How Opportunity Knocks When Tom Begley was in school, his talents were centered in firefighting and carpentry. With his woodwork a well known studio asked for his services. That's when opportunity came knocking! Fast forward many years to 2013, his wife Meagan decided to leave the corporate world and in 2015 cofounded Electric Tattoo [...]
When Passion Turns Into a Career As with every first in an industry needs to be celebrated, for Tatt2Away's non-laser tattoo removal systems, Canada's first location has opened up and is now being offered by the founder of Ink Hunters, Marie Lauriault in Montreal Quebec Canada. Having been a part of the tattoo community [...]
El Paso is Where It Is Happening Even if it may be one of the last road in Texas, til you hit the border, it is first in tattoo innovations. Just ask Mike Alqassimi, proprietor of El Paso's very own Aspired Vision Studio. With his team, Omar Orozco and Lindsey Blinsmon has turned his [...]
The Long and Worthy Road to Tattooing For Savannah Georgia's Red Ocean Tattoo founder, Ben Kelly, the road to opening his own shop seemed like a long one. When he was younger, he fell in love with all that tattooing is made up of, but it never seemed like the right time to jump [...]
Arriving in the 21st Century in Massachusetts Until the turn of the century, it wasn't legal to perform any type of tattooing in Massachusetts. However, that thankfully all changed for the better in 2000 for those tattoo lovers in the Bay State. For over a decade now, in places like New Bedford those wanting [...]
America's heartland is more than wheat fields and wide open spaces, it is also well-known for the amazing artwork being done with needles and ink on skin. In Wichita, no better example can be had than Addictions in Ink Tattoo, founded in 2008 by Bryan Parsons and Tiffani Gruver. As someone who looks for the [...]
Best of Time Tattoo received it’s beginning all the way back in 1997 with Shane Heil when he was all but 10 years old. Starting his apprenticeship so long ago, first in piercing then in tattooing, at 29 he’s already venerable in the industry. Along with Kathy Kelley brought with Shane, the Best of Time [...]
Jeff Jucha from 4 Aces Tattoo and Body Piercing in Franklin Park, Illinois comes from a background of discipline and hard work from his time serving in the United States Marine Corps. His time in the military brought up close and center with a bunch of tattoo types and styles. Some of them works of [...]
Trailblazing in New England! As the tattooing industry has evolved in the last 30 years from being considered on the fringe of society to being brought into the main stream of consciousness and acceptability, so has Jon Thomas and Dave McCormick of Manchester, New Hampshire done with their Spider Bite Tattoo Studio. Dave has [...]
Tattooing has been happening for centuries, and for some cultures has been a part of a rich heritage that defines a people. In western civilizations, the art of tattooing has not enjoyed a stellar reputation until recently (in the last 20 years) and been considered anything else but mainstream. As more and more of the [...]
Natural Talent on Display As Soldiers of Ink Tattoo goes into their 4th year of being in business, they have conquered many levels in a short period of time that can take some many many years to perfect. Heath Barnes and Cheyann Davis of Auburndale, Florida have built a Studio location well-known for it's [...]
By Khani Zulu - Austin, Tx What kind of tattooed person are you: collector or loyal client? What kind of tattooed person are you: collector or loyal client? A tattoo collector is generally someone who seeks out many different styles of tattoos and so ultimately seeks out different artists who do those styles well. A [...]
Mega multi-platinum rapper, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur, Nas, said “I have no tattoos that I regret. I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.” Enter the tattoo coverup – what you do when you like tattoos, but don’t like the tattoo you have now. As you [...]
By Khani Zulu - Austin, Tx In today’s tattoo world, there are so many talented young tattoo artists out there. What was once seen as a bad boy profession full of ex-cons, gang members and bikers, is now more highly revered as a viable career and profession. The tattoo industry is becoming more attractive to [...]
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