Embracing female tattoo culture
The latest celebrity couple to get matching tattoos in honour of their love for one another is Ellie Goulding and Dougie Poynter. ‘Skullin ell’ was the phrase Poynter used on his Instagram account to show the world his new ink.
Here are some of our readers matching tattoos with their loved ones.
Matching flamingos by Bob Done from The Lookout, Worthing
By Vicky Kostick from Baby Boy Tattoo, Bishop’s Stortford
By Erik Dyum
Matching tattoos drawn be their son
Tim Walker creates beautiful photographs with extravagant staging and romantic motifs. His work has adorned the pages of Vogue for over ten years and The National Portrait Gallery homes a stunning collection. We’ve picked a few of our favourites from his online archive, which ones do you love?
Lily Cole, Northumberland, Italian Vogue, June 2005
Malgosia Bela, Essex, Harper’s Bazaar, October 2009
Laura McCone & Luke Field Wright, Suffolk, Italian Vogue, September 2010
Pastel Cats, Northumberland, Italian Vogue, November 2000
Lindsey Wixson, Northumberland, Italian Vogue, January 2012
London based Hattie Stewart is a ‘professional doodler’ who has created art for the likes of Adidas, Urban Outfitters and Pepsi. Her work features bright vivid colours, cheeky characters and fresh patterns. Hattie’s illustrations are both fun-loving and sarcastic, as she draws over magazine covers and celebrities.
Images from www.hattiestewart.com
Here at Things&Ink we’re a little bit make up obsessed, we love trying out different looks on our photo shoots and experimenting to create beautiful editorials. What better way to immortalise a love of cosmetics than with a tattoo?
Here is our pick of the bunch of some beautiful makeup tattoos we’ve seen on social media recently…
Just Jen
Mikee Cue
Sarah K
Artists chosen by T&I editor Alice Snape, and T&I managing editor Keely Reichardt…
Here at Things&Ink magazine, Instagram is a constant source of tattoo inspiration and a hub for finding new artists… we can spend forever searching for artists, and looking at their back catalogue of work. So we’ve compiled this little round-up of some of our favourite artists who are capturing our attention at the moment!
Lauren Winzer, Sydney, Australia @laurenwinzer
“A firm Instagram favourite. And not just for her tattoos, but for her amazing style and life updates – she looks like she is always having fun. She even tattooed Miley Cyrus. We have life envy. Her tattoos are awesome too, she has a really different, interesting and cute style that just keeps on getting better.” Alice
Teide, Seven Doors Tattoo, London UK @teidetattoo
“Teide from Seven Doors in London is embracing an abstract take on traditional and almost formed a totally unique style of his own… not seen anyone else doing anything like this!” Keely
Aaron Hingston, The Grand Illusion, Melbourne Australia @aaron_hingston
“Aaron has a fairly traditional style but uses really beautiful soft pastel colours that soften the bold style. He also creates the most beautiful lady heads all with slightly sad expressions!” Keely
Just Jen, Edinburgh Scotland @justjentattoos
“Absolutely love her style, she is someone who I have wanted to get tattooed by for ages. Bold colour palette and strong traditional style, but lots of her subject matter has a softer twist. Some of her tattoos looks miniature too, which I love.”
Raph Cemo, Kids Love Ink East, @raphcemo “I am normally drawn to colour tattoos, but the work of Raph has recently caught my eye. I particularly love this intricate chest piece, it is stunning.” Alice
Aivaras Ly @aivaras_ly “Totally in love with the cosmic traditional style of Aivaras Ly. I would love to know how and where these incredible compositions come from!” Keely
Who are you favourite Instagram artists of the moment?