Iron Tiger Tuesdays #5

Another week down, another update. This week we have some new tattoos from Gabe, Phil, Katy, Cody, and Colin. Colin has been cruising along through his 50 procedures for his apprenticeship and is still going strong. We also have some paintings from Cody and some piercings from Dan and Randy. Last week was also Sid’s 25th bday and Randy and his GF sent him a giant cookie. All in all things are going good at the shop and we’ve been staying busy.

Don’t forget, we have gift certificates, so if you have a tattoo or piercing lover in your group of friends and family, it would be the perfect gift this holiday season!

We also managed to find some time to rearrange the lobby a little and hang up a bunch of new paintings. Big thanks to Dan and all his hard work for doing a lot of rearranging/hanging of new paintings, as well as painting a few of them himself.

I’ve been helping Colin document a lot of his tattoos so he can build himself a good portfolio once he’s out of his apprenticeship and has his license.

This last one is the beginning of a cover up.

Gabe had not one, but two people come in and ask him for Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) girls.

Phil stayed pretty busy with a bunch of cool walk ins last week as well, I couldn’t get photos of all of them, but here are a few.

Cody somehow managed to bust out a few new sheets for the walls on top of tattooing a steady stream of walk ins.

Katy tried her hand at a different style of rose last week and killed it.

It is hard to stay on top of getting pictures of all the piercings we do every week, but Dan did some hip dermals on a walk in, and I got a picture of a daith by Randy.

Here’s some more photos from around the shop, including a few of our friend Petey Passions, who has been here for the last 3 months hanging out but unfortunately he has to head back to Ireland this weekend.

See you all next week!

– Tony

Iron Tiger Tuesdays #4

Last week was a pretty big week for our apprentice Colin Apache. He started his 50 supervised procedures to get his license. Colin has been apprenticing at the shop now for almost 2 years and is well on his way to become a full time tattooer here at the shop. If you are interested in making an appointment to get tattooed by Colin during his 50 procedures, call the shop and we will set you up. All procedures are overseen by a licensed professional. Here’s some photos of Colin performing his first procedures and some of the tattoos he’s done already.

Gabe supervising Colin as he did #1 on himself

Here’s a couple of his first ones

Here’s some more photos from around the shop this past week.

Devil head by Katy

And here are some paintings from Phil.

– Tony

Brian Setzer Giveaway!

We are doing a giveaway for two tickets to the Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot at The Bluenote on Tuesday, December 6th (Valued at $80). Come into the shop today, tomorrow, or Sunday before 8pm to sign up! We will announce the winner Sunday night.

For more event info go: http://www.thebluenote.com/event/68409/

Iron Tiger Tuesdays #3

So I’ve (un)officially named the weekly update Iron Tiger Tuesdays… Cool right? Well enough words, here’s some pictures with captions. Way cooler (more cool, whatever).

Gabe will be tattooing in Milan again this year… So for the few of you from Italy who might be seeing this, go get a tattoo from Gabe.

Rose coming out of the concrete by Gabe

Roses by Katy

Two paintings by Gabe for the 10 sheet project some of our artists are working on.

Painting by Lars

Painting by Dan

Here’s some pictures from around the shop last week.

And we’ll end on a creepy photo of Lars tattooing some guy’s ass.

– Tony

Thanksgiving is upon us.

Thanksgiving is this week, and we will be closed on Thursday Nov 24th to spend time with our friends and families. Dan and Randy are doing a piercing special in honor of the holiday, tomorrow (the 23rd) they will be doing nose, navel, and rook piercings for $30 instead of $40, and on Black Friday (the 25th) they will be running a special of buy one piercing get the second one (of equal or lesser value) half off (this excludes any genital piercings, offer cannot be split between two people).

In other news around the shop, a bunch of the guys are working on painting new flash for the walls, Colin, Gabe, Dan, Phil, Cody and Lars are each painting 10 new sheets of traditional flash for the walls. Colin is close to being ready to be doing his 50 procedures for his apprenticeship, so keep checking back here and we will announce when he is tattooing.

Here’s some pictures from around the shop from the last week or so.

We also got in flyers for the 10th annual Star of Texas tattoo convention in Austin which Lars, Gabe, and Katy will all be tattooing at this year!

And here are a few photos of paintings I snagged off Gabe and Colin’s instagram accounts…

Both by our apprentice Colin

A few from Gabe.

And a couple by our other apprentice/body piercer Dan Ryan.

– Tony

Shirt sale.

In honor of the last home game of the year tomorrow, and the fact that it’s the Blackout game, we will be selling our shirts tonight and tomorrow for $15 instead of $20… And guess what? All of our shirts are black and we have shirts with giant tiger heads on them! Check it out, you don’t even need tattoos to look cool in one of them, I shot this photo of my Dad this summer rocking the giant tiger head, and he doesn’t have a single tattoo! So come on in tonight before midnight or anytime tomorrow between noon and midnight and pick one up on the cheap!

– Tony

Some photos from the last week.

Here’s some photos from around the shop the last week or two. All photos taken by our counter guy Tony.

Lee has been busting his butt around the shop, repainting the outside and inside before winter hits us, and it’s looking real good. Thanks Lee!

Meanwhile everyone else has stayed busy with appointments and walk ins.

Our good friend Josh Chapman from Iron Age in STL has been making his way out here every couple weeks to work on appointments he started here and has also been DJ’ing at Sideshow.

Here’s a few new tattoos from Gabe