Where are all the Irish tattoo lovers?

dSTAR · 01-06-2005 07:43AM #1

G'day,

Its been quite a number of years since I have been in Ireland and wanted to see how the tattoo scene was going down. The last time I was over there I got a kanji tattoo (arggghh!) by some South African dude on Sth William St in Dublin. At that time kanjis where 'cool' but since then I had it covered over in a Polynesian style tattoo.

What I wanted to know was:

Has tattooing become as popular as it is in other countries such as the US and Australia?

What styles of tattoos are most popular?

Who are the top artists?

Anyone any good tattoo pictures that they would like to show off for my monthly ezine?

Declan
Melbourne

I am MAN · 01-06-2005 10:09AM

dSTAR wrote:

G'day,

Its been quite a number of years since I have been in Ireland and wanted to see how the tattoo scene was going down. The last time I was over there I got a kanji tattoo (arggghh!) by some South African dude on Sth William St in Dublin. At that time kanjis where 'cool' but since then I had it covered over in a Polynesian style tattoo.

What I wanted to know was:
Has tattooing become as popular as it is in other countries such as the US and Australia?

What styles of tattoos are most popular?

Who are the top artists?

Anyone any good tattoo pictures that they would like to show off for my monthly ezine?

Declan
Melbourne

Walking around the city you will see alot of people that have a tattoo and plenty of sleeves also so I guess it is just as popular but our population is smaller. I don't think any style is "in fashion" at the moment like the way kanji and tribal designs were a few years back and the three most popular places at the moment would be Snakebite, Zulu and Celestrial ring.

Mark

dSTAR · 01-06-2005 01:46PM

...the three most popular places at the moment would be Snakebite, Zulu and Celestrial ring.

Nice one...I hit on Snakebites and Celestial Rings websites but didn't find one for Zulu. Lots of broken links and not much gallery pictures on either site so didn't really get much look at the artists work.

Declan

I am MAN · 01-06-2005 02:07PM

dSTAR wrote:

Nice one...I hit on Snakebites and Celestial Rings websites but didn't find one for Zulu. Lots of broken links and not much gallery pictures on either site so didn't really get much look at the artists work.

Declan

Quite a few different artists and the sites aren't really up to date. Snakebite tend to have a different artist every few months but the artist they have at the moment is good and his name is Dim.

Are you coming back to Ireland in the near future?

Mark.

dSTAR · 01-06-2005 02:42PM

Yeah I came across Dims name must check him out.

Probably won't be going back to Ireland for another year or two although I would like to check out the tattoo convention going on in Dublin in June.

I can dream I suppose...

Neesha · 01-06-2005 08:54PM

Tattoo Ireland

dSTAR · 02-06-2005 04:42AM

Thnx for the link Neesha

fun bus · 02-06-2005 03:44PM

Conincidently, i got a kanji done by dimm just three months ago! maybe they're making a comeback!!!

She-Ra · 06-06-2005 04:58PM

dSTAR wrote:

G'day,

Its been quite a number of years since I have been in Ireland and wanted to see how the tattoo scene was going down. The last time I was over there I got a kanji tattoo (arggghh!) by some South African dude on Sth William St in Dublin. At that time kanjis where 'cool' but since then I had it covered over in a Polynesian style tattoo.

What I wanted to know was:
Has tattooing become as popular as it is in other countries such as the US and Australia?

What styles of tattoos are most popular?

Who are the top artists?

Anyone any good tattoo pictures that they would like to show off for my monthly ezine?

Declan
Melbourne

the dude your talkin about is Manik Fish.. he's down in Na-haaavan now in the Old corn market i think its called... nice bloke.. oden my first ever tattoo... awwwwwww
tat's are maybe even TOO popular now with people gettin stuff to say they have it and tribal seems to be most popular.... all the above is however.. only my opinion!

amazingemmet · 06-06-2005 06:41PM

I don't think manixs is south african. i think who your talking bout is sean he now has his own shop called zulu in temple bar

She-Ra · 06-06-2005 06:52PM

amazingemmet wrote:

I don't think manixs is south african. i think who your talking bout is sean he now has his own shop called zulu in temple bar

no Manik is South African and he worked at the back of Ms Fantasia on St William St

amazingemmet · 06-06-2005 07:18PM

what a coincidence, sean took over from mannix in ms fantasias. maybe its where all south african tattooists start out here

She-Ra · 06-06-2005 07:27PM

amazingemmet wrote:

what a coincidence, sean took over from mannix in ms fantasias. maybe its where all south african tattooists start out here

lol,ya never know!!! i don'tknow who was there after Manik though.. never went back to find out

st3vo · 07-06-2005 10:50AM

Zulu tattoos website is www.kwazulutattoo.com
Sean, Gav, Justin and Bev are all good mates of mine. Really nice people.
I would definatley recomend them

st3vo · 07-06-2005 10:52AM

Sh!t and Tara...Heya Tara

dSTAR · 09-06-2005 05:04AM

She-Ra wrote:

the dude your talkin about is Manik Fish.. he's down in Na-haaavan now in the Old corn market i think its called... nice bloke...

Yeah thats him!! He has some pretty full on tattoos (particularly on his chest from what I can remember). Anyone know if there is a picture of him going around? I know he was featured in some paper or magazine like the Dublin Event Guide or dSide about 5 or 6 years ago...

Declan

Where are all the Irish tattoo lovers?

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