Trivia: Cats are very suspicious of new tattoos.
By Lila, Enlightened Art, Oakville.
Celebrating Caturday
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Spider Tattoo Scar Augmentation
I was going to take the weekend off from posting here, but since people seemed to enjoy the idea of the hemangioma tattoo that I posted yesterday, let me add something in the same vein that I liked a lot as well. My friend Caglar, who tattoos at Tattoo Zone in Ankara, Turkey, had a customer come in that had surgery on his belly leaving him with a scar and several indentations — Caglar added a tattoo of a spider, with the legs stepping into the indents.
Snowflakes Tattoo
I’ve posted a few snowflake themed pieces recently, all very nice, including Lauren’s large swirl of snowflakes, each one different, by Nic McMillian at Big Delux in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Papa Noel Loves Tattoos!
My friends from Monkysbodymods (La Serena, Chile) were at what was I think the 11th annual Sao Paulo, Brasil tattoo convention, and who was there but Papa Noel — yes, he really is a full-on professional Santa Claus, with the tattoos to match!
Damn Code Hippies
If there’s one thing I like on a programmer more than a scraggly beard, it’s got to be a geeky tattoo. I’ll leave this code tattoo’s function as an in joke, but it was done by Brandon at High Priestess Piercing and Tattoo in Corvallis, Oregon.
Mike Tyson, Inverted.
As I understand the rules of copying tattoos, if a white guy wants to copy a black guy’s blackwork tattoo, he has to do it in white ink, right? Ah, St. Petersburgh, I love your rejection of the Berne Convention. Copy or not, I do like the tattoo a lot.
Getting your money’s worth
Does this count as reusing needles? There’s another shot of Calico’s 18ga play piercings, with the needles woven in and out of the flesh, after the break.
Hemangioma Tattoo
I was going to write that this was a “hemangioma coverup”, but that’s not really right because it doesn’t cover up the hemangioma, it augments it and attracts attention to it even, but transforms it from random “defect” to something desired. Debelka Attila at Bizzzarttattoo in Cluj, Romania did the procedure.
Leopard Print Cheekbone
This great leopard print facial tattoo, done by Dan at Amazing Grace Body Arts, Geneva, NY, is there to commemorate the wearer’s love of being asked “is that makeup?” on an hourly basis for the rest of her life.
Tattoo removal, emphasis on “removal”?
More like tattoo replacement…? Or maybe this is one of those Merchant of Venice type removals where one has to debate exactly what’s getting removed to come up with a pound of flesh.
This customer of Shawn O’Hare‘s came into Fillmore Tattoo and Piercing not particularly liking his old cliché of a tribal tattoo, so Shawn replaced it with a nice hefty keloid version of itself that’s much nicer. They got almost all of the ink out, but it looks like a few specs stayed as a ghost.
