Tattoos

[Guest]

@Katsushin:

Just hit SF for a quick trip to drop off some pants at SE for hemming, buy some art books in Japantown and Chinatown, and get this finished.
It goes down much further, but you'll just have to use your imagination…

Amazing. Brother Amazing!

[Max Power]

I'm speechless.

[riffblaster general]

amazing work katsushin, who is doing that?    next time i'm on the west coast i'd love to get tattooed by you btw.

[nameness]

Amazing.

[Beatle]

Katsushin - beautiful work. seriously

[Katsushin]

@riffblaster:

amazing work katsushin, who is doing that?

Kahlil Rintye at Tattoo City in North Beach.

It was started by my friend Horishow in Tokyo (when I made that 1st trip several years ago to get tattooed is when I got introduced to Japanese clothing companies and their philosophies), but Kahlil is finishing it for me…
The snake keeps going and covers the butt, although we still need to do the black shading around that
Also Riff, note the teaser beard growth update in that pic...

[Mich]

It looks great Katsushin, love the way the colors are done.
Is it a Hannya mask?

I have a pretty large backpiece myself, i'll remind myself to post some pics of it here.

[madmonday]

damn Katsushin, i guess i shouldn't put up a pic of my tramp stamp 

[Giles]

We call that a slag tag…..........

[Katsushin]

@Mich:

Is it a Hannya mask?

Yup.
(A lot of westerners see it as a devil face, but it is a very old mask from the Japanese Noh plays…and it's a female.)

[Max Power]

Got my date for the first tattoo. March 7th. Hope everything turns out nice.

[Finn666]

Congrats mate…I'm really surprised what it's going to be in the end 

[Max Power]

Thanks. Me too

[Max Power]

Looking at tattoos gone wrong is a bad idea when you're waiting for your first tat. 

[Guest]

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went and got tattooed today
the two kanji put together  means courage im very happy with this shop
Jiro is Awesome!

[nameness]

Good stuff, DS.

[Guest]

thanks brother!

[Max Power]

Yeah, looks cool. Congrats! Looks painful? Two weeks till my first session, I'm getting a bit scared Not because of the pain, but wether I like the outcome and because it's forever….

[Guest]

You will be fine Max and as far as permanence goes you will get use to it and the tattoo will be like an old friend

[riffblaster general]

nothing to worry about max.  i always immediately regret every tattoo i get, but then 2 days later i'm glad that i did it.