Nicole Takes Us to Candyland

At the beginning of the month, I had the pleasure of encountering a young lady named Nicole in Herald Square (34th Street and 6th Avenue, for you out-of-towners).<br /><br />Nicole is heavily inked, estimating that "about 45%" of her body is tattooed.<br /><br />So with so much work, where to begin? She offered up her lower left leg, which is fully-sleeved.<br /><br />I always find photographing sleeves challenging, because it is so hard to capture all of the details accurately and perfectly in a photograph. So here's a collage of Nicole's <a href="http://www.hasbro.com/games/en_US/candyland/">Candyland</a> sleeve:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh775Bs9TyHP25ZOhXTYTkq2Fiugt2nRvthzeLdBUCnAaxFStv40LFBZqUgv1OSDuF9zYiq2kJgKnzGFpBzctrf9CgBH8qX0OJ3IbNRJG_LpJ1sTea53FScRyDn6CIRcRhE1P6ix67BIXQ/s1600/candyland+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh775Bs9TyHP25ZOhXTYTkq2Fiugt2nRvthzeLdBUCnAaxFStv40LFBZqUgv1OSDuF9zYiq2kJgKnzGFpBzctrf9CgBH8qX0OJ3IbNRJG_LpJ1sTea53FScRyDn6CIRcRhE1P6ix67BIXQ/s400/candyland+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Why a Candylamd-themed sleeve? Nicole explained, </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Growing up, that was my favorite game in the whole world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGSYaVXpoXxfM0hLp70iEQCbPs6mq5mDfjSYFRwW16DOOv289b5etbWT8fQk8cpWPg7qJWzsAJ4ohm5SqesR2aM-qYZBz6oEPN17aBBpP4-ecaogsxwmjlb2oC5by3WRXR_iIH64uhyU4/s1600/Candyland+Back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGSYaVXpoXxfM0hLp70iEQCbPs6mq5mDfjSYFRwW16DOOv289b5etbWT8fQk8cpWPg7qJWzsAJ4ohm5SqesR2aM-qYZBz6oEPN17aBBpP4-ecaogsxwmjlb2oC5by3WRXR_iIH64uhyU4/s640/Candyland+Back.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><br />Getting my tattoos never really <i>meant</i> anything, so that was kinda the one, like, childhood thing . . . I feel like if you're a girl, you should have pretty, colorful tattoos ... otherwise, you don't look 'girly' anymore.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Mq6EqekGH6iyiNMeJ6K8ft6H8dTVMBq5P2zLd9fJYUHRjzN29wPud5ldf4RVVhRguCW7z1r2vzCQWY0dQ-bhADDR1MRu6zoG7D1nCo1StmRUZb9Rt8-IAuiQtSjm67tKc9JPqRGNJgI/s1600/Princess+Candyland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Mq6EqekGH6iyiNMeJ6K8ft6H8dTVMBq5P2zLd9fJYUHRjzN29wPud5ldf4RVVhRguCW7z1r2vzCQWY0dQ-bhADDR1MRu6zoG7D1nCo1StmRUZb9Rt8-IAuiQtSjm67tKc9JPqRGNJgI/s640/Princess+Candyland.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><br />So that's why I did that."</blockquote>Nicole credited <a href="http://www.bryanrandolphtattoo.com/">Brian Randolph</a>, formerly of <a href="http://nyadorned.com/">New York Adorned</a>, with this work <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7HJLkjlS5Wyvlb0Pb4NlSGQaKq3hw7YyA8eOnAURK1K9XHh6-ZgUPlcgaIRjpysIgp4eOGBQlTO7-_pgjNbw7wLigH9p3dwt3Y9etaE6YvQi3OrM09Y_BPvke9_VZ_TzUnsVi3WqxYlA/s1600/Ice+King+Cone+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7HJLkjlS5Wyvlb0Pb4NlSGQaKq3hw7YyA8eOnAURK1K9XHh6-ZgUPlcgaIRjpysIgp4eOGBQlTO7-_pgjNbw7wLigH9p3dwt3Y9etaE6YvQi3OrM09Y_BPvke9_VZ_TzUnsVi3WqxYlA/s640/Ice+King+Cone+detail.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br />Nicole informed me that Brian had moved to California, but he comes back and forth every six months.  She did say that, although this work is solely from Brian, she also gets tattooed by <a href="http://www.kingsavenuetattoo.com/artist_bio.asp?id=4">Justin Weatherholtz</a> at <a href="http://www.kingsavenuetattoo.com/">Kings Avenue Tattoo</a> in Massapequa, New York.<br /><br />Thanks to Nicole for sharing her incredibly colorful leg sleeve with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. 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Nicole Takes Us to Candyland

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Enter to Win a T-Shirt from Kings Avenue Tattoo, Now Open in Manhattan!

We here at Tattoosday have had the pleasure of encountering work from <a href="http://kingsavenuetattoo.com/">Kings Avenue Tattoo</a> on only one occasion. We featured work by Grez <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/07/masons-gypsy-with-new-orleans-twist.html">here</a>. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://briangrosz.com/kingsave/LOGO_kingsavenuenyc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://briangrosz.com/kingsave/LOGO_kingsavenuenyc.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Nonetheless, their shop, located out in Massapequa on Long Island, has a sterling reputation, and I know at least one loyal client, <a href="http://www.briangrosz.com/">Brian Grosz</a>, over at <a href="http://www.needlesandsins.com/">Needles & Sins</a>, who sings high praise to the shop owner and artist extraordinaire, Mike Rubendall. <br /><br />It was from Brian that I first learned that Kings Avenue was opening a new location here in New York City. Lucky for those of us here in the Five Boroughs who don’t have cars!<br /><br />We here at Tattoosday want to help spread the word about the new location, in Manhattan on the Bowery (188 Bowery, at Spring Street) to be more exact. Located on the second floor, the new shop location will be open Monday - Saturday 12-9 and Sundays from 12-6).<br /><br />In fact, Kings Ave NYC would like to cordially invite you to join in the celebration of the opening of their Manhattan location tomorrow, Thursday, May 12th, at 8:00 p.m. Please join the Kings Ave crew for drinks, friends and family for this proud moment for their shop, and for the addition of some great talent to our teeming metropolis.<br /><br />And to generate a little more buzz, we put our collective heads together and came up with an idea where one of our lucky Tattoosday readers can win a cool Kings Avenue Tattoo original t-shirt, like this one, perhaps:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXEKU-qA2vLnDo8usAfXsORdkcmKdKI8SHD7BYat2zTYVdquefStmRkeItywgIRUjnafdty3lVb2BxwJeoAjxa4g4Ndus-eqdZlPc2g7u0Jf1SYE5sRKYCA3_7X5_dSU3zc-hlyaolLw/s1600/birds-eye_th.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXEKU-qA2vLnDo8usAfXsORdkcmKdKI8SHD7BYat2zTYVdquefStmRkeItywgIRUjnafdty3lVb2BxwJeoAjxa4g4Ndus-eqdZlPc2g7u0Jf1SYE5sRKYCA3_7X5_dSU3zc-hlyaolLw/s320/birds-eye_th.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />All you have to do is head on over to <a href="http://kingsavenuetattoo.com/pages/artists.html">their site</a> and check out the merchandise <a href="http://kingsavenuetattoo.com/pages/i_store.html">here</a>. Then, in the comments section of this post, tell us which shirt design you like best and why you deserve to win it. Please note, if you don’t have a blogger ID that links you to an email where I can contact you if you win, make sure you e-mail <b>tattoosdaycontests@gmail.com</b> as well so we can notify you if you win.<br /><br />And, dear readers, while checking out those shirts, you’ll be losing out if you don’t check out the Kings Ave site, clink on the “Artists” tab, and then get lost in the hundreds of photos of top-notch tattoo art from Mike Rubendall, Grez, Justin Weatherholtz, Brian Paul, and Matt Beckerich. Not to mention the shots from such illustrious guest artists like Chris O’Donnell, Tim Hendricks, and Kat Von D, to name only a few.<br /><br />We here at Tattoosday welcome the newest branch of Kings Avenue into our fair city and hope this means we’ll be seeing a lot more of their phenomenal work on the streets and, subsequently, here on the site!<br /><br />More about Kings Avenue NYC:<br /><br /><br /><a name="more"></a>KINGS AVENUE NYC was founded by tattooist and international award-winner, MIKE RUBENDALL, with his associate, GREZ, a well-respected tattooist in his own right. While people have traveled from all over the world to visit their Long Island location for everything from a full-scale Japanese body-suit to a modestly-sized, classic nod to Americana flash, RUBENDALL explains that they opted to open a second shop on Bowery, "for the simple fact of wanting to be a part of the energy, life, and creativity that Manhattan possesses."<br /><br />KINGS AVENUE NYC will also feature the work of resident artists MATT BECKERICH, JUSTIN WEATHERHOLTZ, BRIAN PAUL, SHAUN NEL, KEVIN LEBLANC and SARAH SCHOR - a talented collective that has adorned the bodies of notables like actress EVAN RACHEL WOOD, hip-hop impresario DAMON DASH and rocker PETE WENTZ of FALL OUT BOY. The public can also expect to see guest appearances from renowned artists like CHRIS O'DONNELL, TIM HENDRICKS and Denmark's HENNING JORGENSON as well as "celebrity" tattooists such as CHRIS NUÑEZ (Miami Ink) and KAT VON D (L.A. Ink).<br /><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}</style> <![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. 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Enter to Win a T-Shirt from Kings Avenue Tattoo, Now Open in Manhattan!

We here at Tattoosday have had the pleasure of encountering work from Kings Avenue Tattoo on only one occasion. We featured work by Grez he...

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