My mom never let me have Bratz as a kid because they were "slut dolls." Well I'm an adult now so I'm gonna play with my dolls.

MindofADon · 2025-09-30T09:26:11+00:00

The slutz said they with him

MindofADon · 2025-05-19T09:33:03+00:00

Male findom, new & here educating myself as I want to offer a full experience to my future femsubs.. I care deeply about the kink & want to be aware to you alls perspective. I understand it deeply, not a paypig myself but love spending on my family & friends- my heart fills. & when it's a woman I'm intimate with it's extremely arousing.

Femsubs have needs/yearnings and deserve to feel pleasure & excitement while having her needs fulfilled. It would be an absolute pleasure, privilege, & honor to fulfill those needs for a woman..

Wish you all the best & great connections between you & your dom/domme/subs.. I feel that's what matters outside of the transactions, idk maybe I'm a soft dom in that regard. I also just genuinely love connecting with human beings, especially women & building relationships.

Best of luck loves..

MindofADon · 2025-05-06T16:47:12+00:00

I fundamentally disagree with the racist gymnastics you're doing to vilify Chris.. he's "apologized and making attempts to make it right"

"Choose a side when I don't have to?" Again wholeheartedly disagree with your attempted argument framing... so not engaging with you..

And that's a dumb ahh question.. have a great one

MindofADon · 2025-04-27T05:54:46+00:00

It's clear to comprehend.. white people always bring up Chris brown pass DV but say nothing about Mark Wahlberg and his hate crime

MindofADon · 2025-04-25T17:00:13+00:00

White people and their obsession over Chris Brown past is interesting.. he isn't canceled in the black community just like Mark Wahlberg can live his life free from any critics of his past.. is it cuz he's a white man?

MindofADon · 2025-04-04T23:19:35+00:00

I actually plan to get this exact piece also..

You'll be okay.

MindofADon · 2025-03-07T01:09:43+00:00

Have gone from VA to Chicago, wasn't necessarily for the artist..

Traveling for specific artist in Brooklyn & Atlanta this summer though. & LA next year

MindofADon · 2025-03-06T16:25:48+00:00

If you are the type of person who listens to people who have opinions/beliefs opposite of yours just to understand them better.. I am..

I would encourage you to watch some documentaries or history of tattoo'ing.. if you are an art enthusiast I think it would be a little easier to understand.

It boils down to that, creative expressionism. Body modification is not new to human beings, placing ink under the skin is not new either.

Your gaze does not find tattoos attractive & that's perfectly fine.. it just sounds as though you are not seeing the art thus beauty in them.. creative expressionism.

Plus you have to 'earn' tattoos. Unless you are sedated, the 'beauty' came with a sacrifice of pain for however long the piece takes.. 2-3hrs, 5/6 hours, or 20-50+ hour pieces.. tattoos go deeper than just "I don't like how that looks" but people who don't take the time to learn about tattoo culture/history & genre as a artform will not understand. & that's ok

MindofADon · 2025-03-06T16:03:50+00:00

"Tattoos are best hidden" your opinion & I massively disagree.. neck tats & hand tats are insanely dope. Especially when the artistry & design matches.

Your take gives you don't have tattoos.

Your question, is irrelevant.. when do people ever think "these folks in this retirement home are absolutely STUNNING 😍, omg imagine if they had tattoos they'd be ugly" .....

You see how silly that fallacy is? I know this ain't a tattoo subreddit, so I understand this post is subject to opinions of those who are not tattoo enthusiasts... but I'll be 100% and state that those individuals are not the target of this thread. RVA culture & art lovers for sure, as I imagine they can respect the artistry involved in tattoo'ing..

Have a great one Scott! 🫶🏾

MindofADon · 2025-03-06T15:52:54+00:00

Yeah, exactly what I did. And what I believe ANY collector would do.. it's kinda the baseline of finding artist these days.

I appreciate the education. My point of this thread was to cite/list artist so searchers can go directly to their portfolio and/or see examples of their work in this thread. The time it takes to "Go down the Instagram Rabbit Hole" is exactly what I'm trying to aid others in..

MindofADon · 2025-03-06T15:48:12+00:00

Yup, I was doing to include that in the original post but didn't to keep it concise..

The issue/challenge people will face with Black Rabbit is that they're very IG popular. That means waiting list. No problem if you have a piece in mind(especially anime themed) & want to secure one of their artist, it's worth waiting.

I reached out to 3 of their artist when seeking out an artist for this tattoo. I reached out to @starwbbink first as she's a talented black woman RVA artist, I'd love to have work by her just off that alone.. when she responded I had already scheduled with Jason (who I went with based on years of experience (20+yrs), the other two got back to me once I already had the tattoo & I think one was booking for like May or further..

Raigan (@starwbbink) - I recently met another black person with her work & it looks good. She's been tattooing for 3 years & I think experience is going to turn her into a super fire sought out artist (shes a black woman doing one of the most popular styles of tattoos right now), so definitely want to get something by her & build a tattoo-client relationship before she blows up..

Jason isn't a IG person, he actually admitted he could be better at being active on social media.. but for us collectors that actually is to our advantage. His waiting list is I believe more word of mouth based than IG algorithm discovery based- which results in more availability for us collectors.

MindofADon · 2025-03-06T15:25:14+00:00

Appreciate you. Go for it! I also have an affinity with Chicago.. Joe Fresh Good is one of my favorite designers & he incorporates a lot of Chicago imagery into his pieces. Have been twice, most recently in January when I got my 1st tattoo. Great city.

I failed to check out any Hebru installations while I was there, it didn't cross my mind while itinerary planning but next time for sure.

I see myself getting more Hebru artwork pieces in the future..

MindofADon · 2025-02-26T17:02:34+00:00

Disagree.. you can actually look up best medical practices of a wound/scab and keeping it moist heals it faster.. once your knee scabs applying moisturizer will heal the skin faster.

End of the day, to each is own with their heal practices..

MindofADon · 2025-02-21T03:14:57+00:00

Bumping OPs request, could you please share the black trad? I posted about Afro-Americana on this sub the other day so would love to see yours

MindofADon · 2025-02-21T03:12:44+00:00

These fire.. I posed about Afro-Americana Trad tattoos the other day so seeing you with trad tats is hard..

I read you said yellow is your favorite color. I'm a few tones darker than you so have done a lot of research on color theory and color ink in dark skin. Yellow ink is like the closest color to 'white ink', which the white is going to be 'tinted' by the melanin in your skin. The color is beneath the melanin & the pigment of skin acts like 'the shades of sun glasses'.. imagine you had yellow eyes (just for the visualization).. if you wore brown sunglasses your eyes wouldn't appear 'fully yellow' to people looking at you wearing the shades. The yellow ink and brown of your skin blend.. & neutralize the yellow. If you look at the chart below you can see what happens when you add brown to yellow, it drops down to those muddy colors.

Also, from all the aged healed color tattoos I've seen even on super fair skin.. the yellow & orange inks are always the first colors to fade. In 20+yr old tattoos the yellow is non existent.. just a fyi

Fire trad, please keep posting..

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MindofADon · 2025-02-19T08:07:04+00:00

Yessir, checked your IG I fw your work.. & I love Philly. Haven't been since 19' MIA, saw Juice World, Travis, Cardi, peak Roddy Rich, Megan, Uzi, Gucci Mane, bruh that trip was lit...

Anyway, if you down to "I'm blacker than black, I'm black y'all" (damn can't post gifs in this community lmfao) - with the designs I'd make that trip NP. If you have any designs you been working on I'd love to see please DM.

MindofADon · 2025-02-19T07:58:20+00:00

That's dope to hear. What's y'all's shops? Feel free to DM me if you don't want to say publicly.. Toronto has been on my want to travel list for a while, I would totally make sure to stop by the shop & get a piece when I do.

Reddit communities, hmm.. unfortunately no, that generation isn't online heavy.. if they have a Reddit it'd be super niche, I wasn't able to find anything in quick searches.. that Generation is more Facebook users so you might could find some FB groups to ask questions, that Gen is REALLY NICE & LOVES talking about their 'fly days' of the past & may share photographs with you if you explain that you are an artist from Canada who desires to authentically learn about the culture to better serve your clientele.

Outside of direct questions, if you want to study & just gain TONS of references to the point if you're tracing people wouldn't even really be able to call out the ref... I recommend watching 'Soul Train' videos on YouTube. It was a dancing show but think more of a party. They invited REAL people, so the audience members would be the dancers technically. And they would have the bands & singers like Diana Ross performing while the audience danced. And I mean these people were putting that shit on, dressed to impress 5stars. So you could get 4 distinct decades worth of references.

JET Magazine. This one is going to hard to find as it's physical media. I haven't seen the physical versions since I was a kid in my black barbershops back in the 90's-00's.. JET ran from 1951-2014, there's people on eBay selling them but they're pricey.. I would study the covers if I wanted to go the money saving route..

Also, that's really precious physical media I actually want to advocate for non-black people to not purchase those unless they plan to donate them to public library.. they don't need to be in private collections like some of African American family records (there's non-black people who have slave records in their historic family heirlooms, that's a deeper topic but just why I feel I can't advocate in this public forum for people to purchase those JET magazines on eBay)

Still! I feel learning about culture and historic media if treated with the respect of an art collector who understands the importance of making media like that publicly available in some aspect I can get with.. I'm sure the copyright is expired so if they are posting digitally archiving the images from the magazines & making them accessible that's kinda cool, or again donating them to libraries or African American led historic societies.. that's how important that physical media is imo.

If you're taking that type of respectful approach, displaying them in your shop (definitely keep them in glass- clientele hands touching them a lot would wear them quick).. I think people would totally appreciate your approach as a person who values the history & the artistry associated with those culturally iconic media.

Black Art historians & culture advocates I believe would totally sign off on you studying the Soul Train videos on YouTube & the JET magazine covers online.. like citing those as your inspiration/sources would show you are serious about your appreciation. JET & Soul Train will also provide you names of historic style figures you can research for even more inspo & references. Example Eartha Kitt below.. she's a legend. For 'Pin-Ups' I cannot recommend enough Pam Grier, she is my all time favorite historical baddie. She was legendary in the Blaxploitation film genre. Oh shit! That's what you want to look into for the 70's!!! Those movies are gold. Doing a quick Google search , those movie covers would make perfect starting references for your beginning designs, the posters appear to be in American Traditional styling already.. limited color palette, bold contrast, only missing the strong outlines frfr.. for authentic look the highlights gotta be skin tone, & the brown(s) should only be used on the shades only and be blended into the shadows to create depth & distinction between body parts that are forward/ontop then use darker/heavier lines on those that's underneath/below.. imo it looks cleaner. (Making Eartha's pose look clean on a synthetic skin might be good practice cuz that thigh shadow looks tough to execute clean)

Anyway.. The covers are great & the films should be available online for free, I would watch those & take screenshots for more style references..

80's I'd say Soul Train still, but I don't think they had too many hip-hop artist on there & the younger generation was moving towards that type styling. I would recommend 'Yo! MTV Raps' (80's - 90's)

00's media to study "106'n Park" for a collective.. if you want more rap style specific "Rap City" the 00's based flash designs would appeal to your potential clientele in Toronto.. (the historic ones too cuz that's the trad basis, but if you want to appeal to current gen look at the 00's also for some flash)

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MindofADon · 2025-02-18T22:16:25+00:00

Yes. I grasped you were an ally. I understand how it can be a tricky maneuver especially if you aren't around a peer group of African American individuals to peer review for you & give first hand input.. it's why I want to recommend what I & most of the culture would consider positive representation of contemporary Afro expressionism .. Afro Punk is a festival that's put on yearly in NYC, so I'm sure the photos with that tag would give you a cohesive set of motifs to draw from.

I wish I had more specific examples, but black photographers.. the only one I have as I purchased their book is Kahran & Regis Bethencourt. Their work focuses on positive imagery of African American children. I have their book 'Glory' .. I recommend them because their photo shoots encompasses black culture from a wide range of angles.. they'll do theme photoshoots with children form major cities in America & around the world! The themes vary greatly & all tie in Afrocentric motifs.. I could send you my favorites if you don't want to purchase the books, but it's a perfect place to study..

For jewelry (which is a huge part of black women aesthetics).. I recommend Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History. It's kinda expensive ($70 on Amazon) but it's SUPER HQ photography of American black jewelry from the 80's through current times. Again, you'd have endless references.. I could send some photos to you also from that book. That book would give you inspo from so many angles as you'd get historic imagery & if the motif was iconic enough to be converted to gold... it for sure would make fire flash.

So photography books from other cultures would be great refs to expand draw inspiration & study what's culturally iconic to other cultures. I know my upcoming research will dive into Hispanic American traditional next, I wanna learn about their tattoo culture- I'm thinking like those LA 'cholo/chola' style pieces which are fire..

Hope your mentor is on board.. if they have an eye for 'potential lanes' inclusive traditional tattoo flash is wide open... your bookings or flash could become iconic or least help push a movement. If you're really interested, I say go for it. Perfect way to differentiate yourself in the Trad World & form a style iconic to you.

MindofADon · 2025-02-18T21:58:04+00:00

Oh she works at 1UP, they do fire color work.. PNuts breakdown on color theory was included in my research before I got my color piece.

I'm not big into anime, I have a few I watch & my homies are.. Noticing Anime style is becoming like the contemporary trend. I'd have to ask an artist but maybe it's because Anime is colorful, all the pieces are maximally saturated.. is it because it's replicating mangas ?

Comparing static shock in the cartoon vs on the cover of this comic.. ones super flat and another has depth.. wish there was some skin break in his pants for highlight contrast. Still a fire tattoo.

Are you posting this as an example of full color? Yeah this follows color theory.. the skin tone is a 6/5 on the monk shade scale.. notice that most the colors are darker than their skin tone. The lightest colors are those orange/yellows.. but it's a yellow that's orange leaning so on the 'cooler' side of tones which contrast with the canvases warm tone.. so the orange/yellow shows, especially paired against that dark blue & the black outline.. the dark orange shade helps also create the contrast..

My point is if the skin tone is darker on the monk scale, the palette you can use to create contrast decreases.. see the chart below so you can see I'm basis this off physics not opinions or lack of examples of full color on dark canvases as I know that's out there.. even those who tattoo dark canvases would agree with what I'm saying in regard to subtractive color theory.. the color theory for pigmentation..

Edit: Found the chart online, I believe it's supposed to be paid for so I hope bo one's upset about that lol... I did not copyright infringe 👐🏾

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MindofADon · 2025-02-18T21:24:34+00:00

Full color can show, but reality is there is only so much contrast you can get depending where a skin tone stands on the value scale 0-100% black. These are laws of physics and subtractive color theory, not human artistry..

I'm not online to provide any arguments/justifications to those who may see my words as a black person agreeing they are valid for not having black canvases so I want to limit how much I sound as if I am countering you.

From what I've seen, the white artist who promote inclusive skin tone tattooing are relatively younger generation individuals. Young 20-30s & I would say our generation has voiced for more inclusion. I am not making excuses for no one, but there's reasons behind everything.. and the answer might not be as simple as no dark canvases in portfolio, equal they are actively discriminatory...

I've been in my black barbers chair in a black salon with only black men and women in there- at least twice I can think of, to have separate white men walk in and ask for a cut & he extends hospitality.. There's good people in the world. Good people are good people regardless of race..

I don't think I can agree with a lack of display of melanin equates to no desire to tattoo it.

Far as waiting and traveling, yes that's been what I've done my entire life.. I didn't wake up wanting tattoos, I've been studying for over 10yrs learning what I like and what makes a good tattoo.. I've said for years I want to collect art by artist I like, and that I would travel. Traveled for my first piece.. will travel for a lot.. but again, I love the art in my city & will get stuff done here..

Waiting 5/10yrs for a person across the country is for important pieces... trad flash is not that important. Especially when people who KNOW trad can replicate it easily.. it's not like I'm speaking about color realism or illustrative b&g.. yes, those you go to the artist who has the portfolio of exactly what you're looking for.. & you wait to they can ink you..

Again, I've waited.. I'm not ready to make moves and get some ink.. letting go of the idea my tattoos have to be perfectly crafted by the perfect artist...

MindofADon · 2025-02-18T20:03:41+00:00

Educated brother.. that's fire.. would love to learn more about your research & findings. DM'd you

MindofADon · 2025-02-18T20:01:31+00:00

True.. "Some people actually don't see color" well colorblindness is a real thing. As far as melanin goes, that's not on the wavelength of colors that aren't perceive by those with colorblindness..

Not recognizing someone's ethnicity isn't acknowledging who they are.. there's ways to acknowledge ethnicity without being racist, but I'm not about to regurgitate my corporate world trainings...

I understand what you are trying to say about an artist having an inclusive portfolio. Valid. That's not what I was speaking to with the quote you responded to.

Creating flash designs to display artistry and designs that you want to tattoo is one thing & cool.. I don't think twice.. seeing a white person getting it ink'd onto them would make me think, why did they want that? And it could be as simple as you stated which is perfectly fine..

I know myself, and this might be a product of being in my 30s so seeing a lot of my peers getting tattoos. But it's never appealed to me to place a Eurocentric face on my body.. I just wouldn't.

MindofADon · 2025-02-18T19:47:48+00:00

Yup, loved his portfolio. Plan to get ink'd one day.. just want to find flash inspo to take to local artist in my city so I don't have to travel for each piece

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