Category: Aftercare & Healing

In a world where anyone can order body jewelry with a couple of taps, the real flex is choosing pieces that actually respect the body they go into. Stretching your ears or piercing your cartilage isn’t a trend. It’s a commitment. And if you’ve been part of the culture long enough, you know exactly how…

Inside Oleksandr Rudenko’s studio in Ukraine, the pace is deliberate. Reference images are studied, not rushed. Sketches stay close, compositions get adjusted again and again, and the machines hum steadily in the background. The focus is quiet but intense. That discipline shows in the work. His black and grey portraits don’t rely on spectacle. They…

Her life growing up was movie-of-the-week chaos: mom addicted to drugs; dad struggling to raise two kids alone. She left home at 15 or 16 and got a job at a pizzeria. Fighting saved Taylor Starling-Vespe. The gym provided a family, and discipline and stability funneled the anger and confusion into purpose. Tattoos helped her…

This December, Inked Magazine is thrilled to feature Dani as our Inked Girl of the Month. Born and raised in Bavaria, Germany, she eventually made her way to Las Vegas before starting an incredible animal rescue in New York in 2023. Her life is as vibrant and fearless as the tattoos that cover her body.…