King Felix Hernandez adds neck tattoo to repertoire

One of the most anticipated players from Seattle Mariners Felix Hernandez sported an attractive tattoo on his neck.  Most of his fans believe that the ace player changes his look every five days but this time, he seems to have come up with something totally different.

Is the new look for upcoming season

People closely following Felix believe that the new looks is for the upcoming season in 2013. He was also quoted saying in an interview that he likes to experiment with looks. His past looks have been widely appreciated by his fans. This is clearly evident from the fact that the ace player from American league is one of the youngest player to receive an award with the league. Since the year 2010, Felix Hernandez has remained in spotlight due to his looks. The player has also won the hearts of his fans by providing them with some incredible baseball action.

The story of tattoo

The new tattoo is hosted on the right side of the neck which is clearly visible most times. the tattoo artist has used a new type of ink in crafting the tattoo. The new tattoo resembles a tribal Aries sighn on the neck of Felix Hernandez. Olmy Rosenstock, one of the most trusted tattoo artist amidst baseball payers is responsible for carrying out this job. Felix seems to be quite impressed with his work as he has only good things to say about Olmy. Many of his friends from the league have also tattooed themselves from this prolific artist. In a recent interview, Felix also mentioned that he was very much inspired by the tattoo detailing of Olmy and this was the main reason behind him getting tattooed. One can clearly see that Felix is quite impressed with the design. This is why he seems to be showing it off at parties and events.

Not the first one

This is not the first tattoo on the body of Felix Hernandez as this player also hosts his sons name tattooed on his body. The tattoo shows his sons name Jeremy on his left wrist.  The right wrist hosts the name of his daughter.  Felix has been known for his style statements and the tattoo reflects his passion for style. He is one of the few players in the baseball arena who have achieved so much in such a little time.  His passion for style and his game seems to be a never ending business.

BME Pubic Piece Update

I’ve posted on Mateo’s BME logo pubic scar previously, which has been getting augmented with a growing and glowing aura of dotwork ink geometry by Jodi Lyford of Chimera (chimeratattoo.com) in Santa Cruz. She’s recently done more work on it, and it’s absolutely stunning. And the best thing about it is that it has an extremely realistic beard! But seriously, along with Keff’s dotwork BME logo sleeve and Joeltron’s BME logo backpiece, Matteo’s easily earns a place in my shortlist of best BME-themed body art.

On a barely related note, speaking of Mateo, that reminds me I’ve been meaning to post a picture of the great nostril jewelry that Pauly Unstoppable was wearing in his latest pictures (the connection is that Mateo has done many of Pauly’s piercings). It almost looks like the coils that the Kayan people wear around their necks, and to my surprise is a look that I rarely see even though it’s quite beautiful.

Welcome to Northern Ontario

Jason Rice and Dale Mathias were sitting around the shop one day at Pricked Tattoos in Lively, Ontario (near Sudbury), talking about how about the meaning behind different tattoos and also how not every tattoo needs a meaning (“Fuck You, That’s Why!”). They started tossing ideas around, Jason drew up this insane design, and not long afterwards Dale was tattooing “The Ball Sac Cat” on his shin. So now Jason can’t go outside in public with shorts on any more — luckily up in the frozen wasteland where he lives, unlike tropical Toronto, they only have four days of warm weather per year so it’s not a big loss.

Healing Facial Scars

I think most people know of the Maori tradition of facial tattooing or Moko, but I suspect most people see this tradition as being about tattooing (as in using needles to poke a design using ink into the skin). At its roots though it’s more likely an extension of their tradition of wood carving — similar patterns are chiseled into their homes, furniture, and boats. Mokos appear to have began by applying this wood art to the human body, literally chiseling or carving designs into the face, using similar tools for similar results. Some time after this practice began, ink was the added to the scars, making them more visible, and in time the tradition slowly moved away from scarification-based methods to tattooing-based ones. Some early photos show the three dimensional nature of Mokos created using the ink-rubbing scarification technique, although by the time Western anthropologists began documenting the practice it was already falling out of fashion.

Anyway, I was reminded of that history when I saw this skin peel done by John Durante (of Seattle-based jewelry company Evolve), which you can see here both fresh and well into healing. I really like the way he has used a sort of “reverse negative space” by cutting out a simple shape, but leaving a circle of skin in the middle untouched. As to why these facial scars inset rather than raising (as most scars do), it’s possible that it’s some evolution that makes facial injuries less likely to disfigure, it could be due to there being less subcutaneous fat, or it could be due to the vascular nature, but I don’t really have a good explanation as to why the majority of facial scars are “innies” rather than “outies”. If there are any medically aware readers that want to save me some googling, I’m like a Ferengi… all ears.

You don’t have to move far off the face for the scarred skin to start being more likely to raise than stay inset. Here’s another good example of a scar showing fresh versus healing, a throat piece done by Brendan Russell of Tribal Urge in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. The sharp-eyed will notice that this isn’t just a skin removal scar by the way — it’s also an ink rubbing done with white ink, which has the interesting side-effect of making the age of the scar difficult to eyeball.

Personal Evolution – Part III

I proudly present part three in a series of entries that at a glance shows individuals with significant facial mods from the beginning of (or before) their transformation to their current state. You can click the “evolution” tag to see the whole set. If you’d like to take part, please get in touch with me along with relevant images, via either email (snowrail@gmail.com) or Facebook. Enjoy, and click to zoom in!

Adam Skipper

Cammy Stewart

Erik Kiviharju

Jol EYezak Dunl Øp

Kala Kaiwi

Pauly Unstoppable

Pip ‘Snowie’ Green

Rafa Mendes

Ron Hanneman

Swirly Wanx Sinatra

Dotwork Hand Outline

Hand tattoos more than almost any other body part allow the artist to create a tattoo that has movement and life that a static piece could never have. For me, this means that simple yet fluid designs can easily beat out photo realistic mastery dumped flat on the back of a hand, and this tattoo of dots tracing the “mold line” of the hand by Christian Bedics (of Germany’s Time Travelling Tattoo) is a great example. Like all of his tattoos, this dotwork piece is hand poked. I should also mention that Christian is probably better for his scarification work — he’s one of the scarmasters appearing at the First International ScarCon, taking place May 4th and 5th in London.

Speaking of movement in hand tattoos, here’s another, much more whimsical tattoo also by Christian Bedics. Sure beats a finger mustache!

Anti-Tragus Removal… Trend?

Earlier today I was asked for a referral in the UK for an artist capable of doing an anti-tragus removal, and not much later got an unrelated message from John Durante in Seattle (who you may know better these days for the incredible jewelry he makes at Evolve) showing me the anti-tragus removal he just did on Francesca. For years I’ve been wondering if anti-tragus removal would follow ear stretching and large labrets and be dredged out of humanity’s tribal history and injected into modern culture… maybe that is finally about to happen?