Honest guides on cost, aftercare, styles and getting your first tattoo in Gurgaon — straight from the chair.
A single Mahadev face is a portrait. Shiv Parivar is four portraits — Shiva, Parvati, Ganesha and Kartikeya — that all have to sit together as one composition without any of them…
Read on →Ram is called Maryada Purushottam — the ideal man, the one who upheld dharma even when it cost him everything he loved. That is a different kind of devotional figure from most…
Read on →Vishnu is the preserver — the force that maintains balance in the universe, and the one who returns, again and again, whenever that balance is seriously threatened. That returning is the part…
Read on →Lakshmi is worshipped in more homes in India than almost any other deity, and yet she is one of the least tattooed. Part of the reason is that people misread what she…
Read on →Most devotional tattoos we do are asked for at a hard point in someone’s life — grief, fear, the need for strength. Saraswati is different. She is asked for at the start…
Read on →Kali is the goddess people misread most often, and it is worth clearing that up before anything else. A tattoo showing a dark-skinned figure, a garland of skulls, a protruding tongue and…
Read on →Durga is not one goddess with one story. She is created for a single purpose — to do what none of the gods could — and she carries a weapon from each…
Read on →Snake bites are two piercings on the lower lip, positioned symmetrically on either side of centre, styled to resemble a snake’s bite mark. It is one of the more recognisable lip piercing…
Read on →Everyone asks about the pain of a tongue piercing. Almost nobody asks about the two days after, which are honestly the harder part. The tongue swells more than almost any other piercing…
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