Super Mario Brothers Tattoos
September 22, 2015
Gallery Follows the Text Nothing beats the days spent gathered around the Nintendo 64 (or SNES, or NES, or Wii…) with your friends while arguing over who got to play…
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Rock Star by Day, Tattooist by Night—David Foral of the Dirty Heads
September 14, 2015
One of the most intriguing things to witness is when an artist’s creativity spills into other media. For David Foral, bassist of the Dirty Heads, that other medium has become tattooing.…
Tattoos For The Hopeless Romantic
August 5, 2015
Showing emotions publicly can be extremely hard for some, especially when that emotion is related to romance. While some people are able to just blurt out how they feel at…
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Creative Tattoo Masks
July 30, 2015
We love masks. Sometimes they’re silly, sometimes they’re scary, but they’re always fun. Wouldn’t be cool to have a mask you can throw on at a moment’s notice? That’s what…
Jon Mesa, Tattoo Artist, “A Day In the Life” Video
July 23, 2015
Photo Gallery and Video Follow the Text Jon Mesa stands on the backpieces of giants (in his Converse Chuck Taylor All Star IIs). Mesa, one of the greatest contemporary tattoo…
WATCH: Tattooed Woman Brands Skin at Scorching 932ºF
July 8, 2015
How’d you like to burn your skin with a scorching needle heated to at least 932 degrees Fahrenheit? Not for you? Kerri, the tattooed vixen in the video below, handled…
Surreal Portrait Tattoos
July 2, 2015
From its birth in the 1920’s the goal of surrealism was to meld the worlds of reality and dream into one. Possibly the most effective way to do that is…
Should You Get Tattooed By a Friend?
June 23, 2015
The cast of Tattoo Nightmares (new season starts tonight on Spike TV, with back-to-back premiere episodes at 11:00 and 11:30 PM, ET/PT) helps us answer the really tough question of “Should…
Ethan Embry Stops by to Talk Tattoos, ‘Grace and Frankie,’ and More
June 9, 2015
Ethan Embry walked into the Inked offices looking like a man who was recovering from a very good time the night before; his voice was hoarse, he had that faraway…
Best Gap Filler Tattoo Ideas
June 3, 2015
Gap filler tattoos prove that it's not the size of the tattoo that matters but the creativity behind it.