1/21/2024 0 Comments My little pony spike tattoo![]() He told me Katie “might be the funnest person I’ve ever worked with at any job. This was Kyle Arkansas, the shop’s manager and resident body piercer. He had Bat Boy (of Weekly World News fame) and Jason (from “Friday the 13th”) tattooed on his right shoulder. The first person to greet me was a man with dark hair shaved on both sides and earlobes extended with large-gauge plugs. The two flat-screen televisions positioned in high corners played “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones” while speed metal music blared over the speakers. Framed articles about the shop’s owner from Inked and other magazines intermingled with drawings of nudes and skulls and plaques recognizing outstanding achievements in tattoo artistry. An especially striking painting of a stack of stuffed animals was flanked by portraits of Princess Leia and a Storm Trooper. But once inside, it looked like a Gen Xer’s dream. Located beside a Fish ‘n Stuff, which proudly displayed a sign identifying it as an “Arkansas Big Bass Bonanza REGISTRATION SITE,” Black Cobra was rather unremarkable from the outside. Highway 67-167 to get directly to the shop, I had to drive one road past the shop’s location and then circle back, consciously making sure I didn’t accidentally end up back on the highway headed south. Just as my colleague had warned me, Black Cobra Tattoos is a little difficult to reach. But no matter our difficulties, we always, always streamed Spike TV’s “Ink Master.” Hosted by Dave Navarro (guitarist from ’80s alt-rock band Jane’s Addiction), “Ink Master” entertained us with the antics of its mostly male cast of tattoo artists and the courage of the human canvasses, who willingly offered up the use of their bodies for the competition with very little say in what would be permanently inked there.Ī female “Ink Master” contestant working in my own backyard? I had found my tattoo artist. Without access to American cable, we had to work hard to stream any television shows we wanted to watch, the episodes frequently stopping and restarting due to the slow Italian Internet. My husband and I had just returned to Arkansas after living in Italy for four years. And the frame around the pic? It read: “Ink Master Season 6 premieres June 23rd.” ![]() Tortoise-shell glasses and, yes, tattoos of all sizes and colors up and down her arms. I came across a picture of Katie on the account: pouty lips painted bright red, blond bangs cut straight across her forehead, long hair cascading down her back. ![]()
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