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Author: Shannon Larratt

  • Washing Instructions Tattoo

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    Shannon Larratt

    Dave, tattooed by Ron at Adrenaline in Montreal explains,

    Hand wash, warm water. Do not bleach. Drip dry. Do not iron.
    “A friend suggested these, but decided not to go through with them. Now if ever I’m found unconscious on the sidewalk by a sumptuous brunette, she’ll know exactly what to do with me.”

    Ah, Montreal… A place where you can find a sumptuous brunette to drip you dry just by lying unconscious on the sidewalk. I love French girls… Ah hell, French guys too — Dave didn’t specify a gender. [Edit: I ignore gender].

  • More On Eyeball Tattooing

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    Shannon Larratt

    Please don’t think that the title is a play on words.

    John Blake (in the blue shirt) forwarded me some more pictures of himself, Cutthroat (red facial tattoos), and Josh (totally blue eye), who all have eyeball tattoo work by Howie (LunaCobra.net), along with Andrew S from Swingshift (last photo). Each experienced quite a bit of spreading after the injection.

    Eyeball tattooing has got to be my favorite new mod… I don’t know if it’s got universal appeal (but who’d have thought tongue splitting, also decried as completely nuts, would take off like it did). My eye tattoo is now almost one year old (along with Josh and Pauly’s). Here’s some closeup photos of how it’s doing.

    As you may recall, it had some problems with a cyst-type structure developing (which was examined by eye injury specialists and ultrasounded, with no complications other than the obvious being found). While it definitely made me nervous for quite some time, it appears to be stable at this point. I’m definitely looking forward to continuing this work, and I’m always thrilled to see more of these admittedly gnarly, mutated-looking zombie-like eye experiments!

    Previous entries on eyeball tattooing on ModBlog and eyeball tattooing on my blog.

  • Pinky Swear

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    Shannon Larratt

    This is Meg and Samantha from Akron Ink (Akron, Ohio). Samantha (left) did their tattoos, and Meg says, “We are quite serious about pinky swearing at our shop.”… Apparently!

    See more in “Hand Tattoos“ (Tattoos)

  • Black Eye… Literally

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    Shannon Larratt

    Because his computer was ripped off, CutThroat hasn’t been able to post a picture of his black eyeball tattoo by Howie (LunaCobra), but I snagged this one from some candid shots that Wiket took at APP this year… If you didn’t already see it, be sure to check out Josh‘s amazing completely blue tattooed eye.

  • Birds

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    Shannon Larratt

    Reclining, this is iam:yomee, as photographed by Julian Z, and tattooed by iam:Pox (click for a better shot of her tattoos).

    See more in “Wildlife and Nature Tattoos“ (Tattoos)

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