True Blue Tattoo Studio Celebrates 10 Years

How To Build a Tattoo Legacy True Blue Professional Tattoo Studio Celebrates 10 Years   When True Blue Tattoo Studio opened its doors in 2013, the world was a different place. It was a time before COVID, when load shedding meant the day off, and dating actually required in-person attendance. In 2023, True Blue celebrates…

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Tattoo 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…

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Why 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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Nine Pounds of Imagination

Nine Pounds of Imagination

The dominant Instagram post or a Pinterest pin. We seem to have traded our imagination for easily accessible ideas or, should I rather say, trends. In the tattooing world, we have what is colloquially referred to as “Nine-Pounders.” There are various varieties of these trending (but loathed) tattoos, ranging from a heartbeat to anything that…

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Take the red pill

It’s a scary thought that your entire life hangs on a cable running to and from the interweb… I myself, imagine it somewhere deep in the earth’s core. Perhaps even operated by little “Matrix” looking minions? My idea of the internet further disintegrates when the cables snap and are now replaced by a wireless mystery.…

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Popular Tattoo Fads

Hands up, how many of you out there have one of those Chinese symbol tattoos? Let’s be honest here. If however, you are not the proud owner of some form of ridiculous, yet highly philosophical, kinda mystical-looking thing protruding from your lower backside, in the shape of a Chinese symbol tattoo, you’re probably not old…

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