Tattoo shops terrify me. I have a partner whose arm is covered in gorgeous ink, but any kind of reassurance he tried to give me about tattooing, I immediately brushed off. Maybe it’s something about looking too “normie” or not having enough visible body modifications, but tattoo shops have a tendency to turn me into […]
I always felt like there was a veil of mystery over tattooing and the industry and the people who do tattoos, regardless of the proliferation of tattooing on reality TV. I got my first tattoo the day I turned 18, a few months before Miami Ink premiered, and had been obsessed with tattoo culture since I was a […]
Yesterday, we published the first part of my interview with tattoo artist Speck Osterhout at Chicago’s Tattoo Candy, a shop I cannot say too many good things about. Yesterday, Speck shared her experience getting started as a tattooer, some of the gritty details about the business, and her thoughts on why people get into tattooing. Today, we have Speck’s […]
We’ve been fascinated with the idea of anal and butt tattoos ever since we heard about Maria Louise Del Rosario, a woman who was videotaped receiving a tattoo in her anal cavity a couple of weeks back. Rosario claimed the process was fairly pleasurable, and while hers was the first we’d ever heard of, apparently […]
