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Seconded! I have a sleeve from him. His new shop is gorgeous.

I have a tiny-ass tattoo on the back of my neck--it shows all the time because I have short hair (when I got it I had hair down to my ass of course) but nobody has ever treated it like a big deal, though it does generate more stupid questions than anything else I've got. My fault for getting something in a foreign alphabet. It seems more on the level of a little wrist tattoo than something more in your face like the side of the neck. It might be different if you have the WHOLE of the back of your neck covered, but if people are gonna stare at me like a three-headed peacock, it's never because of that one.

Stephanie lined the rest of my Quetzalcoatl dragon at Saved yesterday. Stoked because it's an awesome, huge tattoo, and now half my squidpants are done. It's maybe also a little bittersweet because I'm officially running out of real estate now. Cannot wait for warmer weather and shorts season!

Took my baby (21 year old) sister to the aquarium yesterday and got to pet sharks. It was awesome.

@Graeme @Pugilist & @else: You guys are making my wait until all of FRIDAY seem interminable!

I'm not an expert on etiquette by any means, but I've never minded the couple times it's happened to me. Anyway I look exactly like this.

Skinny jeans actually worked kind of well for me last time around--they're tight enough that they don't rub the tattoo like regular jeans, but don't cling and get stuck to it like tights or leggings.

I'm starting my back. Panther and snake!

Me too! Do you know what you're getting?

I'm personally grateful for the built-in filter that my tattoos provide; I have enough now that the guys who don't like 'em mostly don't bother to approach me. Narrowing the dating pool a little isn't necessarily a bad thing--a whole category of "not good for me" I don't have to worry about! My current boyfriend has no tattoos but has seen me through about half of my collection, and has been pretty supportive of it.

Here's mine all healed up. By Nick Colella.

Exciting!! If you're still around that Friday come say hello!

I have a bad ass Pharaoh's Horses on my chest! I should get a healed photo of that one one of these days.

I just booked my trip for my next session--I go back on the 22nd and I'm lookin' forward to it. :)

Mine killed too, the second time.

That's exactly how I feel about New York, except I'm still on my way to a full bodysuit and a cardboard box. Good thing cardboard boxes in Ohio are dirt cheap.

I love his tattoos.

I don't think I limped for more than a few days, but when I had the outside of my right leg tattooed, it took almost a month before I had a normal-sized ankle again. Cankle doesn't even begin to describe it. Legs are weird I guess.

Was it the tinga poblana? That is my all-time favorite recipe. Love that cookbook in general.

She really is one of the best people ever, and the tattoo she's doing is definitely one of my favorites in my collection. Adding her to your tattoo doom is nothing but a good idea.

Thanks! I'm getting a giant Quetzalcoatl dragon from her--the head is right on my knee. She posted a bunch of designs back in December and I immediately wanted one. She's an awesome person to get tattooed by.

Here's the little Bob Wicks piece I got from Ron Wells last weekend. The day before Stephanie Tamez lined my knee (ouch!). Hell of a fucking weekend. Photo from Ron's Instagram.

Two so far. I have a black rose from last summer, and just got some Bob Wicks flash from him. - - - Updated - - - Two so far. I have a black rose from last summer, and just got some Bob Wicks flash from him.

Totally worth it! I think I'd feel that way about certain places I schlep to if I hadn't lucked out and found someone I liked a bunch here. I just got back from one of those long trips myself.

I'm about fifty-fifty. I have a local tattooer that's done about half my work, and I travel for the rest. I like to have a home shop.