“Needles + Ribbon = Beautiful, Beautiful + Painful = Perfect”, writes one of my favorite contributors (and one of the winners of the recent BMEgirls contest), IAM:ennui zero. Oh, and here’s another night’s photo if you prefer girl-girl lacing (myself, I prefer the solo gown shots). I’m lovin it™.
I am guessing this tattoo by Carla Hopkins at No Ka Oi Tiki in Philly could be interpreted in many ways depending on your bias and what type of encounter you hope or fear having with the objects in said pants. Cuntcumber who sends the picture says, “it’s not what it looks like, I swear!”
The tattoo is by Robert at 334 Bowery Tattoo (which Clive and I just walked past a few days ago on our travels) in NYC… and if I remember how locks work, the door here is latched, but at least open a crack, which ironically is also feels like the story of my life right now.
Miss Kiki and Kola, picture by Ale AKA Banana.
I think I’ve posted drumstick tattoos up the forearms in the past, and I’m not adding these so you can see the theme… I’m posting it because they sent a couple pictures of how the tattoo twists with the arm and I thought it was kind of neat! By the Brazilian guys from Max Tattoo in Bologna, Italy.
I really like the new facial work that Donkey Boy got from Andy Barela at American Graffiti in Las Cruces, NM. It’s a simple concept, but I’m a big fan of the “repeated triangles” school of tribal.
Damn, this is pretty intense in terms of just how much of a percentage of the outer conch is gone — a punch, repunch, and then taper to 000ga (about 7/16″). Piercing by Modified-Design, Sherman, TX (c/o IAM:Jessestar).
I admit, I had to couldn’t stop myself from looking it up — according to the dictionary this means “someone who is rude or difficult due to sand irritating their vagina.”. I’m not so sure it’s the toe tattoo that I’d choose for myself, ha, but Christfuck says at least it’s a conversation piece — ink by Ish at Tattoo City in Monroe, Ohio.
I have a couple more examples of really nice healed fine-line scarification work to post over the next little while, but let’s start with this one in a Celtic theme… That is why you’re looking at this picture, right? The healed cutting?
My friend and photographer Efrain Gonzalez sends in this photo of a series of pinup tattoos taken at the recent NYC Tattoo Convention (2006). Let’s see… since I like making everything a game, how many of the pinups can you identify by name?
