SUMMER TATTOO TRENDS 2023-2024

Slops or sneakers? Beach or bush? Swimshorts or Speedo? These are important questions summer lovers must ask themselves if they’re looking to have a sizzlin’ season this year. But many of these critical decisions are informed by the latest, largest and loudest, you guessed it – trends.  Trends come and go. Some trends last a…

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MAKING A MARK THIS FESTIVE SEASON 2023: A GIFT THAT LASTS

The festive season is almost upon us! As we wind down for the year and start enjoying the fun in the sun that comes with South African Xmas vibes, it’s always a good idea to get a jump on the Christmas shopping frenzy that we all hate. From struggling with parking to dealing with December…

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What To Wear This Summer With Your Tattoos

Nothing beats the weather, the good vibes or the holiday excitement that comes with the spring and summertime. From longer days and rounding on that end-of-year excitement to the flowers popping up and – you guessed it – showing off this summer with your tattoos. Getting your fashion choices right is one thing. Getting them…

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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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Do 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…

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What’s New at True Blue Tattoos

  And we eat, sleep and breathe tattoos. Therefore we thought it would be “fitting” for us to design some merchandise that would reflect just that. One thunderous night, I gathered up the artists, locked them in a room and fed them, Red Bull. A week later we had eight killer designs for our new…

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Tattoo Failures

So if you have access to the net and social pages I’m almost certain you have seen some sort of tattoo failure compilation, which is a set of images that portray terrible tattoos, either done badly, just plain absurd moronic images or just a tattoo that’s been put on the wrong place. Let’s take a…

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