Calligraffiti Going pink: The Suicide Girls Story
CHRISTY MACK
one-women show
Essential tips tattoo aftercare
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while ago since I was in high school I been dreaming on exploit my tattoo artist skills and having my own tattoo shop. I went to the college with the goal of being a graphic designer and use both career to help each other, then I started loving all about editorial design, while I been working on tattoos I met people when to conventions, tattoo shop and all related with this art, my idea on making a tattoo magazine got started. When I started this project I had nothing than my laptop, I made lots of sketches by myself, then I been meeting people with ideas in projects a like and we got this dream started. From the start, we wanted the magazine to include the best of tattoo culture. It had to go deeper than any tattoo magazine before it, and it had to look better doing it. So we stared using all our talents trying to make this perfect, we all took photography, collared celebrities and tattoo artists, it was kinda hard at the beginning because no one had the interest on us, but our work been talking for us, and we thank all the people that believed and the artist that took some time. Enjoy the issue! And stick around, we have plenty more to come. Joanna Betancourt Editor editor@tats.com
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Essential Tips to Tattoo Aftercare 6 Most Popular Tattoo Styles
02/04/15 / Author: Natasha Van Duser
ESSENTIAL TIPS TO TATTOO AFTERCARE So you’ve found the perfect artist, put down your deposit, gone through your consultation, sat through the pain, and walked out of that tattoo studio with the tattoo of your dreams. Now what? Now it’s time to ensure that your gorgeous new piece of artwork stays that way!
Immediate Aftercare: Your artist will most likely have tips that may vary, so listen to their advice first. They’re the artist who knows how to care for their particular tattooing techniques the best, but here are a few basics.
1. Leave your bandage or tattoo 3. For the first few days (we suggest covering on for one to three hours after your tattoo is finished. Your artist will instruct you on exactly how long to keep the bandage there. This process is collecting a lot of the goop, blood, and even ink from the fresh tattoo, so keep it on! You don’t want to ruin any new clothes or overly expose it at first.
three days) after washing the tattoo make sure to apply an ointment to keep it hydrated. Great ointments to use that can be picked up at a drug store are A+D or Aquaphor. Use this sparingly! A thin layer is better than drowning the tattoo in goo and will help it heal faster.
2. Make sure to wash your new ta- 4. After the first few days of using
ttoo several times a day with a soft, non-scented, antibacterial soap (Dial Soap Gold is a great brand to use) to keep it clean and avoid potential infection. Make sure to do this for two to three weeks or until the tattoo is more or less healed. Remember, never touch your tattoo unless you have just washed your hands!
ointment switch to a non-scented lotion after you wash your tattoo. Aveeno is a great brand available at drug stores and comes in both large bottles as well as convenient travel sizes, which are perfectly sized to fit in your pocket or purse.
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For the first two weeks avoid wearing tight clothing that might rub up against your tattoo as well as sleeping on your tattoo so you don’t agitate the healing process.
Continue this process until the tattoo is healed, and remember, don’t pick, peal or scratch any scabbing or hard layers. These hard layers are normal and picking them off could damage or remove color.
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While the tattoo is healing avoid going into large bodies of water (pool, ocean, hot tubs, etc.), the gym or activities that lead to excessive amounts of sweating, and exposure to the sun for the first two weeks. This could damage the tattoo in the healing process. Showers are fine as long as they are quick and not overly hot. You don’t want to burn your new ink!
Long-term aftercare is just as important as short-term. The more you care about how you treat your skin, the longer your tattoo will uphold it’s sheen.
CALLIGRAFFITI 09/01/15 / Photo by Daniil Kolodin / Author: Anja Cadlek
Odd characters envelope the nude model. The long strokes look like those belonging to Leonardo da Vinci had he lived further east. But it’s not the cryptic code of the Renaissance Man but that of Russian calligraffiti writer Pokras Lampas. Inspired by typographic visual masterpieces of Niels Shoe Meulman, Lampas started to write modern gothic calligraphy letters on the streets of Moscow. Then two years ago he started writing on girls. “I was always interested in different kinds of handwriting: tags, calligraffiti, tattoo fonts and some kind of typography experiments,” Lampas says. “Now I’m trying to achieve new rules, shapes, compositions and alphabets.” For those who aren’t fluent in Lampas, that doesn’t necessarily mean you
don’t get his art. “My works are really difficult to read, I’m (usually) writing quotes or song lyrics,” he says. “For me it is really important to show a new vision of the modern composition and calligraphy style to inspire people. Often comments (online) say, ‘I can’t read this, but this is so awesome!’ I enjoy that calligraphy can be art for a lot of different people.” Other than nude women’s skins, Lampas has marked subway cars in Russia, a soon-to-be revealed wall in France and the Baltic Sea. Yep, he wrote on the ice. His dreamscape? “Maybe calligraphy on a space shuttle.” Great, now not only are we jealous that there isn’t a Lampas piece in the United States, but now we also miss the Space Race and space shuttle program.
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ara Fabel is a Finnish model, illustrator, tatto artist and actress. She lived her early and late teenage years in Helsinki, Finland. Her primary education is in art education, minoring in photography and digital media. (University of Art and Design Helsinki, currently known as Aalto university / Griffith university, Brisbane Australia.) Sara worked as an primary school grades 1-9 teacher until moving to Australia and pursuing a career as an illustrator. Fabels career in modeling started in early 2000’s, but did not receive public notice till late 2009 when she began to branch out towards alternative and more edgy audience. Sara FAbels artistic collaboration, photography and modeling has been internationally published and featured in printed as well as online media.
SaraFabel 2012 Sara Fabel apprenticed to become a tattoo artist as has since concentrated on feinting her medieval and woodcut inspired tattoo style.
Sara works with organic themes mixed with symbolism and geometric elements. Favorite concepts: Animals, specially birds, texture of feathers, fur, hair, skin, nails, teeth. Anatomical illustrations and textures of muscles, bone. Symbolism of the occult, religious symbolism, witchcraft. Mathematical elements and secret geometry. Large black areas and geometric elements.
Sara fabels tattoo work is well know for it’s bold lifework and fine lines. Sara uses the style os blackwork, which transfers to the usage of black ink only. All textures and appearances of shade , highlights and depth are created with rasterization, texturing, stippling or other methods suited for the particular design.
Choosing a tattoo design, size and location on the body; As skin heals and ages it is important to remember that the tattoo will mature with the skin; Lines will soften and the blacks will fade to dark grey. This will happen to all skin types and can not be prevented with any aftercare. How the tattoo will look after healing is a combination of the tattoo, skin type and aftercare. During the tattoo process it is important for the client to stay relaxed and still to
supply the tattoo artist the best possible surface to work on. Any rapid movements might affecting the artists ability to produce quality work. When choosing the design, giving the tattoo artist as much free room to plan out the design will ALWAYS result in a design that is going to be made by the artists best knowledge to suit the area of the body as well as making the design correspond the best to the artists own sense of aesthetics. It is important to choose an artists that sense of design is style is corresponding to the end all result you are looking for. Giving ideas and elements for the tattoo artist to use is always welcome, as well as inspiration pictures.
With choosing a size for a tattoo design, larger is often better. For larger designs the tattoo artist is able to add more detail to the designs without compromising the longdivity of the design. This means that as the tattoo and skin ages and the lines in the tattoo naturally blur, the design will not become too unclear to “read”. Larger design means that as the skin heals, there is more space for the natural “blurring” and the design will look better for longer time. There are always exception to this rule, but in general this applies to majority of tattoos.
GOING PINK:
The Suicide Girl Story It’s Tuesday afternoon and the Suicide Girls are naked. Well, nearly naked. A few floors up off a touristy strip of Hollywood Boulevard, down the block from Grauman’s Egyptian Theater and one of Los Angeles’s many Scientology centers, the girls strip off their Storm Trooper corsets and then their bras so all that remains is white cotton underwear and the signature electrical tape X’s that cover their nipples. The girls come in all sizes, shapes, and colors — hair colors too: Kool-Aid red, traffic light yellow, neon green, deep purple. Most have piercings; all have tattoos. They call each other babes, and that’s what they are. In two days they’ll head down the coast to San Diego and perform at Comic-Con to represent the 14-yearold alt-girl pinup site that bears their name. You can be a Suicide Girl, but you can also go to Suicide Girls. It’s a website, a label, a community, and an aesthetic borne out of the so-called alternative moment of the early aughts. Even though that moment has passed, the Suicide Girls movement has never been stronger.
The girls hit up a dozen different conventions a year, promoting the site’s various projects and selling Suicide Girls merchandise, but their last couple Comic-Con appearances have been particularly important. Live performances are now an integral part of the Suicide Girls experience, and Comic-Con is where they’ll try out new material for their Blackheart Burlesque show. Next month, they’ll embark on a 12-week tour, their biggest yet. Twenty-two-year-old Liryc Suicide is the dance manager. Each number has a specific theme and follows a particular formula, and it’s Liryc’s job to make sure practice stays on track. For every dance they rehearse, the girls start off in costume — fursuits, Rocky Horror ensembles, sexy superhero looks. There is tight choreography, plus the requisite body rolling and booty smacking, as the girls flirt with the audience and one another. Eventually they strip down to just their panties, and sometimes tube socks, too. There’s a chair dance to Nine Inch Nails; there’s a Lara Croft act that sometimes involves fire. “Saw our ad on Christian Mingle?” Sunny Suicide asks the would-be crowd. The bubbly New Yorker is one of the show’s two hosts, along with her British counterpart Katherine Suicide. “Don’t think that’s it — I posted on JDate,” retorts Katherine. “Nah, these fuckers are on Tinder!” Sunny bursts out laughing. The girls have little black heart tattoos for every tour they’ve been on; Sunny has one next to her eye.
“Suicide Girls is about real women. We want you to take as many photos as possible.” “You get to see girls like Sunny and me totally naked,” Katherine continues, adding with a wink that “photographs are on the internet forever.” Sunny jumps in on cue, “But we don’t care about that! Suicide Girls is about real women. We want you to take as many photos as possible.” She teases that she and Katherine are going to make out backstage. They carry on their back and forth while Liryc keeps the time. “Let’s find some babes!” Katherine announces, pulling Missy Suicide to the center of the studio while they all dance to “Bubble Butt.” Turn around, stick it out, show the world you got it. The Suicide Girls revolution started with Missy, and the girls’ affection for her is obvious as they goof around on the floor. She’s the reason this all exists; she’s the reason they’ve found a home online and with each other.
LOR WATER CO In recent years, tattoos have become popular in different types of population, which has provoked many people come to the fascinating world of tattoo naively, without knowing at least in its basic elements tradition that has been woven around adornment skin through the needle and tinctures.
It is a combination of vivid colors and bold iconography. the common elements of this style share semantic proximity to the world of sailors (anchors, boats, liquor bottles, sirens, etc.) or the American imagination but not exclusively.
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TATTOO STYLES
One of the most popular styles of the past few years, the geometric tattoos have seduced many people for the enormous expressiveness achieved with the apparent minimalism of resources.
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Probably one of the most exquisite styles. as in painting, tattoos made with this technique depend solely on points to express their characteristics, from its general meaning to technical elements such as depth or shading. pointillism shadows are matchless.
POINTILLISM
THE MOST POPULAR
The finished watercolor tattoos have two distinctive features: the color and the lack of lines. there is a line that contains the forms manifest, which is somewhat unorthodox for discipline and, therefore, distinguishes creative and daring people.
07/15/14 / Photos by Christian Saint. Styling by Darius Baptist./ Author: Christy Mack
for me. My website christymack.com is still a place for people too see films that they can’t see anywhere else. Porn was great, I got my start there, it got me followers on all social networks it got me to branch out to other things like my online store, posters, appearances, and Flesh Light. I have a few of my Flesh Lights around the house and I tried to make them queef for longer than I should admit to. Nobody would want anything to do with me had I not started in porn, and maybe I will go back someday.
Christy Mack I was kicked off of Facebook for impersonating myself. Though I post better things on Twitter, my Instagram took off. I guess some people just like to look at me. Once in a while I drop major wisdom on Twitter…and nothing happens. You have to handle snakes every day or as frequently as you can. I own nine snakes and they just tolerate people, all they want is warmth and food, in order for them not to give you attitude you have to handle them a lot. If I
Former porn super starlet Christy Mack gives you a one-woman show.
am going to put my make-up on I will put a snake on my shoulders or if I am going to watch TV and nap I’ll grab a bigger snake and put it around me. I came into porn at the exact time when nobody was like me—a very curvaceous woman with tattoos. Usually when you see a tattooed girl in porn she has no tits, no ass, she’s like a stick figure. I have not filmed anything in 10 months, I might go back to porn in the future but right now is just not the time
When you get to a point in business when you don’t have to do something why do it? If I am making more money doing non-physical things why would I put my body and my mind through something that demanding? Some days were way easier than others. You show up, you have sex, you have fun and you leave with a check. Other days you are giving a blowjob for 12 hours, and it’s like what am I doing wrong here? You never realize how ugly you are until you are in a makeup chair for three hours. When I have sex on camera I am going to put my legs in places I didn’t know I could put them, but if I am having sex in my personal life I am not there to impress, I am there to have a good time. If you think you have to impress your partner you are in the wrong situation. I love the look of tattoos. When I get up in the morning and look in the mirror I feel beautiful for having tattoos. The beautiful thing is that the more tattoos I get, the more beautiful I become.
I’m glad that I didn’t get all my tattoos quickly, I collected. As my life progressed, my tattoos progressed. And I have more room so I hope I have a lot of life left. I want to get to that place not just all in one day. I fly in my artist from Indiana, John Haase, who did my heart, the back of my neck, my hands and my underboob. I will never tattoo my ass or my boobies—those are the moneymakers! Since I am rarely in clothes, no matter where I get tattooed eventually someone is going to see it.
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What year did you start tattooing? I bought my first machine when I was 17, that was around 2007. I studied art in high school, and later while attending university, so I did not have much time for tattooing other than on my friends on the weekends. I started with tattooing properly after I came to Prague, almost 3 years ago. You are located in Prague, how are tattoos accepted in your community? Tattoos are in fashion in Prague, people love to get tattooed, they give you free hands, and are open to new ideas. On the other hand some people are stuck in the middle ages and still think it’s only for criminals.
Did you have a formal apprenticeship? Yes, I was lucky enough to work with Peter Bobek and Ernesto at Bobek Tattoo. Full interview in our online page...
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