unbelievably special tattoo for dear friend / angel on earth 💗 i think this is the biggest freehand piece i have done so far?? and i'm so grateful for bail's trust through this process! i love this piece so much and i'm so glad you get to carry it with you to your new life in boston even tho i will miss you!!! 🫒✨
hey long time no post! here's a healed dark magician girl for ya 💕 you have probably noticed i am on a bit of a hiatus from tattooing while i get some health stuff under control and sort out my next workspace, and unfortunately i don't have an update about any of that yet- BUT in the meantime, you can catch me selling art and resin dice at @phillyotakucon this weekend, commission a drawing on my ko-fi page (for future tattoos or for personal use!), or see me in providence RI next month! (more details on that soon 😉) i love and miss you all and hope you haven't forgotten about me during my break!!! hopefully i'll be back before ya know it 💞
i'm always honored & humbled when clients trust me & enjoy their experience enough to come back for more work, but when cj scheduled this big violet belly blaster as soon as they left our first appointment together 2 weeks before this, i swear i shed an actual tear 🥲 thanks again!! 🌸
gynandromorph butterfly from sometime last year! i am still posting old photos that never made it to the feed, mainly to get your attention and tell you i am finally trying to book some appts again icymi!! link & all the info in biooooo for november!
i guess now that im actually booking again i might as well post the backlog of tattoos i never showed y'all from last year?? like this turnip head on my sweet pal roman!
hello hello you're not imagining things, that is indeed a tattoo post on your feed! (albeit, one i never posted from last year, but still) the point is i am finally booking appointments again!! the link in my profile has all the info you should need, but the important things are this: i am only booking through november right now, i am working at an extremely limited capacity so i won't have a ton of spots available, BUT it is not first-come-first-serve so take your time with the request form anyway! i'm going to leave it up for a week or so (or until i have too many submissions if that happens) and respond based on priority and work i'm super interested in. ko-fi members and repeat clients will get first dibs on dates, and otherwise i'll be prioritizing flash appointments and custom work that falls in line with the list on the last slide. the listed flash prices are sliding scale and subject to change based on size, placement, color vs no color, etc. i will hopefully be adding more new flash in the coming weeks but for now everything is in the slides! i retired a lot of designs i was just no longer feeling and added some new ones but definitely have less than i usually do (but i'm always open to suggestions for themes / subject matter!!) custom work will be charged on an hourly sliding scale. i'm still in west philly and masks are very much still required! love you hope to see you soon xoxo!
this was such a wild piece to work on and so much fun!!!! 🌌 alenni wanted something to commemorate their trip to see the northern lights- i was very upfront about the fact that i could not execute the kind of realistic / painterly aurora tattoos we'd seen online, and they were super down for just picking out some colors and seeing what happens. i will admit i was pretty nervous going into it, but then we were so thrilled with how it turned out! we also added the "beautiful" at the end and i'm kind of obsessed because they could not have been more opposite tattoos in terms of style and technique lol. (music notes are not mine!) anyyyywayyyyy endless thanks for the trust on this one, seriously, alenni is the coolest!! ps please swipe for details and for some shareable flyers 💞
me: *says i'm going to catch up on tattoo posts* also me: *immediately forgets and never posts again* 🍓 anywayyyy strawb life cycle (and healed 💜s!!) for miles - thank you again for bringing me such fun and colorful projects :) !!!!!
i love this tattoo so much 😭 it was based on an original pencil drawing of a key frame from the animation and i really love how it translated to tattooed lines! first pic is healed, the rest are a mix of healed & fresh w some close ups so swipe through to see all of them! and fudanshi / fujoshi sound off in the comments below 😌
absolutely wild adaptation of a painting by bernard bonhomme, a gay french illustrator i can find unfortunately very little information about online?? but seriously look him up because his art is extremely cool! done in two long sessions in such a tender spot, thanks for sticking it out felix :') shoulders & up is healed a few weeks, the rest is fresh. trying to finally catch up on my backlog of tattoo posts, but unfortunately am still not booking new appointments rn!
apparently "one post every 2 months" is my new instagram posting schedule 😅 i have a huge backlog of tattoos to share so i am going to make an effort to post more frequently!! i have just been struggling w social media lately (honestly, has anyone been having a *good* time here??) and i actually have some big updates to share soon, but i felt like i shouldn't make another wordy post when i hadn't posted any actual photos in so long lol, so keep an eye out for that soon! anyway!! i loved doing this custom bun for dicky, thank you again 💞🐰
edit: obviously a lot has happened since i posted this earlier today- frankly i am too tired to rehash it again here yet. all i can say rn is listen to the vendors who are talking about their experiences and sharing the receipts cuz you'll get a pretty different story from the one wcf is selling.
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**i feel like i should make it so clear that my rage is directed at penn, west craft fest, and the vendors who are either *actively celebrating this as a complete win* or who remained silent the whole time. this is not directed at the vendors who remain vocally critical of penn/wcf, who cannot afford to withdraw, and are attending with pro-palestine materials as a form of protest.** please follow the artists tagged on the last slide, and tag yourself or your friends in the comments if i missed anyone- i did my best to contact everyone i knew was withdrawing, but it was really hard to track people down with all of this happening quietly over private emails. many of us on the list have online stores, and/or will be doing story sales over the weekend as an alternative to the in-person sales so keep an eye out for those! xoxo
