Safety Pins's Blog Posts Tagged 'tattoo' (18)

Tattoo of the week: Atlanta's Barbie

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…

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Added by Safety Pins on March 25, 2012 at 11:30am — 14 Comments

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

Tattoo of the week: Taking Ink to the Schools

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,…

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Added by Safety Pins on December 29, 2010 at 2:00pm — 11 Comments

Tattoo of the week: Another Beautiful Collage

If you've been following our tattoo of the week posts, you know that sometimes we like to run collages of beautiful minority women with tattoos that we find on the web with no information about them, just for viewing pleasure. One of our favorite blogs, Fuck Yea Black Chicks With Tattoos, has been great for finding some of our features because when we post images of these beautiful women, if we get… Continue

Added by Safety Pins on December 22, 2010 at 8:30am — 8 Comments

Tattoo of the Week: I'm Looking at You, Creep

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…

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Added by Safety Pins on December 1, 2010 at 5:30pm — 6 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: Death Be Upon Us

Besides the really amazing calf tattoos representing the ladder of death, this week we are featuring 22-year-old St. Mary from Dallas, TX. St. Mary, who also goes by Sick Boy, is a painter, guitarist, and does non-profit work at a non-profit orphanage. She also has an ink of the word "dead" on her hand that she has practically scrapped off of her skin (read on for more on this procedure). Thanks for your story, Sick Boy, we love the ink. And… Continue

Added by Safety Pins on November 17, 2010 at 6:00pm — 8 Comments

Tattoo of the week: We digg the E-mail

For tattoo of the week, we normally post why we featured that tat for the week, but this week we liked Ariel's e-mail that came with the photos, that we decided just to post the e-mail here. Read for yourself why this ink was chosen, aside from the sick skull and microphone ink.

"Hello. My name is Ariel. I'm 18 years young… Continue

Added by Safety Pins on November 10, 2010 at 5:30pm — 6 Comments

Tattoo of the week: Spread love the Rainbow Way

We love the fact that this week's tattoo of the week feature is keen on the rainbow, how we love colors over here, if you couldn't tell by the site. This week our feature is Ms. 21-year-old, Isake Smith, a Brooklyn native who is currently studying abroad in Granada. She has four tattoos with plans to get more after her experience studying over seas. Our fav is her quote in cursive that says, "No expectations, no regrets," with a nautical star and… Continue

Added by Safety Pins on November 3, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

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: A full complete sleeve

This week's tattoo feature is Boston's own, Kaishiro. As a graphic designer and music producer, Kaishiro got his first ink when he was 23. He now has eight tattoos and has a complete sleeve, which in itself is an accomplishment, he says, because most people leave their arms incomplete. Understood. Check out his work and don't forget to send your tattoo images to us at whitney@afropunk.com to be featured as our tattoo of the week.…

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Added by Safety Pins on October 20, 2010 at 3:42pm — 5 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

TATTOO OF THE WEEK: Fuck yea, black chicks with tattoos favs

I'm so tired of you cute shy fuckers. We know you have tattoos. We see them on your profile pictures, we talk about how awesome they are on our off time. Yet, we ask you guys to submit pictures of your tattoos to be featured on afropunk.com and they come in so infrequently that we're forced to harass people we see in the street to send us in their work. So, we'll keep asking each week for you guys to submit…

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Added by Safety Pins on October 3, 2010 at 4:00pm — 8 Comments

Tattoo of the week: A Comic Book Marvel

It's shiny. It's oily. Yummm, the smell of a fresh tattoo, all petroleum jellied out announcing it's newness and permanence. This week we had to feature the new tattoo from Mitchell Douglas, who recently got the comic book character, Luke Cage of Marvel on his upper arm with plans to develop it into a full sleeve. Mitchell said he got the Marvel character because his admiration of comics ability to stretch his…

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Added by Safety Pins on September 22, 2010 at 4:00pm — 6 Comments

Tattoo of the week: What's a little ink on the neck

Neck tattoos are daring and come with lots of unusual stereotypes that imply dangerous antics and trouble. Our featured tattoo this week, Shantel Haynes, says she is breaking that stereotype with her neck ink of her mother's name in cursive. Currently residing in Miami, Florida, Shantel is an artist who got her first tattoo at 20. She now has three and has no regrets with getting her mother's name on her neck. Shantel, for…

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Added by Safety Pins on September 1, 2010 at 5:30pm — 5 Comments

Tattoo of the Week: Alex Scott

This week's tattoo feature is of a chick we met while on the Afro-punk 2009 National Tour in San Francisco. Our feature, Alex Scott, is a 25-year-old lifeguard who jams out in her spare time. She currently has eight tattoos with plans to get more in the future. She got her latest ink of the words "readymade" after seeing her ex-boyfriend with another girl. Yep, tattoos can actually fill the…

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Added by Safety Pins on July 21, 2010 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

Tattoo of the week: Feature, The Deacon

About a month ago, we asked people to submit photos of their tattoos for us to feature once a week on afropunk.com. Many brave submissions came forward for their chance to have some face time on the site, thus reminding us that tattoo ink is such a nice touch to brown skin. With the collected submissions, each week we will feature the best and/or most interesting tattoo that we think you may like to see with a little information about the person featured. And it's not…

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Added by Safety Pins on July 5, 2010 at 4:30pm — 9 Comments