Luna Love is an aspiring model from Canada and a full time mother. Her favorite piece is a work in progress but you can already start to see the magic form. She aims to be fully tatted one day and with 17 tattoos she is well on her way. One thing is for sure, she is one of the coolest moms up North, eh? To submit your tattoos for Tattoo Of The Week, send pictures + answers to the questionnaire below to mika@afropunk.com.



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Stepping into Chris Carr's world is like entering a place where all your false pretenses that society has taught you are stripped away leaving you in your truest form, naked...literally. This New York based nightlife and editorial photographer created the company Eat The Cake NYC with the intention to break down the walls people choose to hide behind and force them to get…

Naomi Siren is a library employee by day and an aspiring tattoo model by night. She digs Star Wars and dressing up like a stormtrooper.... which I'm sure will make any fanboy's hearts flutter. This sexy tatted siren will give you another reason to make a trip to the Library. To submit your tattoos for Tattoo Of The Week, send pictures + answers to the questionnaire below to mika@afropunk.com.



By Mika Kenyah / Sugar &…

The AFROPUNK INK calendar contest has been an intense run. Contestants pulled together their networks and friends for votes and made it a real showdown. As of NOON today these were the rankings, but you'll have to visit the SUGAR AND SPIKES BOOTH to AFROPUNK FEST 2012 to see the winner of a tattoo session with Triple X Jess, and view the 2012/2013 Calendar, which will be for sale for $25.…

Milly DuBouchet's beautiful relationship with her girlfriend of 7 years inspired her to create LEZ Factor. LEZ Factor offers lesbian, bisexual, and bicurious women a life-altering perspective to creating true romantic success, through coaching, events and seminars. Milly's genuine passion to help other women to experience the type of life-changing love that she has, speaks volumes of the love she shares in her own…

At age 12, Tim Martinez fell in love with rock and roll. Raised in a born again Christian family, it was the unexpected and foreign sounds of Nirvana, Hole and Soundgarden that really compelled him. By the time Marilyn Manson hit the scene, he was hooked. His passion for rock scored him his first job in the music industry, working for FUSE TV Network's metal show, Uranium. It was around this time he evolved into Tim No. 37 and before he knew it, he found himself becoming a…

When he is not busy holding down security, King Mezy is running a tattoo modeling agency, Got Ink Boyz Movement. (Perhaps a Sugar & Spikes and Got Ink Boyz Movement collab in the future?) King Mezy's ink makes him worthy of being president and with over 300 tattoos, he definitely leads by example! To submit your tattoos for Tattoo Of The Week, send pictures + answers to the questionnaire below to mika@afropunk.com.



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Alexis Brown embodies the beauty and raw talent of a true rock legend ascending to the top. As the front woman of the hard rock/metal band from Knoxville TN, Straight Line Stitch, Alexis is proving to the world that she is unafraid to be a true individual and create music that is genuine. She has the ability to alternate her sound between blistering metal with screaming vocals and belting out melodies from her soulful roots. Her growing success is a result of her band's passion…

Brittany Slam is a native New Yorker, now living in Atlanta and working as a professional body piercer. This sexy queen of body modification is covered with beautiful art work. Brittany proclaims her free spirited life with pride and holds no regrets...fortunately for us her tattoos vividly share that story.

To submit your tattoos for Tattoo Of The Week, send pictures + answers to the questionnaire below to mika@afropunk.com.…

While I never regret any of my own tattoos, I won't be attending another tattoo party where you can not only snag a 2 for 1 tattoo special, a free beer is also thrown in to sweeten the deal. The result? I am left with 2 very sloppy tattoos that look like it was drawn from a sharpie by a 5yr old, which serves as a constant reminder that cheap prices will not guarantee you quality work. With the economy in turmoil, there are many people aching for more tattoo work but unable to…

Amber Jasmin Morrow is a Makeup and Hair Artist based out of New York City and Los Angeles. She has had the pleasure of freelancing for such brands as Maybelline Cosmetics, and touring North America with shows such as Monty Python's Spamalot, The Color Purple, and soon joining the cast and crew of Rock of Ages. When Amber isnt living out of a tour bus and traveling for work, she enjoys spending her summers in the sweltering heat that is NYC, eating awesome food, traveling out of…

With her mysterious viral videos, we see a glimpse of Doxi Jones, but not the whole picture. She teases us with images of her eyes and lips, discussing her thoughts and pulls us into an intimate one-way conversation. A marketing idea she proudly proclaims as her own. While sitting down with the Title 9/SRC/Universal Republic recording artist at a studio in Manhattan, I am immediately thrilled to see not only is Doxi stunning but she has some beautiful skin ink. I wondered at…

AP member Roxy Stardust hails from Las Vegas and is a self-described revolutionary in the making. She got the word "Iconoclast" tattooed on her collar bone/shoulder area to reflect this anti-establishment stance. She rocks 6 tattoos, some of them very large pieces. Check them out, and if you'd like to be our Tattoo Of The Week feature, answer the questions below and email us at least 3 pictures of you and your tattoo(s) at afropunkcommunity@gmail.com.…

The upcoming release of the feature film 'Red Tails' raises question about how Hollywood treats Black History, what gets made and what doesn't: "A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard." Executive producer George Lucas said that he had trouble getting funding for the movie, due to the fact that most of the main…