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Octopus by Yoni Zilber.

shitty photo but i got my second tattoo from tim pausinger today, turned out great.

I donated my hair to Pantene Beautiful Lengths which makes wigs for people who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments. I still have some left though unlike my partner who went bald!

do not get superman, 103( if you continue to compete your class will likely change) or eagle wings (why leave out the badass eagle?). get an eagle on your belly would be cool again tell us where you are we will be glad to help you. ALL JMO

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So odd she would call herself a cleanskin. In aussie, cleanskin is a term for wine which doesn't have the winemakers name on the label and is generally sold a lot cheaper. I guess she's calling herself cheap! Ha!

Cork - Awesome work! Dana is one hell of an artist. I got halfsleeve from him late last year/early this year. Can't wait to see your finished product.

Sorry for posting these pictures, DETH (from my own Tattooing the Invisible Man book)!! Found them on my phone and was thinking this thread needed them, enjoi:

I gotta agree with the sound advice already given above. Faaark the wings, go the full eagle. Not only are eagles the epitome of cool, they're timeless, and as a kick arse tattoo you will love it weather your 18 or 80. Ditch the superman idea, that'll go down as "the tattoo I got when I was 18". Full blown eagle, either smashed on the chest or across the front would both be shit hot. But in saying this, this will be your 1st tattoo mate. A major piece em blazed on your front is no walk in the park. But don't let that make you opt for a little piece you may regret later just to test the waters. Maybe...work out a killer half sleeve or something on your arm, then progress to a more challenging part of the body. But then, I also know fellas who have gone hard core, straight up tattoo number 1. Either way, the consistent advice here is choose well. This is my eagle smacked under my chest. Eagles are rad!

Neurosis in Denver in October, can't wait for that. It's probably been 15 or so years since I saw them last.

a crash test mannequin holding a bent bumper

Hi Faolan, I havent gotten my chest tattooed but it sounds to me like thats probably the cause.. however if you are concerned give your artist a ring.. don't hesitate to do so as they know far better than us the affects tattooing has on the body. Hope the swelling goes down for you and it's not causing you too much bother! Well i managed to survive getting my sternum tattooed yesterday! I was really worried about it after being told horror stories and also because i'm incredibly self concious of that area! I did indeed need to have my boobs out for a short amount of time getting the stencil on etc... i was really really embarrased while that was happening.. however my tattoo artist was an absolute gentleman. He ensured we had privacy , talked to me the whole time i was derobed and put me totally at ease. Everyone else in the shop was incredibly respectful too. By the end of it i couldve walked around the shop with my top off and not cared haha!! Its amazing how quickly you get into it. The suggestion of vest underneath a softer bra is an absolute godsend today so that's definitly got my vote too!

Smokin too much, drinkin too much, bar b qing too much. Hold on! That should be posted in the good shit thread! Back to another pint of the black stuff.

Valerie finished my backpiece yesterday. Had some serious post-tattoo nausea after this one. Glad it's finally done, but will miss the process.

My son was about 16 and had real long black hair... one day he calls me and says he decided to go for a mohawk haircut. My wife went with him and they had a flyer on the wall about Locks of Love and he donated his hair. They banded it up, chopped it off in one shot. That was nice of him and anyone else who does this for others. Rob

Agree. A full eagle would be waaaay cooler than just the wings. Chest eagles are always awesome. Always.

I think this would be a good option:

Awesome! Stolen from Horitomo's Instagram. These two are so darned close to my two kitties I dream to have tattooed by Horitomo someday. (Me tattooed, not the kitties :-) )

I faaarkin love Danos. My local is the size of an aircraft hanger. I'm like a kid in a lollie shop. Walk in planning to buy a standard case of ale, walk out loaded with a trolley load. Getting back on topic but :), yeah! I'll have to sus more of these clean skins.

Right, it was just used in the thread title lightly, as a joke. I don't actually call anyone that in person... Although, on an Australian morning show, the untattooed woman speaking about tattoos on women being a mistake, referred to herself as a "cleanskin". I guess that would make us....dirty. ;) Anyway, funny story about the tv!

Car rose morph.

Matt Howse made this one (saw it on Our Endless Days):

I wish. There are SO many bands playing that I'd love to see, but for the foreseeable future pretty much all my disposable income is going into tattoos. Please post how Necros Christos is live!

Heavy blue session. Not a great pic, but you get the idea. From Dana's instagram. Also, @Bunny Switchblade it was a pleasure to meet you and your husband yesterday. Again, sorry I wasn't a great conversationalist, I thought I'd be doing better off than how I really was!

What I wouldn't give to stumble upon a garbage bag full of money (preferably large bills) right now.

@ThatGuy - I love when I gawk at awesome shit on IG and then find out it's on a poster! Totally worth the nausea. :) I am not sure if I ever posted my completed back on here. Done by Stephanie Tamez at Saved in Brooklyn, from summer 2012 to summer 2013. I loved the journey and love the tattoo(s?) and it feels like it's been on my back forever. The map was my first ever tattoo from a long long time ago that we worked around, although she pumped it up a bit to integrate it into the larger composition.

hiroshi hirawaka (mitomo horihiro), three tides/osaka

I made a halfass bs promise to not add more tattoos to my neck shortly after starting to date this girl, not really meaning it because I thought it was just pillow talk ("I love your neck, let me just have that one spot" "Sure babe"). Lesson learned about how serious that promise was, I figured it was fairly obvious I'd get more eventually. When I said I was about to do that (phone call, naturally) I got the DONT YOU FUCKING DARE DO THAT and after some bickering I got the FINE GO AHEAD AND DO IT (which never really means 'fine' but we all know that, I just heard all I wanted to hear)and never lived it down. Years later even after we aren't together if it comes up she'll still say how much she hates that bird hahah

Its been a busy month for me, got my 3/4 sleeve finished and was incredibly lucky to get a cancellation eagle with Valerie Vargas. So here is the first one... Valerie Vargas, Frith Street Tattoo, London.

My Kim Saigh arm is healed. Why is it so hard to get good pics? There are 5 shots here and still no full view of the inner bicep rose. Oh well. Good enough!

This is a healed shot of my somewhat Ed Hardy inspired gorilla rose situation, tattooed by Chad Koeplinger. An hour and a half to outline and do most of the black. Three hours to finish. Two fun sessions!

I meant it. You're coming from so far, it was the least I could do. At least you have the Eli pin!

Me and a buddy of mine managed to catch chad koeplinger while he was doing a guest spot at Pearl Harbor last week and we got these wicked rose morphs done. Mines the shark his is the panther. Chad killed it!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ed Hardy on Richard Stell.... I begged for a picture. Worth it.

Sometimes I try to keep up on the music the youth are listening to, and it always ends with me being somewhat happy that I'm a cranky old man. That Middian recommendation gets you off the hook this time.

Yoni is a really nice cool guy too. I was complimenting a dragon tattoo he had on his instagram. He asked me if I wanted one. I said yes, but my wife used her veto power and said no to dragons because they look evil and scary. He replied, not my dragons, I do happy dragons. Kind of funny.

Try healing your ass. Definitely makes things difficult.

Aus Rotten will always be one of my favorites. So are these guys. Here's a favorite from Aus Rotten And another Texas band, Damage Case

^yes

More old favorites:

what about the the crash do you want to remember when you look at the tattoo? the near death experience? maybe a grim reaper the violent twisted metal? maybe bio mech how lucky you were to survive? a traditional horse shoe, four leaf clover, or other lucky symbols the unlucky Friday the 13th date? lots of traditional Friday the 13th tattoo designs to choose from

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Haha...true mate. It's funny too, I don't speak any other language than Aussie, but I defo know when I'm in the fkn shit when my Misso starts yelling in a different language! Don't need no interpreter to get the jist what's coming out of her mouth!

I just saw my niece take her first steps :)

I was wondering if Nick's appointments were going to be all taken up by LST people like Chad's were last year! PS to do that they'll have to be capable of getting close to the net at some point, so it's not looking good.

If everyone that 'was going to' get a tattoo actually got one there would be a severe shortage of tattoo artists in this country!

We finally found our furever dog! Meet Ella :) She is 3 months, very small. She is definitely a boston terrier mix, just not sure what the mix is. Already head over heels for this puppy bundle.

Something postitive from my side... I work at the national air traffic control center in Switzerland, as an Aeronautical Information Management Controller. Sounds pretty uptight, right? I had some doubts if tattooing my arms would be a no-no. However when I learned that they hired a girl with neck tattoos, I went for it. Here's the exchange from a superior several management layers above me: Her: New tattoo? Me: Yes Her: Ooooooh show me! Me *shows outlines of Oldschool Pirate Girl and Ship Halfsleeve* Her: Wow thats beautiful! But you get it colored in, right? Me: Sure I do Her: Cool you have to show me immediately then End of story. Also, several coworkers who have expressed prejudice against tattooed people actually admire mine. Work relationship has not changed in the slightest, but instead even improved. A lot of coworkers now come to me for recommendations. Nice talks ensue.

Getting this thread back on track.

Here is a "Conn Girl" that was posted on the Blackheart blog. His work is hard to find online, so thanks to those guys for posting it. There is also one of his pin-up girls on their blog.