Some more progress on this piece by Nick Pedersen!

COVERUP!

One of Melanie’s favorite tattoos she’s ever done! A giant cover-up on the lovely Katey. Picture taken after the first color session (apologies for shininess). Probably another four sessions before we’ll be done—color in remaining flowers, and a little more grey shading where necessary. 

Goodbye, Ben Franklin-ass cupid!

Beautiful peacock sketch by Alena. This is going to be a gigantic cover-up! 

Greek cover-up, progress pictures. 

The first picture is a before picture (hopefully that’s pretty obvious), so that you can see what we’re transforming it from! 

I’ve been documenting all the stages of this tattoo because I thought it would be nice for y’all to see how the process of a cover-up works. We laid in a whole bunch of black last time; now the old tattoo is almost gone! Next time we’ll finish out the remaining linework. If you’re curious, you can look back through our old posts and find the first couple posts about this project. At the very end I’ll do a cumulative post with pictures from each stage. 

Cover-ups are fun and challenging like puzzles. This one is going to be awesome. I was a little nervous going into it because the original was giant, but it’s already all but eradicated! This is a really, really fun tattoo. 

By Melanie

Michaela came in for more work on her lovely flower half-sleeve! All color is healed; we laid out the rest of the line work. 

Love this tattoo.

By Melanie

Niki at work on awesome cover-up. 

Betty and Morgan are pretty damn cute

First tattoo shoot with new camera in our new photo studio!! Let us know what you think!

This camera is changing our lives. Seriously, people: Canon Rebel T2i 550D. So amazing! Look how radical this is! 

Tattoo and photos by Melanie (our resident shopparazzi). Modeling by the lovely Alena Chun. 

Greek cover-up for Anthony. Work on final drawing, then five and a half hours of tattooing later…

The Nick and Nick show.