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Progress with Chelsea Kotzur... color next. 

My first ever tattoo!
Done by Pedro Soos at Frontier Tattoo, Cardiff.

Kim Saigh @ Memoir in L.A. added on to my half-sleeve to match my other arm. Impressed by how seamless she made it look. Healed pics by @TrixieFaux.

Got in a short session with Jess Yen on my in progress back piece
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIbWbdxjxB3/

Hmm weird, lets try again! I can't seem to find the edit post option so i appologize in advance for posting this one again to anyone who has allready seen it ;)
The first picture is how it looked 10 minutes after it was done last monday. Now it looks like it does on the second picture and itches like hell.

So last session today finishing up the dragon and the background on my sleeve. 
Arm by Daniel Innes at The Pearl Harbour Gift Shop in Toronto 

Gatorade, Sour Patch Kids, headphones, tissues to wipe away the tears.

Hi All!
I really like the look of well-executed munewari. I have only seen it on men and a few smaller breasted women.  As a larger breasted woman I am interested to see how munewari reads on...big boobs.  So.  To that end, does anyone have pictures to share? (lol good thing i've been here before because that ALMOST sounds creepy). Anyway, pictures of women, preferably with larger breasts, with munewari to the nipple.  (definitely sounds creepy. but i'm doing it for the tattoos guys!)
Thaaaankkks!
beez
(ps SF peeps, think i'll be down in the last half of august for tattoo!)

I've decided to take my stuff in a more defined direction, here is a new piece along the lines of where I'm trying to go.

Finished this last week, already posted it on instagram, but you can't really see the whole thing. Lots of fun. I do love reapers.

@chrisnoluck that's rad! love the feets :P
this is a pencil drawing I did for a show last week. graphite is a pain in the ass, haha

this is the full sized piece that I have as my profile picture:
oil and liquid leaf on pine

I think for most people this won't look like much has been done, but oh well! All of the black/shading, with the exception of some clouds we're going to add, is now done. All of the lining, too. We had to line two more dragon feet and I thought I was going to die. If I never see another liner that size again, it'll be too soon! So now we get to start color after this, and I can't wait. 

Greg Whitehead and all that.
 

Alix Ge added this awesome Hannya on my forearm
 
 

MANGY (unhappy) PANTHER by Theo Mindell. 
 

by Gus at Olde City Tattoo in Philly

I recently got this incredible peacock from Luke Jinks at Cloak and Dagger. The picture I pinched from his instagram page also shows a glimpse of a Bert Grimm sun I got from Nick Mayes when he guested at Frith Street back in March.

Finally finished this huge thigh piece a few days ago, loosely based on the cover for one of my favorite metal albums! Pictures taken a couple hours after when I was still ridiculously red and swollen. I'll be sure to post better pics once it's done peeling. Done by Sam Warren at Dreams Collide in Lancaster, PA. 

Pic from the front/side:


From the back:

Got my the lower part of my sleeve worked on today - Dragon scales done and the colour done on the Jizu and on the Kannon. After 3 appointments of solid lining, I'm happy to have some shading done.

i usually just bring the body part thats getting tattooed

great feedback - i guess thinking about it i do have some specific feedback
first i like @Graeme line of thinking with the poll
i think once the month ends - you put up the poll and allowing a voting to occur - makes the whole process much more like a contest - i know myself there were probably plenty of months when I 'liked' all the tattoos posted - which kinda made it like i didnt vote at all i guess
second - i wouldnt worry about themes and categories - when the contest was stopped one of the main issues was lack of posting particpation 
i do think it should be opened up to all tattoos though - clean slate - of course from that point a tattoo should only be allowed to be entered one time 
also i think that each member should be limited to one post / entry per month
i do think its ok to post the tattooer - hey - we are gonna know who did it anyway as most people also post in the lowdown where it is customary to post the artist name
now - are large pieces gonna have an advantage - maybe
are pieces from favored tattooers gonna have an advantage - maybe
but who cares - its all in good fun
let the games begin :)

I would suggest changing how the voting works, if possible.  There was always an advantage to the people who posted their tattoos first.  If you posted a tattoo towards the middle or end of the month you basically didn't have much of a chance regardless of the tattoo.  If it wouldn't be a complete pain in the ass to implement and administrate, what about something like a ranked ballot where, at the end of the month, people can choose their first, second, third favorite tattoos and assign, say 5 points to first, 3 to second, and 1 to third and tabulate that to decide a winner.
 
Could also be fun to run contests around themes like skulls, birds, flowers, or whatever.
 
Healed up and settled in stuff would be cool too.