Safety Pins's Blog Posts Tagged 'afro-punk' (29)

This week's tattoo feature calls herself, Renegade Barbie. As scary as that sounds, we like her name, almost as much as we love her 60+ tattoos she has planted all over her body. Renegade...ahem...Ms. Barbie is not only a model, but she is one half owner of 2 Cool 2 Cry Tattoos and Piercings located in Atlanta, GA. This week we feature the model/entrepreneur/hot mom on Afropunk.com and don't forget to send us pictures of your tattoos to afropunkcommunity@gmail.com to be featured…

It was really cool to see some faces we're familiar with in this month's Vice fashion issue.  New York photographer, Aliya Naumoff, photographed a series called Robothugs 2025 using models Ibrahim Yaqut (who was a featured painter at the 2009 and 2010 Afro-punk Festival), model, Shaun Ross and the beautiful and tattooed, Omahyra, who we just can't get…

We know her as the ferocious (Bjork inspired) vocalist for the newly formed Brooklyn band, Galaxy of Tar.  When she's out and about, people give her second and third looks.  "Are you that girl from America's…

When Stevey aka Blackboitatted e-mailed us images of his tattoos to be featured on Afropunk.com, we were floored by the detailing in his ink work and knew that this guy was serious about his body work.  We later discovered that he has started his own company in Boston called Addicted 2 Ink, where he plans to expand the tattoo life style to different sectors such as after school programs and kid's events.  His brand is already located in Virginia, NYC, ATL, Chicago,…

We're not late on discovering Erykah Badu's newest venture, her collection of earrings called Ear Wings or Baduwings, but we just got an update via her facebook newsfeed that the entire line might be released early 2011. …

Our feature this week, 22-year-old, Melissa from Florida, currently has four tattoos with a full length ivy vines that cover her back in memorial of her step-grandmother. Most of our submissions have no regrets for any of the work that they've had on their skin, but Melissa regrets the tattoo artist that did one of her tattoos who had never inked dark skin. Word to the wise, ask your tattoo artist if they are comfortable tattooing your skin…

Have you ever felt like someone was watching you, but there was no one in the room? We can't imagine how much more creepy it would be to have a detailed eye tatted on your arm that would pretty much glare at you whenever you moved your arm up and down. This week we are featuring Aviun Knives, a 20-year-old, artist and college student, who has an all seeing eye on his left forearm as one of his five tattoos. He says it has no literal meaning but got…

We always appreciate when guys submit their tattoo images for a feature of the week...for some reason we get an overwhelming amount of responses from women (not that we mind). This week's feature is Dev Devious, a 30-year-old self proclaimed "baller" from Jacksonville, Florida. In his submission, he even makes note that he has a 745 credit score (if you want his contact info, we might give it to you). From the looks of it, he…