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2018 was my year for small tattoos, one on Maui, one on Friday the 13th, one on Halloween, one at Black Heart in SF, one from Carolyn at FTW in Oakland, and one for Bob & Ziggy.

Happy New Year! Let's see...Tomo, Dan Sinnes, Paul Dobleman, Robert Ryan, DJ Rose, Laurent, Nick Colella, Grez, Mike Rubendall, Austin Maples and Stewart Robson rounded out 2018. 2019 will be a slower year but I hope still rad. ETA: Hendricks and Bryan Kienlen! Thanks to all of you for your support. Wishing you an amazing 2019!

boat was last year - a fair amount done this year though.... Happy New Year!

Hello, Thought it would be fun to start a thread to talk about tattoo's you got this year and what you hope to get next year, I'll start. This year I got 2 new tattoos, a shrunken head (pictures in gallery) and an add on to a Friday the 13th tattoo I already had (pictures to follow, still healing) and my fiance got 1 of a dream catcher on her forearm. I've had a renewed itch to get tattoo'd so hoping to complete my left arm next year. I have two medium sized spots left on that arm, the first being my elbow which I plan on getting covered with a death moth in the beginning of March. The other is my upper half of my upper arm/should area which has a decent amount of space for a larger piece although I am not sure exactly what yet. I also have 3-4 spots I can fit small (2.5 sq in or less) tattoos that I have some plans for as well. Hopefully a few more too but we'll see what the budget allows. What tattoos did you get this year and what do you plan on getting next year?

2018 started out with a Sailor Jerry ship at Leviticus Tattoo's annual Sailor Jerry Birthday bash and then a very small filler sparrow at the Minneapolis tattoo convention- both in January. May brought me a nice fish at Smith Street and the tattoo year finished up with a rocket ship back at Leviticus. 2019 will bring another one from he Sailor Jerry Birthday party and then who knows what? Most of the tattoo budget will go to support my wife in getting a sleeve on her blank arm for her 40th year.

@Danlovin' yours man, especially the devil and pumpkin! @GingerninjaI suggest we change your name to pinchusion 😉🤣 This was only my second year of getting tattooed, but I was very happy with what I got. The beginning of 2018 was 3 sessions to get this: Fall of 2018 was a family tribute that may not be the very best tattoo in the world, but makes me smile every time I look at it. For the coming year, I already have an email in requesting a consult for a traditional mom/dad tribute piece. Looking forward to that and more!

Yeah, agree with @Dan...you have to moisturize! That being said, if you have really dry skin, your nutrition isn't great and/or your have mature skin (which you don't), heavy black can always look dry.

for a large solid black piece like that on dry skin, it looks normal to me, take your own advice and moisturize daily, I like Aveeno, it lasts all day.

Seems kind of pretentious not to have any flash on the walls. But to each their own. 🙂

cool idea. this year it was all backpiece all the time: we finished the background and red and started the green. this coming year I hope to finish the whole damn thing!

I have some Japanese, some traditional, some Marquesas tribal, and a bunch of other work, I'm a F***ing mess of different styles and color and B&G, and that all works just fine for me. oh ! and I'm a white boy. LOL

I'm a WASP and covered in traditional Japanese!

what do you have against flash ? IMO flash is great to see on the walls of a shop, flash makes it feel like a tattoo shop instead of some foo foo salon IMO, plus you I get a feel for what the artists there like to do. I especially love to see old flash.

Thanks again, he's a good friend who I get along great with; also helps that he's fast and has a light hand. Shop he works at has zero flash on the walls which I also like. I'd love to see the tattoos you currently rock. 🙂 Here's the last of the pics I have. Mike.

I was just joking. She doesn't like my tattoos, but she doesn't give me the stink eye.