Tattoo Articles
The outspoken actress talks tattoos and politics, tells us why she doesn’t like Dane Cook, and explains that she isn’t quite comfortable with her new role on 24.
Inked hangs out with some of the hottest tattooed girls in NYC. Photos by Warwick Saint, styled by Risa Knight and Ariane Dallal
Forty years of hard liquor and harder drugs, wild women, and life on the road haven't killed Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister. Can anything?
For the record, Pink Doesn't hate her former husband Carey Hart. But that doesn't mean she plays nice on her new album.
INKED: Where were you born? CARTOON: I was born in downtown L.A., but I grew up in the harbor area down by the docks. I'm grateful because not many people who grow up there get into this business. If you grow up in San Pedro, the two biggest things you can be are a dope dealer or a longshoreman.
INKED: Where did you grow up? GRIME: Grand Junction, CO. It was a small town. There wasn't a lot of stuff for kids to do, especially if you weren't a jock or a redneck. We were part of a small group of kids who were skaters and punk rockers. We caught a lot of shit for it.
While painting your face and holding up a sign might have passed for fan obsession in years past, there's a new level of fan in the stands today. Face paint comes off after the last whistle blows, but the ink on these fans is going to be there long after the season goes down the tubes.
Amanda Beard has swam in the Olympics four times, dissed Michael Phelps, and been tattooed on LA Ink. Now back from Beijing, she's ready to dive in to life outside of the pool.
Even on the crowded subways and streets, the tattooed women of the Big Apple stand out. We threw open our doors and invited them to show off their ink, and they arrived with tattoos of everything from killer zombies to My Little Pony. Here is a look at just some of the ladies who dropped by. Watch for the Inked Girls: New York City feature in next month’s issue of INKED.
Tracy Morgan isn't shy. Anyone who's caught him on a talk show knows he's as quick to strip down as he is to declare his intentions to impregnate half of the audience. (A quick YouTube search will yield plenty of results, especially with the keywords "Tracy Morgan is wasted"). This rep is bolstered by Tracy Jordan, the comedian's thinly veiled and completely batshit alter ego on 30 Rock, who is just as prone to bust out with wild pronouncements and other inmate-running-the-asylum behavior. Neither of these, it turns out, is really Tracy Morgan at all.
Every athlete has a story. Most of them tell it on the field or on the court or on the ice. Others tell it on their skin.
Pit bull attacks, rumored pornos, Uncle Vito’s arrest, Steve-O’s rehab, wild lawsuits, dick tattoos, and Jessica Simpson. Even secured in his Pennsylvania compound, the Jackass general isn’t safe from his own wild world.
Bikes, guns, tattoos, broken bones, best friends, and feuds. The uncensored history of the Metal Mulisha, the most badass unit in freestyle motocross.
Tattoos and couture collide in the work of these fashion designers. Some are upand- coming and some have already come up, but they all stay true to their art with designs that are irreverent, witty, and anything but ordinary.
If there's one man the entire music world wants a piece of, it's Pharrell Williams. From Jay-Z and Kanye West to Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake, the Virginia Beach, VA native is a Top 40 kingmaker, a sonic architect who has built career-making hits for some of music's most elite players. His own project, N.E.R.D, just released their third album, Seeing Sounds, and toured with Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, and Rihanna.
The history of pinstriping stretches back in one long, straight, hand-painted line all the way to horse-drawn carriages and further back in time to cave walls. What’s certain is this: you can’t talk about pinstriping without hearing the name Kenny Howard, best known as Von Dutch. Thought to be the granddaddy of the art, Von Dutch was an artist and avid biker who learned hand lettering at age 10 from his papa, a professional sign painter. He did the majority of his work in the 1940s and 1950s, but today the art is just as hot as it was back then. This time around, however, it has resurfaced in the mainstream, straddling both the hot rod and biker culture and the Jaguar and Mini Cooper set.
Three days had passed since Clara, a three-year-old English bulldog, was stolen outside a grocery store in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. The NYPD followed a few leads but in a city with nearly 500 homicides a year, a missing dog was not exactly at the top of the local police blotter. Then a crew of intimidating-as-hell, tattoo-clad equalizers heard about the missing pooch from a neighborhood poster and hit the streets. Convinced that the theft wasn't the work of some punk kids, the crew roamed the area, pounding on the doors of local dealers, thugs, and anyone desperate enough to steal a defenseless animal in broad daylight.
While you're reading this, Tila Tequila is taking over the world. Since rocketing into the libidos of men and women everywhere with her saucy MySpace photos, the pintsized model has created an entire industry based on her sex-icon status. She still maintains her MySpace page (with over three million friends and counting), her MTV show A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila was the second highest rated show on the network, and this fall she's publishing a book, Hooking Up with Tila Tequila. Your sex life will never be the same.
Plan a summer trip to get tattooed with our roundup of adventures. Seven Wonders: From the once-in-a-lifetime to the taking-your-life-in-your-hands.
Nothing makes a strange town feel more like home than a great bar. It gives you a sense of the city, a feel for the locals, and—perhaps, most importantly—it can supply a nice buzz. The problem in many cases is picking the right spot. So many cities are overrun with mainstream, cookie-cutter places that it can be tough to find a watering hole with real character. Luckily, you have us. Inked has cut through the clutter to present you with some of the best places in America to have a drink.
"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."
