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Friday Sep 30, 2005
Justin Pelegano's Tattoo Stories - "Stasha’s Skull"
Tattoo conventions: Ink everywhere! A chance for tattoo devotees to link up in person and *gasp* actually blend into a community. Or, just a great excuse to get new work. The skull on Stasha’s neck comes courtesy of the 2005 Pomona Tattoo Convention. And to say she planned on getting it would be a tad off the mark.
Stasha: I got this tat because I wasn’t allowed behind the table to watch my boyfriend [being inked] unless I was getting tatted.
Inkedblog: Strange to me that they wouldn’t let you accompany him. Most artists I know usually allow one companion behind the “curtain”. What up with that?
Stasha: Well, [the artist] said, “You and your ti-- need to get behind that table.” I asked him why, and he said because I might bump him.
Inkedblog: So it meant a lot for you to sit with your boyfriend or, be honest, you just really wanted the skull tat, right?
Stasha: I kinda wanted something, ya sure. I mean, you’re at a convention, there’re like a hundred guns going, how could you not be a little tempted?
A skull…why not, right? No one else has it. [I] picked it out, customized it. He’s rad.
Inkedblog: Is that your only tat?
Stasha: No. I got one when I was fifteen. It’s so original, you’ll never be able to guess what it was. Okay…it’s a star. Well one of our friends had been experimenting with it, so I let him [tattoo me]. It looks like sh-- because I was fifteen and picked at it.
Inkedblog: Anymore tats in your future?
Stasha:Ya, I’m an artist so I can get what I want a still have a real job. I think full sleeves and some calf work is in the near future.
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I got my tribal tattoo at a tattoo convention.
Posted by: Tattoo at January 4, 2006 7:15 PM
Hey; im ashley; and im 14 years old. Im getting a tattoo for my 15th birthday; and thought yours was so dope. Its small; and discreet; and when you take your hair down; no one will know its there. Great idea. And If it fades; or stretches; then i can get it touched up easily; and colour and it would be able to work with into something else like roses later.
Just wanted to say;
dope tatttie!
xo-ashley.
Posted by: Ashley at January 4, 2006 9:19 PM
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