Tattoo
Questions first-time tattoo getters have
May 11, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Staff Writer I didn’t like my tattoos when I first got them. A week later, I was Googling “tattoo removal near me,” and scouring Reddit to see if other people’s tattoos looked as crooked as I thought mine did. Needless to say, it wasn’t a pleasant experience. I thought I was alone until I found an article about another person hating their tattoo — not hating it for the quality, but hating the reality that tattoos fade. They don’t ever look as they do online or when you first see them in the mirror yourself. I knew…
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Terrible tattoos to match your major
November 26, 2021By: Victoria Lopatka, Staff Writer Business You should get a tattoo of the scene in The Wolf of Wall Street where Mark Hanna and Jordan Belfort — played by Matthew McConaughey and Leonardo DiCaprio — go to lunch. Hanna does…
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Wildlife to move into Beedie student’s forest tattoo sleeve following increase in campus construction
September 27, 2020By: Paige Riding, Humour Editor Dear SFU, I know that with all those new stunning, only entirely gentrified cinder blocks you call your new Residence buildings are taking a toll on the wildlife and their habitats. But who can blame…
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Outsider Tattoo Collective is as clean and comfortable as ever before
July 21, 2020By: Molly Lorette, Peak Associate Before social distancing was in full swing, I was in the process of planning my latest tattoo. I had been working with Outsider Tattoo Collective’s amazingly talented Armony (@hello_wasp on Instagram), who specializes in woodcut-esque…
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Five Vancouver-based tattoo artists you need to know about
January 12, 2019By: Victoria Lopatka, Peak Associate If you’re living in Vancouver and you want a tattoo, you’re in luck: there’s dozens of parlours and hundreds of artists you can pick from. Whether you’re getting your first tattoo or adding to a…
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“Bad” tattoos aren’t bad, they’re just misinterpreted
September 26, 2016Title: The Landscaper Progress is relative to how time moves. Mowing and trimming plant life is a futile task — it just keeps growing back. Yet the landscaper in this tattoo continues with his Sisyphean journey unaware that…
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SFU Masterpiece: “Portrait of a Woman in a Renaissance Costume with Cadmium Middle”
February 2, 2015Editor’s note: Following a statement by the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Student Association (FNMISA), on behalf of Māori students, The Peak acknowledges this piece, written by Brad McLeod, was written from a colonial perspective and failed to consider the…
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