Tattoo, Body Piercing & Body Painting: Extremly Tatoo

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Thursday, May 6, 2010

black girl in extreme tattoo on his body

Sexy.jpg tattoo image by thatstefanagirl

black girl in extreme tattoo on his body

Saturday, September 5, 2009

flowe tattoo in sexy teen breast

Thursday, February 12, 2009

sexy girl body art tattoo-full body tatoos

Friday, December 5, 2008

Scarification has been around for centuries and is only recently making a significant comeback. Unlike tattooing which injects ink under the skin, scarification involves cutting or peeling away skin creating decorative scars.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Tahiti tattoo's

Tattooing, banned by early 19th-century missionaries, still thrives on Huahine, writes Andrew Taylor.

Georges Barff looks like he's just walked out of Long Bay after serving 20 years at her majesty's pleasure. Tattoos cover his legs and arms, feet, hands and fingers, the right side of his chest and one-half of his face. And unlike the inmates in Prison Break, Barff's tatts have been painstakingly carved into his skin by a tattoo artist on the nearby island of Moorea and not just splashed on by a Hollywood make-up artist.

"It makes me strong and proud to honour my ancestors," he says.

"It makes me stronger inside; it's my culture, my philosophy and my thinking every day. It makes me more courageous with my life."

It's also a good way of showing off his craft, since Barff is also a tattoo artist, and eager to revive what was one of the most vibrant expressions of Polynesian culture - until thin-lipped Christian missionaries banned tattooing in the early 19th century.

Each of Barff's tattoos is rich with meaning, which he happily spends half an hour explaining to me, like a guide in an art gallery. The markings around his eyes symbolise his wife, Pauline, a descendant of the Bounty mutineers from the Central Coast, and also his children, while the rocks around his legs represent his ancestors.

The gecko and turtle climbing up his torso and the manu birds flying across his arms depict various gods.

Barff might bear more ink on his body than most of the other 5000 or so inhabitants of Huahine but he is not alone when it comes to wearing his art and culture on his body.

One hour's flight from Papeete, Tahiti's steamy, traffic-choked capital, the two islands of Huahine have largely escaped the surge of tourists who check in to five-star hotels on Bora Bora or Moorea.

Huahine has the lush rainforests, warm clear waters and heavily tattooed women of a Polynesian island paradise. But there are no chic boutiques, elegant Parisians promenading in string bikinis or any overweight businessmen crossing the tarmac with me at the minuscule airport at Fare, Huahine's snoozy port.

However, I am not alone. Francyne and Suzanne, two women from Quebec who remind me of Eddy and Patsy from Ab Fab, are also at the jetty waiting for a water taxi to our hotel. It could be jetlag after their long flight from Montreal or the huge amount of luggage they've had to haul from airport to jetty, but they're not happy.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The Boston Tattoo Convention is coming up

Mobius Tattoo by Spacemanbobby.
The Boston Tattoo Convention is coming up this weekend! Bostonist is talking with tattoo artists to get a feel for what the weekend will be like. Today's artist is Joe Boo of Lightwave Tattoo in Saugus, Mass. He had a lot to say, especially about folks who don't know how to prepare for a tattoo (portfolio, portfolio, portfolio).

How did you get started tattooing?
I was an arty punk kid growing up in Hanson, MA, and I went to a lot of punk/hard core shows in Boston all through high school. I could always draw, and found myself drawing a lot of tattoo designs for friends who were sneaking off to NH or RI. These kids would come back and the tattoos were either really well done (and this got me excited to see my art on them) or really poor, and when they came back bad all I could think about was how I could have done a better job if I had the gear. At this point the gears were turning, and I had been tattooed by a friend "Big Joe." Once I got my first tattoo, I fell in love with it. I went to college, got a BFA in studio arts. By the time I got out, my good friend Jim Duval was working at Yankee Tattoo in Burlington, VT, and I got started there. I first started with a piercing apprenticeship with Kathy Nelson and then moved on to a tattoo apprenticeship with Bald Bill Henshaw, and he showed me the ropes about tattooing. Bald Bill is an old school guy with a heart of gold, and is a rock solid tattoo artist, I am eternally grateful for all the time and effort he put into me. I would really be nothing without him. (Bald Bill and Jim will also be at the BTC this year under the Yankee Tattoo banner!!)