Safety Pins's Blog Posts Tagged 'of' (16)

It's been a happy New Year so far, but an even happier YEAR OF THE AFRO! Like all January's, many of you have taken this year as an opportunity to begin anew. Whether that be in mind, body, spirit or HAIR the new year represents a fresh start! We're on the same journey, and we're gonna start from the head down. In our history, its revolutionary to wear ones hair naturally-- wearing hair how it grows out of ones head, is an act of rebellion. So be it! If the start of the year means a…

"Everyone's trying so hard to be different but they all look the same." In fashion as well as everything else we do, we're influenced from what has come before us and what's around us right now. Check out our Black Fashion Tumblr blog's 3 most reblogged images of the week.…

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,…

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…