I met Nadya one afternoon in the beginning of October in Borders on Penn Plaza.She shared this tattoo, which covered up a date she had initially inscribed on her arm:Nadya told me that she wanted something "girly".What I [...]
Showing posts with label Cover ups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cover ups. Show all posts
Something Girly This Way Comes
Posted by Unknown on Saturday, November 27, 2010
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Shaina's Back Piece Blooms
Posted by Unknown on Friday, August 6, 2010
A post-work errand had me walking down 6th Avenue to 23rd Street where, to my delight, I ran into Shaina, whose large back piece stopped me dead in my tracks. Lucky for me, and all of our Tattoosday readers, she had no problem [...]
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Tammy's Earth Fairy
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Tammy says that, within an hour of meeting her, Steve Gagliano of Tormented Souls in Kings Park, New York, knew exactly what to do with the tattoo she wanted covered up. He began freehanding a design over the existing tattoo, [...]
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Sasha's Cranes
Posted by Unknown on Friday, June 4, 2010
I spotted this tattoo on the upper right arm of a Sasha in the Bay Ridge Century 21 store:I love the dark colors in the piece and wanted to hear more about it.Sasha explained that it is a cover-up of a moon tattoo, and that [...]
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Tattoosday Goes To Hawai'i - All in the Family, Part 5 (Ulu's Amazing Plumage)
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, May 25, 2010
In January 2008, when Tattoosday was a mere infant blog, my mother sent me photos of some of the ink my cousins possessed.I already shared Keali'i's sleeves here, but included in that email from Mom was this astonishing [...]
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Tattoos I Know: Paul, Part 5 or, The Great Cover-Up of 2008, continued...
Posted by Unknown on Monday, February 8, 2010
In December 2008, we posted about our friend Paul getting some cover-up work done on his upper right arm. Revisit the report here.We checked in with Paul again this past November to see the progress (here). And, just last [...]
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Tattoos I Know: Paul, Part 4, or, The Great Cover-Up of 2008, continued...
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Late last December, we posted about our friend Paul getting some cover-up work done on his upper right arm. Revisit the report here.We recently checked in with Paul to see how things were going, and he updated us with the [...]
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Tattoorism: Kelly's Backpiece for Her Daughters
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, August 16, 2009
It's been a while since we've had a tattoorist in this neck of the woods, so we ought to enjoy a lovely submission.For those of you new to Tattoosday, or unfamiliar with the term "tattoorist," that refers to someone who [...]
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