The Best Chicano Style Tattoos
Chicano is not just a tattoo style, but also form of art, a way of life and a powerful form of non-verbal language. Born overseas, in the Latin districts of…
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Rocky IV and Rocky Balboa Tattoo Gallery
35 years ago, during the Cold War, the most politicised and highest grossing Rocky movie hit the screen: let’s relive it together in words and tattoos. 300 million dollars (worldwide)…
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Pandido and Side, the heart and soul of Peoples Temple Tattoo
Today we introduce you to Pandido and Side, the heart and soul of People Temple Tattoo in Lyon, France. Let’s discover their styles, Pandido’s based on Pre-Columbian and Aztec iconography,…
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Kitsune Tattoos, the magic, Japanese fox
Kitsune means “fox”: an animal that is of enormous importance in Japan, protagonist of myths and legends, as well as a beloved subject in tattooing. According to Japanese mythology, the…
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Have a nice weekend with Jessica Svartvit
We met her as a tattoo artist and admired her for her works on skin. We then discovered a funny and absolutely open minded girl who plays with her image…
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The Chromakane Project by Jessie Cohen
Jessie is a creative mind, a designer who applies her ideas on different media through drawings that mix detailed, abstract, organic and Japanese-inspired blackwork art. Her work merges eastern and…
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Tribal tattoo and modern black work by Taku Oshima
A master of black work, but also a journalist and in a certain sense a philosopher. His tattoos are potent, and this craft is for him a “a spiritual act”.…
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Sarah Maillet is the Tattoo Life calendar girl of November 2020
killer bartender and eager to tell us all about her oodles of beautiful ink, so let’s get to know this charming French Canadian girl better… Hi Sarah, how did it…
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Mind blowing Ornamental Tattoos
Intricate interweaving of points, spirals, clean lines, geometric motifs, hypnotic patterns: everything come together in unique compositions thanks to the skill and creativity of the tattoo artists… This is Ornamental…
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Traditional Tattoos from Captain in Athens
Time to hook up with Captain, a tattooist who works in Athens at Darkside Tattoo Society. Let’s find out about his Traditional style and his special palette through this interview…
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The Tree of Life Tattoos are symbols of strength
Present in many cultures, this well-known tattoo symbol embraces Christian and Pagan traditions alike, making its way, myth by myth, up to the present day. The Tree of Life is…
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Halloween Tattoo Ideas
Scary skeletons and spooky ghosts, carved pumpkins, black cats, bizarre characters and a special focus on witches (beautiful, angry, seductive and threatening more than ever): with this selection of tattoos…
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Have a nice weekend with Isabelle Penque
An important passion for tattooing, so much that she became addicted to ink and collected one piece a month. A total black arm and a motto that defines the personality…
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Albert Einstein Tattoos, knowledge on skin
The mastermind of the twentieth century, not to mention Nobel Prize for Physics, has in recent years become an icon of tattoo art. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a physicist born…
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S.Pion Tattoos, Realistic Black ‘n’ Grey from Belgium
There are many cinematographic references in the brilliant works of this artist who hails from Charleroi but S.Pion is always looking for new challenges. Your real name is Jean-Philippe Michot.…
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Tattoo mix of the week
With this gallery we would like to show you our selection of the best tattoos by the best professionals in the world, selected by our editorial team on Instagram and…
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Moon Tattoos and the power of Feminine
“It’s all moon’s fault, when it gets too close to the earth it makes everyone crazy”, wrote William Shakespeare in Othello. Since the dawn of time, poets and writers, artists…
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Frank Schmidt, Realistic Tattoos from Germany
We met the owner of Never Too Late Tattoos in Weida, a small town in Thuringia. And we had a friendly chat with him about how he discovered that he…
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Mark of “Blackscab Tattoo”, born to raise ink
After the wild teenage punk rock years, Mark Gibbs (aka “Black Scab”) is here to tell us about tolerance, the Addiction project and his flawless Realistic tattoos. Let’s start from…
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Tattoo Life November/December 2020
In this issue of Tattoo Life magazine you’ll find the cover model Helen Hitori, Tattoo Artists such as Junior Goussain, The Séance Tattoo Parlor, Pantarei, Ben Dunning, Judicael’s tattoos and much more……
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A new gallery of the best Traditional Tattoos
For many tattoo artists and tattoo collectors, the love for Traditional is a real inexhaustible passion. The iconic subjects, the unmistakable palette, the clarity of the messages that these tattoos…
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