Latest tattoo lowdown.....

[Iwar]

[ATTACH]12692[/ATTACH] Chris Conn, done yesterday.

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Holy moley!! That's so beautiful @TrixieFaux. Congrats!!

[polliwog]

@TrixieFaux that is completely fucking badass...looks amazing with your other tattoos.

[DeathB4Decaf]

What a beautiful tattoo, @TrixieFaux

[SeeSea]

@marley mission - that is so great! You have some awesome tattoos - such personality.

[SeeSea]

Boy, I disappear for a couple weeks and come back to several pages of kick-ass tattoos! You guys rock it!

[UglyButProud]

From last Saturday at Great Lakes Tattoo in Chicago

Nick Colella -big-ass eagle (chest)

Mario Desa - rose of no mans..tribute (ankle)

Frank Willian - pocket knife filler (inner arm ditch)

It was a good day.... besides getting 3 killer tattoos, I got to hang out and bullshit with Chad Koeplinger and Robert Ryan and the rest of the GLT crew plus it was Robert Ryan's "The Radiant Name" art opening downstairs. GLT is probably the nicest shop I've ever been in and everybody was super nice and fun.....

[1981]

Done by Greg Woodrow, Taunton Tattoos - Oshawa ON Canada

[el twe]

It was a good day.... besides getting 3 killer tattoos, I got to hang out and bullshit with Chad Koeplinger and Robert Ryan and the rest of the GLT crew plus it was Robert Ryan's "The Radiant Name" art opening downstairs. GLT is probably the nicest shop I've ever been in and everybody was super nice and fun.....

I guess 'jealous' begins to describe it...

[joakim urma]

Shiiiiet, people been getting awesome work lately. Hats off ya'll!

[losParanoyas]

Started some dot shading last weekend. Quick 2-hour session with Thomas Hooper until next time, which will be in August. I need to take a month or so off so I can swim with the kids over their summer break. Once we're done with shading this section, we're gonna hammer out whats going on in the lower belly area and right ribs.

crap...sorry the pic is loading horizontally. I'll see if I can fix that.

[Chemical Burn]

Got some healed pictures of this one recently:

Lighting isn't great but but you get the idea. And to think I told myself I wouldn't get more band tattoos.

[PizzaSteve]

Got this about a month ago from Jeff Zuck of Name Brand in Ann Arbor. Definitely going back!

[marley mission]

Got this about a month ago from Jeff Zuck of Name Brand in Ann Arbor. Definitely going back!

damn thats good stuff

[bongsau]

Lucky Strike Tattoo in Edmonton, AB hosted their annual summer slam party this weekend !!

It was a super fun time. Lots of tattoo show n tell, good tattoo talks with fellow collectors, jello shooters, moonshine, parking lot burnouts, picture machine flash jokes and got drunk with some new buds. I hadn't even cracked my first beer (4pm) and Scotty's like "it's a friggin tattoo shop take your shirts off".

Got to check out some wicked tattoos in the flesh...Lucas Ford fudo backpiece, Steve Moore backpiece, a bunch of Steve Batt tattoos, a Steve Byrne ROA in progress backpiece (!), Bailey Robinson, Koeplinger, OllieXXX, Smilin' Dave and of course lots of fresh and aged tattoos from the Lucky Strike cats of new and old (Sam Sheinin, Bobby Tripp, Miles Kanne, Scott Rusnak, Brent Smith, Chris Iwaniuk, Myke, Julie).

Anyway, got this super dope photo of Scott Rusnak and some fellow clients in the bodysuit club.

from L-R ... Steve(?), Scott Rusnak, Derek, myself. Too bad we didn't get a backside shot...

IG @ scottrusnak one of the most underrated young tattooers in Western Canada...he does really bright and vivid Trevino-esque Japanese style tattoos with attention to the details. Highly recommend him.

IG @ lucky_strike_tattoo great local shop, quality artists and a really fun place to hang.

some bongsau facts...30% of my tattoos have been completed at Lucky Strike, 40% if you include the Electric Tattoo days from 10 years ago!

[hogg]

I gotta hand it to you, @bongsau. You make me feel not-so-tattooed. Very solid look you got.

[bongsau]

@hogg haha thx mon

WHA GWAN COL-O-RING BOOK !

"Mi skin a run outta space / But mi have plenty more fi go a-ha a-ha"

LOL

this is the funnest time though in my tattoo journey...got some plans for small tattoos and tattoos-over-tattoos to make everything even more dense haha

[Pugilist]

I LOVE that tattoo @PizzaSteve !

[CABS]

I gotta hand it to you, @bongsau. You make me feel not-so-tattooed. Very solid look you got.

Digging the tattoos Bongsau! And Ross is pretty heavily tattoooed, so that's a bold statement.

[UglyButProud]

This happened yesterday...

It wasn't until this morning I figured out I didn't have photo before tegaderm got put on. Outline/black shading done in April and the rest finished yesterday.

Artist: Tony Caporusso

[SeeSea]

This happened yesterday...

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Love! The colors are awesome and look great together.

[MarvelAvengers]

1st session of my 3rd Marvel installment. This was by far my hardest sit yet. The lining was relatively mild until he got the the middle of my chest. Just above the nibble was "okay" and toward the arm pit was rather unpleasant. We moved on to black shading and let me say the pain meter quickly got into the straight-up suckage levels. By that point my chest started looking pretty red and swollen. That being said I am extremely happy with the super tight line work. In 2 weeks we will knock out spiderman and see how far we can get on the background and filler.

I also picked up a new tattoo aftercare salve from a recent show called Vitalitree. The texture is similar to Redemption but smells a little bit like lavender and brown. I think it goes on a little smoother and does a great job with the redness. One of the ingredients is from the Tepezcohuite (miracle skin tree). It has analgesic, antibacterial, and promotes cell regeneration and minimize scaring. I'm only 12 hours removed from my session, so I can't give a detailed review, but so far it has helped with the redness and I have minimal discomfort. As for healing methods, I truly feel that the reason there are so many aftercare methods is because for the most part unless you do something stupid you will heal just fine.

Anyway, here is the progress.

[misterJ]

so you have captain america, iron man, and spidey now. Are you following a theme of any sort?

I think if you are slowly going to cover yourself in comic heroes, then go balls out and get some crazy battle scene. You must have a favorite.

[MarvelAvengers]

Well, honestly this all started out with Captain America being a coverup, then the other trying to match the dynamics. I still have plenty of room on my back but not sure which route I wan to go because a battle scene will take up a lot of real estate. I also kind of want to stick to the "good guy" characters.

[iowagirl]

My frog looks so much better now! I got him originally in 1998 so he was 17...not sure how old that is in frog years but he's way cuter now. He even has freckles!!

I let Dominic pick all the colors, and we discussed where we're going next w/the expansion-I told him he has free reign for design and colors and he was pretty stoked about that.

[SeeSea]

He looks great @iowagirl! What personality in that little frog (and the rest of the tattoo is wonderful is well!)