Posts by Louis Potgieter
Dry Healing vs Wrap Healing (Everything You Need To Know)
Dry Healing vs Wrap Healing (Everything You Need To Know) Which is right for you? Opinions are like assholes…you know how the saying goes. When it comes to healing and aftercare of your tattoo, it’s best not to go on your cousin Frankie’s advice, rather consult a professional (and remind yourself that investments require…
Read MoreTattoo Story: For the love of tattoos
Whether it’s in memory of a loved one, an expression of creativity or an attempt to cover up a drunken mistake, there are tons of reasons why people choose to get tattoos. There are even ‘tattoo collectors’, who collect tattoos like art and turn their bodies into a kind of art gallery that lives on…
Read MoreTattoo Story: It Doesn’t Always Have To Mean Something
When you meet Gina Gordon the first thing you notice is her soft-natured, shy smile that after a while turns into an ear-to-ear grin. The second thing is a bold, in-your-face tattoo on her chest, and somehow, they both seem equally natural. Working at a plastic surgeon’s office she’s in a place that’s no stranger…
Read MoreTrue Blue Lifestyle Experience
This month, we would like to present you with the “Lifestyle Edition” of the True Blue – #OffTheNeedle Online Magazine. What do we mean? Well here at True Blue, we like to think that we offer more than the country’s best tattoos. See, tattooing is more than art. It is a lifestyle of art and…
Read MoreTrue Blue Hoodie
There was a time when Hoodies were mostly associated with criminals, hackers and people who hate doing laundry (or ‘rockers’ as most people would call them). Does this count for the True Blue Hoodie? If that is how you still think about a Hoodie you might want to take an online journey to understand…
Read MoreHarley Davidson Blanket Run
Last weekend I was invited to a charity event for kids… the Harley Davidson Blanket Run. As an avid motorcycle enthusiast and Harley Davidson nut-bag, I have never done a bike run before. I’m not entirely sure of what I expected and oh man was I about to be flabbergasted. I was invited to…
Read MoreThe Differences
Fresh with the scent of Europe and all its hot couture and smugness that befalls it, I thought it as good a time as any to point out the differences we experienced in the tattoo culture abroad. After walking around for a day, we managed to reattach our jaws, plug back our eye sockets and…
Read MoreGoing To Germany
This month the best artists at True Blue Tattoo Studios will be going to Germany to join the 25th Frankfurt International Tattoo Convention. I went to the studio to have a chat with Louis, Meghan, John and Marcel who will all be getting on an aeroplane to Germany in a few days! This is what…
Read MoreDo you do cover ups?
We hear it almost every day, yet to some, it doesn’t always sink in until it sank in… Every day our shop receives emails, phone calls and visits from enraged or embarrassed clients who ask the inevitable question:” Do you do cover-ups bro?”. Some people don’t like their old tattoos so much anymore; some are…
Read MoreWhy we do it?
Why do we do it? The intentions for getting tattoos can be many, but they all have a communal connotation. A tattoo can mark a group identity like sailors, soldiers, inmates, gangs, motorcyclists and hipsters. It can memorialize a person or event. Sometimes they happen by pure peer pressure like a couple of twenty-somethings on…
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