real meta

I somehow missed you guys saying that you were actually getting tattooed at the convention. Needless to say, you both nailed it.

@real meta Haha!! It's so true, though. By Monga, right?

Yes ma'am.

Everyone's getting such awesome stuff. I love you guys. Haha

I'm compelled to make this same post on a very regular basis. That or something along the lines of "I LOVE TATTOOS!" Sometimes that's all there is to say.

On a related note, I'm getting tattooed tomorrow, so I'll have some awesome stuff of my own to contribute. :cool::cool::cool:

Thanks for the compliment! Your El Monga is totally righteous! What's he adding to it?

Not completely sure what he'll be adding yet. My original idea was to put a Penrose triangle right below my other one from him, but he wasn't sure that it would fit well thematically (which I understand). He sent me a picture with a bunch of occult symbols in an attempt to generate some new ideas, and I pulled out a couple of my favorites and sent those back. We'll see what he comes up with, I can't wait.

Rock of Ages has been my personal favorite as far as shop soundtracks go. They were playing a steady stream of doom metal, sludge and the like when I was there, and it seems like that's pretty much the norm. I forget everything that they played, but I remember they were blasting Om when I first came in. Hard to beat that, although I have to wonder how the squares feel about it.

Yesterday by El Monga at Spider Murphy's....There's a better shot on his instagram, but you get the idea.

Oh snap, I was staring at this for a long while earlier! Unbelievably impactful. I also have one from him on the back of my calf, so we're twinsies. And he's going to add to it one week from today.

And of course, welcome to LST!

I got this from Matt Howse while he was visiting Portland a couple weeks ago :)

I had the pleasure of meeting up with @David Flores for a beer while I was in town. Super charming and sweet fella that David ;)

I saw this on his IG and was wondering if I missed you posting it here. That leg has to be looking pretty awesome at this point.

I just booked a spot with El Monga for when he's back in Philly at Rumi Tattoo next month. He's doing a sort of benefit type thing for the family of Cosmo, the shop's owner who unfortunately just passed away last week. That shop's been a huge part of my life as a tattooed person--it's right in the same neighborhood where I live, where I got my first tattoo, and where I got tattooed by El Monga the first time--so this one will definitely have some sentimental value. I suggested that he do a Penrose triangle with his own personal flare to it, but we'll see what his feelings are on that.

Man, I love my jackass husband, but sometimes LST is like a whole message board full of jackass husbands.

What about jackass single 24 year olds? I can't be the only one.

I had a slight issue with a certain brand of red on my leg, however I have tons of red in my back and it all healed wonderfully. Most of the pigment in my back is powder based, where as who knows whats in some of the mass produced stuff. Maybe thats the issue?

I've also had issues with one red in particular—I have 5 tattoos with red in them, and with one the red took 25–50% longer to heal than the other colors. It ultimately healed just fine, though. Having such a specific reaction is so hard to anticipate that I choose not to worry about it going forward.

I got this from Steve Byrne yesterday.

I'm subscribed to it, but it just bums me out more than anything. Not to sound holier-than-thou or like I'm some sort of authority on tattooing, but it further reinforces the sentiment that most people don't know anything about tattoos. Some good stuff definitely does pop up from time to time, though. I've actually posted a couple of my tattoos on there.

went from traditional to color realism

That is a true nightmare.

when I was a kid Dave would come through philly with Mike Wilson all the time.

Man, I wish this was still happening!

Crossed rules! Horsecock!

I had a brief moment of "Have I gone overboard?" which was immediately followed by "It only seems like you went overboard on the chest because you need your sleeves extended to 3/4 and your back done to balance things out."

I've gone through this exact same thought process so many times—soothing these anxieties with plans for more tattoos. That would probably seem extremely counterintuitive to a plainskin.

I figured I'd post a couple of in progress pics of my arm/chest. Martin Lacasse at Olde City. All the linework in about 3.5 hours. Sorry for the lousy phone pics.

It's based on the Yoshitoshi print attached. The lower samurai is pretty closely referenced, but the severed head on his waist in the print is on the chest panel and he went nuts with the ghost/shadow samurai on the top half of my arm. One session of shading done so far, another in 3 weeks.

-Update-

Little better photo of the top w/ shading.

Looks awesome! It's always nice to see some stuff from a hometown hero on LST. I've been thinking about getting something from Martin for a while.

Unless there are tattooers out there looking to buy used panties off reddit, or even less savory things off some Tor site, I can't imagine any tattooer would want to accept them as payment. Until you can pay bills, buy food, or do anything practical with bitcoins, cash (that is, physical currency) will indeed remain king.

just followed and now drooling over your amazing tattoos... hnnngghghh

Thanks, I appreciate it! I'm trying my best.

I guess I should mention that I changed my IG name...it's now wrangler_jeans. Yep.

That means one of two things to me, both of which are awesome.

Exactly what I was thinking.

I'm awaiting the email that will serve as the final confirmation, but I'm pretty sure I just booked a spot with Steve Byrne next month.

Holy shit.

Got this one a couple of weeks ago from El Monga @ Aloha Tattoos, Barcelona.

Left shin, right below the knee, which the ears kinda wrap around a bit. The rest was pretty bearable, but those bits hurt like hell.

Love that placement. El Monga is the nicest guy ever.

@CultExciter Next level shit, man. Super stoked for you.

I got my foot did by Antonio Roque this evening. Picture's from his IG.