The fruit secrets
Tattoos inspired by fruit as well as nice can be good reminders for the care of our health… The fruit we consume consists mainly of water, sugar, a fair amount…
Tattooing A to Z #20: Bert Grimm
Bert Grimm was born in a little town near Portland, Oregon, on February 8, 1900. He started hanging around tattoo shops when he was about 11 or 12 years old,…
Tropical Fishes Tattoos: just a curiosity
If you think that the images of your tattoos dedicated to these amazing sea creatures come from some exotic ocean, you better read carefully here… The question is peculiar: what…
Tattooing A to Z #19: Doc Forest
Born Ove Skög, Doc Forest’s career as a tattoo artist began at sea. He was a sailor for seven years in the sixties, during the glory years of the Swedish…
Marilyn Monroe Tattoos: The last night of the Hoollywood star
The Hoollywood star – who is immortalised in a myriad tattoos – is the most alluring and despairing woman of the last century. This is our definitive tribute Alone. Locked…
Tattooing A to Z #18: Doc Forbes
Doc Forbes was a pioneer of Canadian tattooing, he was born in 1900 and died on Lyle Tuttle’s birthday, on October 10, 1977. He was well known for his classic…
Tattooing A to Z #17: Maurizio Fiorini
Maurizio Fiorini was born in 1928, in Montelupo Fiorentino, a small town not far from the city of art and crib of the Renaissance: Florence. He felt in love with…
Tattoo Portraits: remembering Dimebag Darrell
Celebrated as one of the most important axemen of the 90s, the Dime portrait is a very frequent subject among tattoo lovers. This is the tragic story of his last…
Tattooing A to Z #16: Gian Maurizio Fercioni
Gian Maurizio Fercioni was born in Milano, Italy, on December 19, 1946. He studied at the art school and took his degree in 1970 at the “Accademia di Belle Arti”…
The Godfather Tattoos: a Bloody Saga
With ‘Apocalypse Now’ (directed by F.F. Coppola too) it’s considered by critics worldwide to be one of the greatest films of all time. Let’s find out why. The movie which…
Happy birthday, Beetlejuice!
The iconic cult movie directed by Tim Burton turns thirty this year. And we decided to celebrate it with a bunch of related Maitland household tattoos… ‘Beetlejuice’, the original movie,…
‘Maleficent 2’ finally comes true
The first movie has become one of the greatest blockbusters of the 21st century. All thanks to the performance by Angelina Jolie you can admire in these tattoos It was…
Tattooing A To Z #15: Chuck Eldridge
C.W. Eldridge, or Chuck, as his friends know him, is the owner of the “Tattoo Archiv”” in Berkeley, California. Chuck is the keeper of the secrets, the guard of the…
Tattooing A To Z #14: Amund Dietzel “Master in Milwaukee”
Known as the “Master in Milwaukee”, Amund Dietzel was born in Kristiania, Norway, in 1891. When he began in 1907, tattooing was an art form that existed on the periphery…
Take a walk in Wonderland with these Cheshire Cat Tattoos
An invention of Lewis Carroll’s, the Cheshire Cat is an immortal icon and these days, he keeps turning up in all sorts of weird and wonderful tattoos The Cheshire Cat…
Mike Tyson Tattoos to remember the day Iron Mike abdicated
Last 11 February was the anniversary of the most incredible defeat in modern boxing. Let’s see how things went in Tokyo during that famous night… Nothing has ever been easy…
Tattooing A to Z #13: Thom DeVita
Thom DeVita has been one of the most unique American tattooers and artists. A Manhattan native, born 1932, Thom DeVita showed at open-air art fairs in Washington Square Park in…
Saw tattoos to make you scream
After the unexpected success of ‘Jigsaw’ (the eighth film of the horror franchise) there is just a “conversation” in progress for a new scary chapter… The question is almost mandatory…