Zombie Boy is a Montreal-based fashion model who you may recognize from the startling tattoo work that covers the majority of his body and face. His intent is to look like a rotting corpse. This transformation has actually turned into a couple of working gigs for Genest. This year he joined Lady GaGa in the ‘Born This Way‘ video and now he is being used by Dermablend for advertising purposes.
Removing and covering up tattoos has turned into a big business. The advertising big shots at Dermablend came up with a winner when they choose Rico Genest, who is better known as Zombie Boy, to advertise their tattoo covering product. Check out the video.
Well, I’m not into watching sports on TV but my husband loves it – so last night a baseball game was on and I glanced up from my reading to see fans holding up signs that were plastered with love for “Tatman” – almost sounds like a Superhero. This quickly got my attention.
He was one of the most popular players in last night’s game – he hit a grand slam against the Milwaukee Brewers – and that’s why people were holding up these signs for Ryan Roberts of the Arizona Diamondbacks. His nickname stems from his many tattoos. The man is covered with tattoos from his neck to his toes.
I think high profile, successful sports figures like this are the type of public figures that will help change the negative attitude some people have about tattoo work. The 31 year old Roberts says he gets tattoos to show what inspires him. A lot of his fans are intrigued with his body art and the better he performs in the playoffs, the more inquiries he’ll receive — about his body art and about his performance on the field.
The artwork that’s affiliated with Disney movies and books has always been highly respected in the art world. The stories are classics and the artwork is superior. And now we have an artist by the name of Tim Shumate who has combined some of the endearing female Disney characters with body art. Outstanding idea! Tim combined the likes of Ariel, Sleeping Beauty, and Princess Jasmine with a more adult costume and tons of tattoos. Here’s his Sleeping Beauty.
You can see more of Shumate’s work on his website. His work ranges from portrait realism to cartoon like subjects. Although he chooses to paint and draw subjects that are frivolous by nature, his talent takes the subjects he paints to a seriously talented level.
Anyone that is involved with the tattoo world knows the number one faux paux is to get your lover’s name inked on you. Besides the statistics proving that a large percentage of relationships eventually bite the dust, there is the belief that just getting their name inked puts a jinx on the relationship. At that point there’s no doubt it will end sometime soon. Just don’t do it.
You’d think a seasoned tattoo artist like Kat Von D would know better. Even though she’s been through countless, public relationships and has already lived through one failed marriage, she still went ahead and got Jesse James’s portrait inked on her side.
Jesse showed his true self as a dishonest cheater in multiple relationships, Kat decided she was going to befriend him. Then, before you know it, they’re engaged. It all happened real quickly. (Did anyone really think it was going to work out?)
The couple have now split up and she’s got, not just a name to get rid of, but a good size portrait to constantly remind her of him. I’m going to guess that laser treatment may be in her very near future.
The only names or faces you should ever get tattooed are your kids or other blood relatives. And there’s no guarantee there will come a day when you have regrets about them either. Just say no.
I imagine everyone has heard some of the recent news surrounding Charlie Sheen. Hell, his tirades and behavior has been brought to all aspects of media. He’s been doing interviews on the morning talk shows; he’s called in for an interview on the Howard Stern radio show as well as doing other radio interviews. My own opinion is that he’s out of control and likely to kill himself with excessiveness. He looks at it as he’s special and “a total bitchin’ rock star from Mars” – that’s his description. I give a lot of credit to CBS for firing him considering the money he brought to the network. But if they continue to pay him despite this behavior they would only be enabling the situation.
But what do I know? Come to find out he has many fans, twitter followers, and other people that look up to him and his out of control party lifestyle. One of Charlie’s latest chants to describe himself is “Winning” – and now he’s made that mantra truly his own – he had it tattooed on his wrist. What followed after the news was announced surprised me – tattoo parlors reported a rash of clients coming through the door wanting the same.
Alex Finch is a true fan of Pokemon and he’s proving it with his recent addition of 6 sub-dermal implants and tattoo work. The balls create a cool 3D effect. Finch has been a fan of the video game since he was in 3rd or 4th grade.
The six balls are a reference to the number of Poke Balls from the original video games. He’s not going to stop there. His intention is to get more implants and tattoos of cartoon, video game, and anime icons. At least that’s what he’s says now. I’m assuming he’s at least eighteen and it’s a cool idea but you just have to wonder how safe it is to get metal placed under your skin. For some reason putting ink under the skin seems natural but metal just seems potentially dangerous.
Maybe I’m getting too old to warm to the idea. I imagine they would get cold in the winter. Then there’s the hassle of metal detectors. Sleeping on them could be uncomfortable. If you change your mind, you have to surgically remove them which I imagine may leave some scarring and hurt like a bitch. And then – would the skin be abnormally stretched out once you remove them? I guess you could say I’m not sold on them – yet.
