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Tattoo You! displays art more than skin deep

Born and raised in North
Vancouver Graham Mills
displays the tattoo he
entered in the Most
Unusual! category.

DJ Steve Hooper spun a
moody beat with attitude

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Stantey park last Friday ce Gompete i categories that me hided
old style. tribal, Celtic, Fapanese, most unusual and many oth
ers, The tattooed and jucrced casily ouusumbered the curious,
but while punk, leather, anarchy and androgsny night on the
surface, appear to create viriehtening thee. this crowd remained
relaxed apd fnendly in the hot and crowded clubhouse. And
they raised $7,600 tor the Shooting Stars Foundagen and their
support work for those fiving with HIV and AIDS

EWS photos Martin Millerchip
The three hard-working
women who made Tattoo
You! happen: left to right.
publicist Koralee Nickarz,
Shooting Stars Foundation
executive director Kendra
Sprinkling and event pro-
ducer Maggi Ness.

Canadian artist !, Braineater (aka Jim Cummings) and
VTV's Renaissance Woman, Karen Firus, were two of
the judges on a panel that incluced Guinness Book of
World Records' most tattooed woman Krystyne Kolortul.

Erica Abbott loves her
baby. The tiger cub is
another design by Melissa.

Sam Uhreniuk won in the
First Nations category with
the Haida-intluenced
design of Percy Lemaigre.

Tattoo You', a sold out event, jammed the Vancouver

Rowing Club's dance floor.

Westview resident Phil Asturi says his tattoo has been
an eight-year project with Dale at North Van's Mum’s
Tattoo and will probably take at least another five to com-
plete. He bought his girlfriend, Liz Charlton, ter tattoo

Up close, these tattoos are
more like paintings, yet
Melissa Tulloch’s tattooed

all night fong. for Valentine's Day.

Leigh Smith, left, and Josie Loerich t tattoo 40,000 peo-
ple a year — temporarily. Their transfer tattoo business,
Red Dragon Tattoos, began business in West Vancouver
before outgrowing its premises.

her own lags. upside down!

Usha Patel copies Norm Bodrug’s ring design onto his
arm in mehendi (henna), a traditional form of foot and
hand decoration in india. The temporary decoration will
fade in two weeks.

Lynn Valley’s Melissa Tulloch was taught by The
Dutchman. a guru of tattoo art. Tulloch’s style uses color
and shading rather than line and displays her fine art and
graphic background. Al Kolb was one of at least 18 com-
petitors to display her work.

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