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Long time no see ?
Got a little one yesterday after a few months' tattoo break (well not counting a smallish walk-in-day thingy from December) I'm totally hyped about! Going back to the insanely talented and super nice Mr. Romeo next month for some more work on that arm, AND getting something else done by one of the other guys at the studio on the other one at the same time. Should be quite interesting 
 
Edit: photo pinched from my tattooer's instagram

Tigress by Chris O'Donnell. There's no way that this photo does it justice! It wraps all the way around my thigh both front and back then up to my butt (and OMG, I love the tiger tail on my butt!). The photo looks a little distorted due to my inability to take a photo of it myself. Way up high, he tied in my existing peony with rocks and fngerwaves. It looks sweet.

dang thats mice. Makes me want to get a cat tattoo aswell 

dont catronize me. 

Billy Hill @IamBillyHill   https://envyskingallery.com
Colored in the dragon.
After my wallet heals, he'll start blending in the background.
 

It's been some time since I've posted in here. Just dropping by to show of a cool little something I got today. Done by Tato Toby at Thank You Tattoo in Copenhagen.
I've been in love with this design since he posted it as part of a flashsheet on Instagram some months ago. Today I finally got around to getting it done.
He also did a really cool fly filler on me, that I don't have a photo of right now..
Photo borrowed from Toby's Instagram (@tatotoby).

I've got a tattoo scheduled in about three weeks. Woohooooooo!

Good idea. Rose on Saturday from Reece, the shop apprentice at Cuba Street Tattoo. He didn't go crazy on shading just in case I decide I want him to put color in it before I leave NZ but I think I like it black for now.

Can't wait to carry on but I'm moving to Vietnam in a few weeks and every time I think "maybe just one more for the road" I log into my internet banking and my account keeps being all...

 

how about returning this thread to latest tattoos....? 

someone call the tattoo police

I looked through his profile, and can't locate anywhere where he is claiming to be a tattoo artist, or even giving advice out as one. He explicitly stated he's only tattooing himself, so who cares? Just let it go. 

Per the forum guidelines:
Do not start threads asking about specific tattooing equipment or techniques, LST is not here to teach anyone how to tattoo. Ask your own tattooer, the next time you are getting tattooed. Maybe they'll answer you, maybe they won't.

If you don't know what a scratcher is then I can't really help you.

I wonder how thats going to look settled in, be sure to show us
 

Ok, the last one in my whirlwind of 3 appointments in 3 weeks. Finished up this one from Chauncey "CK" Kochel. 

A few day after photos. Sorry for the poor quality. 

Went last night to have a peony recolored. It was done by a different artist a few years ago and everything else sort of grew up around it. Now it feels more like a part of the whole shebang and I love the purple. Husband had more work done on his tiger. We were supposed to go before Christmas and ended up w/another blizzard so we had to reschedule..just like last winter argh!
Also spent some discussion time w/my artist about continuing the wind/water theme elsewhere so I'm kinda excited about that.

Got the colour started on this on Tuesday, can't wait to see the finished product. Going to be amazing.

Here is Alien's Ripley, all healed up :) Done by Zaed at Radical Ink Tattoo, Bucharest.
This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.

My friend Nathan got a backpiece from Steve Moore after emailing him for ten years. He got a response to his final email which read: "Dear Steve, My name is Nathan and I have been emailing you every few months for 10 years..." Less than a year later he had a killer completed backpiece.

Getting the colour started on this one on Tuesday. Another 6 hour session, can't wait!

Put some work into the 2nd layer last nite and ran over some old tattoo with new.


It was an awesome time. Trevor is an old pal from our teenage punk years. We teased him when he was the first of our friends to get some tattoo. And now he's tattooing us 2 decades later. It's really funny.
3 swallows blasted over the background of my 13 year old St. Francis tattoo. All draw on.  Used spearmint, lipstick red inks and some old National Yellow pigment for extra cool points. Cheers

Sorry for your loss.
It appears to be a well placed and well executed tattoo.
Is it the design you hate, or does it have something deep to do with making your mom's passing really real?

Finished up my tiger with Chris O'Donnell on Friday. We added chrysanthemums, rocks and fingerwaves. I'm over the moon with the way it looks (healed photos to come) and thrilled that I never have to have the back of my thigh tattooed again! Oh, and all while having a full on vertigo.