Meet Fabrice Yencko, The Tattoo Artist Who Blends Irezumi and Renaissance in Modern Artistry
French artist Fabrice Yencko is well-known in the art world for his versatile skills, which include writing, painting, graffiti, tattooing, and significant fashion partnerships, such as one with Supreme. Continue reading »
A Canadian Artist Is Transforming His Look with Extreme Plastic Surgeries and Tattoos to Fulfill His Dream of Becoming a Gothic Vampire
Philip Royer, from Montreal, professionally goes by his creative name, London. He works as a tattoo, make-up, and performing artist. He’s had an “obsession with vampires” since childhood, finding their aesthetic “magnificent.” Continue reading »
Real-Life Orc: Brazilian Tattoo Artist Has Giant Tusks Implanted to Resemble Fictional Creature
A 41-year-old tattoo artist and body modification enthusiast who calls himself Orc had two giant fake tusks fitted onto his bottom row of teeth, in an attempt to make himself look like a real-life orc. Continue reading »
When You Use Face Swap App On Your Tattoo…
Using a face swap app wasn’t creepy enough, untill some people are actually trying it on their tattoos. Scroll down to see the best (worst?) examples! Continue reading »
Chris Woodhead Has Found A Way To Cope With The Coronavirus Pandemic: A New Tattoo On His Own Body For Every Day Of The Lockdown
Sitting on the sofa in his flat in Walthamstow, north-east London, with his dog Pingu by his side, Chris Woodhead is trying to find space to add another tattoo to his already crowded body. Continue reading »
Wolford And Vetements Launch Collaboration Inspired By Russian Criminal Tattoo Art
Austrian hosiery manufacturer Wolford is teaming up with Vetements to launch a capsule collection. Comprising a pair of tights and a maxi knitted dress, the collection aims to redefine some of the wardrobe essentials every woman should have. Continue reading »
Amazing Vintage Photos Of Betty Broadbent, The ‘Tattooed Venus’ From The Late 1930s
In 1938 Betty Broadbent, the ‘Tattooed Venus’ visited Sydney from America at the invitation of the Australian sideshow entrepreneur Arthur Greenhalg. PIX Magazine ran a story on Betty, who at that time had 465 tattoos on her body including a tattoo of the Madonna and child on her back and tattoos of Charles Lindbergh and Pancho Villa on her legs. She appeared on the cover of PIX Magazine on 23 April 1938 and she and the rest of the circus troupe performed at that year’s Easter Show in Sydney. Continue reading »
You Can Get Tattoo Sleeves For Your Cat So They Can Look As Badass As They Feel
Human owners love dressing their kitties up in whatever fashion choices are available and now there are options for the edgiest of cats. Continue reading »
10-Year-Old Girl Follows In Dad’s Footsteps To Become Tattoo Artist
Noko Nishigaki, daughter of a famous Japanese tattoo artist, “Gakkin”, recently moved to Amsterdam. She worked for three years on her drawing techniques, and now she tattoos amazing images in the studio. Continue reading »
Tattoo Artist Creates Stunning Portraits Entirely Out Of ASCII Code
Invented in the 1970s, ASCII art is still popular in online chats, on forums and websites, but one insanely talented tattoo artist is able to ink stunning portraits using only the 95 characters characters from the 1963 American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) standard on his clients’ skin. Continue reading »
This Tattoo Artist Can’t Draw And That’s Precisely Why Her Clients Choose Her
When you decide to get a tattoo, choosing the right artist is nearly as important as picking the design and spot. I mean, if someone is to ink you they better have the experience and skill required to produce something nothing short of amazing, right? After all, this is going to be on your body forever. Well, experience, yes, but skill? Not necessarily. Helen Fernandes isn’t good at drawing but people are still lining up to get her tattoos. And they’re so bad, they’re good. Continue reading »
Amazing Geometric Tattoos By Turkish Artist Okan Uçkun
Okan Uçkun is a tattoo artist from Istanbul, Turkey, currently living in New York, who creates minimal geometric tattoos based on symmetry, geometric shapes, lines and dots. He has a very unique style which combines minimal but complex elements and creates surreal tattoos which are open for artistic interpretation. Therefore, he is considered to be the master of some of the most popular tattoo art styles today. Continue reading »
Absolutely Amazing Tattoo Tights For Impressive Outfit
Tattoo Tights series was created by Tel-Aviv based Etsy shop Tattoo Socks. They offer dozens of different original designs in both opaque colors and sheer flesh tones for a particularly realistic tattooed look. Continue reading »
Tattoo Artist Métamose Creates Visual Poems On Skin
The pseudonym of this Paris-based tattooist comes from the word metamorphosis (“métamorphose” in French). By deleting the “morph” part, Métamose wants us to search for our own transformation through connection with others. In his work, this versatile contemporary artist explores themes of destruction, fragility and deformation. Continue reading »
Tattoo Artist Andrea Raudino Creates A Masterpieces Inspired By The Japan And Pop Culture
A selection of the striking tattoos of the Italian artist Andrea Raudino, aka Nemo, based in Florence. Some amazing creations strongly inspired by Japanese aesthetics and filled with references to pop culture. Continue reading »
Meet Lisa Jelizaveta – Russian 7 Year Old Tattoo Artist That Will Make You A Wonderful Tattoo
Alexey Borisov/Ural Tattoo Convention/e1.ru
Ever wanted a tattoo? But you were so unique you had a seven year old child do it? Well lucky for you there is Lisa from Yakaterinburg that is a real talent for this. All the way up to now she has been training on bananas, however at the latest tattoo convention in Russia she had her first client, her Dad. Continue reading »
This Guy Gets A Permanent Eyeglasses Tattoo
Some guy named Matthew decided that it would be a good idea to get a permanent eyeglasses tattoo. Well… He didn’t actually hurt anyone (but himself), so it’s probably ok. Continue reading »
Guy Shows Off His Amazing World War II Cover Up Tattoo
In the early 2000s everyone was getting tribal tattoos, but when this man looked at his tribal tattoo in 2017 he was filled with regret, so he decided to switch it up. Continue reading »
When A Bad Tattoo Is Transformed Into Something Great
If you got yourself an unfortunate tattoo, it’s not the end. These pictures of cool cover-up tattoos will give you some ideas. Continue reading »
Dad Gets Matching Tattoo Of Son’s Cancer Scar For Solidarity
In 2015, Josh Marshall’s 8-year-old son Gabriel was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called anaplastic astrocytoma (wiki), a malignant brain tumour. After undergoing surgery, most (but not all) of the tumour was removed and Gabe has been in stable condition for the past nine months. The surgery did leave a scar on Gabriel’s head which his father said was affecting his self-confidence. Continue reading »
Tattoo Artist Makes Cool Temp Tats For Sick Kids
Benjamin Lloyd, a tattoo artist from New Zealand announced on his Facebook that if he got 50 likes he would make cool temporary tattoos to the children at Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital. He got over 400,000 likes and delivered on his promise. But no one was more delighted than the kids. Continue reading »
A Girl Who Is Deaf In One Ear Gets A Tattoo To Inform Strangers
Your tattoo can not only be meaningful or simply aesthetic, it can also be functional. Imgurer raingoose has recently uploaded a photo of her minimalist tattoo of a muted speaker to show that she’s deaf in her left ear. Continue reading »
Renowned Tattoo Artist Inked Clients Through a Hole in the Wall Without Ever Meeting Them
Normally, a lot of careful planning goes into getting a tattoo. Or, at the very least, people looking to get a tattoo become familiar with their design of choice. Tattoo artist Scott Campbell, however, has added an element of surprise to this process with his performance project called Whole Glory. Unlike the typical client/artist relationship, complete strangers slid their arms into a hole with no knowledge of what Campbell would draw, and no say in the matter, either. Continue reading »
Dad Gets Tattoo So His 6-Year-Old Daughter Wouldn’t Feel Different
Image credits: Anita-Alistair Campbell
It’s heartbreaking for a parent when their children don’t fit in. New Zealand native and hardcore dad Alistair Campbell decided to take the extra step to help his daughter, Charlotte, feel better about her cochlear implants by getting one tattooed on his head. The six-year-old girl suffers from extreme hearing loss, and received her first implant when she was four years old. Continue reading »
Ukraine-born Tattoo Artist Stanislava Pinchuk Inks Her Friends With Minimalist Tattoos For Food, Lessons Or Books
Stanislava Pinchuk (aka Miso), a Ukraine-born artist that works in Tokyo and Melbourne, practices an interesting sort of bartering economics – when she does her trademark minimalistic and meaningful tattoos for her friends, they pay with goods or favors, not money. Continue reading »
