Tattooing freckles is becoming a popular trend in the tattoo and cosmetic world. Unlike regular tattoos which are meant to stand out and be very noticeably a “tattoo” cosmetic tattooing uses subtle pigments that look natural, especially when they fade.
Freckles on Sydney Dyer by herself. Sydney can be found in Calgary, AB, Canada.Healed freckles on Sydney by herself.Healed freckles also by Sydney.More healed freckles by Sydney.
While it is a tattoo, these kinds of cosmetic tattoos tend to fade quite quickly, and are often only semi-permanent, and will need touch ups to make it last.Generally speaking these tattoos will last around 2 years before they will need a touch up, or you can let them fade away entirely.
Freckles by Wesley Cavendish at River City Tattoo.Freckles by La Doyenne on herself in San Diego.Freckles by Sarah Grisdale at CoalitionSkin in Vancouver.More freckles by Sarah.
Jade Harper is a tattoo artist and owner of House of the Rising Sun in Winnipeg. Jade does mainly blackwork American traditional pieces, but has been doing more bold colourful works recently as well. She’s also very well known for her cowboy and cowboy girl pieces.
Bold bear and elegant script.Butterfly and laurel hand tattoo.
Due to the current pandemic (April 2020) Jade and other artists cannot tattoo temporarily, but she is still selling paintings. Check out her Instagram to do so, linked above.
Butterfly chest tattoo.Negative space traditional flower.
Jade has a large amount of her own tattoo flash to choose from, and she also takes ideas, and will make changes to her own flash to suit the client’s needs.
Healed cowboys in love.Bright and bold peacock.
Jade focuses on being inclusive in her shop, and is proud to be the owner of the (currently) only queer owned and operated shop in Winnipeg. She acknowledges that tattoo shops can be a (sometimes) intimidating place, particularly for those in the LGBTQ community, as well as people of colour, so she’s created the space to be a welcoming place for all.
Roquefort the mouse from Disney’s The Aristocats. My own “hang in there” noose from Jade.
Jade is a must-see artist in Winnipeg if you’re passing through, or a local looking for someone great!
Kali is a Hindu goddess often misconstrued as a goddess of death. While she does bring about the death of the ego and demons, she does not kill humans. She is the counterpart of the more violent deity Shiva the destroyer, both of whom are the destroyers of unreality. Kali is depicted as a woman with a garland of skulls or heads, and dismembered arms, because the ego arises out of identification with the body. She also is usually seen with black or dark blue skin, which symbolizes the womb of which all creation arises and into which all creation will eventually dissolve into. So she is often mistaken as a fearsome deity, she is actually a motherly figure.
As a tattoo Kali is often done in American traditional style, neo-traditional, black and grey, or realism.
Neo-traditional Kali by Aaron Riddle at Black Lotus Tattooers in Phoenix, Arizona.American traditional, less angry Kali by Andrew Strychnine at Redrum Tattoo Collective in Moscow.Unfinished black and grey Kali back piece by Dan Molloy in Perth, Australia.Mostly black Kali by Joe Ellis at Sacred Electric Custom Tattooing in Leeds, UK.Full colourful Kali back piece by Natalia Litvinenko.Dark American traditional Kali head by Philip Yarnell at Skynyard Tattoos, UK.Full bodied version of Kali by Steven Huie at Flyrite Tattoo.Another unfinished Kali back piece by Tom Caine at Holy mountain Tattoo, UK.Full rib panel Kali head by Andrew Fyfe at Main Street Tattoo Collective in Winnipeg, Manitoba.A much more motherly version of Kali by Lucy Pryor at Into You Tattoo & Piercing in London, UK.
Alexander Perry works at The Gentlemen Tattoos in Ohio. He specializes in bold, clean American traditional tattoos. His work features a lot of skulls, a lot of roses, and a lot of lady heads.
His work is classic with a bit of a modern touch, with easily recognizable designs, making them visible at a distance.
Tiny lady head in profile.Bigger lady head. Lots of red for this one!Classic lady head with a snake and dagger.Blackwork lady head and skully.Spider lady head right on the chrome dome.Don’t fear the reaper!Skull with crown of flowers.Classic Sailor Jerry skull and snake piece.Skull and crossbones.Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil skullies.Classy smoking blackwork skull.Bold rose on the hand.Classic peony.Fun cartoon eyeball.Getting tropical with a parrot, greenery, and a butterfly.
Alex is a must see artist for your traditional needs in Ohio.
