Call me soft but fingernail and toenail modification is one of the few things I just cant get desensitized to. These were uploaded by MAX! in 2009 and if you’re still out there MAX! We’d love to see a follow up!
I think you know where this is going.
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From what I can gather this was an attempt to prevent nail regrowth by using a soldering iron. I’m not sure what the long term effectiveness was on this but it is an interesting concept none the less.
I ran across Pahakaksonen’s nail bed tattoo in the gallery today and it got me thinking that although we’ve talked about nail bed tattoos before I don’t know that I’ve ever seen one where the nail has fully regrown.
Giving directions just got way easier
I would imagine that healing a missing fingernail isn’t the easiest thing in the world, so the fact that more ink didn’t fall out of this is pretty neat. I can clearly tell what it is, and I wonder if it will hold up as well (or better) than a conventional tattoo.
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Get it…a little more light? No? Nothing?
Here’s a simple and beautiful set of dotwork finger tattoos done by Kenji Alucky while guest spotting at New York Adorned. It’s hard to make ink stay on the palm-side of the fingers, but this style of dotwork gives it the best chance of success (it’s fresh in this photo).
Following up the post I made earlier today about the great new tattooing that Lucky Diamond Rich is getting I wanted to remind people that he’s also a tattoo artist at Jinxproof Tattoo Studio in Geelong, Victoria. This little thumb skull — and who doesn’t love skull thumbs? — that he did for Tonii particularly caught my eye because it’s got one of those special little touches that 99.9% of the time you’ll only see if you know what to look for. Meaning, that it’s something that’ll bring one of those sneaky smiles to the wearer’s face when they’re reminded of it as they look down at their hands, creeping out everyone else at the funeral (or whatever). If you haven’t noticed it yet even with all that hinting — the skull has a gold tooth. Little details like this really separate the wheat from the chaff.
These days its all about the friendship tattoos. Especially when they involve blacking out an entire digit.
Lucass (the toe) and his friend Brad decided to get these tattoos prior to Brad moving away to Seattle.
The tattoos were done by Sylvia and Ken from Nathan’s Anthems in Redding, CA
She lead the others with a quack, quack, quack.
Tattoo by Dan Holtan from Rendezvous Tattoo in Marquette, MI.
On the left is Carlovely with her fangtastic Twilight inspired finger fangs by Andrew Stortz, Body Art Tattoo, Plattsburgh, NY.
On the right? Well it’s a moustache and it’s by Emiliano, Happy Family Tattoo, Italy.
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