Wednesday, March 30, 2016

NFL player, O'dell Beckham Jr new tattoo!

DopeArt done by @jesse_rix!

Flowers for the girls by @ben_coilworks!!

Crazy Steph Curry portrait of Golden State!

View Gabriel's work on Inkgeekstattoos.com!

DopeArt done by @johnnysmithart!!

3D hand tattoo by #DopeArt done by @thomasj_ink!!

Crazy epic piece done by @tattomolle!

Must See..DopeArt done by @niki23gtr!

Realistic lip tattoo done by @karolrybakowski!!

@coenmitchell will be joining Inkgeekstattoos.com!

We're very excited and honored to announce that @coenmitchell will be joining Inkgeekstattoos.com! Tattooing only for three years; Coen has developed a unique style he labeled "mosiac flow". Check out his tour dates and bio on our home page on the website. To our supporters, let's welcome Corn into family! #inked #tattooartist #instagood #picoftheday #tattoos #illustration #toptattooartists #artist #design #draw #photooftheday #details #follow #like4like #artsy #comment #tattooart #tattooideas #Tattoo #Ink #Art #Beheard #Ourculture #Quality #INKGEEKS

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Join the Future!

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20K followers on Instagram!

Wow! We never thought we would've reach 20.000 followers on Instagram! We would like to thank you guys for following us! We'll continue bringing you guys #DopeArt  every day and evolving the culture of ART! This is only the beginning!! Thanks, once again because we couldn't have done this without you.

NSFW!! Vagina tattoos pt.3! (You asked for it lol)

 When it comes down to tattoos in the modern times; tattoos are constantly evolving and no place on the body is off limits! Back by popular demand!

Haha...By @Aeinkskindeep

 Are you feeling the art?

Script is very underrated in the tattoo industry! What would you do if you saw her tattoo for the first tattoo?
 
 Creepy! What do you think of it?

@hanabellelektor convinced her this tattoo! Ouch

 Creative  lol

 Add color and then it would be DopeArt!

 Best flower ever lol by @Y4shk4

 She can't wait lol!

Tattedcutie

Friday, March 18, 2016

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Everything’s Coming Up Roses With Temporary Tats That Smell Like Flowers

By: Elyse Wanshel
 
A beautiful bouquet.


A temporary tattoo company has sprouted a new innovation.
The Brooklyn-based company, Tattly, has released a line of floral watercolor temporary tattoos with a scent that smells as sweet as they look.

The pretty-smelling Perennial Set comes with eight temporary tattoos (two of each design) plus a Tattly sponge for application. It retails for $18 a set and will be available online and in stores on April 19.
Tattly
Gorge!
The idea came to Tattly’s founder, Tina Roth Eisenberg, when she stumbled upon French artist Vincent Jeannerot’s lush watercolor paintings online and instantly fell in love with his work, a company rep told The Huffington Post. She was already in talks with Agilex Fragrances to make a scented tattoo, but hadn’t come up with the perfect design yet — but Jeannerot’s gorgeous paintings seemed perfect fit for a floral scent.
Tattly
We can already smell the ylang-ylang.
Eisenberg reached out to the artist to see if he would help design the aromatic tattoos and when he said yes the botanical brainchild began to bud.

The set features the artist’s blue hydrangea, pink and purple peonies and roses. All the tats have a single fragrance that includes notes of dewy fuchsia petals, pink poppies, ylang-ylang and poplar wood.
It’s enough to make a smile blossom on anyone’s face.

Sorry Mom: Getting Lots Of Tattoos Could Have A Surprising Health Benefit

By: David Moy

Rekha Garton via Getty Images


 A recent study suggests that having multiple tattoos could mean your immune system has trained itself to better respond to certain stresses.

The next time Grandma criticizes your multiple tattoos, tell her they might just be a sign that you’re healthy.
A new study published in the American Journal of Human Biology last weekand getting lots of ink since then — suggests that people with multiple tattoos have a better immune response to new tattoos than people who are getting tattooed for the first time.

According to the research, “Tattooing may stimulate the immune system in a manner similar to a vaccination to be less susceptible to future pathogenic infiltration.” While the study has a small sample size and is not yet conclusive, it provides fascinating evidence of how well the body can be “trained” to respond to stresses over time.

For the study, researchers at the University of Alabama collected saliva samples from 29 volunteers before and after they were given tattoos. Nine of those participants were receiving tattoos for the first time. They then analyzed the participants’ saliva samples for levels of immunoglobulin A, an antibody that lines portions of our gastrointestinal and respiratory systems, and cortisol, a stress hormone known to suppress immune response.

“Immunoglobulin A is a front line of defense against some of the common infections we encounter, like colds,” Christopher Lynn, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama who co-authored the study, wrote in a press release.

According to the researchers, the saliva samples from first-time tattoo recipients showed their levels of immunoglobulin A declined much more dramatically than they did for the people who already had multiple tattoos, suggesting that people with more “tattoo experience” had immune systems that were more habituated to that kind of stress.

Lynn isn’t suggesting people go out and get full sleeve tattoos to ward off colds and the flu just yet. In fact, he said, a person’s first tattoo can make them more, not less, susceptible to illness.
“They don’t just hurt while you get the tattoo, but they can exhaust you,” he said in the release. “It’s easier to get sick. You can catch a cold because your defenses are lowered from the stress of getting a tattoo.”
Lynn compares the body’s response to getting a tattoo for the first time to an out-of-shape person exercising in the gym: Muscles are sore at first, but the pain fades with repeated workouts.

“After the stress response, your body returns to an equilibrium,” Lynn said. “However, if you continue to stress your body over and over again, instead of returning to the same set point, it adjusts its internal set points and moves higher.”

But other experts are poking holes in the findings. Dr. Sylvie Stacy, an Alabama physician who specializes in preventive medicine, points out the study used a small sample of subjects and investigated only a couple of the many substances involved in immune response in the body.

“I would not encourage anyone to get a tattoo for the sake of immune system benefit,” she told HuffPost. “Getting a tattoo carries significant risks — including infection, scarring, and potential adverse psychological effects. It’s very unlikely that these risks are outweighed by any boost in immune system response.”

Lynn acknowledges that the study’s findings could also mean that people who are already in good health are more likely to get multiple tattoos, because their immune systems are better at recovering from them and their past tattoo experiences have been more satisfactory.

“They probably already had good immune systems, and we think the tattoos draw attention to this,” he told HuffPost. “We also think that, among those with good immune systems who are into tattooing culture and get tattoos, the quick healing and positive reaction may reinforce an interest in getting more.”

Conversely, people who had a bad immune reaction to their first tattoo aren’t as likely to come back for more. The study points out that historically, tattoos appeared to be a way for healthy, “attractive” people to differentiate themselves from less-healthy peers, and that could still be the case — multiple tattoos mean you can handle the pain.

Of course, the research didn’t involve people who chose not to get any tattoos at all. “We did not collect biomarkers (saliva) from non-tattooed [people] because we were comparing the pre-post tattoo session change, not absolute values related to immunity,” Lynn said. “It would be difficult to come up with a scenario that is similar to tattooing to do pre-post testing of non-tattooed.”

While the University of Alabama study takes a specific look at immune responses to tattoos, however, it also contributes to existing research on different techniques that could sharpen the effectiveness of vaccines, such as injecting them in a way that’s similar to how tattoo artists inject ink under the skin.

“There is ... evidence suggesting that applying a vaccine with a tattoo approach — several small punctures, not one big shot — may increase the effectiveness,” Lynn said.
The research is piquing the interest of medical experts like Dr. Amesh Adalia, a board-certified infectious disease physician at the University of Pittsburgh.

“Such a finding is provocative and future studies are required that assess other arms of the immune system, reproduce the results, and gauge the real-world effects in terms of vaccine responses as well as frequency of infections in tattoo recipients,” Adalia said by email.

If anything, Lynn hopes the study reduces the stigma associated with getting inked up. “We’d like to take tattoos out of the negative subcultural niche of bikers, sailors and risky behavior,” he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/multiple-tattoos-immune-system_us_56e1a321e4b0860f99d80ce6?utm_hp_ref=tattoo

Man to become world's oldest person to get tattoo aged 104

A great-granddad from Derbyshire is set to become the oldest person in the world to get a tattoo to celebrate his 104th birthday.

Chesterfield resident Jack Reynolds appeared on Good Morning Britain, with host Susanna Reid describing him as her “all-time favourite guest”.

The centenarian, who two years ago became the oldest person to complete the Ice Bucket Challenge, has also revealed where he would like to get it.

“On my bum. I'd prefer to see it on my arm, but I've got skinny arms. I've got weights to try and make them bigger, but we'll see,” he said.

Asked if he was nervous about getting the tattoo done, he replied: “I'm a big strong lad - and I've have plenty of needles in me in my time, in various places.”

The silver surfer’s daughter Jayne, who says Guinness World Records have confirmed it would be a new record, explained he is very much young at heart and an avid internet user who is active on Facebook.

She told the Ilkeston Advertiser: “Dad wanted to do something to raise money for charity again and I suggested he have a tattoo which he agreed to. We all think it’s great.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12197018/Man-to-become-worlds-oldest-person-to-get-tattoo-aged-104.html

Rihanna’s Tattoo Artist Shares the Stories Behind Her Signature Ink

“I was working on Sixth Avenue and West Fourth Street in a kind of dingy, grimy tattoo parlor,” recalls tattoo artist Keith “Bang Bang” McCurdy of the time he first met Vogue’s April cover star, Rihanna, almost 10 years ago. “It was right when ‘Umbrella’ came out. I met her, I tattooed her, then I went home and googled her name.” Now, of course, he’s a bit more familiar with the fashion icon. “She’s the shit, man. Her style is fucking dope.”
 
The duo’s first tattoo together, a Sanskrit verse etched down Rihanna’s right hip and thigh, is not her most visible or well known. That honor goes to the henna-inspired hand tattoo, or the gun beneath her right arm, or even the jaunty “Shhh . . . ” on one bossy finger (all done by Bang Bang). But it’s a tattoo that launched a thousand more. Since that first encounter, Bang Bang has been responsible for a sizeable percentage of well-known celebrity tattoos. Cara Delevingne’s delicate and ferocious pointer-finger lion, Adele’s graceful scripted “Paradise,” even Justin Bieber’s “Forgive”—all were done by the dude-next-door, celeb-by-accident tattoo artist. Now, in addition to his eponymous Soho parlor, Bang Bang has his own book, Bang Bang: My Life in Ink; a leg famously tattooed with celebrity autographs; and a new shop (or two!) on the horizon (he’s still deciding on a city, but investors are on board). And it all started with Rihanna, who got his name from her nipple piercer (naturally). She referred him to Katy Perry, and Swizz Beatz, and Delevingne; from the Caras of the world come the Kylies. (Kendall Jenner was inked at the shop by a staffer; Kim Kardashian West, however, does not have any tattoos, having famously said that body art is like putting “a bumper sticker on a Bentley.”) With this kind of celebrity demand, it’s difficult for normal, non-famous people to get an appointment with Bang Bang himself, though his team is available six days a week at his shop. “I don’t even tattoo that much anymore,” he says. He and his team open up his schedule for two weeks every six months to a year, during which time he’ll take consultations. After that, though, the window slams shut. “I’ll plan out maybe 300 hours of work [during those two weeks],” he says, “but it’s only for five people.”

For the exceptionally talented and particularly beautiful, though, the rules are different. “When Rihanna calls, I’m available,” Bang Bang says. “I opened the store when it was closed for Kylie.” For Bieber, he even flew all the way to Panama at a moment’s notice to give him the sizable gothic cross in the center of his chest. Perry books him for weeks at a time. He joins her tour, and tattoos her dancers while he’s at it, and she generously foots the entire bill.

Bang Bang certainly has range: He painted Delevingne’s temporary cherry blossom sleeves for the 2015 Met Gala, and this week finds him at Disneyland with NFL players Odell Beckham, Jr., and Von Miller. “I’m going to tattoo Odell all week in Drake’s house,” he says, and then pauses. “It doesn’t make sense. But apparently it’s going to happen.” Will Drake be there? “I have no idea . . . weird shit happens.” But lest anyone think he’s in it for the fame, or the proximity to it, his vibe is decidedly less fanboy, more laid-back homeboy. “I connect with these people, you know? Like, you make friends at work.”
Of course, it’s not just that right-place-right-time factor that has gotten Bang Bang where he is. His work (best viewed on the shop’s Instagram) is hyperrealistic, like a Chuck Close for your forearm. And, like a Chuck Close original, they don’t come cheap: An hour with Bang Bang costs about the same as a Givenchy bag.

“One of my big goals was to bridge the goal between tattooing and fashion,” he says. It worked: Bang Bang has tattooed at least four Vogue cover stars (this is Rihanna’s third appearance) and countless girls and boys who have been featured within (have we mentioned Selena Gomez and Rita Ora?). When his popularity with Vogue is pointed out to him, he just shakes his head and smiles. “That’s why we do this. That’s the coolest feeling in the world!”

Bang Bang Tattoo, 328 Broome Street, New York, New York; bangbangforever.com.

http://www.vogue.com/13417045/bang-bang-rihanna-tattoo-artist/

Whoa, it's Donald Trump in NY!!

When nature meets art!

Congrats to @leonardodicaprio for winning a well deserved Oscar! (2/28)