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Welcome back,

this week there is a large piece as well as a few smaller ones.

This is session 2 of 3 and now just awaiting him for the guts for the final session. Each session so far has been roughly 3 hours, but on a skinny guy with hardly any skin on his back his reluctance does make sense.

A small fairy with a very light shade of pink.

'Remember who you are' a quote from lion king with a 'tribal drawing' of Simba. A little bit of brown shading just to bring it to life.

Fine calligraphy on the inner bicep.

Celtic knot / cross, this is still a very very fresh shot, so the ink still has to settle but something that is bound to look awesome once fully healed.

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Welcome back,

4 Fresh tattoos and 1 Cover up, not bad for a week's work.

A tribute to an ex boyfriend who died in a motorcycle accident. Just a few initials with a simple tribal.

She loves black tattoos and use to be a gymnast, over a few drinks and ideas we decided what we are gonna go for, this is what we ended up with.

Butterflies! Simple pretty butterflies!

I never liked Maori styled tattoos until I ended up with this piece, the entire design changed my mind, all I had to work with was a photo of a similar piece and had to redraw most of it by hand. This piece took about 5 hours to complete.

A 4 hour cover up on a chest, this man has some cojones he sat for it all in a single session,
with these two koi tattoos covering the prior lettering, 
which was hell to work on.

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Welcome back,

a week of fresh ink and fine ink.

An abstract fairy missing a few lines, basic, but pretty.

A second matching in style tattoo to follow the prior fairy around.

'I saw you wearing a crown', that phrase is the tribute to her grandfather.

The initials of her daughter, with some simple lines running around the design.

Stars, but there is something different about that one... Ooooh colors!

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Welcome back,

This week has pretty much all fresh ink, besides one cover up.

Plain and simple, fine lines with delicate stars, yet the potential for expansion is there.

A good friend had a crappy old spider and decided to bring new life to it, we decided on a tarantula cover up, since he started keeping spiders a while back. Bright colors and fine lines make any spider stand out.

Calligraphy is one of those things that seem to be in style, 'Ti Amo' might be something foreign to most of us from Africa, but it seems the Italians get it.

A Yin Yang gone different with a few lizards, this is the kind of tattoos you do not do often enough. The creative one ;)

The popular stars once again ready to for any occasion.

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The one thing I enjoy about this area is the diversity of people you get around here with all their tastes. Here are a few of those.

Probably one of the most painful areas, but someone who can sit for that level of pain with that amount of colors can really make me smile ;)

I am not too much of religious zealot but I have to admit I love some of the art you can do with a religious tone, this though was only a fix up.

A very fresh bit of ink, on the inner and outer bicep running around the arm. Solid black work with some shaded calligraphy, an original fun piece.

For the corporate souls there is always the option of heading the UV route, round here it is not visible the moment you traverse the scene with black lights and shady corners that is when this tattoo will peek out.

A good friend of mine decided he wanted a little something to compliment his one arm already with a bit of "space" theme on it, and we decided to go for a colorful rocket on his inner bicep.

The one thing you can learn from the amount of fix up tattoos is simple, do your research before you get tattooed. A crappy tattoo will sit with you until you find someone who can actually fix it.

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After being away for a while, I returned to Upington to find the masses craving some ink.

This design has been shaded and coloured just to give it a tad more modern feel.

If anyone loves tattoos this much, and their skin is that difficult it becomes a challenge. Taking about 90 minutes to get this ink in.

A Joburg cover up that was spiced up, and modified, this is why you always ask to see some of your tattooists prior work.

A few badly drawn stars that I had to just fill and try to fix up.

This was just a tad of a fix up but after 45 minutes good as new.

So it was fix up and cover up haven the past few tattoos.

See you next week.

More Umhlanga

After a while, I realized some people are open for something else, but if they are set on text, nothing will sway them.

A few letters that symbolizes each of her toddlers.

 The most popular Bible verse, inked again.

 A crucifix with a slight twist to it.

 Presenting... Andy Cap!

Inking his son's name.