Why is there a stud in my nose? Why’d I get my belly button pierced? Why…? I hate to answer a question with a question but… Why not?
read moreWithin a week of contacting him, I was walking into Tomb Tattoo and shaking Mattie’s hand. He was very laidback and informative. He remembered me telling him that this will be my first handpoked tattoo and so he gave me a rundown on how the session would go.
read moreDo you really want to have something that you merely settled for instead of a piece of art that you absolutely love? Be patient. Art takes time. Don’t feel guilty for asking the artist to revise their work.
read more“I had to learn how to hurt somebody without hesitation before I could start to tattoo,” explained Karin when I asked why she began piercing.
read moreI remember getting my first tattoo so vividly – the course of adrenaline, my awkward, freshly out of high school self, swooning over the gruff artist who was to do the quarter-sized apple behind my ear, the shock of that first bite of gun into flesh, and the memory of the way the gun buzzed […]
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