I AM NOT KAT VON D

She has a hot Hollywood tattoo shop, a hit television show, a best-selling book, and a rock star boyfriend. Now the most famous tattoo artist on the planet is trying to find herself in all of the madness.

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I WILL MAKE YOU HURT

Mayor John Fetterman took over a dying town and began tattooing the date of every murder committed under his watch. But can one reber mayor save post-industrial America before it tears him apart?

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IGNITION TATTOO

When you think of the desert, you probably think of rattlesnakes, cacti, and Hunter S. Thompson blazing toward Vegas with a trunk full of drugs. It’s time you start thinking of tattoos as well...

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INK ON FILM

"Warriors," says makeup artist Naomi Donne, who has created temporary tattoo art for numerous movies. That film was a revolutionary concept for makeup, it turned all of us in the industry around," says Donne. "And it set that whole fashion trend of very linear work in tattoos."

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INKED GIRL: ELLYSE AMELIA

Ellyse Amelia is studying to be a vegetarian chef while writing a novel about a blood-sucking vampire. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, but gets tattooed...

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INKED GIRL: EMILY

Photoshoot from our special edition, Inked Girls, issue.

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INKED GIRL: KATHRYN BUTLER

It all started with a lipstick Kathryn Butler stole from her mom...

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INKED GIRL: MICHELINE PITT

We would all secretly like to know what an S&M dungeon looks like. Or at least that’s what designer Mark Zeff seems to think. He’s injected his down-and-dirty yet decidedly luxe aesthetic into Voyeur, the Los Angeles nightclub located at 7969 (that address can’t be a coincidence) Santa Monica Boulevard, where these photos were shot. Using spiked chandeliers and black leather drapery, Zeff wanted to make visitors feel like they were entering a “naughty secret society.”


Even if INKED Girl Micheline isn’t at Voyeur the night you visit, there are plenty of other beautiful women in residence, thanks to an old film projector playing erotic films and the nude photos displayed behind 1920s glass casement windows. And for those whose proclivities lean more toward exhibitionism than voyeurism, Voyeur has two stages, a glass box for impromptu performances, and an old-fashioned photo booth where guests can entertain themselves—or others.

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