Gina Shares Two Amazing Tattoos by Bugs! (NYC Tattoo Convention)

<b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every year I attend, one of the highlights for the <a href="http://www.nyctattooconvention.com/">NYC Tattoo Convention</a> is seeing the artist <a href="http://www.bugsartwork.com/index.cfm">Bugs</a> in action. He has taken tattoo art in a new direction, and his style is not only unique, but positively mind-blowing.</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That said, it was a wonderful moment when, while wandering about <a href="http://www.roselandballroom.com/">Roseland</a>, I chanced upon one of his clients, in the form of Gina.</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gina initially selected this piece from her inner arm to share with us:</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9RLFNd0oD6U0U2Rjd2vc9Dfg7EVOQlULXxXe30jz2bdfMWlRRUPknO3bx5-r8eopXZEkq4WqFDcT3ZfEtgPmN_1eqz7LnpGyShJGEVxpAGWwWQjEOoI1ZtM01S2petS2exapZ34EXdTo/w286-h659-no/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9RLFNd0oD6U0U2Rjd2vc9Dfg7EVOQlULXxXe30jz2bdfMWlRRUPknO3bx5-r8eopXZEkq4WqFDcT3ZfEtgPmN_1eqz7LnpGyShJGEVxpAGWwWQjEOoI1ZtM01S2petS2exapZ34EXdTo/w286-h659-no/photo.jpg" /></a></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I mean, really, how amazing is that?</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gina is a huge fan of Bugs' work and has, in her words, "donated my body to him." </span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This piece is in honor of her mom. She told Bugs the concept and she "let him take it any direction he wanted to go."</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was so happy to be able to meet one of Bugs' clients, that I asked if I could take a picture of the piece on Gina's upper arm as well, and she happily complied:</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3ElfmCJrWVPlnRkmXNyXk3BDEWaBF44S05R5v6cIh2_D5WlgS5mz9Am9Wmztt6PIyJOgQa0q9CAiu2RIIfI3gd1-lt3udWQWGpvwg4o-GNK8JpM7az2PiAVTR9wKg-Pdfqc6SdP5gC4/w301-h659-no/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3ElfmCJrWVPlnRkmXNyXk3BDEWaBF44S05R5v6cIh2_D5WlgS5mz9Am9Wmztt6PIyJOgQa0q9CAiu2RIIfI3gd1-lt3udWQWGpvwg4o-GNK8JpM7az2PiAVTR9wKg-Pdfqc6SdP5gC4/w301-h659-no/photo.jpg" /></a></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I asked Gina about this piece, she elaborated, "</span><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"></b></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's actually for me ... it's my interpretation of myself ... a <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rubenesque">Rubenesque</a> woman ... and that's what he came up with."</span></b></b></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"></b></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></b></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Bugs works out of Los Angeles, but he frequents many conventions, and is a regular at Roseland. Gina makes a point of seeing him every year he is here.</span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks to Gina for sharing her amazing work by Bugs here on Tattoosday!</span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Be sure to visit Bugs' website <a href="http://www.bugsartwork.com/index.cfm">here</a> to appreciate more from this amazing artist!!</span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-cc8d-291f-cc57-3cdfdc10a0ab" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; 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. 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Gina Shares Two Amazing Tattoos by Bugs! (NYC Tattoo Convention)

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