
oscar the grouch
Devil in the Bottle - black & grey, bicep
Devil in the Bottle
tattoo_dayofthedead - calf, skull, day of the dead, traditional, calf
tattoo_dayofthedead
thecrow - movies, black & grey, lower back
thecrow
thecrow - movies, black & grey, lower back
thecrow
portraithealed - portrait, photo-realistic, thigh
portraithealed
The hanging heart - new school, arm
The hanging heart
the crow - the crow, New York City Comic Con 2009
the crow
jabba the hutt - jabba the hutt, New York City Comic Con 2009
jabba the hutt
blues brothers - blues brothers, New York City Comic Con 2009
blues brothers
bigfinalthemis_1229268468.jpg - black & grey, stomach
bigfinalthemis_1229268468.jp
theLsrose_1229268467.jpg - colorful, upper back
theLsrose_1229268467.jpg
The Joker - photo-realistic, leg
The Joker
saw the movie poster 1 mor ses - photo-realistic, thigh
saw the movie poster 1 mor s
thefinishedtattoo - tribal , tribal, arm
thefinishedtattoo
yet another tiger lily - colorful, wrist
yet another tiger lily
ICHI THE KILLER - japanese, ichi the killer, photo-realistic, arm
ICHI THE KILLER
Peacock feather - photo-realistic, upper back
Peacock feather
Day of the Dead sugar skull - colorful, foot
Day of the Dead sugar skull
fatherson - demon
fatherson
Burn-the-Witch-tattoo-53552 - halloween, burn, witch, horror
Burn-the-Witch-tattoo-53552
inthemirror006 - arm coverup
inthemirror006
heathersback - Back, octopus, spinal cord
heathersback
heathersback2 -
heathersback2
MotherMary - Blessed Mother
MotherMary
Thesleeve - Shoulder, ET, fantasy
Thesleeve
TheFantasyBackpiece -
TheFantasyBackpiece
another004 - behind ear
another004
another004 - behind my ear
another004
5TattoosTogether - Power Rangers, White Tiger, Monster Rancher, Mystery Disk
5TattoosTogether
sirwilliamthejustandkain1 - LoK, Soul Reaver, Kain, Paradox, Back
sirwilliamthejustandkain1
TheBegining - ET
TheBegining
planet_of_the_apes - planet of the apes, nyc, comic con
planet_of_the_apes
customfreehandgrandfatherportr - Portrait
customfreehandgrandfatherpor
otherxxx2011 - sleeves
otherxxx2011
kornart.fromtheirconcerttshirt - korn
kornart.fromtheirconcerttshi
panther1 -
panther1
indianfeathers - CHICAGO INKSTERS STUART, FLORIDA 772,223,9991
indianfeathers
therock - celebrity, the rock, dwayne johnson
therock
theheavens -
theheavens
the rock tribal.jpg -
the rock tribal.jpg
Fairy on the back.jpg -
Fairy on the back.jpg
The Back -
The Back
theroseone.jpg -
theroseone.jpg
005 - gypsy, day of the dead, traditional, leg
005
418085_316809341701509_2379351 - day of the dead girl twist, traditional, thigh
418085_316809341701509_23793
418085_316809341701509_2379351 - day of the dead girl twist, traditional, thigh
418085_316809341701509_23793
155541_128650893862413_1000015 - jack the pumpkin king, black & grey, arm
155541_128650893862413_10000
20100913002732-1 - side piece, ocean theme, colorful, entire back
20100913002732-1
EST - shoulder, day of the dead, dia de los muertos, woman, family, colorful, shoulder
EST
EST - shoulder, day of the dead, dia de los muertos, woman, family, colorful, shoulder
EST
nolasdodgirl. - day of the dead., black & grey, arm
nolasdodgirl.
CryptKeeperTat - the crypt keeper, black & grey, bicep
CryptKeeperTat
tattoooo2 - day of the dead, color, girl, colorful, arm
tattoooo2
tattoooo2 - day of the dead, color, girl, colorful, arm
tattoooo2
tattoooo2 - day of the dead, color, girl, colorful, arm
tattoooo2
beats - black eyed peas - the time, traditional, arm
beats
leg - the boss, traditional, leg
leg
davy-jones-tattoo-steve-oker - pirates of the caribbean, portrait, color, , photo-realistic, calf
davy-jones-tattoo-steve-oker
547667_3972824485690_143288603 - day of the dead, flames, candles, skull, smoke, candle reflection., colorful, stomach
547667_3972824485690_1432886
TDHtat - ribs, tree, the dear hunter, new school, stomach
TDHtat
100_1228 - dream catcher,feathers, fineline, arm
100_1228
LoveinAutumn - chest, autumn, leaves, peacock, feathers, music, notes, script, color, skull, headphones, shamrock, bat wings, colorful, chest
LoveinAutumn
LoveinAutumn - chest, autumn, leaves, peacock, feathers, music, notes, script, color, skull, headphones, shamrock, bat wings, colorful, chest
LoveinAutumn
p20110815-223508 - ribs, native american, feather, smoke, black & grey, lower back
p20110815-223508
391159_323097664378825_3230901 - day of the dead girl, arm, colour, colorful, arm
391159_323097664378825_32309
IMAG0366 - marilyn monroe, day of the dead, skull, forearm portait, black and grey, photo-realistic, arm
IMAG0366
IMG_0334 - ribs, japanese, authentic, fish, black & grey, stomach
IMG_0334
167 - feathers, traditional, breast
167
523994_10150770414526151_73486 - mermaid, mother earth, atlantis, gaia,, colorful, calf
523994_10150770414526151_734
IMG_8915bcdeblogged - back, dream, dream catcher, dreamer, feather, hipster, line art, upper back
IMG_8915bcdeblogged
IMAG0321 - day of the dead,  sunflower, long hair, fine lined details, traditional, arm
IMAG0321
477711_3276785073062_107052006 - back of neck, day of the dead, black & grey
477711_3276785073062_1070520
000Phoe - hip, back, mythical, myth, bird, phoenix, feather, colorful, lower back
000Phoe
photo-5 - phoenix, peacock, koi, snake, hawk, tribal, feathers, line art, upper back
photo-5
0325120303 - foot, feet, day of the dead, traditional, color, new school, love , traditional, foot
0325120303
IMG_0095 - entire rib cage, jacob wrestling the angel, art nouveau, entire back
IMG_0095
Jokerpicofback014 - the joker, colorful, upper back
Jokerpicofback014
1111111111111 - chest,mural,father,portrait,family,arm,leg,back,photo,photo-realistic, photo-realistic, chest
1111111111111
donnie - donnie darko, frank the rabbit, colorful, upper back
donnie
imagejpeg_2_8 - horror movie theme, colorful, leg
imagejpeg_2_8
Jesustattoo - the great
Jesustattoo
Against2-001 -
Against2-001
Against2-001 -
Against2-001
398297_375817359115293_1000006 - day of the dead, black & grey, arm
398297_375817359115293_10000
384428_10150492322177527_60556 - ribs, sugar skull, girl, colorful, side, purple, orange, awesome, beautiful, day of the dead, , photo-realistic, lower back
384428_10150492322177527_605
384428_10150492322177527_60556 - ribs, sugar skull, girl, colorful, side, purple, orange, awesome, beautiful, day of the dead, , photo-realistic, lower back
384428_10150492322177527_605
tattoo - dia de los muertos, day of the dead, colorful, arm
tattoo
tattoo - dia de los muertos, day of the dead, colorful, arm
tattoo
tatdd - writing on top, portrait of my grandfather, american eagle, coi fish, new school, chest
tatdd
obc - orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, colorful, arm
obc
jhonny - portrait, the shining, photo-realistic, arm
jhonny
467441_10150691348761278_22047 - the exorcist and part of hannibal lectors face, photo-realistic, arm
467441_10150691348761278_220
oop - mother mary, black & grey, arm
oop
ScottWhite6 - unicorn,day of the dead, colorful, arm
ScottWhite6
garloo_cropped - the great garloo, colorful
garloo_cropped
ladyfaceskull - half sleeve, skull face, lady face, roses, skulls, feathers, colorful, bicep
ladyfaceskull
IMAG0181 - day of the dead, skulls, traditional, foot
IMAG0181
dayofdeadfoot - day of the dead, realism, foot, skull, woman, , photo-realistic, foot
dayofdeadfoot
298746_2428903526378_136528783 - skull, day of the dead, all seeing eye, , black & grey, leg
298746_2428903526378_1365287
298746_2428903526378_136528783 - skull, day of the dead, all seeing eye, , black & grey, leg
298746_2428903526378_1365287
sagradax5 - arm, sleeve, black and grey, cathedral, black & grey, arm
sagradax5
sagradax5 - arm, sleeve, black and grey, cathedral, black & grey, arm
sagradax5
sagradax5sml - arm, sleeve, black and grey, cathedral, black & grey, arm
sagradax5sml
IMG_20120116_183914-1-2 - day of the dead skull, colorful, shoulder
IMG_20120116_183914-1-2
317225_10150296150806478_67811 - friesian horse, othello, horse, friesians of majesty, animals, photo-realistic, lower back
317225_10150296150806478_678
317225_10150296150806478_67811 - friesian horse, othello, horse, friesians of majesty, animals, photo-realistic, lower back
317225_10150296150806478_678
IMG_0301 - chest, skull, day, of, the, dead, new school, chest
IMG_0301
IMG_0301 - chest, skull, day, of, the, dead, new school, chest
IMG_0301
_facebook_-1731448097_ - athena, greek, goddess, mythology, war, wisdom,  statue, sheild, fineline, leg
_facebook_-1731448097_
ClownSleeve - carnival theme, colorful, arm
ClownSleeve
dotdtattoo(1of1) - day of the dead, girl, photo-realistic, arm
dotdtattoo(1of1)
IMG_2763 - color, portrait, painting, day of the dead, photo-realistic, bicep
IMG_2763
381774_2601731015430_161946358 - black and grey, portrait, day of the dead, dia de los muertos, black & grey, calf
381774_2601731015430_1619463
TATTOO2 - black and white, female, arm, day of the dead, black & grey, arm
TATTOO2
moth - silence of the lambs moth, black & grey, thigh
moth
SUN067 - chinese black dragon wrapped arond my whole mid section and tongue in the inner butt area , black & grey, lower back
SUN067
sugarskull - sugar skull, dia de los muertos, day of the dead, colorful, arm
sugarskull
ginatattoo - phoenix soaring into the heavens through cherry blossoms, colorful, entire back
ginatattoo
Samuri - deceptacon samurai on the throat, anime
Samuri
20111216_4 - ed hardy, panther, sleeve, old school, arm
20111216_4
dayofdeadme - day of the dead, sugar skull, new school, arm
dayofdeadme
312606_1965717837747_168695290 - california with a anaheim theme, black & grey
312606_1965717837747_1686952
summer-october11062 - marilyn monroe, candy skull, day of the dead, arm, black and grey, black & grey, arm
summer-october11062
IMAG0207 - sky the limit christian pellot clouds sun day, black & grey, chest
IMAG0207
IMAG0207 - sky the limit christian pellot clouds sun day, black & grey, chest
IMAG0207
MyPhoenix - the phoenix, colorful, calf
MyPhoenix
lainas3rdtat - ribs, birds, feather, black & grey, stomach
lainas3rdtat
_facebook_-1517175497_ - day of the dead, traditional, chest
_facebook_-1517175497_
RightLeg - koi, scull, water, flower, chrysanthemums, traditional, leg
RightLeg
MyChestPiece - day of the dead, skulls, pin up, black & grey, chest
MyChestPiece
peacock - ribs, rib cage, peacock, feather, peacock feathet, colorful, stomach
peacock
248189_2135410465283_124673817 - ribs, peacock, feather, bird, fineline, stomach
248189_2135410465283_1246738
IMG_2104 - chest, eagle, bird, feathers, fly, , photo-realistic, chest
IMG_2104
catinhat - neo traditional, cat in the hat, zombie, custom, colorful, foot
catinhat
dod - day of the dead, black and grey, photo-realistic, arm
dod
photo - bicep,day of the dead, black & grey, bicep
photo
209038_1848286845837_120066377 - arm, day of the dead, black & grey, arm
209038_1848286845837_1200663
103111120406 - day of the dead skull , black & grey, arm
103111120406
DSC00186 - wings,roses,day of the dead,gothic, traditional, chest
DSC00186
terminatorsleeve. - the terminator, colorful, arm
terminatorsleeve.
IMG_2838 - another view of anchor tattoo, colorful, arm
IMG_2838
IMG_2838 - anchor and net in the sunset, colorful, arm
IMG_2838
CUREHalfsleeve.ByKamilMocet - the cure, rpbert smith, portrait, fans, band, colour, photo-realistic, arm
CUREHalfsleeve.ByKamilMocet
072311145945 - day of the dead, marilyn monroe, portrait, black & greywash, white, , black & grey, arm
072311145945
296700_2337791730695_142692350 - gypsy, day of the dead, arm, black & grey, arm
296700_2337791730695_1426923
derekink9 - rib piece, statue of liberty, black and grey, guns, day of the dead, black & grey, stomach
derekink9
JoshBodwell_MuertosGirl - day of the dead, black & grey, arm
JoshBodwell_MuertosGirl
Image08232010145545 - sugar skull, dia de los muertos, day of the dead, colorful, shoulder
Image08232010145545
DSC07731 - ribs, peacock, feather, filegris, color, quill, pen, art nouveau, stomach
DSC07731
erikdesmond - day if the dead, colorful, diamonds, skulls, roses, leg, traditional, leg
erikdesmond
freddyhollywood - japanese fan, cherry blossoms, peacock, peacock feathers, full sleeve, colored full sleeve, colorful, arm
freddyhollywood
ATT_1314134795332_Picture155 - blossoming of the cherries., photo-realistic, arm
ATT_1314134795332_Picture155
318328_269658073073942_1000008 - alice in wonderland, day of the dead, , photo-realistic, bicep
318328_269658073073942_10000
web - day of the dead, colorful, arm
web
thisone!!!! - suicide silence, marijuana, the black crown, colorful, calf
thisone!!!!
091 - la catrina, day of the dead, photo-realistic, arm
091
259883_222357011130304_1000006 - day of the dead girl, colorful, arm
259883_222357011130304_10000
330795_2084059779788_119391921 - day of the dead, colorful, wrist
330795_2084059779788_1193919
ink - dreamcatcher, rib, native american, feathers, falling feathers, black & grey, stomach
ink
IMAG0120 - right shoulder, torn and weathered bow, colorful, shoulder
IMAG0120
imagejpeg_2_8 - the begining of my right arm sleeve~, traditional, arm
imagejpeg_2_8
270360_186165444775508_1000014 - bows on the back of my legs, photo-realistic, leg
270360_186165444775508_10000
Session7 - day of the dead, dia de los muertos, roses, butterfllies, colorful, stomach
Session7
IMG00812-20110408-1728 - animation,hip,the thing, new school
IMG00812-20110408-1728
276066_100000112852156_1725033 - this tat has a bit of everything from the life to death and the grim reaper to the flames of hell, traditional, entire back
276066_100000112852156_17250
P7201868 - christmas, the grinch, heatmizer, colorful, arm
P7201868
IMAG0020 - done on aug 1st from wyn smith. was all free hand drawn except the very bottom skull with hair. done completely in 1 sitting, black & grey, lower back
IMAG0020
CUREhalfsleeve1 - arm, the cure, beginning of sleeve, photo-realistic, arm
CUREhalfsleeve1
DSCN1235 - simba, the, lion, king, colorful, calf
DSCN1235
Tattoo011edit-1 - aphrodite(goddess of love, beauty, desire) & other fantasy things., black & grey, leg
Tattoo011edit-1
197373_1616126358741_110379000 - day of the dead, black & grey, thigh
197373_1616126358741_1103790
Session7 - day of the dead, colorful, stomach
Session7
216323_10150542122990403_88919 - chest piece greek lion my brothers keeper, black & grey, chest
216323_10150542122990403_889
217123_119686974777541_1104622 - feathers, script, light rays, new school, foot
217123_119686974777541_11046
IMG_4473 - sleeve, day of the dead, arm, skull, color, colorful
IMG_4473
BobParr-JadedLotus-DesMoines,I - peacock feathers, colorful, chest
BobParr-JadedLotus-DesMoines
mariaspeacock - peacock, feather, peacock feather, color feather, feathers, kelly green, tattoo, tattoos, arm, bubbles, colorful, arm
mariaspeacock
10627_278213780186_624820186_9 - the creation , black & grey, arm
10627_278213780186_624820186
221726_10150230259139534_77452 - the skeletal man jeff lowe, x-ray,xray,mri,ribs,spine,back, black & grey, entire back
221726_10150230259139534_774
221726_10150230259139534_77452 - the skeletal man jeff lowe, x-ray,xray,mri,ribs,spine,back, black & grey, entire back
221726_10150230259139534_774
221726_10150230259139534_77452 - the skeletal man jeff lowe, x-ray,xray,mri,ribs,spine,back, black & grey, entire back
221726_10150230259139534_774
221726_10150230259139534_77452 - the skeletal man jeff lowe, x-ray,xray,mri,ribs,spine,back, black & grey, entire back
221726_10150230259139534_774
199733_10150154920594534_77452 - the skeletal man jeff lowe, x-ray,xray,mri,ribs,heart, black & grey, chest
199733_10150154920594534_774
wings - chest, wings, stars, air force, feathers, black & grey, chest
wings
IMGP0871_edited - it's located on my left rib cage, there wasn't that option on the
IMGP0871_edited
163135_1266287312538_169045940 - the joker, black & grey, upper back
163135_1266287312538_1690459
0730002039 - this tattoo is on my ribs but their was no option for it., colorful, lower back
0730002039
dedicated - honor, believe, cherish your children regaurdless their choices., colorful, stomach
dedicated
lbestmuerte - portrait, color, day of the dead, photo-realistic, calf
lbestmuerte
tat2 - day of the dead, jesse jane, porn star, photo-realistic, arm
tat2
215363_1817015899942_107644681 - skull with the statue of liberty crown, new york style, entire back
215363_1817015899942_1076446
9633_133414397299_838237299_23 - day of the dead, traditional, arm
9633_133414397299_838237299_
DSCF2041_ImitateHDR_1 - foot, bird, birds, mother, daughter, colorful, foot
DSCF2041_ImitateHDR_1
jj - day of the dead, photo-realistic, thigh
jj
195397_1779711169_5231795_n - skulls,tales from the crypt, halloween, butterflies, butterflywings, horror, punk, black & grey, breast
195397_1779711169_5231795_n
195397_1779711169_5231795_n - skulls,tales from the crypt, halloween, butterflies, butterflywings, horror, punk, black & grey, breast
195397_1779711169_5231795_n
DCTAT2 - day of the dead, art nouveau, arm
DCTAT2
022 - leatherface, photo-realistic, bicep
022
chainsawww - leatherface, photo-realistic, arm
chainsawww
5492_110968792299_838237299_20 - day of the dead, traditional, arm
5492_110968792299_838237299_
019 - day of the dead, colorful, arm
019
199887_1613823385266_122674488 - microphone, fire, lyrics, the, black & grey, shoulder
199887_1613823385266_1226744
149189_167623496602688_1674445 - ambigram -
149189_167623496602688_16744
SAM_01712 - day of the dead, black & grey, arm
SAM_01712
IMG_0636 - day of the death , black & grey, arm
IMG_0636
181727_1730809544898_107828399 - arm, girl, day of the dead,skull, roses, boomer,tatzbyboomer,tatz, tatzby,, black & grey, arm
181727_1730809544898_1078283
tattooone - black and grey, feather, side peice , black & grey, stomach
tattooone
DSC_0007 - tribal, koi fish, teddy bear, fire in the sky, canadian leaf, ugly face, colorful, arm
DSC_0007
IMG00392-20110319-1636 - feather, original, latin, black & grey, shoulder
IMG00392-20110319-1636
Newgirldotdduecesmall - portait day of the dead by rich pineda, photo-realistic, arm
Newgirldotdduecesmall
Skullgirlsmall - portait day of the dead by rich pineda, photo-realistic, arm
Skullgirlsmall
chop12 - day of the dead, photo-realistic, leg
chop12
pork1 - day of the dead, photo-realistic, leg
pork1
daydeadgirlsmaller - day of the dead, girl, colorful, calf
daydeadgirlsmaller
danielsribs - day of the dead, colour, woman, ribs,, colorful, stomach
danielsribs
RichsbackbyElChamuco - wolf, back piece, color, dream catcher, native american, feathers, colorful, entire back
RichsbackbyElChamuco
violet - feather, side, fineline, stomach
violet
indian8X10 - arm, indian, girl, feathers,, traditional, arm
indian8X10
tattoos015 - day of the dead girl, new school, arm
tattoos015
LionKing - cartoon the lion king, colorful, upper back
LionKing
oneeyedeadgirl2 - portait day of the dead by rich pineda, photo-realistic, arm
oneeyedeadgirl2
Picture0098 - mario brothers, stars,, colorful, chest
Picture0098
046(2) - hand, feather, birds, black & grey, hand
046(2)
DayodeadBluesmall - portait day of the dead by rich pineda, photo-realistic, arm
DayodeadBluesmall
1 - portait day of the dead by rich pineda, photo-realistic, arm
1
us - james and theresa barnhill, traditional, arm
us
29683_116858038341849_10000052 - half sleeve, batman theme, joker, harley quinn, colorful, arm
29683_116858038341849_100000
23012011344 - left side of upper thigh, day of the dead theme, extension to other work, black & grey, thigh
23012011344
40121_454775733796_28745430879 - beatles inspired, across the universe, movie cover art, colorful, shoulder
40121_454775733796_287454308
DayODeadpinup - day of the dead, pinup, colorful
DayODeadpinup
IMG_0568 - day of the dead,dead,face,tatzby boomer,tatzbyboomer,dia de los muertos,boomer, black & grey, leg
IMG_0568
dodchicinkednation - day of the dead chic, black & grey, leg
dodchicinkednation
Photo28 - peacock, feather, colorful, foot
Photo28
legtattoo - skulls, day of the dead, roses, colorful, calf
legtattoo
tweekm - marilyn monro, day of the dead, mardi gras, photo-realistic, arm
tweekm
photo-17 - skull, gypsy, day of the dead, girl, color, woman, colorful, arm
photo-17
IMG_3802 - the joker, photo-realistic, upper back
IMG_3802
IMAG0085 - day of the dead, traditional, chest
IMAG0085
IMG_5172 - gypsy,arm,dayofthedead,colorful, colorful, arm
IMG_5172
Photoon2010-10-15at17.553 - above, and under the ocean., traditional, arm
Photoon2010-10-15at17.553
Zombie Marilyn Monroe  - zombie, marilyn monroe , pin up girl, mike the freak , photo-realistic, leg
Zombie Marilyn Monroe
Zombie Betty Page  - betty page, zombies, pin up girls, mike the freak , photo-realistic, leg
Zombie Betty Page
skull - skull, feathers, black & grey, arm
skull
cid_969 - japanese theme, black & grey, entire back
cid_969
20100620_144 - tattoo by heather conka-thornton skeleton skin tattoo, photo-realistic, arm
20100620_144
dayofdeadphoto - day of the dead, photo-realistic, arm
dayofdeadphoto
gage - 4 the punx, knuckles
gage
goldfishdani1 - goldfish on the water, colorful, arm
goldfishdani1
21037_1318986409112_1064313706 - arm, forearm, day of the dead, portrait, photo-realistic, arm
21037_1318986409112_10643137
tattoo - by: andrew cornish @ the golden eagle tattoo
tattoo
Picture10 - japanese themed, fineline, chest
Picture10
Picture5 - japanese theme, fineline, arm
Picture5
Picture7 - japanese themed, fineline, arm
Picture7
Picture6 - man on the moon, fineline, upper back
Picture6
SL382349 - rib, roses, feathers, black and grey, black & grey, stomach
SL382349
miranda - day of the dead, mardi gras, portraiture, photo-realistic, arm
miranda
13446_139944799354927_10000018 - wolf, feathers, native, color, colorful, calf
13446_139944799354927_100000
takenbybonkerslastsession - cartoon, color, story theme, colorful, entire back
takenbybonkerslastsession
tweekmaralyn3 - portrait, marilyn monro, living dead, mardi gras, day of the dead, photo-realistic, arm
tweekmaralyn3
DSCF6161 - dead head moth from silence of the lambs, black & grey, neck
DSCF6161
DSCF6161 - dead head moth from silence of the lambs, black & grey, neck
DSCF6161
psmm - monroe, day of the dead, skull, black and grey, black & grey, thigh
psmm
DavidLeg - lost boys, david, kiefer sutherland, black & grey, calf
DavidLeg
Picture1748 - tiger,the pussy cat, new york style, stomach
Picture1748
017-1 - day of the dead, traditional, upper back
017-1
P1000430 - day of the dead, traditional, arm
P1000430
mimsyyyy - time holds the key, old school, thigh
mimsyyyy
32481_115756251796748_10000087 - angel heart, shoulder, army, military, father, daughter, colorful, shoulder
32481_115756251796748_100000
jrgeisha_1270683753.jpg - geisha, chrysanthemum, asian, colorful, leg
jrgeisha_1270683753.jpg
IMG_2652 - best of the best, black & grey, arm
IMG_2652
aubs - elvis presley- the king , black & grey, arm
aubs
aub2 - elvis presley- the king , black & grey, arm
aub2
SANY2841 - marvin the martian, cartoon, colorful, arm
SANY2841
monicamadri - day of the dead, sugar skull, gaudalupe, traditional, zombie, arm, traditional, arm
monicamadri
IMG_9043 - art nouveau, feather, purple, chest piece, feminine,  turquoise, art nouveau, chest
IMG_9043
055-2 - the other glamur, old school, arm
055-2
5775_102406404323_837694323_19 - day of the dead, owl, old school, stomach
5775_102406404323_837694323_
IMG_0213 - sugar, skull, day of the dead, dia de los muertos, hibiscus, flowers, light, bulbs, vines, , colorful, shoulder
IMG_0213
IMG00026-20091222-2232 - oriental, flowers, lotus, cherry blossoms, chrysanthemum, violets, new school, arm
IMG00026-20091222-2232
11-11-09pics076 - the wolfman, black & grey, arm
11-11-09pics076
11-11-09pics075 - the creature from the black lagoon, black & grey, arm
11-11-09pics075
c - the beginning, fineline, upper back
c
Cortney Bolek - imagine holy mother cortney bolek, traditional, stomach
Cortney Bolek
12662_1066033027091_1714016607 - sugar skull, day of the dead, traditional, arm
12662_1066033027091_17140166
regansm - regan from the exorcist, photo-realistic, arm
regansm
OSO2small - mother and daughter, photo-realistic, leg
OSO2small
image[5] - www.eyeoftheneedle.ca, black & grey, stomach
image[5]
image[6] - www.eyeoftheneedle.ca, black & grey, hand
image[6]
NatureSceneSleeve - eye of the needle tattoo, black & grey, arm
NatureSceneSleeve
lilly111 - eye of the needle tattoo, black & grey, stomach
lilly111
dodgirlsm - day of the dead girl tattoo, photo-realistic, arm
dodgirlsm
Photo1 - billy the kid, black & grey, arm
Photo1
inkniron004_1254755885.jpg - colorful one on the left almost finished!, colorful, hand
inkniron004_1254755885.jpg
crow - crow, bird, feathers, colorful, upper back
crow
100_2220 - jill the ripper, colorful, arm
100_2220
JakesLeg - knee, joe capa,day of the dead, colorful, leg
JakesLeg
tattooo - pink floyd's the wall, colorful, entire back
tattooo
Picture60 - it's the disturbed's hells guardian, colorful, chest
Picture60
P1020092 - the world is yours, women, roses, black & grey, arm
P1020092
l_5098b1dbf3e0408cba4a965ba195 - half arm sleeve in the works., black & grey, shoulder
l_5098b1dbf3e0408cba4a965ba1
tats002 - day of the dead woman, traditional, arm
tats002
tats004 - day of the dead woman, traditional, arm
tats004
IMG_0958 - old school, pink, panther,, old school, arm
IMG_0958
ChestTat - sjnma, tribute, brothers, old school, chest
ChestTat
1228007452 - red ribbon tribute to my late godfather, colorful, upper back
1228007452
moneyrose - luxor of las vegas shining through the root of all evil in full bloom, black & grey, entire back
moneyrose
IMG_8556 - pink floyd, the wall, black & grey, arm
IMG_8556
IMG_8554 - pink floyd, the wall, black & grey, stomach
IMG_8554
IMG_8555 - pink floyd, the wall, black & grey, shoulder
IMG_8555
IMG_8553 - pink floyd, the wall, black & grey, lower back
IMG_8553
IMG_8525 - pink floyd, the wall, black & grey, lower back
IMG_8525
IMG_8515 - black panther, black & grey, chest
IMG_8515
IMG_8512 - pink floyd, the wall, black & grey, lower back
IMG_8512
IMG_8511 - pink floyd, the wall, black & grey, stomach
IMG_8511
IMG_8510 - pink floyd, the wall, black & grey, upper back
IMG_8510
aubry1 - day of the dead sugar skull, black & grey, shoulder
aubry1
BACKTATTOO - italian, true friends stab you in the front, cross and letter v, new york style, entire back
BACKTATTOO
DODG003 - sleeve, sugar skull, day of the dead, girl
DODG003
Artist/ Owner- Ryan Karagory - in progress.. pennywise- it in the sewer looking out, black & grey, arm
Artist/ Owner- Ryan Karagory
marvin - cartoons, marvin the martian
marvin
grinch2 - The Grinch
grinch2
kyra-tattoo - Kyra, Night of the Living Dead, halloween, horror
kyra-tattoo
jason-tattoo1 - jason, halloween, friday the 13th, horror
jason-tattoo1
jason-tattoo - jason, halloween, friday the 13th, horror
jason-tattoo
everything015 - panther
everything015
tattoogoodpic - HOLY MOTHER
tattoogoodpic
IMG_0693 - another half
IMG_0693
Mom&Dad - Portrait, Mother& Father, Chest
Mom&Dad
021 - tribal@Mother
021
th_wildlifetat - Album cover Slaughter
th_wildlifetat
filthyapes - planet of the apes, filthy apes, damn dirty, nyc, comic con
filthyapes
l_403da12ec5974b0e1fdd90e9218d - another unfinished peice
l_403da12ec5974b0e1fdd90e921
P1200088-1 - Koi - not quite finished but nearly there
P1200088-1
Picture58 - CELTIC CROSS, MY KIDS' NAMES, MIDDLE OF THE BACK
Picture58
IMG_0007 - tramp stamp, Manipulation of the sexes. (design from Pink Floyd
IMG_0007
l_0595f4e5db9038886b176d8e03da - Friends are the best
l_0595f4e5db9038886b176d8e03
skullsleeve - japanese skull, chrysanthemums
skullsleeve
bluesper - Blues Brothers
bluesper
DIGI0004 - live the dream
DIGI0004
DSCF1703 - bad shot of the other side of the half sleeve
DSCF1703
DSCF1701 - inside view of newest tat...a tribute to the goddess Sekhmet
DSCF1701
den0016 - front side of my japanese themed leg sleeve
den0016
corlinsleg - Last tattoo with the coils before i switched to the neuma's
corlinsleg
jokerresize - the Joker
jokerresize
200776133232 - Day of the Dead
200776133232
tatshow117 - snakes, ed hardy, aztlan arts studio, back, rattlesnake, old school, upper back
tatshow117
gunshow2 - religious
gunshow2
2009-12-0909.35.34 - avocado,flames,food,sideshow, new school, calf
2009-12-0909.35.34

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Can You Change The Color Of An Existing Tattoo? (56 words)

I just completed a tattoo on my leg.   And I have yellow leaves on my leg.  I want to chnage them to dark green.  Is this possible?  Would the artist have to use blue on top of the yellow to make the green?  Or just apply a dark green?  Or is this not possible at all?

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Toatal Newbie (To The Site) Question... (36 words)

how the fuck do i create my damn profile!? ive been lookin forever and im sure ill feel like dumbass cuz its probly in plain site. can someone help plzzz ;)

thanks to all in advance!

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Inked Girl Of The Day (38 words)

So if you get enough votes to become an Inked Girl Of The Day, you have more of a chance to be in the magazine?  Is that how it works?  Well..that would definatly be cool.  Vote for me

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Artist From The Holeworld (84 words)

ok i was triying to look for different kind of artist and i was so sad when i check that is only northamerican people!!! why's that?? i mean how am i suppose to look for an artist thats is not even in my country?? im just triying to say that u should have more options dont u think?? cause ...

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Fao: Motherwolf (147 words)

Hi everyone,

I'm Steve and I'm from the South East of England. I've had a trible band around my upper arm for about 14 years. I still love the design (I worked on it myself for several years), but unfortunately I didn't research the artist. He did an appaling job and now I feel I've ...

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Question About On Of The Magazine Models (42 words)

She was in a recent issue with symmetrical tigers on her back swinging around her shoulders and had some tribal tattoos on her back, anyone know who I'm talking about? Or what magazine it was from. I'm pretty sure it was Inked.

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Whats The Best Ink On The Market And Why? (9 words)

whats the best ink on the market and why?

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Does Anyone Use These Boards? (10 words)

Is there anybody out there?

 

HI if you are!

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Fyi Huge Mistake In The Newest Inked (430 words)

As much as I love inked magazine, and have been a subscriber since the very first issue, I was (and still am) VERY pissed of with the new issue. My anger is directed towards the INKED SCENE section highlighting BLACK 13 TATTOO PARLOR in Nashville, tennessee.  The article claims that nashville has stayed "comparatively tattoo-free, managing to avoid the ink ...

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The Best Greywork Artist? (193 words)

As you can see from the title I am looking for an artist who specializes in grey/gray work.  I have a feeling that this thread may start a few disagreements but I am willing to take that risk as there is no physical consequence to me....yet.  That being said I should be more specific and say that I ...

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Hype Your Favorite Artists By Entering Their Work! (179 words)

TY KU invites you to “Show Us Your Skin” and win a National Ad Campaign for TY KU, featuring YOU!

TY KU welcomes you to spend some time not only submitting your own image and enjoying the images of other beautiful individuals, but learning more about Asian-inspired tattoos and their wonderful history at http://TryTYKU.com/skin.

In addition to ...

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What The Hells Goin On? (32 words)
so i clicked on recent forum posts from the home page, and it went to some other website message board or something, whats goin on? i thought this was the message board....

Free Photoshoots For Inked. Lets Raise The Bar! (154 words)
I wanted to throw this out there, didn't see a section necessarily to discuss this with people, but I do photography on a pretty regular basis and would love to hook up with some of the people from the Inked community in Southern California LA area for some shoots. I offer my services for free as of now so ......

Just Me, Or Are Some Of The Inked Girls Gross? (155 words)
so i was browsing around the inked girls gallery.. and some of those girls are really gross.. there are tons of girls with really bad tattoos and funky faces and they look like they had their picture taken with a prepaid camera phone in a woodshack behind their house.. i even clicked on one girl who had her pie right ......

Kat Von D Will Be The Next Cameron Diaz (105 words)
so after posting the question about tattooed actors.. it turns out that kat von d really is taking over the world.. she's staring in a movie with vinnie jones! yeah.. seriously.. i heard it from vinnie himself.. he drinks at my local on sundays and i was talking to him about tattoos and his interview in inked when he ......

Would You Ever Get A Tattoo At One Of The Tv Shops (124 words)
so in response to the people who would only get tattoos if kat von d did them. i ask.. would you even get a tattoo at a shop that had a tv show? a co-worker of mine is convinced that if you were to go to kat von d's shop when they weren't filming you would get charged ......

What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen? (78 words)
hey.. so matthew had mentioned the annoyance of people who see your tattoos and want to share the story of theirs.. and usually it's something retarded like an evil clown playing with a yo-yo or something.. it's just kinda a strange thing that happens sometimes.. and the worst part is how you're supposed make a great complimentary ......

Inked Mag Party At The Mansion, Nyc (68 words)
Hey guys, just wanted to give you all a heads up to the party we are having on May 15th at the Mansion here in NYC, right before the NYC Tattoo Convention. Party is actually on my birthday, so that worked out pretty sweet for me. Anyways, free open bar, 10 - 11:30 pm. Details are being ironed out, but ......

Quotes... Who Has Them And What Do They Say? (22 words)
im thinking of getting a couple of quotes from the book of genesis. so i was wondering what you have and why......

What Celeb Has The Best Tattoos?? (18 words)
my vote goes to david beckham, that dude has some serious art rockin that lanky body of his...

Celebrity Tattoos (18 words)
There's a lot of celebs that have some really crappy work who do you think has the best?...

Looking For An Artist (86 words)
Hi, I would like to create a unique tatoo across my whole back that would include the words: Born alone, live alone, die alone. (“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”Orson Welles). I am looking for creatives ......

Alexander Mcqueen (111 words)
Wow, I can't believe he is gone. I was a mega fan of his. I wish I could give my condolences to his family. The fashion world has lost a great man today. It's rare, in my opinion, that designers with the kind of imagination, skill, and vision that McQueen possessed come along. His runway shows were art ......

Can I Get My Ribs Done If My Weight Fluxuates? (80 words)
so.. here's the deal.. i'm 5'9" and my weight fluxuates between 160 and 220 on a constant basis.. i've been that way since i was about 18... now i really want get a giant koi on my ribs.. do you think i need to worry about it shifting in and out of place? i'm at ......

Deploying Soldiers Needs Help (112 words)
Okay, im gearing up for my second tour of Iraq, i have two tattoos made into one on my upper back, I need to get my HDMF which represents my buddies from my first tour. They saved my life when an IED hit me in the head. My wife and i want to get it on my lower abdomen but ......

Anyone..?? (43 words)
OOk, i posted this in the past. Am i the only one this is happening to? When i get on inked i'm already logged in..under someone elses login!! Does anyone know whats going on? And pls don't take us back to moli! XO! ...

Touchy Subject... Tattoo Prices (270 words)
so what the hell, ill open this can of worms... how much is a reasonable hourly rate for a high quality tattoo? i live in new york. upstate new york. here in syracuse, you can get high quality tattoos for anywhere between 100 and 150 an hour. now, when i go into new york city, i know that prices for ......

Figuring Out What To Get And Where To Get It!.. (132 words)
I have just started to think about all the great ideas i have for tattoos and i have been trying to put it all down on paper.. Just wondering does everyone feel the same way i do.. I DONT HAVE ENOUGH SKIN FOR ALL MY IDEAS! If you have some great ideas for a girl's sleeve let me know ......

Ill Be S.F. For My Next Few. Who Should Tattoo Me? (45 words)
so yeah. Im in the bay for the next few months and figured I should collect some tattoos from various greats. So far I hopeto get my ribs done at temple tattoo in Oakland. I'm thinking Jason mcaffee. What do you guys think? Any suggestions?...

Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently (86 words)
Hi all! I just wondered if I could get some opinions. I have 7 small tattoos and have finally decided to get my dream sleeve done (traditional roses and butterflies, nothing distasteful). My mother has told me that this will make people treat my young (5 and 6 month old)daughters differently and in a negative way, like at school ......

Best Use Of Tattoo In A Movie (18 words)
who gets your vote? my vote definitely goes to the veritas aequitas trigger-finger tattoos in the Boondock Saints...

Gas Price's (54 words)
So now that it's insanely expensive to just go for a ride,do you find your living a more active lifestyle? Personally I think it's just forcing us to be more environmentally conscience. Im totally down to do the horse and buggy thing. It would be awesome! Cant get a DUI riding your horse drunk!...

Tattoo Tipping. Let's Talk Hard Numbers. (123 words)
so just wondering if there is an expected percentage? Like 15 percent at a restaurant? I usually go with the most I can afford. But sometimes I take into account other things. For instance. I was gonna have two tattoo done at once and my tattooer said 260. So I gave 100 deposit and after the first tattoo he decided ......

Wtf??? (50 words)
slap me hard and call me confused, but now all of a sudden the forum is back to normal?? prety much abandoned it when it started going straight to moli.com i was NOT gonna mess with that crap. but im pretty stoked that its back to normal! post up people!...

Tha Block Is Hot (29 words)
In the new issue of Inked, The section "tha block is hot" there is a male model named spawn. i was gonna see if anyone knew his real name....

What Do Kids Think Of Your Tattoos? (209 words)
so i was waiting at a bus stop today when i noticed a little girl and her dad talking back and forth and looking over at me.. then i hear the dad say.. "just go over there".. so the little girl runs over.. who looks to be about 7 years old.. and she says.. "i really like your tattoos".. she ......

How Do You "Preserve" Your Tattoo's? (51 words)
in other words is there really a way to keep them fresh other than keeping them out of the sun? any do's or dont's? im not talking about the healing process,just how to maintain them years after. i saw an ad in the inked mag for "Tattoo Goo",does that stuff work?...

Lyric Tattoo's (73 words)
I am going to get "I would go out tonight, but i haven't got a stitch to wear" from This Charming Man by The Smiths tattooed but i was wondering of anyone had any lyric tattoo's that i can have a look at because i need some inspiration for it. If you could send them on through that ......

Knuckle Tattoos.. What Will Yours Say? (80 words)
so.. in another thread we were talking about the fingerstache tattoo and it got me thinking about how i want my knuckles to say JUDO CHOP.. i think it would be hilarious.. ofcourse i'd feel stupid having my knuckles tattooed with having a completely blank left arm.. i'd feel like a poser.. so i don't see myself ......

Instant Sleeve (219 words)
so some of us were talking about the 'instant sleeve' in another thread (the concept of 'instant sleeve' meaning a person has an either blank or minimally tattooed arm and then goes in and gets an entire sleeve in one fell swoop, allowing a person to go from zero to bad-ass in 3.5 seconds (or 3.5 sittings, to ......

Are We Supposed To Be Using Inkednation? (67 words)
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 ......

What Do You Think About Aftercare Methods? (332 words)
so.. in an attempt to get everyone in on this one.. i'm asking.. what's the best method of aftercare.. and what are your views on the aftercare products on the market? my shop wipes you down with a scalding hot towel right after the tattoo and then covers it in saranwrap.. so i leave the wrap on for ......

Students (91 words)
I'm following the trend of trying to get people to speak up. Anybody else here in school? Universities? What are you studying? .. Own up ;) I'm Francine, 19. Student at the University of South Florida. Majoring in Communication Sciences and Disorders, minoring in American Sign Language - working toward Pediatric Audiology and Speech Path. for kids with Cochlear Implants. ..Nobody ......

East Coasters Speak Up (8 words)
So anybody here in the NYC area? NYCPhotog...

How Fast Did You Ink Up? (81 words)
Alright, So I'm just curious to see how quickly people got tattooed after their first. I just turned 19 earlier this month, and I'm going on number seven. My first was two days after my 18th birthday. I had to wait to turn 18 because my parents are 100% clueless that i have any tattoos, hah. I've ......

Is It Possible To Be A Heavily Tattooed Actor? (147 words)
i've lived in los angeles my entire life and i have never been an actor or ever tried to be one.. but would it even be possible with a solid set of sleeves? i know i could be type casted as a young rocker type.. but could i ever get serious rolls? if we look at people like johnny ......

Should Your Tattoos Match? (167 words)
so.. i'm finished with my right sleeve and am about to start working on the left arm.. but here is the main concern.. my right arm all follows the same style for the most part.. every piece is mainly black and grey with small additions of colour.. the only colours being red and yellow.. with the exception of a ......

Deleting Photos (51 words)
For some weird reason when I uploaded some photos, I received an error. Then when I go back to the inked girls gallery, there's more than one of the same picture I posted. Does anyone know how I can delete photos, so there's just one of each, and not multiples? Thanks!...

Party/Social Clubs (12 words)
are there any parties or social clubs just for people with ink?...

Offering A Free Photoshoot For Those "Inked" (116 words)
I wanted to throw this out there, didn't see a section necessarily to discuss this with people, but I do photography on a pretty regular basis and would love to hook up with some of the people from the Inked community in Southern California LA area for some shoots. I offer my services for free as of now so ......

Im Just Curious... (10 words)
How many people on here are located in southern California? ...

Guy Atchison (16 words)
ever seen his work? do you think it will hold together?i want him to tattoo me.......

Tattoo Pet Peeves (11 words)
anybody have them? i hate it when people call them "tats" ...

Phoenix Tattoo (70 words)
hey i just joined so thought i'd write alittle message to say hey and see who's going to the tattoo convention in phoenix this weekend? Im hoping to make it down there, ive only been in the states for a couple of months now...im from England. Its interesting to go to shows and see so many different ......

Arabic Tattoos (Where Can I Find Translations?) (64 words)
Hello fellow tat lovers. I'm looking to get a phrase in arabic on my right shoulder. Perhaps "Through understanding, peace" Or maybe just peace or something from the qu'ran. Just FYI i'm a white american from philly. (haha) Does anyone know any cool sites with this stuff? Does anybody have one of these? Ideas for other stuff ......

Traditional Tattoo Methods (18 words)
Have you, or would u get a tattoo done the traditional way of some cultures around the world??...

An Excellent Script Artist In Austin, Tx (24 words)
Does anyone know of a good script tattooist in the Austin, tx area. I need a large back piece done with script and symbols....

Md Gypsy Queen Meet & Greet (111 words)
If you're in Maryland, on March 15 from 6 to 10, come down to Tattooed Heart Studio in Glen Burnie to meet the Maryland Chapter of the Gypsy Queens. There will be cool ass door prizes, raffles, and tattooing. The Gift Cards are good towards tattoos or piercings. Gift card amounts are: 1) $150, 3) $20, 2) $30, and ......

Are You Dedicated To One Tattooer?? (83 words)
most people who get tattooed often are pretty dedicated to one tattooer. but some consider themselves collectors and get art from a ton of different people. [i have had all my work (except my first 3 tats, which i stupidly had done by the bargain shops in town. hey, i was young) done by the same 2 guys. for years ......

Deciding On A Tattoo. (31 words)
how do you all, decide on a tattoo? randomly look through flash, means something to you?, spur of the moment? how long does it take for you to think about it? ...

Need Advice Upon Getting Sleeves (44 words)
i would love to get sleeves, but i'm just too afraid, because i'm afraid of not being able to get a respected job, like being a teacher or docotr. i was wondering if you could help me out. where do you find the courage?...

Pain Managment (114 words)
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 ......

Anyone Else Concerned?? (95 words)
i'm concerned. had my copy of the NEW inked for about a week now, and the main page on the website hasn't changed to show the new issue! now, maybe i'm overreacting, but this was the first sign that the old inked was going away! IT CANT HAPPEN AGAIN! its pretty much to only mag i read ......

What Sports? (32 words)
what sport are the forum into, just wondering wether its mostly extreme sports nuts or "jocks" (as americans call folk) in the room or if theres a different ilk out there altogether....

Starlight-Vegas (56 words)
Inked will be at Starlight's Grand Opening. The most outrageous tattoo studio in the world and from what we hear there are many more to come. Good Luck to Mario and his crew. If you're planning a store opening or event let Inked know and we'll give you coverage on the web or in the magazine. ...

Starlight (34 words)
Hey Anyone out there headed to the opening of Mario Barth's new place at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. I'm going out and ould like to meet up with some other people. Chill...

One Sick Ass Shop (29 words)
I haven't seen this guy get stumped yet... If you live in the bay area and want some sick ink Alfonso Dominguez can sling it.... the website is g2dptattoos.com ...

Friggen Vote (62 words)
just reminding everyone out there that today is the day of most of the country's party primary vote. GO VOTE IF YOU'RE REGISTERED IN A PARTY! primary votes may be the only votes you ever cast that actually directly affects our federal government. i don't care who you vote for, figure out who you like and GO ......

It's That Time Of Year Again... (36 words)
let the tax season begin! are you getting a tax return or are you just gonna end up getting taxed? i dont claim my son during the year,so let's just say i look forward to filing....

Top Female Tattoo Artists In Nyc? (17 words)
Try to find the top female tattoo artists in NYC? Who are they? What shops? Thanks Yul...

Giants Or Patriots (13 words)
Well I Personally believe The New York Giants Are Gonna Win This SuperBowl........

Bonedeep Tattoo Camarillo Ca (62 words)
If your in the southern cali area and looking for a badass artist go see memo at bone deep tattoos in camarillo ca. This vato has 15 years experience and just finished a badass portait of the marines at iwo jima in wwII on my calf, a contest winning peice for sure. show check him out and tell him Devin ......

Best Flash (63 words)
Anyone have any good flash they can recommend? I want add a couple books to my library for when I'm just sitting around drawing and looking for some inspiration. I saw a really rad religious flash set when I was at a convention not long ago, unfortunately I waited too long and could not find any places online that ......

R.I.P. Heath Ledger (44 words)
cant believe the news, but it is currently being reported that actor Heath Ledger was found dead in NYC this afternoon. besides the fact that he had some really cool personal tattoos, he was an incredible INCREDIBLE actor. amazing talent. he will be missed....

Pain Killers Before A Tattoo... (41 words)
now i have not taken painkillers before a tattoo,but i have had a few friends who just insist on taking them before they get work done. i find that your body naturally produces that for you... any one else encounter this?...

Shops In San Diego... (24 words)
i have a new guy im gonna go to. his name is jake he works on garnet. im still open to any other suggestions....

Tattoo Etiquette (117 words)
we all know there's certain etiquette to follow when getting tattooed. i.e. cleanliness, tipping, etc. but should there be a certain etiquette demanded of the tattooer in the form of pleasant attitude, personality, and demeanor? i'm friends with all my tattooers, so i'm not opining one way or the other, but i'm also a hair ......

Best Shop In Moscow (28 words)
Ever been tattooed in a great shop outside the U.S.? We know there are hot spots in Japan and the UK. What about South America? Moscow? South Africa?...

Musink Tattoo & Music Festival, Feb 22-24 (53 words)
200 of the best tattooers from around the world including Kat Von D and the entire LA Ink crew. Plus, music from The Used, Tiger Army, Throw Rag and Metal Skool. Feb 22-24 at the Orange County Fair and Exposition Center 88 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. For more information, visit musink.org. ...

Ugg Can Show Your Personality Which Also Let You B (340 words)
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Casting For Spike Tv Show (294 words)

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Profiling And Showcasing Artists (59 words)

Hey gang!! Joey Voodoo wants to know who your favorite tattoo artists/shops are? We want to know who is out there creating amazing art and who deserves more exposure. At Joey Voodoo we showcase musicians and artists who are not swayed by society and are breaking down barriers! So tell us who deserves an interview?

info@joeyvoodoo.com

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Fine At Show At Hope Gallery Tattoo (118 words)

Event: "Shedding Skin" Opening Reception for Jeff Gogue and Tom Strom Fine Art Show
Tattoo artists and fine painters Jeff Gogue and Tom Strom will be presenting a line of completely new works at Hope Gallery. Both artists will be on hand during the opening reception. Food and Drinks will be served. 
Date: Saturday, September 11, 7-10PM
Location: Hope Gallery ...

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Women's Tattoo Forum 2nd Annual Art Show (179 words)

It is my great pleasure to announce the second annual Women's Tattoo Forum Art Show. This year is a special show for the founder of the Women's Tattoo Forum, Gypsy Jill. Please come and enjoy the beautiful artwork of the women tattoo artists of the Pacific Northwest.

Hosted By,

Gypsy Jill & Christy Brooker

Opening reception

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Biggest Tattoo Show (13 words)

Wonder who plans on coming?

I will be there...Comeby and say hi!

http://www.tattooexpo09.com/guest.php?id=388

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Audrey Kawasaki Solo Show, Santa Monica, Ca (112 words)
Alright boys and girls, whos gonna go or is anyone interested in going to an art show with me and some friends? The artist is Audrey Kawasaki and her art is amazing! Los Angeles-based painter and erotic artist, known for her distinctive, erotically charged portrayals of young, adolescent girls. Her works are oil paintings painted directly onto wood panels, and ......

Atl Artshow: Feb.29 @ City Of Ink (2 words)
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Bold Will Hold (Toronto) (128 words)
The BOLD WILL HOLD art show is a celebration of the traditional tattoo. 
As they did last year, tattoo artists from across Canada will be submitting
art for us to auction to the highest bidder. The proceeds will be donated to
Art City St. James–Town, a charity that provides free and accessible art
programs to underprivileged children in an ...
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Forum Replies (396)

Reply to 'Hello ' (63 words)
um. . . what? I think you mean that you're a photographer wanting to be published in Inked? I really don't know how to go about that. Maybe email the contact us link with samples of your work and a resume? I'm not really sure who exactly you would have to contact, but maybe they could help point you ......

Reply to 'Anyone..??' (25 words)
Haha thx guys i'm glad i'm not the only one thats prefers not to go back there! And hopefully the loggin thing gets fixed! Thx,XO! ...

Reply to 'Touchy Subject... Tattoo Prices' (128 words)
yeah, i like per-tat prices too, always works out cheaper!! but hey, in the case of wanting a particular tat by someone who has coined an amazing personal style, i cant blame you. tim hendricks does amazing work, and nobody does it like him. hell, id love to be tattooed by him. but definitely not at miami ink. anyway, if ......

Reply to 'Anyone..??' (75 words)
As a precaution for anyone who wishes to do so, you can choose to manually hit the "Logout" link before closing your browser session to ensure that: 1) Someone else does not end up logged in as you, and 2) You don't end up logged on as another. I'm am currently reviewing several methodologies which could be applied ......

Reply to 'Anyone..??' (45 words)
I also would like to endorse the motion for not taking back moli. Not only was the site non-functioning. It would not even allow me to delete my profile. It really is rubbish. I'd suggest we make this forum functional. That really would be ideal. ...

Reply to 'Touchy Subject... Tattoo Prices' (93 words)
Bad attitude?..nah i wouldn't say that. I completeley agree with you. Its just that tattoos have become so common now that there are actual idiots that will pay out the #*% too get a tat. I actually have 2 guys that tattoo me now and there both amazing, but one charges by the hour and the other one by ......

Reply to 'Touchy Subject... Tattoo Prices' (93 words)
well from my personal exp, i have paid 200 hr and been very happy with the work. BUT at the same time i have to say, when i had bigger pieces done, like my right thigh or left half sleeve we worked out a price in advance,My leg piece we worked out 500 to do it and it took ......

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (91 words)
I am tattooed head to toe and when my youngest son was bused to a "integrated school" there were problems. him being a bit shorter and red hair he got picked on a lot, he is not afraid to fight back but when you have 6 or 7 against one it becomes difficult. During middle school and high school I ......

Reply to 'What Do Kids Think Of Your Tattoos?' (38 words)
Prowel, I think they go through from 7 to 9 layers of skin, Nine being the ass that thinks he has to drill the ink in. I may be wrong, but I don,t think so. Hope this helps....

Reply to 'What Do Kids Think Of Your Tattoos?' (63 words)
Kids love them, it's the parents that are the problem, Some are OK but there are those that the second the kid says something about the ink they are grabbed by the arm and hauled off. It doesn't happen that often today because tats are more popular but in the 50's, thru most of the 90's ......

Reply to 'Touchy Subject... Tattoo Prices' (118 words)
Man I agree with you about 98%. If the artist you are going to now does good work at reasonable prices why go to someone else? Even you say that a good artist is that way whether he charges $150hr. or $250+ an hour. People get so hung up on the "Celebrity Artist" that they pay outrages prices to get ......

Reply to ' L.A. ' (28 words)
oh and another thing. Stay the hell away from Venice beach. I can't name one decent tattooer on the whole place. And those prices are way overboard anyway. ...

Reply to ' L.A. ' (63 words)
I never really figured true to have celebrity status. But there are also tons more shops. Spotlight tattoo on melrose is great too. Juan puente tattoos there and some other greats. As far as high voltage goes. There are other tattooers that work there too that are not featured on any shows. Perhaps their prices are more friendly. Couldnt say ......

Reply to 'Touchy Subject... Tattoo Prices' (108 words)
yeah. I'm having the delema right now. I got really good prices on my tattoos from the dude who has done 5 of the 7 I have. He I'd great and I feel really comfortable with him. But now I want to collect a few others from tattooers I really like however, the prices are gonna go up ......

Reply to 'Touchy Subject... Tattoo Prices' (93 words)
hey just wanted to clear something up before anyone misunderstood me... when i referred to no-name hidden gem local tattooers, i was referring to local tattoo shops. not the dude that tattoos out of his apartment that your friend got her butterfly on her lower back from. i basically mean that in any given city there will be a hidden ......

Reply to ' L.A. ' (150 words)
yeah true is def the place to go. though im sure there are many great tattoo shops with less of a celebrity status, true's reputation is thru the roof. just dont go to high voltage. though they do great work, the prices are INSANE. im not a price shopper when it comes to tattoos, but i also dont appreciate ......

Reply to 'Ill Be S.F. For My Next Few. Who Should Tattoo Me?' (88 words)
Rock star tattooist are cool and all but don't over look us working class artist. A lot of us are just as good as the more well known artist. We are usally not as booked up and have time to make your tattoo just as you like. Check out my portfolio at smshifflett.com. Also why isn't my ......

Reply to ' L.A. ' (29 words)
Yo. I'm an l.a. boy and I get all my tattoos at true tattoo in hollywood. The place is owned by clay decker and some amazing artist work there...

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (171 words)
Getting inked is more common and normal in States then here in Europe.Speacially attidude wise.People seem relate to tattoos differently in States more open mindedly then here in Europe. Here you still seem to get that stamp of being "criminal". My personal opinion is that I hope that tattooes would get even more common so the "stamp" of ......

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (177 words)
OK i see most ppl responded long before now, but i have to voice my opinion. I have 2 half sleeves and a half leg from knee up. Im my entire life i never cared what others thought UNTIL i had my son, and i was very concerned with his being harrased because not only do i have so many ......

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (280 words)
I am a mother of a 9 year old and I have 12 tattoos that are pretty large. My daughter is in elementary school and not only that but she is in the same school with the same teachers that I had 20 years ago, so not only is it akward for me but they always look at me like ......

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (107 words)
Hello, I live in what is typically described as a very conservative community. I have visible tattoos on both arms, and have never had any problem with my daughters being treated differently from other children, and I have never encountered anything but respectful treatment from faculty and staff (I do happen to think that we have access to the best ......

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (109 words)
Hi, ok well your always going to be judged by somebody. Whether its the kind of car u drive, the way u do your hair, if your too fat or too skinny. Unfortunately thats just how it is. IhI have a soon to be 2 yr old and a soon to be 13 yr old that gos to catholic school ......

Reply to 'Ill Be S.F. For My Next Few. Who Should Tattoo Me?' (69 words)
Temple is one of the best in the Bay... also check out Holly Ellis at Idles Hands Tattoo in SF, and State of Grace in San Jose. Both have significant wait lists, but if you can get in you will not be sorry. Also, any of the guys at Tattoo City in San Francisco. This is where Ed Hardy did ......

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (229 words)
Hello! I couldn't help but reply to your post.. I am still young and i plan on having children. I also plan on having alot more tattoos.. I grew up being raised by a father who had sleeves and tattoos everywhere you couldnt hide them. My father is a very nice looking man and i never noticed anyone that ......

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (55 words)
I can't thank you enough for taking the time to let me know your experiences and thoughts. I appreciate it greatly.I'm glad to hear your experiences have been positive and I bet your sons will grow up thinking you look pretty cool. Thank you for your view on it all, I really do appreciate it! ...

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (126 words)
Hi there just a quick reply to your post i have two young sons and i'am pretty covered in ink i have two full sleeves and neck tatts. My two sons have no problems at school in fact i've had parents come and talk to me about my tattoos and where i've had them done a few ......

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (104 words)
Wow, are you spot on or what! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with me. I think you definately hit the nail on the head. I really appreciate your words. That's something that has always bothered me, I'm a shy, well mannered person and I constantly get commented on how amazing my 5yr olds manners are ......

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (85 words)
I see your moms point and it is a valid concern. However. I think its your responsibility to make sure that tattooed people are viewed in a high regard. So set a fine example by being a well spoken adult and an amazing parent... Youll be making all the other tattooed people look and changing the way tattooed people are ......

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (85 words)
I see your moms point and it is a valid concern. However. I think its your responsibility to make sure that tattooed people are viewed in a high regard. So set a fine example by being a well spoken adult and an amazing parent... Youll be making all the other tattooed people look and changing the way tattooed people are ......

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (29 words)
Thank you. I REALLY appreciate you taking the time to let me know your opinion. I totally agree with you. It definately helped to hear somone elses thoughts. Thanks ...

Reply to 'Kids With Tattooed Parents Treated Differently' (92 words)
Hello honestly i think if you want something bad enough who cares what other people think however i was tough never judge a book by its cover. also dose your mom have tattoos and if so maybe you should ask her if you where judge because of her tattoos. If You love getting inked Go For It.I mean they ......

Reply to 'Best Use Of Tattoo In A Movie' (21 words)
oh. I'd kill for a reeses peanut butter cup right now. You know. That white rabbit was sexy in the matrix. ...

Reply to 'Best Use Of Tattoo In A Movie' (15 words)
I dunno about best use. But val Kilmer looked pretty cool in the salton sea....

Reply to 'Best Use Of Tattoo In A Movie' (23 words)
Veritas is truth and Aequitas is justice. I love that tattoo, but my vote would be the tattoos on Guy Pearce in Momento....

Reply to 'Gas Price's' (102 words)
that texas law is true, and they also have 24 hour drive thru liquor stores. man, if that isnt service. although i dont think ive ever been that desparate for my tanqueray. but, funny story, there is this company making motorized scooter coolers. yup, its just a cooler you sit on that has wheels and handlebars and a small motor ......

Reply to 'Gas Price's' (30 words)
ridiculous isn't it? I heard in Texas you can have an open container as long as the driver isn't drinking. And in Germany you can drink in any public place. ...

Reply to 'Gas Price's' (15 words)
yup depending on the state you could. at very least animal endangerment. *sigh* oh well... ...

Reply to 'Tattoo Tipping. Let's Talk Hard Numbers. ' (170 words)
1) i hate you because you have an iphone and im chiseling away with a stone and hammer (otherwise known as a blackberry) 2) i like to be a good tipper in every aspect of life, from restaurants to tattoos to hairstyling (i am a hairstylist, and people i gotta tell ya, anything under 20-30% is pretty much insulting) so ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Removal:Yr Ex's Name' (27 words)
holy crap! this is PROWL and i just posted that^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ but it logged the post under some other girl!!! how the hell did that happen?! ahh! moderator!...

Reply to 'Tattoo Removal:Yr Ex's Name' (75 words)
buahahahaha!!!!! that's awesome! see that's what im saying, even though my ex really put through the ringer i figure it would actually be good to get a tattoo to signify the relationship. instead of keeping it all bottled up i can just look at my tattoo and smile knowing that im past that part of my life. but ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Removal:Yr Ex's Name' (69 words)
yeah. She was probably the most nuerotic phycho whore I'll ever know. But my god she was fun to be around. When she wasn't blowing up and causing huge scenes in public, she was jumping into oceans fully clothed and having sex with me in dressing rooms. Hell. I'm half tempted to go get her name tattooed ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Tipping. Let's Talk Hard Numbers. ' (22 words)
hey. I just realized how jacked up my post was. I typed it on my iPhone. So apologies for the funky format...

Reply to 'What Do Kids Think Of Your Tattoos?' (29 words)
I think it depends on the tattooer. I'm probably wrong. But I've heard of people getting road rash and their tattoos growing back. But I've also heard some don't ...

Reply to 'What Do Kids Think Of Your Tattoos?' (21 words)
yeah no body scrubs for tattoo's either. just out of curiosity does anyone know how deep the ink actually goes in?...

Reply to 'Tattoo Removal:Yr Ex's Name' (10 words)
Oops! I meant to say learning from the bad times....

Reply to 'Tattoo Removal:Yr Ex's Name' (38 words)
that's awesome that you able to hold on to some of the good times that you two shared. that's what helps us grow as humans,moving on from the past,learning from the past,and holding on to the good times. ...

Reply to 'What Do Kids Think Of Your Tattoos?' (23 words)
hahaha.... That's awesome! I've noticed I don't scrub as hard on my tattoos. I still have that fear that they might come off...

Reply to 'Tattoo Removal:Yr Ex's Name' (86 words)
I really think that I would keep any relationship tattoos that didn't work out. There's no point in trying to forget the good times just cause there were some bad. I once had a girlfriend lock me out of our apartment and donate everything I owned to the salvation army. Yet I still have some photos of us ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Removal:Yr Ex's Name' (169 words)
yeah it's definitely a controversial subject. in all the information that i have read,they seem to say the same thing,"memories are what make us human,so what happens when you take that away?" currently the drug is being used on soldiers,trauma victims and people that work in that kinda field like paramedics. i found it all ......

Reply to 'What Do Kids Think Of Your Tattoos?' (152 words)
so i was camping with my wife and some friends and their kids, and one of their sons who was about 4 was kinda interested in me cause i like to do things like make fire and burn stuff and break stuff and all kindsa crap when im camping and he was feelin his inner pyro so we were hanging ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Removal:Yr Ex's Name' (104 words)
im good at forgetting past relationships, so not a big deal to me. as far as removing tattoos, i have a bunch of tattoos for my wife, i dont really think about removing them cause breaking up really isnt an option we entertain, ever. glad i didnt get any ink for relationships until after i got married though. i know ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Removal:Yr Ex's Name' (18 words)
I always found the best way to forget love turned sour is Jack Daniels & Coney Island Lager....

Reply to 'Tattoo Removal:Yr Ex's Name' (129 words)
yes exactly! infact they tend to refer to that movie in most of the articles that i have read. i found the whole process to be quite intriguing. im sure at this rate it wont be long before we able to do such a thing. i just figure if your gonna go as far as to have they're name ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Removal:Yr Ex's Name' (25 words)
Sounds like a Philip K. Dick novel. Or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind actually. Which is pretty much like a Philip K. Dick novel....

Reply to 'Wtf???' (68 words)
oh shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's back up!!!!!!!!! fcuk yeah!!!!!!! moli was a nice thought and i did finally figure how to somewhat use it,but nobody and i mean NOBODY was posting. so either tons of people didnt like the site so they chose not to use it or whatever people that were on there just couldnt really contribute to the ......

Reply to 'Wtf???' (18 words)
dude. It is back. dope! I was really not feeling the moli.com business. so glad the forums back. ...

Reply to 'Arabic Tattoos (Where Can I Find Translations?)' (23 words)
Hey man, thanks alot! I will check out these sites.....and yeah, i figured i would have to get a whole verse done....thanks alot!...

Reply to 'What Do Kids Think Of Your Tattoos?' (92 words)
In general I find kids really like tattoos, it's the parents who sometimes are less than cool about them. I think it is really great that the little girls father encouraged her to talk to you and ask questions. My Pentecostal cousin saw my first one when she was about 9 and she told me how cool it was ......

Reply to 'Lyric Tattoo's' (56 words)
I'm going to get them on my chest, on the left hand side. 1 line underneath another like - 'I would go out tonight but, i haven't got a stitch to wear' I need to check out my artist's lettering 1st though and see what he can do because i've been designing it myself as well. ...

Reply to 'What The Hells Goin On?' (56 words)
was it moli.com? i got an email saying i should start posting over there.. but to be honest.. i don't care for the user interface.. it's too myspaceish.. which is not really for me.. i dig myspace.. but i'm not about to sign up for every other social networking site out there. it just gets overwhelming.....

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (40 words)
a spicy tuna roll would be kick ass. I heard about a lesbian who had "Fuck Men" tattooed on her neck. She later wanted to have it covered up (I wonder why), but the lettering was really dark and heavy. ...

Reply to 'Kat Von D Will Be The Next Cameron Diaz' (40 words)
yeah.. my tattooer worked there and he said it was dope and they had some good music.. i wanted to go.. but didn't have the money to drop on a tattoo at the time.. so i passed till next year....

Reply to 'Lyric Tattoo's' (28 words)
i was thinking about putting them around my elbow.. like how people do spider webs.. i dunno.. don't even think i'll ever get lyrics.. but if i did....

Reply to 'Would You Ever Get A Tattoo At One Of The Tv Shops' (204 words)
well.. i watch all the shows just cause it involves tattooing.. miami got stupid cause it's all about staging stuff now.. like nunez gets a speeding ticket every morning.. so amy buys him a day at the race track.. it's just moronic.. and la ink makes kat von d look like such a bitch.. she treated pixie like ......

Reply to 'How Do You "Preserve" Your Tattoo's?' (33 words)
thanks! yeah i definitely didnt use any type of oil during the healing process but i do use it now. i actually prefer an organic oil instead of lotion as far mositurizing goes......

Reply to 'What The Hells Goin On?' (6 words)
maybe it's the aliens... hee hee!...

Reply to 'Free Photoshoots For Inked. Lets Raise The Bar!' (34 words)
That is a great idea. I would like to offer to do the same for inked people in the KC area. If there is anyone out there who is interested email me at sarah.crowe@gmail.com ...

Reply to 'Just Me, Or Are Some Of The Inked Girls Gross?' (48 words)
Just do like I do. I give the girls who show off their tattoos and look classy high scores. If I girl is showing to much and looks like a skank they get a 1. Maybe if enough people did this it would raise the standards a bit. ...

Reply to 'How Do You "Preserve" Your Tattoo's?' (100 words)
in response to the sinblock lubriderm feeling greasy-- no it doesnt, it actually feels just like lotion that happens to have sunblock qualities to it. love it in response to using 'soy oil' on a healed tattoo-- no problem. all i was referring to there is the practice of smearing pure vitamin e oil over a brand new tattoo instead ......

Reply to 'Would You Ever Get A Tattoo At One Of The Tv Shops' (157 words)
man that was one of the series-highlights to me! some deuche bag wanting an armband, and getting shot down! i love it! darren is the man for that. but anyways, no, i would never EVER get tattooed at one of the tv shops. except London Ink, louis malloy is SICK and doesnt seem to be swept up in the whole ......

Reply to 'Just Me, Or Are Some Of The Inked Girls Gross?' (44 words)
yeah i havent looked at the inked girls gallery since the first week it was up, gross chicks in there (although there are MANY gorgeous girls in there too, so its not completely useless). they should def hire u to keep it under control!...

Reply to 'Vote 4 Me For Inked Girl :)' (26 words)
ok.. i checked out the photos.. there is one monkey shot.. but it's not horribly distasteful.. i guess i can go give you a few stars. ...

Reply to 'Free Photoshoots For Inked. Lets Raise The Bar!' (36 words)
i'd be down to do this.. sounds like fun.. here's the catch.. i'm a chef who loves beer.. so my rockhard abs are hidden under a very thick protective layer of fat.. do i still apply?...

Reply to 'Just Me, Or Are Some Of The Inked Girls Gross?' (34 words)
well.. to be fair.. i kinda have latinafever.. just about every latina i see is cute to me. makes me want to move out of santa monica and into the heart of east los....

Reply to 'Knuckle Tattoos.. What Will Yours Say?' (36 words)
oh hey.. what if i got the insides of my fingers to say.. high five! on just my right hand.. i could have the high on top and the five on the bottom.. what you think?...

Reply to 'How Do You "Preserve" Your Tattoo's?' (56 words)
so i've been using the lubriderm regular that i used to heal it with.. but i would be down to try the sunblock one.. as long as i don't end up with some greasy feeling.. i'm also going to try and hookup the burt's bees.. i'll let you guys know what happens and what i ......

Reply to 'Would You Ever Get A Tattoo At One Of The Tv Shops' (89 words)
i love when you see people getting trendy tattoos on tv.. like on miami ink this dude was getting a needle to symbolize his diabetes with a kanji that said strength behind it.. and he kept insisting that it be made into a band that went around his arm.. it was darren brass who did it.. and he was like ......

Reply to 'Just Me, Or Are Some Of The Inked Girls Gross?' (52 words)
well.. i've noticed that there are people out there with "inkedfever".. where they think that any girl with tattoos is hot.. it's ridiculous.. my friend has it and he will see some nasty girl with tons of tattoos and all of a sudden she is "so hot".. oh.. it grosses me out....

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (27 words)
a: i would hate to sit in front of a computer also, almost as much as this. b: get the tattoos touched up! c: nap time! yeah...

Reply to 'Just Me, Or Are Some Of The Inked Girls Gross?' (52 words)
very good point. maybe the ugly ones get tattoos as a distraction "hey if i get insane amounts of tattoos maybe they wont notice my walrus like features". and the good looking girls with no tattoos are probably looking for more attention, cause god knows they need it. thats just my theory. ...

Reply to 'Just Me, Or Are Some Of The Inked Girls Gross?' (33 words)
Well....i would guess that everyone has their own standard's....i would hope that there are "specific standards" that justifies who makes the grade so to speak....(filtering out the nasty stuff would be nice thou....LOL...

Reply to 'Just Me, Or Are Some Of The Inked Girls Gross?' (57 words)
Sad Sad Sad, There are a lot beautiful women but no tats,or one little tat you can barley see. I thought tats were the reason for voting in the gallery. Then the ugly ones, bad posing, really crappy tats. I would be ashamed to even show myself on the street let alone in a great mag. Tattooedcowboy...

Reply to 'Would You Ever Get A Tattoo At One Of The Tv Shops' (73 words)
Nah..the tv shows are so damn trendy, this is part of the reason why some people also go and get tatted back in one day, because of these stupid shows, yes i've watched LA ink, but i got sick of it fast. There are so many other talented artist out there that arn't on tv that are ......

Reply to 'Just Me, Or Are Some Of The Inked Girls Gross?' (60 words)
Haha.!! I was thinking that exact same thing!..I don't know about anyone else but i sure don't want to see some used up snatch, sorry..people. I so apprecite the beautiful girls that can have ink and still look sexy and classy. I mean any girl can have ink, but to still look classy is a whole ......

Reply to 'Would You Ever Get A Tattoo At One Of The Tv Shops' (52 words)
i'm kinda the same way.. there are some tattooers out there that have cool work and i would love to get a tattoo by them... but at the same time.. i really like my tattooer and i figure why go somewhere else if he can do just as good of a job....

Reply to 'How Do You "Preserve" Your Tattoo's?' (40 words)
Hey..i stay away from anything with oil, just cuz. I have had my tats for a while and there still looking pretty healthy!. Lubriderm with sunblock or sunblock everyday. Thats what I do, but than again thats me. Thx ;)...

Reply to 'Would You Ever Get A Tattoo At One Of The Tv Shops' (129 words)
update.. i've done a little bit of research and checking around.. now.. i won't name names because i don't want people thinking that i'm setting prices for people i don't even know.. but a few of the miami ink tattooer's have faqs on their websites that state their prices as $350 and hour with ......

Reply to 'Would You Ever Get A Tattoo At One Of The Tv Shops' (83 words)
so the shop minimum was $200? i get tattooed at true tattoo in hollywood and i think the shopp minimum is $80. this is the shop where both kat von d and chris garver worked before miami ink.. and on a side note... i watched a youtube video of kat von d doing a dog's portrait on some dude ......

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (84 words)
yeah.. i would have the get the chef kanji on my neck if i did ever get it.. just to show my devotion to the fish... which reminds me.. i could get a forearm tattoo of a spicy tuna roll surrounded by water.. it would look as if it were meant to be a koi.. but ended up a roll ......

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (55 words)
exactly.. i have a portrait tattoo done by a real dude from a real shop and it looks amazing.. kat von d never came near it.. but everyone tells me it is the best portrait tattoo they have ever seen.. and you know what.. it only ran me 350 bones.. plus snacks, scotch, and tip....

Reply to 'How Do You "Preserve" Your Tattoo's?' (38 words)
so.. people don't really know this about me.. but i'm kinda a hippy sometimes.. in the fact that i prefer thinks to be all natural.. does anyone have any experience with sunblock from burt's bees or anything similar?...

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (164 words)
hahaha! no they're not dandelions, that would be sissy. reminds me, once almost got the kanji for 'hot sauce' tattooed on me due to a dare (any of my friends can tell u how much i LOOOOVE hot sauce) but i kinda figured nobody i know knows how to read it, so anyone who saw it in passing wouldnt ......

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (81 words)
point proven. people are stupid! (dont get me wrong, Kat von D is a GREAT tattooer, so are all those guys on tv, but no better than your other great tattooers. theres guys in my town that im pretty sure could blow those tv guys out of the water. [well, except Garver, that dudes somethin else.] point being, they're ......

Reply to 'Lyric Tattoo's' (7 words)
also.. where would you get the lyrics?...

Reply to 'How Do You "Preserve" Your Tattoo's?' (64 words)
so i just clicked on teqdarlin's profile.. this girl is cute.. anyway.. i like the crayon idea.. i'll have to get one of those.. i just want to find a sunblock that doesn't make me feel like i'm wearing a rubber suit.. i used coppertone at the beach once and i felt like my skin couldn ......

Reply to 'How Do You "Preserve" Your Tattoo's?' (55 words)
Hey..its not dumb, sunblock is the key. I always put it on every day i go outside, sun or no sun. My colored tattoos are still pretty bright! U know what i found is really great, i use my daughters waterbabies sunblock stick u just glide it on like a crayon, very convenient! thx ;)...

Reply to 'How Do You "Preserve" Your Tattoo's?' (109 words)
every tattooer i know is anti tattoo goo.. but from what i understand.. the best way is just to keep it out of the sun and use sunblock.. not to sound weird or anything.. but i have a friend who slathers his whole face in spf50 sunblock everyday and he has the face of a 13 year old.. the sun ......

Reply to 'John Mayer's New Sleeve' (25 words)
feel free.. i come up with off the wall stuff like that all the time.. that's what happens when you're on the edge of insanity....

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (89 words)
well.. are they dandelions or something? cause that's kinda sissy.. i have some roses on the bottom of my mary tattoo.. it just ends the piece and gives my sleeve a solid break.. as far as kanji goes.. if i ever get a chance to become a sushi chef.. i'm getting the kanji for chef.. that would be ......

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (35 words)
correction.. he said he would only let kat von d do it and no one else.. he wanted it done by the best.. i didn't explain to him that japanese work probably isn't her specialty...

Reply to 'John Mayer's New Sleeve' (29 words)
ok, thats pretty much the best answer ive ever heard! i hope u dont mind, im rippin that off and gettin about a million miles outta that one! hahahahahaha!...

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (90 words)
hey an old school mom heart is NEVER gonna b a fad. its been around for 100 years now, so wear it proudly! tribal, AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL. armbands, AWFUL. and im really sorry, i know people like them, but i gotta lump kanji tattoos into that AWFUL category too! its hard, cause my best friend has 3 of them, but ......

Reply to 'Lyric Tattoo's' (25 words)
thought about gettin a lyric from a Thrice song, "im starting to believe the oceans much like you. because it gives and it takes away"...

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (41 words)
yeah.. i think tribal is kinda lame.. but there are tattooers who have paid for their houses by doing tribal work.. from what i understand.. if you were into punk rock in the 80's.. tribal was going to happen to you....

Reply to 'Lyric Tattoo's' (29 words)
hey.. so does anyone watch the ink shows? i saw on la ink where a dude got an entire page of script on his hip.. it was kinda odd.....

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (44 words)
i should have asked her if she had got them all done at once.. i doubt it.. i would think you would go and get one every couple weeks or something. kinda a pain in the ass to heal all that. wouldn't you think?...

Reply to 'Knuckle Tattoos.. What Will Yours Say?' (29 words)
Ok, well i'm not really into knuckles on me either, but i guess if i was to do it. It would either br the word Loyal on 1 hand ...

Reply to 'Lyric Tattoo's' (14 words)
Drama Rama "Anything" I should just get the whole fucking song tatt'ed on me....

Reply to 'Lyric Tattoo's' (29 words)
fuck yeah!! i love the smiths. if i would to get one it would be "there is a light that never goes out" can't wait to see it result. ...

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (89 words)
i wonder what goes through someone like thats mind, do they wake up and say " i think i am going to get my arms covered in tattoos today, right after brunch." then they go home to mummsies and dad and say " hey guys would ya like to see how productive my day was" ill tell ya what it is, that ......

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (45 words)
yeah but the mom one is classic. its not something you look at and say "oh god not another one of those" i see tribal and cringe. i have only done one tribal and i hated every second of doing it. its boring and teidious...

Reply to 'Need Advice Upon Getting Sleeves' (68 words)
this got me thinking.. i watched a documentary on the hell's angels and they were saying how their members are everywhere they are ceo's and on wallstreet and bigtime lawyers and whatnot and you'd never know till you see a devil tail peeking out of a shirt collar or something to that effect.. so basically just be ......

Reply to 'Knuckle Tattoos.. What Will Yours Say?' (15 words)
you should get the word sandwich.. that way you could feed people a knuckle sandwich....

Reply to 'Need Advice Upon Getting Sleeves' (27 words)
Your profession shouldnt really matter. The tattoos can be covered up easily with long sleeves. A friend is CEO of a bank and you wouldnt know it...

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (26 words)
im brain deas also, most likely from injesting too much sand and heat, and lack of sleep, but brain dead none-the-less on that note im out....

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (107 words)
i think it should be a lower process. situation dictates i guess. ie a certain branch of the military outlawed sleeves after a certain date, well in order to get grandfathered in i know of several people who walked into tattoo shops, threw down a couple g's and said go to town. what im getting at is these people ......

Reply to 'Knuckle Tattoos.. What Will Yours Say?' (25 words)
i would definitely have to go with something comical. i just have to figure out what. any ideas to help kick start the ol wheels?...

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (32 words)
i agree it definitely is starting to lean twards the "fad" area of things. hopefully its not the next nautical star. or worse, barbwire arm bands (cue dramatic bum bum bum sound)...

Reply to 'Knuckle Tattoos.. What Will Yours Say?' (37 words)
eh, i wouldnt. just wouldnt look right on me. the only thing i can think of is "RUDE GIRL" and i cant even begin to tell how chic's have that so i probably wont be gettin it....

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (32 words)
hey im usually here! im just a little brain dead from doing computer work all day so i sometimes cant find the words to type. be i read all the posts. :)...

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (24 words)
o its coverable. and going to get covered. i wanna do my stomach rocker and chest first though, then ill get to my leg...

Reply to 'Knuckle Tattoos.. What Will Yours Say?' (125 words)
my wedding ring is actually a tattoo on my left ring finger knuckle, so i guess theres no 8 letter combinations for this guy. i once thought about getting GODSPEED on my knuckles, but then quickly realized that one of my hands would say GODS and the other would say PEED. i dont need that kind of stress in my ......

Reply to 'John Mayer's New Sleeve' (36 words)
chances are if he's living in a cave and is an old wise man.. he has a stash of cash somewhere.. so talk him into a trim on that beard and charge him up the ass....

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (18 words)
they are funny.. but i'm wondering if it's really that funny.. i mean.. it is kinda a fad.....

Reply to 'John Mayer's New Sleeve' (73 words)
yeah i guess lifes just a bunch of copromises aint it. o well. got great tattoos, hot wife, career i love, just not enough money yet. dammit. wheres the balance between doing what you love and just not quite making enough money at it yet? guess ill have to climb that mountain and ask that wise man with the long ......

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (29 words)
o yeah fingerstache is the best! my buddy n i do it all the time with sharpies. no chance ur not gonna laugh at a fingerstache, its the best...

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (107 words)
no i dont have pics or a website, sorry! ill try to put some pics up on my myspace or somethin, i only have one pic of myself on it now but of course, all u can see is the top of my 'clean' arm lol! my wife has a pic or 2 up on her page, but they're ......

Reply to 'Traditional Tattoo Methods' (67 words)
if my traditional methods you mean the hand poked method of horimono.. i would definately consider doing something like that.. but i really have no tattoo ideas that would be relevant to that type of tattooing.. i definitely wouldn't get a hand poked tattoo of a day of the dead skull or something like that.. so i can't ......

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (25 words)
oh.. and hey.. matthew, do you have a website.. i'm wanting to check out your tattoos.. how many do you have? do you keep track?...

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (47 words)
that book looks awesome.. i'm gonna have to check it out.. i've been thinking of getting a few joke tattoos lately.. like the teardrop on the inside of your index finger.. so you can do the boo hoo impersonation.. or the fingerstache.. that would be funny too....

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (144 words)
on one of the episodes of la ink a girl comes in and gets an entire sleeve that comes out perfect.. it was a memorial to her best friend who had passed away.. the girl ended up gettign her friend as a mermaid and all kinds of background stuff that really applied to her.. she got some seagulls at the ......

Reply to 'What Do You Think About Aftercare Methods?' (36 words)
oh by the way,afterwards i drank a big cup of hot green tea and smoked a phat bowl. i felt really out of it. haha! i guess thats how yr suppose to feel when you smoke!...

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (76 words)
im all for thinking it through,slowly but surely. too many life experiences at such a young age,gotta sift through the muck and see which story to draw out. basically im set on getting my back "sleeved up". does that make sense? i want to connect the current tattoo on my lower left side and have it go up ......

Reply to 'John Mayer's New Sleeve' (112 words)
oh.. well.. i guess if he copied it then that's not too bad.. it just seriously looked like a U to me.. but whatever.. i kinda feel bad for him though.. cause his "instant sleeve" was fucked up by pre existing tattoos.. he'd have a way nicer effect if he didn't have those other shitty tattoos.. poor ......

Reply to 'What Do You Think About Aftercare Methods?' (77 words)
i dunno dude.. i imagine there are some pretty good artist in the joint.. you know they got the time to practice.. also.. on a side note.. i was watching a documentary on prison tattoos and this one dude was saying that he will charge up to $200 for a back piece.. he made it sound like he was high ......

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (57 words)
haha.. that sucks.. why would you want dog on the back of your neck? did you read the kim saigh article where she says she saw a guy get "bad ass" on the back of one arm and "white boy" on the back of the other.. and when he was wearing a t-shirt is said "ass boy"...

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (205 words)
i think you can do instant sleeve if you want.. the majority of the time you end up wasting a lot of good space though.. so it's better if you can think everything though... this reminds me of a time i drunkingly almost got into a fight with my roommate.. he was talking nonsense as usual and i was ......

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (91 words)
so yeah, one of the worst i ever saw... a friend of a friend came running up to me one day yelling 'mat mat look i got a tattoo!' she got a halo and the acronym for 'Disciple Of God' on the back of her neck. THAT MEANS SHE GOT 'D.O.G.' ON THE BACK OF HER NECK!!!!!! hahahahahahaha ......

Reply to 'What Do You Think About Aftercare Methods?' (120 words)
yeah theres definitely gonna b a small percentage of people who dont react well to aquaphor, everyones skin is different. but dont go not reccommending it, 99.9% of other people out there are going to have serious success with it. and wrapping at night is definitely key. it'll 'breathe' tomorrow. for the night, you need to keep wrap ......

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (16 words)
yeah.. i just keep responding to my own comments with the hope of someone getting involved....

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (33 words)
im workin on it. believe me. this iraq crap threw a wrench in alot of things. do people just not like forums or what? cause the viewed to comment ratio isnt too hot!...

Reply to 'What Do You Think About Aftercare Methods?' (41 words)
yeah.. i'm pretty sure that aftercare doesn't make that huge of a difference as long as you keep it out of the sun and water.. i figure dudes in prison heal tattoos all the time with some off the wall shit....

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (13 words)
yeah.. i saw that one too.. was there a serious story behind it?...

Reply to 'What's The Stupidest Tattoo You've Ever Seen?' (16 words)
a dolphin smoking a cigar and choking a duck. i did it, laughed the whole time....

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (58 words)
that is nutty dude.. i've heard of a lot of people doing the same thing.. i guess it's a good way to get experience.. but if you get into a real shop.. you'll probably have to unlearn a lot of the things you've been doing.. other than that.. you arm looks pretty cool considering you did ......

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (62 words)
pretty much. bought some low grade shit, some grapefruit, worked on that for bout a month, did my first tat on some guys back, then it just kinda took off. i havent even been doing it a yr yet, so far i have been getting good feedback from people though. given alot ot work on but its progressing alot faster ......

Reply to 'Are We Supposed To Be Using Inkednation?' (43 words)
well.. i wanted to try inkednation cause i figured the forums would at least be active.. but i couldn't even sign up.. and it's not like i'm retarded either.. i was a computer technician for awhile.. so i do know what i'm doing....

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (60 words)
oh dude.. i just checked out your arm.. that is nutty.. i can't believe you did that much work on yourself.. and it's not even that bad.. i mean.. it isn't great either.. but it certainly isn't jailhouse shit... how did yo get into tattooing? don't tell me you just went out and bought a ......

Reply to 'Any Females' (92 words)
oh dude.. i just read this for the first time.. i absolutely love the way you requested "femails" it was very ice cube of you. anyway. as crazy as it sounds.. i've met females on myspace and dated them.. it was weird.. but i'm always up for a little excitement.. and don't trip about being away from ......

Reply to 'Students' (40 words)
i did commercial art, massage therapy, joined the marine corps, started tattooing which i had to put a hold on cause well, im in iraq, not exactly the most sanitary conditions to be tattoing in. soooooooooooo yeah thats bout it....

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (25 words)
or just check out the gallery. just found that btw. once i get a better pic of the rest of my arm ill post it...

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (82 words)
yup, my friends say i have a problem, im addicted to tattooing myself, and i should seek help. i say malarky. and i guess myspace is the thing that comes to mind right off the top of my head. either that or that inkednation hoopadoop. myspace: nathan ramboldt (my profile is private due to horrible people) inked nation: n8rs. most ......

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (143 words)
yes i did, i just thought he knew what he was doing and thats how he was "planning" it. then he was dont and i was pissed. he only got the linework done though so it can still be mended im sure. if i could tat lefty i would do it myself. thats why i only show off my left ......

Reply to 'Are We Supposed To Be Using Inkednation?' (41 words)
ok.. so i just decided to sign up for inked nation.. i couldn't even get passed the signup stage.. every time i clicked on something i would get an internal server error.. i think maybe the site is not firefox friendly.....

Reply to 'Lets Talk About Our Shitty Tattoos..' (76 words)
i have a half sleeve on my right arm of an angel in smoke, not completely finished (thank god, it can be fixed)done by the guy who first apprenticed me, after he was done destroying my arm and doing the original piece of artwork no justice, i immediately withdrew my apprenticeship, and decided i would be far better off ......

Reply to 'Are We Supposed To Be Using Inkednation?' (15 words)
and another thing.. my msg posted twice.. i don't have the ability to delete one?...

Reply to 'John Mayer's New Sleeve' (33 words)
on another side note.. i feel bad for the guy cause he has stevie ray vaughn's initials and the v looks like a u.. why would you want a tattoo that said SRU?...

Reply to 'Are We Supposed To Be Using Inkednation?' (31 words)
ok.. so how could 14 people have read this post and no one answers? you could say something along the lines of.. "yeah.. go use that" or.. "no.. this is better"...

Reply to 'Are We Supposed To Be Using Inkednation?' (31 words)
ok.. so how could 14 people have read this post and no one answers? you could say something along the lines of.. "yeah.. go use that" or.. "no.. this is better"...

Reply to 'Devon Blood Article - Now With Comments' (14 words)
dope.. i read the hard copy.. pretty intense stuff that man has been through...

Reply to 'John Mayer's New Sleeve' (26 words)
good point.. i noticed the majority of the sleeve was filler.. but whatever.. people get what they want.. it's his arm he has to live with....

Reply to 'Need Advice Upon Getting Sleeves' (213 words)
so i decided it was also time for me to chime in on this one.. i think if you are asking this question.. you shouldn't get sleeves.. it sounds to me like you'd regret it at this point.. next.. in the latest issue of inked there is a doctor who has full sleeves and he answers the question ......

Reply to 'What Do You Think About Aftercare Methods?' (666 words)
here is an aftercare rundown i copied from oliver peck's myspace.. it's said to be the perfect method.. How To SERIOUSLY Heal Tattoos 1. After getting Tattooed leave the saran wrap on for a few hours before removing...this allows the tattoo the bleed out without your lymph drying and scabbing. 2. After leaving the Tattoo shop go ......

Reply to 'What Celeb Has The Best Tattoos??' (157 words)
ok.. i felt like i could chime in now.. basically.. every celebrity i can think of has shitty tattoos.. david beckham has a few good pieces.. but the majority of them are poorly thought out and executed. when i think of "best tattoos" i think of the layout and design and quality.. and as far as i can think.. the ......

Reply to 'John Mayer's New Sleeve' (38 words)
looks pretty dope.. his first tattoos were lame though.. i'm wondering if we're gonna see him on an upcoming episode of one of the ink shows.. since it seems like that's the only way celebrities get tattooed anymore.....

Reply to 'Is It Possible To Be A Heavily Tattooed Actor?' (16 words)
travolta is the man! i wonder if he's gonna have a dance scene in that movie?...

Reply to 'What Celeb Has The Best Tattoos??' (112 words)
OMG yeah ive pretty much been in love with her since i first saw her in that vin diesel movie XXX. my wife still doesnt get why i like Asia, since most of her movies are kinda 'out there', and every time i wanna buy another one of her dvd's i have to search high and low on amazon ......

Reply to 'What Do You Think About Aftercare Methods?' (50 words)
there's an interesting one.. a+d ointment.. i read somewhere that it's used during tattooing.. but is really bad for aftercare.. then i knew someone who got a tattoo on venice beach and it said use ointment for 3 days after then switch too lotion... it's all just random isn't it?...

Reply to 'What Do You Think About Aftercare Methods?' (68 words)
just brands, i think you're paying for the name. like tattoogoo and h2ocean. leave the wrap for 6 hours and shower like you do. stay away from the sun and it being submerge in water. i just go to any drug store and use A + D ointment and apply whenever needed. keep that tattoo moist. i don't know ......

Reply to 'What Do You Think About Aftercare Methods?' (22 words)
good question... i dont even remeber.something along the lines of a.b. soap and unscented lotion. its been awhile. definitely due for another....

Reply to 'Is It Possible To Be A Heavily Tattooed Actor?' (36 words)
or how about eastern promises.. tattoos played a majour part in that one.. the movie was a little lame though.. anyway.. i highly doubt i'll ever go into acting anyway.. i'm too cool for all that....

Reply to 'Im Just Curious...' (29 words)
it's hot as hell in santa monica.. and everyone is on a diet trying to look good in their bathing suits for the summer.. so you aren't missing much....

Reply to 'Students' (99 words)
yeah.. you superficialist you.. i went to culinary school.. so it can be said that i make people fat.. i guess if depends on how you do your job.. i like to think i make people happy and content with life... or sometimes when i notice a couple on their first date.. i really make the effore to help them ......

Reply to 'Symmetry' (67 words)
oh.. i just noticed this posting.. i guess it's really depends on the tattoo itself and what would work best with the design.. but sometimes you just gotta realize that something is going to look out of place. i'm sure if you had two full sleeves done by mister cartoon.. you'd really be fucking things up when ......

Reply to 'Deciding On A Tattoo.' (77 words)
yeah.. had that tattoo worked out.. you would have smiled everytime you saw it.. i can really admire a lot of tattooers out there that have all kinds of shitty and obscure tattoos with great stories behind them.. i recently saw a kat von d clip on you tube where she explains a tattoo she has of a deer getting ......

Reply to 'Quotes... Who Has Them And What Do They Say?' (61 words)
i don't have any quotes or word tattoos.. i mean.. i do have a heart that says mom.. and a pinball machine that says "man's ruin" but not really a lettering tattoo.. i did always think it would be funny to get the latin phrase "omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina".. which means.. "everything sounds more impressive when ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (51 words)
hahahah.. yeah.. and i don't have the heart to correct my friends.. a week or so back i went into a bar and saw an old bartender i used to know and he says "i see you had some more work done" and i'm thinking.. come on.. it's not reconstructive surgery.. ...

Reply to 'Should Your Tattoos Match?' (53 words)
yeah.. my entire left arm is blank.. but i'm sure it'll get done eventually.. right now i kinda like the one sleeve look.. and there are a few tattoos i have planned for my back and ribs.. so i'll do those first.. i figure that way.. i'll be working from right to left....

Reply to 'How Fast Did You Ink Up?' (41 words)
now that is class.. i love the tattoos that make you laugh.. at some point i'm just gonna get some off the wall tattoo.. i was thinking about getting mount rushmore with the faces of me and my 3 best friends....

Reply to 'Let's Get This Forum Running..' (51 words)
that's what i'm saying.. it's hard to find a decent tattoo forum where people don't sound like idiots asking moron questions and whatnot.. so this is gonna be the only board i'll go to.. i've got my subsciption to inked and i'm happy to show as much support as i can....

Reply to 'Is It Possible To Be A Heavily Tattooed Actor?' (124 words)
yeah that 90210 kid does do it. so does freddie prinze jr. but they only have a small spattering of ink, not 'solid' ink. but hey, look at Danny Trejo! dude has made a career being 'that tattooed mexican guy'! thats awesome! now, that being said, could betty lipstick be the next 'Bond girl' well damnit she should be, but ......

Reply to 'Deciding On A Tattoo.' (86 words)
oooooo yeah theres some wisdom here. good advice. i think back to the time i decided to tattoo 'dilligaf' on my leg with my buddy's homemade gun! ok, by 'tattooed my leg' i meant 'cut the crap out of my ankle with a pen and guitar string that didnt leave any ink in my skin and nothing came of ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (113 words)
o man i agree. 110% they're frickin TATTOOS not 'work'. frick. to the tattooer they're work cause thats his frickin job. to me, they're my TATTOOS. and also, i'm guilty. i have some relatively abstract stuff mixed in with the old-school stuff. sure it has a deep meaning, but that doesnt mean i want to tell ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (113 words)
o man i agree. 110% they're frickin TATTOOS not 'work'. frick. to the tattooer they're work cause thats his frickin job. to me, they're my TATTOOS. and also, i'm guilty. i have some relatively abstract stuff mixed in with the old-school stuff. sure it has a deep meaning, but that doesnt mean i want to tell ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (70 words)
o man i agree. 110% they're frickin TATTOOS not 'work'. frick. to the tattooer they're work cause thats his frickin job. to me, they're my TATTOOS. and also, i'm guilty. i have some relatively abstract stuff mixed in with the old-school stuff. sure it has a deep meaning, but that doesnt mean i want to tell ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (70 words)
o man i agree. 110% they're frickin TATTOOS not 'work'. frick. to the tattooer they're work cause thats his frickin job. to me, they're my TATTOOS. and also, i'm guilty. i have some relatively abstract stuff mixed in with the old-school stuff. sure it has a deep meaning, but that doesnt mean i want to tell ......

Reply to 'Should Your Tattoos Match?' (30 words)
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....

Reply to 'Let's Get This Forum Running..' (49 words)
hell yeah man we've been postin our asses of since day one! dont stop now! now we just gotta get everyone else goin! like ive said before, this is the only board i belong to! my internet geek-dom is few and far between but im tryin! man, im tryin!...

Reply to 'Students' (65 words)
boy do i feel all shallow, i went to school to be a hairstylist! hahaha! almost signedon in to the navy, but i figured id do the next manliest thing i could think of and be a hairstylist. :) my wife does work with children though, so at least she contributes to the greater whole. i just make people pretty. boy ......

Reply to 'Should Your Tattoos Match?' (50 words)
that's another concern a lot of people have.. it's as if you have to get matching tattoos on each arm.. you see that all the time in tattoo shops.. people come in and get something of the same size on the other side of their body to "balance themselves out"...

Reply to 'How Fast Did You Ink Up?' (78 words)
haha.. you went from having it being half an inch big.. to being a foot and a half long! that's crazy.. i am looking forward to having my ribs done at some point.. i want a huge koi swimming downstream.. the tail half is gonna be oranges and reds and the head half is gonna be a skeleton looking ......

Reply to 'Students' (46 words)
lol, well thank you, but i'm just pursuing what i'm passionate about. i juggled between that and working for the Cyber Crime unit of the FBI catching online predators. haha but that just didn't seem as realistic. I truly admire those who serve our country ;)...

Reply to 'How Fast Did You Ink Up?' (51 words)
oh, i'm quite the ninja. hah, when i'm home at least. i don't live at home, with the exception of this summer. i have an apartment by my school starting this August. i know they will find out eventually. i hoping to keep it a secret until i'm finished with school. ...

Reply to 'Students' (117 words)
part time student, just nailing the basic college requirements for now. debating to take fire science or something else depending on these few months ahead. full time united states navy shipboard firefighting slave. just turn 22, about to start school at a community college in pasadena california when im out in september. i'll be a freshmen in college when ......

Reply to 'Weakness ' (101 words)
it seriously depends on the girl.. there are a lot of girls out there who have really ruined a good thing with bad tattoos.. i seriously think girls need to stop with the tattoos on the lower back.. and i did recently meet a girl with a half sleeve of an octopus that just didn't match with her personality ......

Reply to 'How Fast Did You Ink Up?' (225 words)
it takes time for me. my first tattoo was when i was 19 station in italy for 2 years where there was only 2 tattoo artist on the whole fricken island. i've been wanting it since freshmen year. waited 5 years. my second california tattoo. gave a whole lot of thought. i first wanted it on my left hand ......

Reply to 'How Fast Did You Ink Up?' (102 words)
well. keep in mind you will never be able to hide them forever.. so eventually they will find out.. i don't have parents.. but i have a sister who is 9 years older than me and she acts like my mom.. she always frowned on my tattoos but accepted them cause she had no choice... so what i did ......

Reply to 'How Fast Did You Ink Up?' (35 words)
yeah, i gotcha. i think long and hard about my tattoos. Can't go anywhere too visible since i hide them from my parents, and don't want to die.. or lose my funding for school. hah. ...

Reply to 'Let's Get This Forum Running..' (23 words)
yeah.. i was wondering where we could upload photos of our tattoos.. the gallery doesn't really give you the opportunity to label anything....

Reply to 'Let's Get This Forum Running..' (8 words)
Anybody visit the Art Gallery, some cool art ...

Reply to 'How Fast Did You Ink Up?' (68 words)
i can't recommend true tattoo is hollywood enough.. it's owned by the amazing clay decker and some of the best artist have worked there.. just to name drop.. it used to be kat von d's l.a. shop before she openned her own.. also.. chris garver, tim hendricks, a ton of really cool people work and have ......

Reply to 'How Fast Did You Ink Up?' (63 words)
well,let's see... first one at 18 and 2nd one at 21 but that was a pretty big piece,about 7 hours. now i want to get another big piece connecting the original going up my back but i cant find my guy! :( he's m.i.a. so im currently taking my time trying to find a new ......

Reply to 'Let's Get This Forum Running..' (21 words)
yeah, i think me and madmatthew are the most frequent visitors. im all for any type of jargon! type away people!...

Reply to 'Is It Possible To Be A Heavily Tattooed Actor?' (151 words)
well.. i dunno dude. i think apple suicide could have pulled it off.. ok.. kidding.. anyway.. what got me thinking about it was that geeky kid from 90210.. brian austin green.. he's dating the hot girl from transformers and has what looks to be a dragon or snake or something wrapping around his forearm.. although he is not really ......

Reply to 'How Fast Did You Ink Up?' (61 words)
i guess that is something to point out.. don't get tattoos just to be getting them.. make sure they are ones you want.. if you're sure that's the one you want... then go with that.. but if you hit a dry spell and can't think of anymore tattoos you want.. then don't just go and ......

Reply to 'Should Your Tattoos Match?' (38 words)
yeah.. i figured it would somehow work out.. i just feel like all my tattoos so far have a real specific style to them... how do i post photos on this board? is my only option the gallery?...

Reply to 'Let's Get This Forum Running..' (27 words)
hell yeah man been tryin to reply to everything to get this rollin!!! the old boards got really rollin after a while, guess it just takes time...

Reply to 'How Fast Did You Ink Up?' (267 words)
go as quickly or as slowly as you want to its your friggen ink. the only ting i will tell you, though, is at 18 and 19 you really need to be sure you're getting things you'll want forever. i have a friend who finished his full sleeves by 20, and he's bummed, to be honest. he ......

Reply to 'Is It Possible To Be A Heavily Tattooed Actor?' (262 words)
i think it automatically type-casts an actor. having a few here and there, like johnny depp, isnt such a hindrance. you'd actually be surprised at how many actors have tattoos. however, the world is still stupid, judgemental, and closed-minded, so people with serious ink such as a sleeve, backpiece, or god forbid a neck tattoo, continue to be put ......

Reply to 'Should Your Tattoos Match?' (16 words)
I guess my first question would be....you are getting the tattoos to please exactly who? NYCPhotog...

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (42 words)
oh yeah.. i wanted to add that it's kinda lame when people say things like "nice tats" or refer to them as "your art" or "work" or even "ink".. maybe i just don't feel cool enough to call them anything but tattoos....

Reply to 'Im Just Curious...' (45 words)
yo.. i'm in santa monica.. born in highland park and grew up all over los angeles.. a lot of the culture reflects in my tattoos.. and i definitely want the words "los angeles" somewhere on my body at some point. it's nothing but california love....

Reply to 'How Fast Did You Ink Up?' (144 words)
i got my first tattoo at 18 too.. and a second one came just about a month later.. if not sooner.. i then waited about 7 years.. i knew i wanted more.. but i just didn't have an artist or shop that i was comfortable with.. the one after 7 years came out shitty and i waited another year ......

Reply to 'Are You Dedicated To One Tattooer??' (73 words)
i have had my last 5 tattoos done by the same man.. jeffery page of truetattoo.. however i nkow that some tattoos would be best done by other people.. i imagine for serious japanese work.. i would go to someone else.. or if i wanted a super crazy colour portrait like nikko hurtado or joshua carlton do.. then i would ......

Reply to 'Deleting Photos' (78 words)
We do cull duplicate entries on a routine basis, however if they are brought to our attention in a more immediate fashion, we'll be happy to oblige in a quicker manner. The reason why duplicate posts generally occur is either the poster's browser doesn't load the success page so a second or third 'attempt' is made or ......

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (8 words)
im up there finally. So VOTE! Pwease... *muah* ...

Reply to 'Offering A Free Photoshoot For Those "Inked"' (25 words)
pffft.. id *LOVE* to- its a shame im stuck in New England. LA sounds like a blast and i need to get out there asap. ...

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (37 words)
i hate the word 'tats' but i also hate every asshole walking up to me asking if they hurt. IDont watch miami ink i DONT know who your talking about and YES my parents hate them. <3lol...

Reply to 'Deciding On A Tattoo.' (130 words)
dude.. think about this.. everyone loves their tattoo when they get it.. but are you gonna love it a year later? tattoos don't have to have a super special meaning.. but at the very least they need to make you smile when you look at them.. some tattoos i have wanted since i was a kid.. and i got ......

Reply to 'Pain Managment' (161 words)
look.. heres how i do it.. relax.. it's basically all in the mind.. if you are tense and focus on the pain.. it's going to hurt.. but if you lay back and breath.. it's all good.. i'm fortunate to have a good relationship with my tattooer.. so we talk and bullshit the whole time and i ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (158 words)
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 ......

Reply to 'Quotes... Who Has Them And What Do They Say?' (18 words)
nice! it's a good thing we have a lot of skin to work with! the possibilities are endless!...

Reply to 'Quotes... Who Has Them And What Do They Say?' (89 words)
i don't have any quotes just yet, but i plan on getting some done this summer on either side of my rib cage On the right side: "Ink smears as sometimes thoughts do." On the left: This world is but a canvas to our imagination." I'm also getting "Pretty in ink" on my back, between my skull & crossbones ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (89 words)
i'm gonna have to agree with people touching my tattoos! gahhh i hate it when people just reach over and like touch my stomach and such just because there is ink there.. like.. who asked you to touch me .. ? anddd.. people somehow have it in their heads that the cherry blossoms on my stomach are fake? and they always ......

Reply to 'Im Just Curious...' (33 words)
Hell yeah! Now thats some serious Cali Luv right there! Your sis goes to UCSD,eh? I work a block down from there. You should come down to S.D. we know how to party! ...

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (16 words)
OHHHHH........ boy i feel dumbfounded. i've never had the guts to even ask something like that. ...

Reply to 'Im Just Curious...' (14 words)
cool! send me a message via "inked mail" about the photo shoot. sounds interesting......

Reply to 'Im Just Curious...' (46 words)
I live in Southern California. Originally from NYC. I am actually seeking people who are in the Inked community to perhaps hookup and do some photo sessions. But that is a bit off topic :P So yes I am from SC living in foothill ranch :)...

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (22 words)
People that have absolute crap tattooed on them and say " I dont care what it looks like, it was free." ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!...

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (21 words)
ha! when dudes ask me if they can see the "whole thing" followed by the statement "thats why you got it,right?"...

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (71 words)
*people touching them without asking (i dont like to be touched lol) *tribal tattoos *kanji tattoos *postage-stamp sized tattoos *people with postage-stamp sized ink that want to tell me their whole story behind it and think they have something in common with me *when people ask who does my 'art' and calls them 'pieces' instead of just friggen tattoos *armband ......

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (11 words)
i made it to the first page of the highest rated!!!!...

Reply to 'Tattoo Pet Peeves' (35 words)
I hate tattoos that are especially vulgar. Like, for instance, people that get a woman's leg on each side of their armpit so it looks like she has a hairy pubic area. That's just gross....

Reply to 'Deciding On A Tattoo.' (40 words)
how often did you research for the right picture? and artist? whats the quote? haha i don't know about the tattoo process. i already wish i was covered with the ones i know i will enjoy for years to come. ...

Reply to 'Symbol Of Love' (34 words)
i have the sign for "i love you" in sign language on my back :) with a banner stating its meaning, of course it has personal meaning to me but it's an idea ;)...

Reply to 'Quotes... Who Has Them And What Do They Say?' (14 words)
yeah me too! there's quite a few things im thinking of... hence my curiousity......

Reply to 'Quotes... Who Has Them And What Do They Say?' (25 words)
i have a bunch of words or initials or whatever, quotes from songs, scripture references, i love words as tattoos. the guy from memento rules....

Reply to 'Phoenix Tattoo' (26 words)
haha,thanks! Im out in the desert,a place called havasu in Arizona...its hott!!!My husbands from san diego,i think we'll be going down to visit family soon... x...

Reply to 'Wanted: Pinups, Pinup Artists, And Tattooists' (16 words)
Ah, the host just finished beta testing, should all be good now. And--up to 4000 images!...

Reply to 'Deciding On A Tattoo.' (72 words)
it took me about a year to actually decide on doing a portrait.. i was going to do a symbolization but always drew out ideas, and they didnt work for me. i found the perfect picture that resembles what i wanted, it shows love,comfort,and trust... its not done yet of course, i have quote's going on the ......

Reply to 'How Do You Start Your Day?' (55 words)
uugghh good luck! i just remembered the first night i brought my son home from the hospital,had no idea what i was in for. he's 2years old now and i just got him to sleep in his own bed. so needless to say i wake up every few hours just to see if he's ok....

Reply to 'Phoenix Tattoo' (41 words)
oi mate! welcome to the land of Oz! just kidding! whereabouts are you staying? im here in sunny san diego. i usually hang out in the Drum and Bass Scene. we have alot of peeps from the UK in the scene. ...

Reply to 'Symbol Of Love' (63 words)
other than the obvious,anything can be a symbol of love. for instance im thinking of getting a little red riding hood cape on my wrist and to me that symbolizes love and a personal loss. whatever you put on you will be very personal and people will are always going to misinterpret your tatt's. it's your choice ......

Reply to 'Are You Dedicated To One Tattooer??' (111 words)
I only have one tattoo as of now, so I may not be qualified to reply, but I will anyway. I have my tattoo artist (Patrick from Patrick Tattoo, in Audubon NJ. Tattooartist.com) But I am looking to get work done from several different people. I am REALLY hoping to get work done at the tattoo convention in philly ......

Reply to 'Who Would I Like To Ink Me? Easy!' (31 words)
Gotta say, if I could have anyone tattoo me, it would be (and I know this is an obvious one) Ed Hardy. The man is a LEGEND. What can I say?...

Reply to 'Need Advice Upon Getting Sleeves' (19 words)
And dammit I forgot something! Good luck with your sleeves! Post pics when they're done! -Koi Boi (yet again)...

Reply to 'Need Advice Upon Getting Sleeves' (102 words)
Oh and one more thingy, I just read the comment by the Surgeon, so I may have to retract a few of my statements. I DO know that, at least in the Philadelphia region, tattoos are generally frowned upon in hospitals. Also keep in mind that the surgeon is in fact a surgeon, and would have less patient interaction (though ......

Reply to 'Phoenix Tattoo' (37 words)
Hey there! I was hoping to go to the convention, but alas I am unable to afford plane tickets. (I'm a broke college student from philadelphia, what do you expect?!?) :) What brings you to the states?...

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (26 words)
Im gonna send a pic in soon as i have some more recent ones...i did a shoot yesterday so shouldnt be long. there's some hot competition!...

Reply to 'Americans Getting Chinese Tattoos' (130 words)
Why not bro? The asians have a far deeper history than we americans do. They have ancient ways, traditions and beliefs that were based of calligraphic symbols and animals that represent a far deeper connection to beliefs, desires and inspirations. These symbols can bring pride and inspiration to the wearer. I know first-hand, I have a koi tattoo. I chose ......

Reply to 'Waddup Everyone!!!!!!!!!!' (21 words)
yeah these boards were happening for a minute! gotta get it goin again. where is everyone? POST! ya know ill respond!...

Reply to 'Americans Getting Chinese Tattoos' (177 words)
the 'american' tattoo art is generally defined as the art by, or inspired by, people like Sailor Jerry, Ed Hardy, etc.. its thick outlines, simple bold colors and distinctive style have been around for a while (relatively speaking, with respect to america's relatively short complete history). pin up girls, navy themes, banners and stars are just a few hallmarks ......

Reply to 'Americans Getting Chinese Tattoos' (36 words)
you did it right. you actually know what you have and why you have it. good job. truth is, though, most people with 'kanji' don't know. its a stereotype, i know, but sometimes they're just true. ...

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (89 words)
My father had five 14hour days in a row to get his Maori pi'aa done the ancient traditional way. With whale bone,a chesel and sharpend pig teeth on the end of a stick. The ink was made out of karaka tree leaves and catapilers<<< Yes catapilers u know those things that turn into buttaflies haha. It nearly killed ......

Reply to 'Americans Getting Chinese Tattoos' (192 words)
i do think its stupid whe people get kanji or japanese without researching or knowing what it means. but i do have some kanji and japanese tats and i love them and i get tons of compliments on them. i've also had japanese people read them to me and they mean exactly what i knew they meant. i researched ......

Reply to 'An Excellent Script Artist In Austin, Tx' (86 words)
My chest was done in script by an artist by the name of justin vickers at the golden apple on 6th street. I found him because i was also looking for an artist that was talented at script and I was conviced that he was the guy for the job after he did script on my friend's wrist. He ......

Reply to 'Symmetry' (158 words)
i started off with just black tattoos (but that was more to do with calls-himself-an-artist that i went to for them), but i have since added some colour. not alot though, now that i think about it... i think it really depends on what the design is. for example, i have a beautiful maori tribal piece on my foot, VERY ......

Reply to 'Need Advice Upon Getting Sleeves' (116 words)
in this day and age, if a profession can't look past some ink to see that you really are the best person for the job, then you probably shouldn't be working there. in the past there have been jobs that i know i didn't get because of the way i look(ed) (unnaturally coloured hair, facial piercings ......

Reply to 'Deciding On A Tattoo.' (192 words)
i have to agree with the previous people. i've never just gone into a shop and looked through the flash and picked something, although i know alot of people who do. all of my ink has meaning to me, it represents something, its not just to look pretty. the shop i used to go to was, like, 12 hours ......

Reply to 'How Do You Start Your Day?' (147 words)
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 ......

Reply to 'Are You Dedicated To One Tattooer??' (28 words)
no,not by choice. one went back to italy,the other i just cant find. maybe i will put out an a.p.b. for him,what i want is in his head......

Reply to 'Full Circle Tattoo!!!' (38 words)
nice blog. so are you only there during the week? we only make it down on the weekends,granted o.b. is only 7 minutes away from my house,but i work during the week. anyways,hope we see you down there....

Reply to 'Are You Dedicated To One Tattooer??' (45 words)
I got my first 3 from different people, then I found Tony The Tattoo Guy about 10 years ago and he has done all my work since(lots of it)He is currently @ skINStAIN? TATTOO Co In St Pete FL. I prefer to stick with him ...

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (7 words)
when will we find out the winner?...

Reply to 'Mad's Untitled Forum Post' (143 words)
I'm kinda on the fence about this. I do know a lady who has had seven tattoos within six months & she even admitted to me that she's just eager for coverage at this point & then I know people who have been waiting to get a tattoo for years, but are still deciding on their design. it's whatever ......

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (36 words)
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. =)...

Reply to 'Are You Dedicated To One Tattooer??' (26 words)
i am dedicated to one artist, however it's mainly because i want my arms to flow together. i have 2 tattoos that are from another guy....

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (35 words)
myspace is crazy! yeah i just met a girl at the office who works for hodads. she's a cook! i feel you on the job thing. shit sucks when it's not a business you own....

Reply to 'How Do You Start Your Day?' (119 words)
yeah i was burned out on coffee for a long time, drank too much coffee in college i just got addicted again about a year ago. i LOVE STARBUCKS. i buy their beans and brew it at home. (though i usually just buy the pre-ground beans cause my wife really doesn't appreciate the CCCCHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEERRRRRRRZZZZZZZZZZKKKKKKKK the grinder makes at dawn ......

Reply to 'Deciding On A Tattoo.' (122 words)
divine inspiration. and by that i mean it usually comes to me like a lightbulb went off above my head. theres a bunch of stuff i would get and be quite happy with, but i usually wait til i get that 'click' in my head. then i get it. i figure, it's like, if you only got one chance ......

Reply to 'Symmetry' (32 words)
my equilibrium is pretty tip to the right because i have my only two tattoos on my right side. i think it really depends on the design and mood of the tattoo. ...

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (32 words)
Two of my current fav things listed in the same post....hodads and SG's. I just joined that site not too long ago. People on there are waaaay cooler than folks on myspace....

Reply to 'Need Advice Upon Getting Sleeves' (272 words)
what is a respected job anyway? being a doctor? lets be honest, is that your passion? if it is, then you're going to find a way to make it work. my chiropractor has tattoos and he's doing just fine. my buddy keith is full sleeves and torso and he's a high school english teacher. it works out ......

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (21 words)
yeah we walked by the shop last night. looks cool. i think they were closing so we didnt actually go in....

Reply to 'Need Advice Upon Getting Sleeves' (34 words)
"the color of your skin whether it is inked or not should never stand in the way of getting into your desired profession." you're absolutley right. thank you. and this is not a joke.......

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (49 words)
Sorry I've been outta the loop for so long. I've been out in DC for work and won't be back in SD till April...friggin bullshit. But anyway, I got the word on where Bill is gonna be now... opening March 1st 12:00-8:00 4861 newport ave in ocean beach. 619-226-6575....

Reply to 'What Celeb Has The Best Tattoos??' (22 words)
I like Tarrie B. I don't know much about celebrities unless they have a myspace. I'm such a lamer, I know ;)...

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (14 words)
there are a lot of lovely ladies. I can't wait to see the winner....

Reply to 'Need Advice Upon Getting Sleeves' (36 words)
most people I know who are heavily tattooed wear long-sleeved shirts. but, then again, I live in Britain & most people I know wear long-sleeved shirts anyway. I hope you don't live in a hot climate....

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (11 words)
go into the link that says inked girls--->then click on gallery......

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (9 words)
is there an easier to search your friends pictures?...

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (34 words)
sven, am i retarded? i cant figure out where to vote... and to girls sumbmitting pics fully clothed not showing any sign of a tattoo,THE NAME OF THE MAGAZINE IS INKED!!! show your tattoo's!!!!!!!...

Reply to 'Anyone Else Concerned??' (30 words)
i like to take a moment here and say THANKYOU! you guys rock! i love the magazine and i love this site. cant wait to see this thing grow. :)...

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (41 words)
I believe that entry number 2059 (excusesmerdling) should be one of the next inked girls. not only does she have the most class, all it takes are simple black lines to get a really strong point across. Check her out! -muidem...

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (91 words)
I was noticing that as well Lady. Also I would go to vote for some of the hot new pics that I hadn't seen before and it was like it wasn't registering my votes. :( I wish there was a way to link to your exact posts as well because some of my friends are too damn lazy to ......

Reply to 'What Sports?' (22 words)
mountain biking...already summertime weather here in the OC and it's always great to be out in hills away from all the noise ...

Reply to 'Anyone Else Concerned??' (74 words)
I can also chime in here to backup that which has already been said. We have a lot in store for everyone in the near future. Some of these things take more time than others, and as such it shows. Obviously we're happy that people are concerned about all that we're doing and by all means we wish ......

Reply to 'Americans Getting Chinese Tattoos' (191 words)
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 ......

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (14 words)
Got my submissions in. Man, there's alot of great photos!! Good luck everyone!! :)...

Reply to 'Americans Getting Chinese Tattoos' (53 words)
ha good one prowl, and me personally i dont really care what language a person gets on their body, we're all human, this isn't the tower of babel. get whatever you want, just get the message right. i just don't understand why some people get random kanji without knowing what it really means....

Reply to 'Americans Getting Chinese Tattoos' (12 words)
im sure asian people would be offended if you called them "oriental"...

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (88 words)
I have written everyone about the contest on all the sites I belong to. LouisvilleMojo, MySpace, InkedNation and a few others. I have never entered a contest before because I never felt as beautiful as many of the other girls that are in magazines. I know Dawn Geary and the fact that you had her here, makes me realize that ......

Reply to 'Americans Getting Chinese Tattoos' (15 words)
Im pretty sure oriental people are'nt walking around with english characters tattooed on their bodies....

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (55 words)
We are so excited about the response we are getting! thanks to everyone that has entered or is planning on it. The contest is going to go on for at least the next six months, there will be occasional winners and they will be determined through vote ranking and personal preference by our creative director. ...

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (83 words)
Hey, I was just wondering...I've been in the contest for about 3 days now and yesterday my votes were decreased by about 10 !!! Can you tell me WHY? Just checking because I've been working hard to get all my friends, family, and MySpace people to sign up and VOTE for me and it seems a little unfair ......

Reply to 'What Sports?' (16 words)
cool, im a big fan of the suzuki monster team those guys are mental, proper good....

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (6 words)
How long does the contest run?...

Reply to 'Be An Inked Girl' (5 words)
i nominate deeper then skin....

Reply to 'What Sports?' (58 words)
I used to compete in European style Automotive Rallies and Hillclimbs (Think Pike's Peak and Mt. Washington Hillclimb). Those are the most extreme sports to me, and one at which I excelled. It just got to be too expensive with off the racecar, tow vehicle, team, parts and crew costs to handle. Definitely an adrenaline rush nonetheless. Eric...

Reply to 'What Sports?' (20 words)
all over ma heed chief fitbaw aint ma scene not a patch on rugby but each to their own tho....

Reply to 'What Sports?' (41 words)
did i mention its the greatest sport ever created? and how sad i am that our leagues are not nearly up to par with your leagues? pretty much i could live in england just for the soccer. or football. whatever. greatness....

Reply to 'What Sports?' (16 words)
you call it football. over here we call it soccer. it's the greatest sport ever created....

Reply to 'Friggen Vote' (34 words)
i feel sorry for you americans i mean youve got a retard in office and nearly another year for him to end the entire world just for shits and giggles. shit sucks for yous'...

Reply to 'Tattoo Etiquette' (38 words)
every ones different im good mates with my artist but he still a hard edged bastard, i wouldent want to be inked by some touchy feely sensitive loon, each to their own but a bit edgy suits me. ...

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (41 words)
mite just be me but im a fan of the pain gives you focus plus when you do some thing in life that would otherwise have killed you can laugh it off and look hard in front of yer mates lol....

Reply to 'What Do You Guys Think Of American/Japanese Style' (27 words)
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. ...

Reply to 'How Do You Start Your Day?' (36 words)
yeah, forgot to mention that I've got a dog too. 3 year-old Welsh Corgi named Ein. I walk him or let him run around the yard before I leave for classes and when I get home....

Reply to 'What Do You Guys Think Of American/Japanese Style' (54 words)
very cool & reassuring! many artists think mixing syles in a big no-no. i started with japanese on my arm & i am currently in works with my artists to fuse a more traditional style with my japanese. it can deff be done...glad to see i'm not the only one who thinks so! :)...

Reply to 'Tattoo Starter Kits?' (33 words)
just my opinion, but i think they are a bad idea! you are putting work on people's skin. unlike learning on paper....your learning process is permanent with tattooing. i'd rec finding an apprecticeship....

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (35 words)
im probably the only person in the world who does not have myspace! but im always cruisin on this site,just remind me as the date gets closer. i will let the girls know whats up....

Reply to 'Audrey Kawasaki Solo Show, Santa Monica, Ca' (33 words)
wow, she's really good. i'm in new york, but i'd come with ya if i could! free booze and a showing of more art of the caliber of those links? count me in....

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (43 words)
mmmm... hodads... *drools* so friggin good! cool man! cant wait. you guys gonna do an open house shin-dig? lemme know. one of my good friends is a "suicide girl" maybe we can arrange some of the san diego suicide girls to roll down....

Reply to 'Musink Tattoo & Music Festival, Feb 22-24' (11 words)
so who's gonna go? I'll be there on Saturday, TIGER ARMY!!!...

Reply to 'What Do You Guys Think Of American/Japanese Style' (23 words)
indeed! ive never seen a sabado piece up front, but i heard the coloring and shading are insane! like it was airbrushed on!...

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (23 words)
well i defenitly wouldnt mind to stop by and say hi! im curious as to where in o.b. the shop will be located. ...

Reply to 'What Do You Guys Think Of American/Japanese Style' (10 words)
that style is amazing. the detail and color are mind-blowing. ...

Reply to 'What Do You Guys Think Of American/Japanese Style' (93 words)
Just for the record, we are aware of the request to add the ability to post pictures inside forums posts. This has been noted and will be addressed in the very near future. We just want to make sure that it is done correctly. I will make it a higher priority given that this is the second time I have ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Your T-Shirt Contest' (77 words)
We're back and live with the contest. It has been only a couple of hours since we re-launched and already we've had 18 entries, so please take the time to submit any ideas you might have, and share your opinions by voting and discussing. The ability to order will be added within the next 48 hours. Thanks to ......

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (29 words)
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...

Reply to 'It's That Time Of Year Again...' (17 words)
nice! im looking into charles schwab. they seem to have a nice set up for checking accounts....

Reply to 'It's That Time Of Year Again...' (147 words)
I generally get a decent tax return but that's primarily because I am self-employed and put away far more money in a tax account than I need to. Having a good accountant means a world of difference. People like to think that only the wealthy have accountants, and only because they can afford them, but in reality a good ......

Reply to 'How Do You Start Your Day?' (137 words)
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays wake up at 10am take a shower get dressed brush teeth, shave, etc out the door by 10:15-10:20 drive to school Theo 210 from 10:55-12:00 go to lunch with classmates head home Monday Night exclusive: Go to Maynard's Bar and Grill for a Monday night car meet that I host Tuesdays, Thursdays ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Your T-Shirt Contest' (44 words)
The contest is temporarily off-line for some last minute changes to make it easier for people to enter, and easier to submit. Please forgive us as we expect to have everything in full motion early next week, the first full week of February, 2008....

Reply to 'New Ink' (25 words)
Finish my leg piece, maybe finish the background on my backpiece, finish my sleeves and get a big panda on my thigh...that's about it LOL...

Reply to 'New Ink' (39 words)
I'll be working on a few sleeves this year, each branching off of the single pieces I have on each of my arms and on my right leg. Should be fun. I can't wait to get started on them....

Reply to 'Symmetry' (40 words)
i love both for others...but for me it's b&g! it's funny, cuz ppl with color often don't think as much of adding a b&g piece...but for ppl with b&g work it tends to be a big deal to add color! ...

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (85 words)
Hmmm, kinda sorta. Remember I just moved here, so I don't know what all you would consider the gaslamp quarter. It's just on the south side of Balboa Park. Here's something funny though...I haven't been to the shop since I moved here about a month ago, so before I was always driving there taking the ......

Reply to 'Giants Or Patriots' (23 words)
thats fine .....the new cover of sports illustrated is " ELI'S THE MANNING" and Paul Zimmerman expects the giants to win 24 -20...

Reply to 'Giants Or Patriots' (26 words)
man i hope you're right! i hate the f'n patriots with a passion! its just too bad that shockey won't get to be on the field......

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (18 words)
I don't use anything but if it helps THEM...more power to them...weed and music helps me zone out....

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (40 words)
yep, gotta agree with ya there is something nice about having a real burner done then being able to tell yourself that hey, i sat thru that shit! and now i never have to have that spot tortured again! lol...

Reply to 'Where Is Everyone?!' (40 words)
hell yeah lets not limit this, INKED mag keeps their pages open to everyone from models to tattooers to investment bankers and rock stars, let's keep it open, classy, trashy, and B.A.!!! glad to see more people on, too cool....

Reply to 'Mad's Untitled Forum Post' (245 words)
yeah, it ain't a cheap habit i'd be a lil further along if i had the cash i'm sure!!! and, ya know, i just thought about what the other guy said a few comments up and i think he's right too. if what you get is heart-felt, then hell, go for it, right now. if you ......

Reply to 'Best Flash' (139 words)
if you don't already have them, sailor jerry flash books are a MUST. the man basically started tattooing as we know it today. there are two volumes of his books, full of his original flash, available at his family's website www.sailorjerry.com they also sell lots of clothing and stuff with his designs on it. also, not ......

Reply to 'Any Females' (21 words)
i am out in the west coast im stationed in ft lewis wa and it blows.....seattles lame too i miss nyc ...

Reply to 'Any Females' (74 words)
awww i didnt mean it as a slap in the face lol.. i was just saying that myspace is not the best way to meet girls.... my friend meets hella ppl on there and they dont seem like there picture lol... or you might be talking to some old 65 year old trying to hit up on you lol ha ......

Reply to 'Any Females' (49 words)
yeah i guess your right i just think being stuck in wa all this damn time when i have my real home on the east is KILLING me ... i just need to get out of the army ...but thanks for the slap in the face.. i needed it ...

Reply to 'Mad's Untitled Forum Post' (61 words)
I'd probably be covered if I had the money, but instead I have to take it slow. In a way I'm kind of glad for that because it gives me more time for ideas to stew. Unfortunately my artist is moving up north soon so I'm going to have to be taking some long treks every time ......

Reply to 'Shops In South Fl' (54 words)
hey, i'm here in south florida! i love love chip harris at vatican tattoo. he originally was part of the aces high shop here in west palm beach...but he just opened a new shop right there in ft laudie. you can google his myspace etc....he's very good! you also have chris blingston in pompano!...

Reply to 'Any Females' (902 words)
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 ......

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (4 words)
near the gaslamp quarter?...

Reply to 'Any Females' (23 words)
try match.com. they specifcally designed they're site for that. but hey,whose to say we cant make a couple friends on this site! :P...

Reply to 'R.I.P. Heath Ledger' (53 words)
yeah definitely not the kind of actor you would expect this to happen to. he had no known drug abuse problems and his family strongly believes this was not a suicide.i guess the world will have to wait for the autopsy report. it's his 2 year old daughter,matilda, that i feel bad for. ...

Reply to 'Tattoo Etiquette' (104 words)
I have a tramp stamp!! It is a hard line for the tattoo artist to perform the work in my opinion. You wil get varyiung types of clients. Some want this spiritual experience when getting it done.. then the distant hard edge will work. Others want to talk etc.. Lady I work with I talk to her for the whole ......

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (95 words)
I have to agree Painkillers.. Alcahol is a blood thiner.. you bleed more.. and it hurts more in the long run. I do not understand the endorphins.. I have over 60 hours work right now.. it does hurt some spots more then others.. but in the end you can say you accomplisehed the work along with the artist doing the ......

Reply to 'R.I.P. Heath Ledger' (29 words)
I really didn't expect that at all. I can't say I saw too many movies of his, but I was really looking forward to his work as the Joker....

Reply to 'Where Is Everyone?!' (45 words)
I used to be on the old forums, but the site was really slow back them. I completely forgot about it for a while since there were not many people there. Hopefully this can grow into something. We need a classy place for tattoo chat....

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (98 words)
Screw painkillers. The hurt is part of the fun. I love the natural high that I get from getting work done. It makes me want to come back for more. Underneath by my armpit was the most tender spot that I had done so far. I heard funny bone can get you. My buddy also told me that pain killers ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Etiquette' (179 words)
yeah i hear ya, they're doin a job. as a hairstylist, i dont wanna talk to every customer and 'connect' with them either. sometimes you're just doing your job, and a lot of times i forget that the hair i'm workin on is on someone's head, just as i can imagine a tattooer will zone in ......

Reply to 'New Ink' (70 words)
Cant get enough::::My next tattoo is going to be on my wrist with fancy cursive saying Deeper than skin. Then im going to get my star filled solid black on my back.. then I was thinking of getting my foot done with a rosary around my ankle in memory of my dad ..I'm hoping to do a full ......

Reply to 'Tattoo Etiquette' (27 words)
every artist will tell ya they arent there to make friends. Yeah chemistry is awesome, but I could care less a long as the work is perfect....

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (8 words)
never heard of the shop. where about s.d.?...

Reply to 'Shops In San Diego...' (14 words)
Bill Canales at the Flying Panther...that's the guy I've been having work on me....

Reply to 'Tattoo Etiquette' (110 words)
"i honestly couldnt get tattooed by someone that i didnt like personally" That says it all for me right there. The guy that does all my work now, we can actually talk for all those hours I'm in the shop. I've gotten work done by others that I felt uncomfortable around and at the end of the session ......

Reply to 'Mad's Untitled Forum Post' (102 words)
I have quite a bit of work on me, most unfinished. I used to work in a tattoo shop and during downtime a lot of the work that gets done on employees is spur of the moment. Do I regret getting some of what I got, ya...kind of. We used to tell customers to pick something out and then ......

Reply to 'Where Is Everyone?!' (13 words)
I bet you're the one that told me to check this site out......

Reply to 'Musink Tattoo & Music Festival, Feb 22-24' (13 words)
thanks! i wonder if it will work on the "bill me later" option......

Reply to 'Musink Tattoo & Music Festival, Feb 22-24' (33 words)
If anyone wants to subscribe to this magazine I just found out that if you type in the word google you get a discount on the subscription...it cost only $16.95 instead of $29.95...

Reply to 'What Celeb Has The Best Tattoos??' (5 words)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ enough said right there!...

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (35 words)
thanks for the feed back. like i said i do not take pills before getting any work done nor do i condone it. just thought i would spice these forums up a little bit! :)...

Reply to 'New Ink' (42 words)
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....

Reply to 'New Ink' (33 words)
getting two large pieces either side of my rib cage on my 19th birthday. they will be kind of like paisley? the rest of my work is symmetrical .. can't break it now. ...

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (35 words)
ya i definately agree. pain killers are for pussy. the feeling after your tattoo is done feels way better than any pain killer. so dont be such a bitch, sit down and get it done...

Reply to 'New Ink' (83 words)
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 ......

Reply to 'Weakness ' (88 words)
(by 'another musician' i mean i'm a musician, and two musicians under one roof is one too many in my house. didn't mean i was previously married to a musician. of course, if i ever did marry a musician, it would probably have had to have been spoken about in past tense. many friends who are musicians. music ......

Reply to 'Weakness ' (67 words)
yeah we're pretty friggen cool LOL. she def inspires me. i'm a serious artist, and she's got no creative qualities whatsoever, and i love it that way! no way did i want to be married to another musician hahaha! hey, that presents another question... IS it infact better to have too much in common than not enough ......

Reply to 'Allen Iverson Vs. Carmelo Anthony' (40 words)
tats4u, i completely agree! have loved every issue of inked from the 1st one like 2 years ago, front to back twice. this is def the only 'forum' i even THINK about checking out, can't wait til it gets rockin!...

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (43 words)
alcohol is definitely a blood thinner. so are most pain killers, but pain killers are definitely NOT rock 'N roll. (for the record, pain killers arent gonna do squat. screw that. get tattooed. if it was that bad, nobody would do it. pussy.)...

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (20 words)
I'm all for doing it the old fashioned way... kick back a couple beers and a few shots and relax....

Reply to 'Allen Iverson Vs. Carmelo Anthony' (27 words)
Hey, I'm glad Inked is back on the street. I loved it when it first came out and I'm lovin it now. People will start coming here....

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (26 words)
yeah i know. it's a waste of the whole experience. once your endorphins start to kick in your body feels great! it's the most natural high....

Reply to 'Pain Killers Before A Tattoo...' (26 words)
It's a natrual adrenaline rush! Why would you want to dull that awesome high with painkillers! Pain is part of the process. Painkillers are for pussies......

Reply to 'Where Is Everyone?!' (116 words)
What do you do behind a computer for hours? This is aside from browsing and posting.. :) I too am behind a computer for a ridiculous amount of hours every day, but that's because its my profession and my passion. I may be showing my age, but I remember 20 years ago when before the web, we used to have ......

Reply to 'Weakness ' (15 words)
yeah ...... i know what you mean .. is there anyone like that out there??!!...

Reply to 'Weakness ' (24 words)
funny thing is my son's father has never been inked. whereas my prior ex-boyfriends have had tattoos and i loved it. kinda miss that....

Reply to 'Where Is Everyone?!' (22 words)
sounds great! thanks for the info. im behind this computer 8 hrs a day,so i definitly plan on utilizing all tools available....

Reply to 'Where Is Everyone?!' (58 words)
In answer to your question: it is in the works. This whole system was designed from the ground up with the mindset that we're going to mold it to the wants of those who utilise it. Signatures, photo attachments, text decoration (bold, italicisation, underline, etc), and other such features are in the works. Thanks for the feedback nonetheless. ...

Reply to 'Tattoo Etiquette' (56 words)
i honestly couldnt get tattooed by someone that i didnt like personally. i had a guy tell me in the middle of a tattoo that he was still drunk from the night before and i never went back! it's just like in any business that involves working with people. channel the bad day into the tattoo...

Reply to 'Weakness ' (22 words)
See I think the perfect girl would be this beautiful north eastern girl with a passion for the same music and tattoos...

Reply to 'Where Is Everyone?!' (34 words)
awesome! cant wait till everyone else joins in,then we can really start some trouble! i only go on one other forum.it's more of a music forum. hey can we post pic's on these threads?...

Reply to 'Weakness ' (36 words)
yeah i have to agree with that. my wife has about 1 for every 10 i have, and thats not a bad ratio, but i'm always tryin to talk her into gettin the big ink goin!...

Reply to 'Where Is Everyone?!' (27 words)
well hey, looks like there's about 4 of us, not a bad start lol! i remember the old forums though, they took a while to get going....

Reply to 'Weakness ' (29 words)
I agree. Although I noticed lately there aren't many female musicians with tattoos. What gives? Pink is probably the biggest female name in music who has tattoos. That's sad....

Reply to 'Tattoo Etiquette' (34 words)
I agree. I've definitely experienced some serious attitude at certain shops. Not sure why. There's a weird mystique to tattoos that enables that. That would kill any other business. Somehow these shops keep going. ...

Reply to 'Weakness ' (13 words)
of course! my son's father keeps on insisting that i get half sleeves......

Reply to 'Allen Iverson Vs. Carmelo Anthony' (52 words)
same reason i didnt respond to this thread before,those guys do suck! by the way why are we the only 2 people on here? i was so excited to see this forum up i thought more people would be using it. *shrugs* feel like im waiting for the cows to come home!...

Reply to 'Tattoo Etiquette' (48 words)
i think it's okay to be somewhat mysterious,soft-spoken and a little hard-edged,but please guys dont be a complete dick! lol! it's not so much about returning clients,but the experience of getting the tattoo. not only is this permanent ink on you,but it's a memory you will never forget....

Reply to 'Best Shop In Moscow' (48 words)
dont know anything about moscow, but there is a guy in france called Lionel, who works out of a shop called 'out of step' and he is rocking some of the most incredible avant-garde weirdness i've ever seen. totally stretches your idea of what a tattoo can be. ...

Reply to 'Allen Iverson Vs. Carmelo Anthony' (70 words)
i felt i should follow that up with the fact that i have more than one of those style of those tattoos right alongside some pretty high quality ones, so i'm not meaning to speculate on one's judgement, i too love crap tattoos. sometimes the aren't meant to be art, just bad ass! no ill will to ......

Reply to 'Allen Iverson Vs. Carmelo Anthony' (27 words)
i think they both suck! although i do love dirty, crappy, home-done, jail-style, tattoos, i wouldn't call any of whats on either of their bodies 'work' LOL...

Reply to 'New Ink' (58 words)
yeah, my guy is moving out of town too. got one last appt this sunday, and then he's off to boston. had some plans, now i dont know what i'm gonna do. been getting inked by the same dude for 4 years now. o well, find someone new i guess! won't hurt to give someone else a ......

Reply to 'Instant Sleeve' (50 words)
dude.. i just met a girl today with two full sleeves and a neck tattoo.. and guess what.. she's 18.. fucking gnarly.. i was noticing that most of her stuff was just random flash type of stuff.. she did however have a pretty dope virgin mary on her neck though....

Reply to 'Students' (54 words)
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 :)*...

Reply to 'Symbol Of Love' (43 words)
i think it can be anything.. i got some bombs dropping down my arm and a small explosion by my wrist.. so i can jokingly threaten to drop bombs on my nephew.. my way of showing him love.. tough love if you will....

Reply to 'Im Just Curious...' (20 words)
nice! sometimes i make it up to L.A. to party and go to shows. definitely a different pace from S.D....

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Story Of The Year Unleash The Black Swan (356 words)
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The Matches, A Band In Hope On New Album (441 words)

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Great Northern To Open For The Gutter Twins (549 words)
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Pegasuses-Xl Announce Debut Album, The Antiphon, Out February 26th On Ernest Jenning (769 words)
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Our Last Night Debut The Ghosts Among Us And Launch U.S. Tour (528 words)
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