Krystina and a Krooked Ken Tattoo

I met Krystina in my neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn last month, after stopping to ask her about her tattoos.<br /><br />Turns out, she works as a manager at <a href="http://www.northstartattoo.com/">North Star Tattoo</a> in Manhattan, a wonderful shop with some amazing artists.<br /><br />She shared this small tattoo of a black cat, a skull, and the number 13, credited to <a href="http://krookedken.com/home.html">Krooked Ken</a>, who owns <a href="http://blackanchortattoo.com/">Black Anchor Tattoo</a> in Denton, Maryland and <a href="http://powerhousetattoo.com/home.html">Powerhouse Tattoo Company</a> in Montclair, New Jersey:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-l9pRLxGwMNDEIStlxTyN_3t79Kqhwm2JrlCHVyuOtwdOJ01rq9g973zXqhsxfD75my6TUbkGF6ul66Qef2G4ZudFl4SBscTtnGMypJgrNnHsAGNeEIYet8l3YkDYNMIPOUHiO-shBQ/w681-h616-no/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-l9pRLxGwMNDEIStlxTyN_3t79Kqhwm2JrlCHVyuOtwdOJ01rq9g973zXqhsxfD75my6TUbkGF6ul66Qef2G4ZudFl4SBscTtnGMypJgrNnHsAGNeEIYet8l3YkDYNMIPOUHiO-shBQ/w681-h616-no/photo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Krystina explained how she came by this tattoo from Krooked Ken:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"I'm good friends with him. I used to work for him and we went to <a href="http://www.northstartattoo.com/#!artists">Rodrigo Melo's</a> [the owner of North Star Tattoo] wedding ... the day after Rodrigo's wedding, we were staying at the same hotel in Jersey, I went to Powerhouse ... and he did this tattoo that day. <a href="http://danielcotte.com/home.html">Daniel Cotté</a> did the flash. The only copy of it, he never did prints or anything, just the hand-painted flash, is at Powerhouse, and Daniel Cotté works at North Star, as well."</blockquote>Thanks to Krystina for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-793fe941-ecd2-776b-9366-d274e8e7fe5b"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span> <br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are seeing this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></div>

Krystina and a Krooked Ken Tattoo

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