What to Look for in a Tattooists Portfolio
Just as important to finding the right tattoo design for you is finding the right tattoo artist. To find the best tattoo artist for you it’s important to have to look at different tattooist portfolios. It may help to view the portfolios online, so you can spend your own time looking at the [...]

THE CARE AND HEALING OF YOUR NEW TATTOO
Just in case you were adrenalin rushed and didn’t catch everything that your tattooist said here is a best practice guide for you. YES, a Tattoo is an “open wound” — and thus subject to the possibility of an infection.  But with simple good hygiene (see below) there is no danger of a [...]

Tattoo Designs for Girls
Some nice ideas for tattoos for girls.

HEART TATTOOS, INFINITY TATTOOS & LOVE TATTOOS

I created this ebook for the simple reason – one of the most sustaining themes in tattoos throughout history is love. Love is an eternal theme featured in many tattoos through the ages.
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At long last the work on my back tattoo has begun. I won’t write much here as a picture is worth a thousand words, and besides it’s pretty obvious what is happening here. I will be posting a video shortly of sections of the tattoo as it transpires and evolves. Looking forward to it being finished! haha only another 20 [...]

POINTILISIM ROSE TATTOO DESIGN
It has been an exciting summer, of tattoos, conventions and brilliance. The Scottish Tattoo Conference started the summer off right with a brilliant show of tattoos and artists from around the world. But then there was the Roma International Tattoo Convention and tattoos were taken to a whole new level of brilliance. The skills of these tattooists [...]

Would You Like To Get Your Hands On Over 100 Rare And Beautiful Colored Butterfly Tattoos?..” That You Can Download, Print And Take Straight Away To Your Tattoo Artist? The butterfly has come to represent not only beauty itself but also the transitory nature of that beauty and indeed of all life. Does that sound like you? If so it’s [...]

Dot work tattoos are especially suited for tattoos for women and girls because of their subtle and delicate nature. These tattoo designs draw inspiration from traditional African, Indian and Chinese tattoos where the method of tattooing was simple piercing of the skin and then having ashes rubbed into the cut. Geometric designs work extremely well for dot work tattoos as [...]

New geometric tattoo design for the ankle done on the weekend. This image is of the tattoo in progress not the finished tattoo. There is a lot more elements added. The honeycomb design went all the way around the ankle, an only a couple of bees dotted here and there to add to the creative design.
Geometric design always seem to [...]

What a blast! This had to be the friendliest tattoo convention I have been to yet. There was a good mix of artists – not too many overseas artists but that left room for great Scottish tattoo artists to have a showing, which can only be a good thing for the industry. The thing that I loved most was the [...]

Well summer looks like it has arrived early in London. Spirits are high and it makes the thought of spending the weekend in Edinburgh even more exciting. It is the Scottish Tattoo Convention and it is the first show on my list of many for this summer season.

 
Hope to get some more great ideas and open up my mind for [...]