Tattoo Energy December 2018 /January 2019
Tattoo Energy December 2018 /January 2019 An issue on the road (from the editorial by Miki Vialetto) You rarely come across tattooers who haven’t seen travel as a critical part…
Horse Tattoos and the legend of Kelpie
Just maybe, behind this awful mythological figure which is present in Scandinavian and Celtic cuture, there might be a vague connection with the famous Loch Ness Monster… The Kelpie is…
Ink: Stories on Skin
The Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) presents Ink: Stories on Skin Ink is a unique retrospective about Chicano LA tattoo tradition, innovations and its social evolution as a cultural…
Barcelona Tattoo Expo and BAUM Festival 2018
Once again this year thousands of people visited Fira de Barcelona to enjoy the art of tattooing, and 300 tattoo artists from 32 countries have made more than 1.000 tattoos…
The countless meanings of rose tattoos
From passionate devotion to blind jealousy, but also honesty, energy, admiration and even deceit. There seems to be no end to the symbolic meanings of your floral tattoos! One of…
Frank Zappa Tattoos (and his last phantasmagoric ride)
Let’s relive ‘The Yellow Shark’, the amazing symphonic album which came out a few months before the Baltimore genius told us goodbye… The bad news arrived in the middle of…
Happy Halloween with our tattoo gallery
Let’s celebrate the scariest day of the year with this selection of beautiful tattoos inspired by the Halloween experience: choose your favourite and get inked!
Heidi Lavon: Tattoo Life Calendar Girl – November 2018
Last Halloween night she wore an amazing Domino cosplay dress up. This year she is simply excited to be featured on a certain tattooed calendar… Going on with our interviews…
A sneak peek of the London Tattoo Convention 2018
For all true tattoo lovers, the most eagerly awaited event in September is undoubtedly the London Tattoo Convention which returns every year an even greater success. By all accounts however,…
The 4th Montreux Tattoo Convention
This year the Montreux Tattoo Convention (Switzerland) has been held on September 21st, 22nd, 23rd. It has become one of the places to be for tattoo lovers! On this occasion,…
Lighthouses Tattoos and the oldest lighthouse in the world
The story of the Tower of Hercules in the port of La Coruña. It is said that from the top, the human eye can see a thousand kilometres… In case…
Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Bourbon presents Community Ink
Celebrating the art of tattoo by uniting five artists from across Europe to create the continent’s first tattooed leather billboard. This autumn, Bulleit Bourbon the Frontier Whiskey is celebrating the…
Tattoo Life November/December 2018 with Calendar Girls 2019
Tattoo Life November/December 2018 with the 2019 Calendar “In circulation, in the future”: read an extract of the editorial by Miki Vialetto Interviewing a variety of tattooists is important because…
Ultima Suicide: tattoo on TV (and nothing nerdy about it!)
The model from Verona, French by birth, tells Tattoo Life: “I got myself inked because they made me study maths as a teenager…” She goes by the name of Meriem,…
Nikola Tesla Tattoos: the amazing tale of a genius
Genius or dangerous visionary? The truth lies somewhere in the middle and Tesla deserves to be celebrated for casting light on the shadows of ignorance. The date is historic: 10th…
Mildred Hull “Millie”: The Queen of Bowery
Mildred Hull, the “Queen of the Bowery”, was born in 1897 and was a tattooed lady and a tattoo artist. Mildred started out her career in the cir-cus as a…
The March of the Matryoshkas Project
The March of the Matryoshkas is a charity art project featuring 66 of the world’s finest tattoo artists, presented at the London Tattoo Convention. Curated by travelling tattooer Stef Bastiàn,…
Swallows Tattoo: the legend
An old European legend explains why these birds have a snow-white breast. Now you know what it is you are getting for a tattoo… Once upon a time – or…
French Tattoo Artists Yearbook 2018-2019
Welcome to the new edition of our annual update on the tattoo scene in France! The yearbook is actually a catalogue: it shows a selection of shops and tattoos on…
Kiss Tattoos: the beginning of the end
Loved by millions of fans and main subjects of hundreds of portrait tattoos, after ‘Love Gun’ album came very hard times for these New York legends… It was 1976 and…
Elvia Iannaccone interviews Drew Linden
Tattooing can be many things: a way to adorn or to reclaim your body, a healing process, an act of rebellion, a search for an identity, a pure love for…
A great book by a great tattoo artist: Genesis by Joao Bosco
Joao Bosco has been tattooing for over 10 years; currently working between London and Los Angeles, he has a distinctive style inspired by fantasy art. His book, “Genesis” is an…
The secrets of Peony Tattoos
Discover the secrets of a two-dimensional flower: what for the peoples of the Orient is a symbol of immortality is still seen in the West as something all too fleeting,…
Tattooing A to Z #25: Herbert Hoffmann
Herbert Hoffmann was born in Freienwalde in Pommern, on December 19, 1919. He was a tattoo artist and a photographer. His photographs of tattooed people across Germany resulted in a…