Tattoo

A photo of a coloured tattoo that flows from the back of their neck and down their spine. The tattoo is an East-Asian style charm made up of red string with tassels and beautiful floral knots. The string is tied to a jade ring, small beads, and a miniature framed photo of a tree with a branch emerging out of the photo behind a blue background.
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Questions first-time tattoo getters have

Peak Web May 11, 2023

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 this before I sat down…

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an arm being tattooed. tattoo is American Traditional-style heart and arrow with banner that reads "my major"
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Terrible tattoos to match your major

Peak Web November 26, 2021

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 that weird chanting, humming thing…

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Wildlife to move into Beedie student’s forest tattoo sleeve following increase in campus construction

Peak Web September 27, 2020

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 you? Supply and demand, baby.…

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Five Vancouver-based tattoo artists you need to know about

EIC January 12, 2019

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 collection, any of these artists…

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“Bad” tattoos aren’t bad, they’re just misinterpreted

EIC September 26, 2016

  Title: 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”

EIC February 2, 2015

Editor’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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