Safety Pins's Blog Posts Tagged 'afropunk.com' (7)

Tattoo Artist of the Week, I do the Inking

For the last several weeks, we've used this section of Afropunk.com to feature people with interesting ink work who let is on who they are and what their tattoos are all about. Sometimes we've even featured a compilation of beautiful women of color with tattoos that we find on the… Continue

Added by Safety Pins on January 12, 2011 at 4:30pm — 12 Comments

Tattoo of the week: It just adds to your cool

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…

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Added by Safety Pins on January 5, 2011 at 4:04pm — 1 Comment

Erykah's Facebook Posts Teaser New Earring Line

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. …

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Added by Safety Pins on December 17, 2010 at 4:13pm — 3 Comments

Tattoo of the week: Lesson #1, Know thy artist

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…

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Added by Safety Pins on December 8, 2010 at 10:00pm — 10 Comments

Tattoo of the Week: Ballers get tatted, too!

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…

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Added by Safety Pins on November 24, 2010 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments

Tattoo of the week: Spooked out for Halloween

Just in time for Halloween, spooks, and tricks, is this week's tattoo of the week feature of Ms. Tomorrow Dixon. Hailing from Richmond, VA, Dixon has a tattoo of American actor, Vincent Price, who is best known for his creepy ass voice and horror flicks (he was the inventor in Edward Scissorhands). She also has a really large inked owl on her arm in memory of her mother who collected owls. She admits to…

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Added by Safety Pins on October 27, 2010 at 4:30pm — 11 Comments

Tattoo of the Week: More Heineken, Please

Oh, good God. These tattoo submissions keep getting better every week. This week is from Lyrix, a photographer in Afro-punk's hometown, Brooklyn, NY. Lyrix, who admits to being a tattoo addict, currently has eight tattoos, the sickest one is the latest addition of a Heineken bottle. Check out this week's feature and don't forget to e-mail us your tattoo images to…

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Added by Safety Pins on October 13, 2010 at 9:00am — 3 Comments