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Ariana / A.Z. ☆

@az-inkz.bsky.social

Tattoo artist and lover of walking around and looking at things 🧿

Resident @ Serpent Song | Oakland, CA

Upcoming guest spots:
Dallas 4/12-4/21

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Ariana / A.Z. ☆

@az-inkz.bsky.social

Red skull lily tattoo 💀❤️

Tattoo of 3 red skulls growing from a lily of the valley plant, placed on a person’s right shoulder and scapular area.

Same tattoo from a slightly straighter angle.

March 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM

Ariana / A.Z. ☆

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New flash inspired by spring blossoms 🌸

#tattoo #bayareatattoo #losangelestattoo #dfwtattoo

March 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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Cherry blossom bunny 🌸✨

#redinktattoo #bunnytattoo #queertattooer

A photo of a red tattoo on the back of a person's arm. The tattoo is of a bunny on its hind legs sniffing cherry blossoms on a branch.

March 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM

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A special tattoo inspired by the temple paintings at 고성 계승사 🌼

A black and grey tattoo of an eight-petaled geometric flower, with two trails of clouds/smoke extending from either side. The design is based off a pattern painted on 계승사, a Buddhist temple in Goseong, Korea.

A photo of the exterior wall and roof of 계승사. The wood structure is painted with light green, cobalt blue, red, and gold ornaments using various geometric patterns and Korean Buddhist motifs.

A distant photo of 계승사. One temple building sits higher on the mountain, surrounded by trees with orange and yellow fall foliage. The main temple building is on ground level, and a gold painted symbol is visible on the siding of the roof.

February 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM

Ariana / A.Z. ☆

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This bendy skully lily of the valley is one of my recent favorites 💀

February 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM

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Ciara Havishya

@latigressetattoo.bsky.social

Kolam concepts, available everywhere I’m booking.
#tattoo #art

February 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM

Ariana / A.Z. ☆

@az-inkz.bsky.social

little mahjong birdie tile 🦜🀄️

February 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM

Ariana / A.Z. ☆

@az-inkz.bsky.social

🩶♥️🫘

Tattoo ink caps on a wooden tongue depressor. Three of the ink caps are heart shaped and filled with grey and red ink.

February 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM

Ariana / A.Z. ☆

@az-inkz.bsky.social

Strawberry lucky cat 🍓🥹 I’m grateful to get to make tattoos so cute that I feel like I need to hit something 😭

Black tattoo of a lucky cat with cherry blossom flower outlines on its body. The cat is holding a strawberry.

February 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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Animal Photo Reference Repository

@animalphotorefs.bsky.social

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository

www.animal-photo-references.com

January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM

Ariana / A.Z. ☆

@az-inkz.bsky.social

Autumn in Seoul 🤍
shot on Cinestill 800T
#35mm

The roof of a house peeking out behind a fruiting persimmon tree.

A Joseon era imperial gate behind a bright yellow ginkgo tree.

Two people wearing hanbok walk in front of a white brick wall, one of them is on their phone.

A busy side street in Gangnam during lunchtime.

February 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM

Ariana / A.Z. ☆

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A little dragon for a client born in the year of the dragon 🐉🔥

#tattoo #lunarnewyear #dragon

Photograph of a person’s arm. On the inner bicep, there is a black tattoo of a cartoon dragon holding a flame-patterned pearl.

February 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM

Ariana / A.Z. ☆

@az-inkz.bsky.social

persimmons tattooed last fall, right before I left for Korea to help with our family’s annual persimmon harvest 🧡🍂

#botanicaltattoo #tattoo #planttattoo #art

February 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM

Ariana / A.Z. ☆

@az-inkz.bsky.social

Wishing you all joy and safety during this year of the Wood Snake 🐍✨ hello to lots of endings and just as many beginnings.

May this year bless us with a fighting spirit, moments of untouchable serenity, and the ability to shed and start anew whenever we may need it.

#tattoo #lunarnewyear

A digital drawing with “YEAR OF THE SNAKE” in black lettering at the top center. Tan colored background with two snakes in the middle, facing outward. The left snake has an angry face and is wrapped in thorned branches, some of which are breaking off of the snake’s body. The right snake is lighter colored and has a neutral face, and is surrounded by three blue flowers. In the top right and left corners, there is a five pointed flower ornament in each corner. In the bottom left corner is a drawing of a black and blue lucky knot. In the right corner, there is a black and grey drawing of two twisted thorns.

February 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM

Ariana / A.Z. ☆

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Year of the wood snake flash dropping tomorrow :3

#tattoo #lunarnewyear #yearofthesnake #flashsheet #tattooflash

Super zoomed in view of a tattoo flash sheet! Visible are some glimpses of snake bodies, thorns, and plant leaves.

February 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM

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Ciara Havishya

@latigressetattoo.bsky.social

I’m absolutely in love with this hand that I did a few weeks ago on a very dedicated tattoo collector in Calgary. More of this in 2025!

January 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM

Ariana / A.Z. ☆

@az-inkz.bsky.social

Big big prairie gentian leg wrap, blasted in 2 back to back days during my guest spot in Dallas. Witnessing my clients’ strength and conviction always leaves me awestruck 🥹

#botanicaltattoo #blackworktattoo #tattooartist #tattoo #flowertattoo #bayareatattoo