Mid Year Assessments

[MadeIndelible]

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?

[tatB]

Lots of killer rose morphs.

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[HaydenRose]

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.

[beez]

Bent back gals!

[Fala]

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.

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Kitsune and foxes in general

[suburbanxcore]

Alligators and buffalo. So hot in 2014.

[DJDeepFried]

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.

[Breakme]

I seem to have seen loads of lanterns with flames and moths, tons of pocketwatches and a number of bearded men often sporting little facial tattoos of anchors under the eye.

[ironchef]

Lots of INSANE backpieces

[el twe]

Who's gonna be the first to get a monmon cat backpiece?

[Lance]

Who's gonna be the first to get a monmon cat backpiece?

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.

[Mick Weder]

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.

[el twe]

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.

Whoa, anyone know where to find a pic of that?

[Iwar]

Whoa, anyone know where to find a pic of that?

http://instagram.com/p/jXmpkuMVAH/#

[CultExciter]

Lots of animal portraits with ornate frames. Everyone has been doing those. Pets are precious y'all!

[Iwar]

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.

[peterpoose]

People with gas masks and octopuses :(

[Colored Guy]

Been seeing a lot of clock and owl tattoos for some reason.. all in the same tattoo. Anchors are all over the place too.

[dooktruck]

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

[cookietruck]

yeah the rose morph thing blew up with a quickness like that dietzel girl head did a year or two ago

seems the hindu type stuff too

oh and everyone trippin about how fast someone blasts a tattoo on

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oh yeah

and face tattoos?

[Pugilist]

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.

[CultExciter]

yeah the rose morph shit blew up with a quickness like that dietzel girl head did a year or two ago

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.

[cookietruck]

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.

when richard tattoo'd me he made it sound like it wasn't too popular actually...but idk. i'm not dissing the design btw.

was alot harder to see what everyone was doing back then as opposed to how we can just check instagram every few hours or something and see all this stuff...

[Graeme]

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

[cookietruck]

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

last time i got tattoo'd, maybe two months ago, the tattooers up there kept joking about making everything chromed out...