“I always wanted to imprint Mexican culture in tattoos,” she told My Modern Met, “but also give a delicate personal touch, and I found all that in the colorful Mexican embroidery style.” We absolutely love how her works turn out; they’re so delicate yet strong, bursting with bright colors and pretty shapes.

See Álvarez’ work below and find more of her tattoo art on her Instagram page followed by thousands of people.

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Now, with more than 100k followers on Instagram people are standing in line to get tattoed by the master of hand-poking, known online as “Slower Black”.

“When clients come in, I already have a good idea of what they want, because at that point we’ll have already emailed or talked about it over the phone,” she says. “Then I draw up the design and get the A-OK from the client before making a stencil. Once the stencil is made, I put it onto the person’s skin, and we decide on a placement that they like. Then we make it happen. The setup is clean and sterile, and everything is the same setup as it is with a machine, except for the tools I’m using.”

A palm-sized tattoo takes between 1-2 hours, a hand-sized one takes 3 hours but back pieces can take up until 40 hours. Judging by the finished result, the struggle is well worth it:

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A good example of this is the gorgeous black background tattoos that Chicago-based tattoo artist Esther Garcia creates.

A self-taught tattoo artist with 20 years of experience, Esther specializes in creating floral designs on inky black backgrounds for her clients. Initially, this started as a way to cover up old tattoos that clients no longer wanted on their skin. But now, people are lining up to have these black background tattoos, even when there’s nothing to cover.

Then again, after taking a look at what Esther can do, you wouldn’t really be surprised as to why people like her work.

Be sure to scroll down below to see more of Esther’s inky creations.

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“I always wanted to imprint Mexican culture in tattoos,” she told My Modern Met, “but also give a delicate personal touch, and I found all that in the colorful Mexican embroidery style.” We absolutely love how her works turn out; they’re so delicate yet strong, bursting with bright colors and pretty shapes.

See Álvarez’ work below and find more of her tattoo art on her Instagram page followed by thousands of people.

The post Mexican Tattoo Artist Celebrates Her Culture With “Stitch” Tattoos appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Now, with more than 100k followers on Instagram people are standing in line to get tattoed by the master of hand-poking, known online as “Slower Black”.

“When clients come in, I already have a good idea of what they want, because at that point we’ll have already emailed or talked about it over the phone,” she says. “Then I draw up the design and get the A-OK from the client before making a stencil. Once the stencil is made, I put it onto the person’s skin, and we decide on a placement that they like. Then we make it happen. The setup is clean and sterile, and everything is the same setup as it is with a machine, except for the tools I’m using.”

A palm-sized tattoo takes between 1-2 hours, a hand-sized one takes 3 hours but back pieces can take up until 40 hours. Judging by the finished result, the struggle is well worth it:

The post Jenna Bouma’s Hand-Poked Tattoos Are Worth the Hype appeared first on MobiSpirit.

A good example of this is the gorgeous black background tattoos that Chicago-based tattoo artist Esther Garcia creates.

A self-taught tattoo artist with 20 years of experience, Esther specializes in creating floral designs on inky black backgrounds for her clients. Initially, this started as a way to cover up old tattoos that clients no longer wanted on their skin. But now, people are lining up to have these black background tattoos, even when there’s nothing to cover.

Then again, after taking a look at what Esther can do, you wouldn’t really be surprised as to why people like her work.

Be sure to scroll down below to see more of Esther’s inky creations.

The post These Black Background Tattoos Are Absolutely Gorgeous appeared first on MobiSpirit.