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Amherst Tattoo Company is Looking for Talent (and New Clients)!

You may recall that Tattoosday went on the road a few months back, spending a few days up in Massachusetts.

At one stop, the family and I stopped at a Starbucks before our scheduled tour of the U.Mass campus in Amherst.

I noticed, as we were leaving, that there was a tattoo shop nearby. I peeked in and saw that they were still working on the shop, which was scheduled to open the following week. I introduced myself and left my card.

Just last week, I received an email from Josefa, owner/manager at Amherst Tattoo Company. Turns out they were renovating the former Holeshot's Preimum Tattoo & Body Piercing location, whose work was featured previously on Tattoosday here.

Josefa tells me that they are looking to expand their staff, seeking a quality tattoo artist and piercer. Here's more info on the shop, if you are interested:

Amherst Tattoo Company is a studio located in down town Amherst,
MA. ATC enjoys plenty of walk-in business and also appreciates a steady
and consistent repeat clientèle.

We are in the location of a
former studio that spent 10 years with a pristine reputation thanks to
their lead artist, who opened ATC in April when the existing shop
closed. ATC is ready to bring in new, committed talent.

If you are a licensed or licensable tattoo artist or body piercer please get in touch with us at amhersttattoocompany@gmail.com
with a brief professional history, an electronic portfolio or example
of your work and a resume or cv if you have one. If you do not have
extensive photographs or an electronic portfolio, please also indicate
when you would be available to come to the shop with your book.

You can check them out on their website here and their Facebook page here.

If you are qualified and interested in working at ATC, you can reach out to Josefa at 413.253.0972 and/or

amhersttattoocompany@gmail.com.

Anyone who has recently had work done by artists Michael Williams or MJ Beaton, and would like to share, feel free to email photos to Tattoosday@gmail.com.

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Bastille Day Special - Jessica Loves "La Tour Eiffel"

It's Bastille Day in France, so I thought we could celebrate by sharing a tattoo from Jessica, who I met last month at the end-of-season gathering for the Brooklyn Crescents lacrosse club here in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn:

This lovely tattoo of the Eiffel Tower, France's most recognizable landmark. Jessica got this from an artist named Kurt in Wilmington, Delaware. It just reinforces her love of the Eiffel Tower and French culture.

Thanks to Jessica for helping us celebrate Bastille Day here on Tattoosday!

Joe's Lacrosse Stick Reflects His Love of the Sport

Last month, I attended the end-of-season event for the Brooklyn Crescents, a lacrosse club with which my daughter has been affiliated for the past two years.

Part of the festivities include friendly games between alumni and coaches and, while my daughter was warming up for the women's game, I spotted a guy with a tattoo appropriate for the occasion.

I introduced myself to Joe, a Crescents alumnus who had recently graduated from high school, and is headed to Mount St. Mary College to play Division III lacrosse next year. He was happy to share this great lacrosse tattoo on the back of his calf:

The artist was the extremely talented Evan Lindemann at Revolver Tattoo in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Work from Evan has appeared previously on Tattoosday here and here.

A lacrosse stick is no easy image to tattoo, the cross-hatch of lines from the net is extremely complicated, and the work above is simply exemplary in the quality of the line work.

Thanks to Joe for sharing this amazing tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Alina's Tattoo Commemorates Being in the Big Apple

I don't normally disturb people while they are working, but I made an exception for Alina, who I met on the outskirts of Bryant Park last month.

Alina was part of a German movie crew that was filming in the city, and she allowed me to talk to her while she had some down time.

She shared this cool tattoo:

She had this done by Cookie at Pop's Tattoo Emporium in Kingston, NY, after her first trip to New York City. "We're shooting movies here every summer," Alina explained, "and this reminds me of being in the Big Apple."

Incidentally, we featured work from Cookie almost five years ago here.

Thanks to Alina for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Daniela's Spiral of Stars

I met Daniela a couple weeks back in Bay Ridge, stopping her after spotting a text tattoo on her forearm. However, she preferred to share this tattoo:

She got this spiral pattern of 15 stars on her fifteenth birthday when she was living in Argentina. I always try to remain objective, but as a parent of two teenage daughters, I asked what her parents thought when she came home with this tattoo on her neck. Daniela told me that they actually took her to get the tattoo and expanded on why she chose such a visible spot for her tattoo:

"I do kinda regret the tattoo at times, but ... at that age, I was going through a lot at school, and I just wanted to stand out from everybody else. In Argentina, basically all the people are the same, so I didn't want at all to be like them."

She was born in Argentina and lived there for almost seven years, and she acknowledged that this tattoo was one way for her to express her own individuality.

Thanks to Daniela for sharing these stars with us here on Tattoosday!

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Celebrating Independence With a Captain America Tattoo

I ran into Kristin recently on Third Avenue in Brooklyn and she shared this tattoo on her arm, which seemed appropriate to post today:

Kristin is a big comic book fan, and she chose this Captain America shield because "he's the great American hero" and "he's my favorite Marvel [Comics] guy."

This was done by an artist named Kattan at Liquid Expressions Tattoos in Brooklyn.

Thanks to Kristin for helping us celebrate Independence Day by sharing this cool tattoo!