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  1. I suppose I'll contribute to our collection of giant ass-flowers. Finished a few weeks ago by Grez!
    16 points
  2. More progress on my back piece this weekend. Artist: Jill Bonny - State of Grace (The bird and side piece were already there)
    15 points
  3. As long as they're good tattoos, I don't really care what suddenly takes off as a trend. What sucks is that trendy stuff invites a lot of imitators who copy without knowing what they're doing (there's a lot of really wonky mandalas out there, for example). But I find it hard to care, particularly as a client, what images are "trending" as long as they're done well. None of us are all that original.
    11 points
  4. Sleeve-y sleeve being done in Beijing. Chinese Opera/flower/bat freehand jazz.
    8 points
  5. I feel like I've been seeing tons of peonies. But then again it could just be because I'm digging the design and hope to get some someday... And clearly monmon cats are all the rage.
    7 points
  6. Squid stance and all the glory of being a foreigner busting out kung fu steez in front of the famous Beijing Shi Cha Hai Sports Institute (where Jet Li trained):
    7 points
  7. ThatGuy

    LST Animal Lovers

    Thought that Amy deserves a post. My 1.5 year old frenchie.
    6 points
  8. Iwar

    Mid Year Assessments

    http://instagram.com/p/jXmpkuMVAH/#
    6 points
  9. tatB

    Mid Year Assessments

    Lots of killer rose morphs. Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk
    6 points
  10. Thank you! Yeah I really like color tattoos, I'm not particular in that way. But I think when you start to get many not too large tattoos and they're all in different color schemes you end up looking like a explosion in a paint factory. Not that there is anything wrong with that, some people pull it off , but being of my particular kind I would find it impossible to dress and end up only dressing in black clothes. Also I would probably be like "man.. I really wish this blue was a little bit more teal" after like 10 years. I don't know, I can only speculate on what it would be like. Black and gray on skin looks so nice. To each it's own I guess.
    6 points
  11. Graeme

    Mid Year Assessments

    We're all a bunch of unoriginal bastards anyway. Waiting for chromed out shit to come back.
    5 points
  12. Lance

    Mid Year Assessments

    I don't know if the guy is on here or not but I actually recollect seeing someone on IG getting a monmon cat back piece with a Fudo Myo-o back piece. Yeah, it was pretty jaw dropping incredible.
    5 points
  13. el twe

    Mid Year Assessments

    Who's gonna be the first to get a monmon cat backpiece?
    5 points
  14. Just finished. Mask by Anderson Luna. Hopefully the detailing will hold and not turn into a blurry blob down the road.
    5 points
  15. Scott R

    Upcoming Tattoos

    I have an appt with Steve bryne in august
    5 points
  16. Rose morph was huge in 98-2002 (and probably a decade before, and probably a decade before). It's a good thing to come back.
    4 points
  17. suburbanxcore

    Hallo all...

    Hate em.
    4 points
  18. Ladies with animal headdresses and hirsute gents with bushy beards and/or curly mustaches may have reached the oversaturation point but I will never tire of tattoos with tattoos be they monmon cats or peoples.
    4 points
  19. El Dolmago

    Japanese Script

    it should be written vertically - top down. And the stroke direction of how you write a character can change the meaning. You should know though there are actually 2 "alphabets" which are phonetic and don't include a number of english sounds, as well as roman script and the Chinese Kanji characters in Japanese - so 4 ways to write one thing - each having different implications. Hiragana is the script for native Japanese words, and Katakana for foreign words. So if I was writing my name in Japanese I could write it 4 ways - Erin, エリン(elin- a foreigner), えりん(elin - if i was born in Japan - also how my name was written on my bank stuff), or 英鈴 (Ei-lin which translates to English Bell - if I was a Japanese national). Be careful with tattoos of a language you don't speak - or have a native speaker to correct for you. I lived in Japan and speak some Japanese, and still don't trust myself. I have a Kanji as part of a larger tattoo on my back for my Japanese astrology, the year of the ox (or ushi). Google and most tattoo flash said to use the Kanji 牛 but my native speaker friend, who is also a calligrapher said the symbol for the year was actually 丑、as 牛 basically just means cow - like on a menu. Always double check. Also things do not always mean/ translate to what you think- for example my stepbrother named his dog what he thought was "child of the forest" in Japanese - what he actually named her was Kuniko- it means mushroom.
    4 points
  20. I got this from Tom Yak at Electric Tattoo on Saturday. It's not a great picture because it's hard to take a picture of the back of your own arm, but you get the idea. Electric is a great shop.
    4 points
  21. Decided to quickly drop my pants in a field Crow - Bert Krak Rock of ages - Steve Byrne Strongman - Stacey Ann Golliwog - Steve Byrne Pharoes horses - Steve Byrne Gorilla - Dan Santoro Tengu -Steve Byrne Rose of nomans land - Steve Byrne Grimm Reaper - Eli Quinters Not that many right now but until last July I only had two
    3 points
  22. @Mick Weder Thanks a ton for the share. It means a lot. Getting back into normal life is definitely difficult. Living on the edge, or at time going past it, has really made me into a different person than I was as a kid. It started in middle school for me, when I saw the kids who were getting high and listening to underground music and wanted to get into their clique. Now, I have a few friends who aren't heavy drinkers or are trying to get sober, and it's a journey for sure. Went to another meeting last night with my sister's boyfriend. The speaker was awesome. He was this old punk dude who went through so much, and is now going on 32 years sober and clean. His stories were very inspiring. He had some cool things to say about the whole God part of NA, which I found supportive of my own views. Saw someone who ran cross country at my high school's sister school and talked with her for a while. Going to a welcome to NA meeting tonight and a CA meeting tomorrow.
    3 points
  23. I just want to say that I hate healing my inner thighs and I am the grossest right now.
    3 points
  24. tiny arrows, black stipple stuff...everyone wants a mandala a la hooper, tribal coming back but all of these are not yet fully saturated just see a lot of them. give it a few years and everyone will hate it. inevitable. then the next trend will start. the other stuff everyone has mentioned mostly it feels like i have seen for the last 5 years. except mon mon cats that shit is pretty recent also there has to be at least 10k tattoos of that butterfly head winged dietzel girl
    3 points
  25. Iwar

    Mid Year Assessments

    Log cabins! Usually with smoke pouring out the chimney, mountains & pine trees for background and maybe a couple birds chirping around. First couple I saw I thought to myself "hmm, that's kinda neat", but when they started popping up in my instagram feed on the daily they got old real fast. At least for me.
    3 points
  26. Thank you, again! Yeah I know, especially the ROA could be more dramatic in color. Also done by Peter Lagergren and his ways with doing color tattoos is just beyond. I've seen some quite complicated healed ones by him and they look truly amazing. If you don't know him I highly suggest you check out his stuff. I don't know about how popular it is to get only b&g and only/mainly traditional but to me, judging by "the internet" it seems that quite a few people are doing it. I think it's a great strong look, a bit more primitive and raw looking than having a lot of color and fine lines. Actually I'm trying to get some prettier pieces as not to look too grim
    3 points
  27. It's constant to stay on top eh mate?! Ya know, I remember when I was young and started dropping lots of LSD & mushrooms and shit, I did it 'cause it was fun, and ya just don't realise how quickly everything spirals out of control. From there I started shooting amphetamine. When I realised I had an amphet problem, I started shooting smack to wean off the speed...so it was like shoot speed in the AM, shoot smack in the PM and instead of having one, now we had fuckin' two addictions to battle. Man, a few years living like this is one thing...but I find the hardest battles it not so much the physical addictions I needed to conquer, but the integration back into "normal" society. Dealing with the Mr & Mrs Jones's of the world. When ya lived on the edge man, it's real hard to find stimulation at times. They're the times I find myself at my weakest. It took a long, long time to understand what it meant about it being "for life"...actually, I think I just started to work this out recently. You know...you're gonna draw lots of strength from this journey mate. Embrace those positives :) I wouldn't normally throw something so personal like this out there, but the topics here & thought....fuck it.
    3 points
  28. Lots of INSANE backpieces
    3 points
  29. SeeSea

    LST Animal Lovers

    My kitty Molly has 2 masses in her abdomen we found from an ultrasound today. They sent away cells for testing. It looks like one may be obstructing her stomach causing nausea and vomiting. They may have to do exploratory surgery to know for sure. She is 16 and a sweet little thing. I'm not sure what to wish for from the test results, other than that we could cause her as little pain as possible. God, animals just wrap their little furry paws around your heart.
    3 points
  30. It's 2014 and tattooing has come along way. What images have been the most tattooed? Where do you see the rest of the year going? What trends are you hating? Which are you loving, however reluctantly?
    2 points
  31. Your collection is amazing. I love the b&g look and I think the way they all work together really brings a great cohesion to your leg tattoos. I have a ton of color in most of my tattoos, but if I had to do it again, I'd give very serious consideration to having more b@g.
    2 points
  32. Scott R

    Upcoming Tattoos

    @elseWe spoke for a bit at SOG convention and had a nice list of subject matter. I settled on geisha with tiger and some secondary elements
    2 points
  33. peterpoose

    Mid Year Assessments

    People with gas masks and octopuses :(
    2 points
  34. The one real positive thing I've noticed developing is that dudes, & dudettes who are suiting down are starting to really appreciate "heavy", not just washing in work. That draws a line in the sand between a fad & a commitment. I think yas all know what I'm talking about here! Oh...I see lots of air balloons getting around. What's up (haha!! up) with that!?...not that there's anything wrong with fkn air balloons or anything, just wondering.
    2 points
  35. Fala

    Mid Year Assessments

    Agree with @HaydenRose. Though, I have a peony and am on the monmon cat list... Lots of koi this year too. Yes @beez! The bent back/skull gals! And moths/butterflies. - - - Updated - - - Kitsune and foxes in general
    2 points
  36. beez

    good client behavior

    Ahahaha thanks lance, I giggled. I had ultra hairy (for me) calves when I started on my leg. I wasn't expecting to work on my calf and wore knee socks thinking I was super smart because we were only working on my thigh, and she could access that really easily if I just pulled up my skirt - I really planned for this and thought I was super smart, but she had other plans and I stood for an hour on a chair with my hairy legs out for all. She did not shave them, and hasn't shaved any part of me (okay, this is getting weird) before tattooing me ever. And then the next day my feet were really dirty looking because it was raining and black dye from my shoes melted on to my feet as I was walking to the shop so I had hairy legs and dirty feet (though I was freshly showered). So I guess this is an example of good client *intentions* :p. Next sitting I had a pedicure and leg wax. (Starting to sound remarkably similar to a date. Hm.) Hopefully made up for the time previous!
    2 points
  37. beez

    Mid Year Assessments

    Bent back gals!
    2 points
  38. Well, my backpiece was started 4 months ago, and is already nearing completion. After day after a session I was looking forward to the next session, but everytime when that time came, and the needle hit my back somewhere I thought 'Why did I want a backpiece?!' 'Luckily' putting the lines in was pure hell for me, so everything else after that is like a breeze (well... it still hurts like hell on my back and ass ;-) )
    2 points
  39. El Dolmago

    Upcoming Tattoos

    To be fair I totally enabled him getting his panther head and was THIS close to getting the octopus on my arm at the same time... we do feed each other on this
    2 points
  40. I got a dagger through a skull and a snake because, really unless I added a panther how much better can that get?
    2 points
  41. it is a sexual thing. the dagger symbolizes a penis. i have a dagger stabbing through a skull and eagle because i love skulls and i fuckin love america.
    2 points
  42. Chromed out panther.
    1 point
  43. fucking love that tattoo - - - Updated - - - thinking about the first modern recorded tattoo's would all be polynesian. those tattoos were supposed to convey power. powerful images are awesome. what could be more poweful than somethings head run through
    1 point
  44. Thank you @Cork @a1steaks @Iwar! @Cork your back is also looking great! Nice meeting you Greg. I am sure we will cross paths again. I can't wait to see your front when its done because it is looking killer right now.
    1 point
  45. Art school.
    1 point
  46. Wilhell

    Full Back Piece Thread

    I can see the end, possibly one sitting left. As you may see in the dragons belly, my body doesn´t like the the powder blue pigment Marius used in it, so his going to blast over with the same blue color that he used in the sword.
    1 point
  47. Pugilist

    LST Animal Lovers

    I love Ella!!!!!!!! Want to kiss that little nose so bad!!!!! We have been having a nice time with Daisy since the weather got warmer. Here she is, stoked on the return of long talks in the park. She is the best. I love her absurd ears.
    1 point
  48. @passive jay. He means American traditional, it's the most popular style on this forum, so other styles don't get the same attention. That's really nicely done though and looks as though you like your futurama tattoos! The objection to the white, is because solid white tends to turn a slight yellow after the time an doesn't hold up so well, some artists use it, some only use it for highlights.
    1 point
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